Ich bin ein Bonner - ProfilesArchive

About Me

This profile was edited with Thomas' Myspace Editor V3.2b
"Du bist wie eine Blume, so hold und schoen und rein, ich schau dich an, und Wehmut schleicht mir ins Herz hinein" (Heine)***Interested in politics and the beautiful Germanic language.... both light up my dark winter days***Communist Party of Great Britain Member for 3years***Currently studying "Germanistik" as an Erasmus-Student @ Bonn University***Active in the German Student Movement - especially against the introduction of Student Fees***Political journalist - see above for a list of the stuff I have written***Play guitar very badly and sing a little bit better***Love my comrades, my mates, my girlfriend, and helping to organise national border-defying piss-ups...the next of which is ROYSTOCK on the 3-5th of August in Llanover***I currently have a love affair with water - I drink on average about 3.5-4 litres a day. If anyone knows if this is a health risk, please let me know! .. width="425" height="350" .. .. width="425" height="350" ..

My Interests

Marxism, Music, reading, German Grammar, Coffee and late night cafes, Weed, The left, water, translating, guitar effects, lyrics, Blow-Up, fresh air, spaghetti carbonarra, camping, the Mensa, guitar tapping, gigs, the bible (in a non "I love Jesus type-way", The Weekly Worker, Roystock, Tuna, Carbonated Water (I used to hate the shit), translation, shaving, Counterstrike (life destroyer) Cafe Goettlich

I'd like to meet:

***BANDS TO PLAY AT THE ROYSTOCK FESTIVAL*** Marxists, Communists, Socialists, people who read, Germans, people from Bonn and Sheffield. So, if you are a German Marxist who lives in Bonn and reads then you are laughing really

Music:

Janis Joplin, Radiohead,Jeff Buckley, Manics, Led Zepp, Leonard Cohen, Die Schlechten, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd

Movies:

STALINGRAD! (greatest film ever watch it!)pulp fiction, ehe der maria braun, strike, battleship potemkin, 24 hour party people, fight club

Television:

"Idiot Box" German T.V. is about 10 times as bad as its British equivalent - imagine that shit!

Books:

Recent books:Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood Karl Marx - Die deutsche Ideologie Gudrun Pausewang - Die Wolke Friedrich Engels - Ursprung der Familie, des Staats und des Eigentums Michael Lebowitz - Beyond Capital Georg Buechner - Leonce und Lena Hal Draper - Karl Marx and the economic-jew stereotype Patrick Sueskind - Das Parfum, die Geschichte eines Moerders Henk de Berg - Freuds Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies: An Introduction Sigmund Freud - Zwei Krankengeschichten ("Wolfsmann") Robert Musil - Die Verwirrungen des Zoegling Toerless Bernhard Schlink - Der Vorleser Friedrich Nietzsche - Der Antichrist Rosa Luxemburg - Sozialreform oder Revolution? Joseph Stalin (Wanker) - Ueber die Grundlagen des Leninismus Leon Trotsky - Communist Policy towards Art Willhelm Reich - Die Massenpsychologie des Faschismus Peter von Matt - Literaturwissenschaft und Psychoanalyse Friedrich Duerrenmatt - Der Richter und sein Henker Patrick Sueskind - Der Kontrabass Erich Fromm - Jenseits der Illusionen. Die Bedeutung von Marx und Freud Ronald Hayman - Nietzsche

Heroes:

fy mam, rosa luxmeburg, rowan kennedy, mark fischer, jeff buckley, johnny greenwood,

My Blog

New Article - State Elections in September in Germany

New article on the German Left and the potential impact of the forthcoming state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Heavily edited for article space but still quite interesting: http://ww...
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:23:00 PST

Student Fees in Germany

Article written for the website and campaigning group, "Education Not for Sale" back in November: http://www.free-education.org.uk/?p=135...
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:26:00 PST

New article on the German left opposition

www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/629/germany.htm Enjoy.
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:24:00 PST

Almost elected onto the WASG national executive.....

And this inspite of the sectarian trotskyist left (SWP and Socialist Party's German sections) refusing to vote me. Check it out: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/623/wasg.htm
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Mon, 08 May 2006 02:28:00 PST

New article on the WASG/L.PDS Conferences

This was subject to some heavy editing cos the article itself wasn't brilliant. I am happy with the overall result though. Enjoy. http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/621/germany.htm
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:47:00 PST

New Article on the WASG

For those interested in German politics: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/619/germany.htm
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:48:00 PST

Ben Lewis Collected Works

Right ladies and gentlemen, As it says in my profile somewhere (and has done for some time) I thought I would post some of my political stuff up here in my unrealistic task of politicising Mysp...
Posted by Ich bin ein Bonner on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:45:00 PST