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Matthias Penzel

Hinter den Kulissen sind Kulissen.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Marzal



Lamborghini Marzal (prototype de Bertone)

Music:

Beethoven not Mozart. John Zorn, Mars Volta, Mother Love Bone, John Coltrane, Led Zeppelin, Suicidal Tendencies, Palo Congo, Bowie (as I said: rather Miles Davis than Chuck Berry), Bang Tango, Ramones, Hendrix, Bauhaus, Prokofiev, Concrete Blonde, Body Count, Compulsion, Rocket From The Crypt, Björk, Eddie, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Coolio, Odin's Hammer, Slick Black, Zig Zag, Peters Party (mit Hilko), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Holiday, Puff Daddy, Dead Kennedys, John Cage, Stranglers, Avril Lavigne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Motörhead, Van Halen, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, No Doubt, William S. Burroughs as Black Rider by Tom Waits, Megadeth, Kill For Thrills, Lounès Matoub, Marc Bolan with Alice Cooper, The Boswell Sisters, The Angels, Black Sabbath, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Iggy and the Stooges, Crass, Public Enemy, Love/Hate, Patti Smith, Beautiful Creatures, At The Drive In, Cinderella, Berlin, Life Sex & Death, Patsy Cline, The Big F, Type O Negative, Y&T, Aerosmith, Fishbone, Stranglers, Alice Cooper, Judas Priest, Leonard Cohen, Ice-T, Manic Street Preachers, Disneyland After Dark, Lee Clayton plus a few more ... 2 Tribes, Marianne Faithfull, Art Blakey, Mind Funk, Naked Truth, Dust, John Lee Hooker over Muddy Waters, Tubes...

Books:

Dorothy Parker, Raymond Chandler, Virginie Despentes, Don DeLillo, Madison Smartt Bell, Alberto Moravia, Chuck Palahniuk, John Fante, Albert Camus, Jörg Fauser, Philippe Djian, Pete Dexter, Marilyn French, Gregory Macdonald, Carl Weissner, Jean-Claude Izzo, Banana Yoshimoto, Thomas Baumann, James Ellroy, Miguel Algarin, Iain Banks, Craig Clevenger, David Treuer, Nelson Algren, Kathy Acker, Oriana Fallaci (up until »Interviews with History«, pretty much), William Cody Maher, Michael Turner, Mark Lindquist, Anna Katharina Hahn, Richard Hell, Tim Staffel, C.D. Brumme, Kafka, Dostojewski, Hemingway, Mikael Niemi, T.C. Boyle, Rudy Rucker, Tobias O. Meißner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mick Wall, Neil Jeffries, Jon Hotten, Geoff Barton, Gerhard Seyfried, Liza Cody, Hans Herbst, Arnfried Astel, Martin Compart, Udo Breger, Uli Becker, Paul Auster, Ian Rankin, Robert X. Cringely, Ross Thomas, William T. Vollman, Jürgen Ploog, William S. Burroughs, Nick Kent, Helmut Salzinger, Lester Bangs plus anything Dave Eggers touches, really...

Heroes:


My Blog

Raab über Penzel

Was muss man da nehmen, um so was zu schreiben?  Stefan Raab in TV Total
Posted by Matthias Penzel on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST

Reaktionen auf »Rebell im Cola-Hinterland«

In dem akribisch recherchierten Buch beleuchten die Autoren Matthias Penzel und Ambros Waibel das Leben des Literaten"  Frankfurter RundschauSie erzählen skrupulös und detailreich sein Leben, das m...
Posted by Matthias Penzel on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:01:00 PST

Pressestimmen zu »TraumHaft«

Nach der Popliteratur kommt jetzt der anspruchsvolle Rockroman, wie ihn Matthias Penzel in exemplarischer Form vorgelegt hat.  Wiener ZeitungSeiltanz zwischen Authentizität und Kunst  MusikexpressPe...
Posted by Matthias Penzel on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST