PROVISIONAL OBITUARY ON REACHING EIGHTY YEARS EXTRA-UTERINE

PROVISIONAL OBITUARY 

ON REACHING EIGHTY YEARS EXTRA-UTERINE

PROVISIONAL OBITUARY

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OBITUARY

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The translator and editor Michael Roloff, born December 19, 1935 in Berlin, of uncertain health since fracturing a hip-bone upon a fall on black ice in 2013, is living on borrowed time with complications from C.P.O. {Chronic Pulmonary Obstruction i.e. emphysema} & the creep of advancing age, the wear and tear…

Roloff translated, edited & published a veritable Who’s Who of chiefly post WW II German language authors: three Hermann Hesse novels, 
including DEMIAN, as well as publishing scores of Hesse titles at Farrar, Straus; introduced and translated the work of Peter Handke 
(13 plays & one novel), and of F.X. Kroetz and H.M. Enzensberger;

translated as well as published work by T.W. Adorno, Michael Schneider; edited and published the translation of works by Rudolf Augstein, Ernest Bornemann, Hans Georg Gadamer, Gertrud Kolmar, Christa Wolf, Hans Erich Nossack, Tilman Moser, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Dolf Sternberger, Franz Innerhofer, Norbert Elias & Christian Enzensberger;

translated work by Rolf Hochhut, Josef Winkler, Walter Kempowski, Tankred Dorst, Bert Brecht, Edgar Hilsenrath, Erich Wolfgang Skwara, Werner Schwab, Ernst Juenger (with Louise Bogan), Robert Schindel, Reto Henny, Heiner Mueller (with the director Carl Weber) and Robert Musil; and edited translation of work by Uwe Johnson, Alexander Kluge, Heiner Mueller, Wolfgang Roth; Esther Dischereit & the physicist Harald Fritsch

and saw to the publication of Peter Weiss and Peter Bichsel’s work at Atlantic Monthly Press.

 Among authors of his, at Farrar Straus & Giroux, Continuum and Urizen Books, were Georges Bataille, Pierre Clastres, Bartolome de la Casas, Ilja Ehrenburg, Suzanne de Brunhoff, Robert Bresson, Augusto Boal, Julia Kristeva, Hans Erich Nossack, Sam Hall Kaplan, Sam Shephard (five volumes of plays), Stanley Aronowitz, Michael Brodsky, Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Marvin Cohen, John Helmer, Paul Sylbert, Martin Grey, Andrew Arato, Robert Sussman-Stewart, Eike Gebhardt, Jim Stratton, Michael Hamburger, Larry Birns
& Christa Wolf.

In Roloff’s own estimate his best translation work was of the sixty five poems he rendered for his edition of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux volume of  Nelly Sachs’s 1967 Oh the Chimney’s, of Peter Handke’s dramatic poem 
Walk About the Villages (Ariadne Press, 1996); and Josef Winkler’s Ariadne Press Flowers for Jean Genet, 1995.

Among his own work, subsequent to leaving distracting and sybaritically pleasurable New York City in 1985, are a handful of plays and screenplays, among them Palombe Bleu,

BLT: Last Time Best Time;

Dental Slugfest,

Graduation Boogie

a host of postscripts to books translated for Ariadne Press;

 The Developing Account of Time in Baja Part I (1994);

the collection of prose poems

 Steeped in Seattle 
(2007),

http://crosscut.com/2011/07/21/crosscut-blog/20410/A-private-bower-wildness-in-Seattle/?page=2

 the 1998 reportage

“Write Some Numb’s Bitch!” 

http://www.workliterarymagazine.com/submission/michael-roloff-6302014/

A Patients Account 
of his Analysis (2003);

the memoir of his German childhood and American youth

­Screen Memories (2015);

the, as of this December 2015 Posting

 of this Provisional Obituary, unfinished collection

Downtown Stories;

and fragments from the novel project The Darlings & Monster’s Quartet
&

 an on-going online project devoted to the work and person of his scholarly literary interest, Peter Handke: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com

which has morphed into the blog 
http://handke-magazin.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-hub-navel-to-todos-handke.html

and numerous sub- associated blogs.

Roloff’s career in publishing -  approached in a crabwise manner since, initially, he was fearful of becoming engaged in commercial ventures - was marked by a number of setbacks.

(1)He had to abandon the 60s literary magazine Metamorphosis when its Hillsboro Books publisher, Michael Lebeck, joined a Sufi sect;  

(2)his two years as agent for Suhrkamp Verlag,

via Lantz-Donadio agency, was made unfortunate in that prior to Dr. Siegfried Unseld, head of Suhrkamp, persuading him to assume the position Roloff failed to realize that there was little of Suhrkamp / Insel left to place with U.S. publishers. It did not help matters that within the year – 1970 – Dr. Unseld had made himself unrepresentable by Roloff as well as Robert Lantz for being undependable in matters contractual once large sums were at stake;

(3)that on becoming an editor at the McGraw-Hill acquired Herder & Herder to create the American equivalent of the famous edition Suhrkamp, Roloff plans went awry when McGraw-Hill, upon the calamitous consequences of losing millions on betting on a fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes, withdrew their support also from this venture. A minute part of the edition plan was realized at Continuum Books,

(see resume)

 the successor firm to the also abandoned Herder & Herder, where Roloff next was editor, prior to initiating Urizen Books. 

http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2011/04/short-unhappy-life-of-urizen-books.html

Meant to be a profit, but not loss-sharing socialist collective, Urizen’s three founders, however, quickly fell into disagreements, and not only in this matter.

(4) Within a year of the firm’s founding Roloff discovered that the source of partner Wieland Schulz’s

 http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2013/08/wieland-schulz-keil-hunting-socieity.html

funds did not derive from documentaries produced for West German T.V. but that Urizen served as the sluice for funds generated by the Schulz & Victor Bertini owned pornographic dubbing firm Vicland Productions which dubbed Mafia produced U.S. pornographic films.

One of Roloff’s failures of discovery of the fraudulent basis of the firm’s existence, was to consult counsel.

Instead, fancying himself an eminence grise,Roloff kept finding ways to keep the firm going despite the fact that it was being fleeced up front. Schulz then took over the firm from the two partners prior to selling its heart for the song and dance he needed for his film ventures.

From the Urizen bankruptcy Roloff emerged with two federal judgments against Schulz, which remain uncollected in Palermo, Schulz’s subsequent residence.

 In the course of these Urizen Books events, Roloff encountered a prospective author, a dealer in illegal substances, who at one point asked Roloff to make a phone call that proved to have been an act of entrapment and which, had money been involved, likely would have led to Roloff serving time in prison.

Roloff there-upon decided to undertake an analysis to find out why he kept he kept running into   

   “always the wrong people.”

(5)   For It did not help matters, as Roloff eventually realized, that Roger Straus Jr., the publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux,

 http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2015/04/summa-farrar-straus-roloff.html

 a firm for which Roloff had earned millions, then deprived him of three quarters of his editor’s participation which would have stood him in good stead during his Urizen days and those of his analysis.

The analysis proved most productive & was continued on the West Coast where Roloff trained to become an analyst himself, but then changed his mind,

not only because he was in his fifties but because the taxing profession would not have allowed him to pursue a scholarly Peter Handke project nor his own writings.

After seven years in the Los Angeles area Roloff moved to the Baja for three years & likely would have stayed in Mexico for good had the small stipend not disappeared that, in addition to royalties, financed his writer’s existence.

Thereupon Roloff moved to Seattle where for ten years he was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington’s German department, his focus being on Handke where he felt wholehearted devotion might teach him the limits of what he might come to know about one other single individual. This endeavor resulted in volumes worth of essays, especially on Handke’s dramatic oeuvre and the aforementioned on-line Handke project.

http://handke-magazin.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-hub-navel-to-todos-handke.html

there atr also the setbacks enumerated @:

http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2013/08/mis-attribution-of-translation-credits.html

as well as Performing Arts Journal breach of our contract for my translation of Handke's WALK ABOUT THE VILKAGES

a breach with consequences along the trail of tears of 

"the saga 

of a God-save turning into Albatross

 non-reception of VILLAGES 

in the U.S.of A."

which I will publish one of these days. 

One other Seattle setback (6) was that the head of the U.W. Drama School, the now deceased

Sarah Nash Gates

nixed a Handke play festival that was well financed & had general all around and much specific support from the theatrical community.

Roloff’s parents, father Wilhelm T. Roloff (1900) & mother Alexandra von Alvensleben (1910), in the opposition to Hitler as of the early thirties, participated in the 20^th of July plot and fortuitously survived their respective Gestapo imprisonment during the siege of Berlin in April 1945. His grandfather Werner von Alvensleben’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Alvensleben

 (Schleicher’s go-between to Hitler) alleged plan to call out the Potsdam garrison to arrest Hitler provided Hitler, in 1934, with the stated reason for the “Night of the Long Knives” with which Hitler eliminated the remainder of the opposition and sealed the completion of his assumption of his dictatorship. A friend of Alvensleben’s,

 privy to Hitler’s scheme, suggested to Alvensleben to spend that weekend at his hunting lodge, as he then did.

High on the list of those to be assassinated he was then condemned to death, which sentence was commuted to life in prison. Alvensleben survived four concentration camps and was liberated at Buchenwald. Reading an account, in 1947, of his grandfather’s torture led Roloff to resolve to leave what he regarded as “the country of murders,” and he succeeded in doing so in 1950 when his mother re-married, a U.S. OSS/CIC officer, Captain Richard Weber. The 20^th of July attempt to assassinate Hitler itself occurred on the property of relatives of Roloff’s, and the family’s involvement in these historical anti-fascist endeavors colored Roloff’s perspective life-long, also on U.S. politics & nothing upsets Roloff as much as torture.

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MICHAEL ROLOFF                                                                          
BORN: December 19, 1935, Berlin, Germany/ Emigrated to the U.S. in 1950; U.S. Citizen since 1952/Father: Wilhelm T. Roloff (1900); Mother: Alexandra von Alvensleben(1910)                                                             
EDUCATION:Graduated Oakwood School, Poughkeepsie, NY (1954)/ B.A. Haverford College, Haverford, PA (1958)Studies at the University of Munich and Free University of Berlin in 1957/Department of German,                                                                           Stanford University (1958-60)
1961-1965: Editor: METAMORPHOSIS, a literary magazine; / Contributor: N.Y. Times Book Review, Partisan Review; Commonweal; Herald Tribune Book World, / Atlantic Monthly, etc.; /Literary scout for Atlantic Monthly Press, Alfred A. Knopf;TRANSLATOR: RISE UP IN ANGER by Stefan Olivier (G.P. Putnams), DEMIAN by Hermann Hesse (Harper & Row);/ NIGHT by Edgar Hilsenrath, (Doubleday & Co.); Selected Essays in the Three Volumes: EDUCATION IN VISION edited by Georgy Kepes (George Braziller, Inc.); Ernst Juenger translations with Louise Bogan.TRANSLATION-EDITOR: THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM by Uwe Johnson (Grove Press); /ATTENDANCE LIST FOR A FUNERAL by Alexander Kluge (McGraw-Hill)

1966-1971: Editor, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: THE IMPOSSIBLE PROOF by Hans Erich Nossack (1967)/ OH THE CHIMNEYS by Nelly Sachs (1967) (Nobel Prize, 1966)/PETER CAMENZIND by Hermann Hesse (1968) (Nobel Prize, 1947)/ BENEATH THE WHEEL by Hermann Hesse (1969)KASPAR AND OTHER PLAYS by Peter Handke (1969) / NARCISSUS AND GOLDMUND by Hermann Hesse (1968)/THE QUEST FOR CHRISTA T. by Christa Wolf (1969) / GERTRUDE by Hermann Hesse (1968)/ROSSHALDE by Hermann Hesse (1969) / THE D'ARTHEZ CASE by Hans Erich Nossack (1971)TRANSLATOR: 50 poems in the above Nelly Sachs volume / PETER CAMENZIND and BENEATH THE WHEEL by Hermann Hesse;/KASPAR AND OTHER PLAYS by Peter Handke (all for Farrar, Straus & Giroux);/JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND by Amos Elon (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967).CONTRIBUTOR: The New Yorker, N.Y. Times Book Review, Partisan Review.                                                                          
WORK IN THE THEATER:1968-1971: Directed early plays of Peter Handke; worked with Herbert Berghof, E.G. Marshal, Peter Brook, Carl Weber 1970: PUBLIC INSULT by Handke (H.B. Studio, Herbert Berghof, director)1971 KASPAR by Peter Handke (H.B. Studio, with E.G. Marshal, Herbert Berghof, director)1971 SELF ACCUSATION & MY FOOT MY TUTOR by Peter Handke (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1971 THE RIDE ACROSS LAKE CONSTANCE by Peter Handke (Lincoln Center,        Carl Weber, director).                                                                          
1971-72: Literary Agent with the Lantz-Donadio Literary Agency (representing Suhrkamp, Hanser, Verlag der Autoren, etc.)

TRANSLATOR: THE RIDE ACROSS LAKE CONSTANCE, MY FOOT MY TUTOR, DISTRESS CALLS, PROPHECY, by Peter Handke; FARMYARD, MICHI'S BLOOD, MEN'S BUSINESS and A MAN A DICTIONARY, F.X. Kroetz).THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK by Peter Handke, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972. Contributor: Commonweal, N.Y. Times Book Review, The New Yorker.

1972-1975: SENIOR EDITOR, Continuum Books, The Seabury Press:THE CONSCIOUSNESS INDUSTRY and POLITICS AND CRIME by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (translated & postscript, 1974/CRITICAL THEORY by Max Horkheimer (1973) / NEGATIVE DIALECTICS by Theodor W. Adorno (1974)/FOOD, SHELTER AND THE AMERICAN DREAM by Stanley Aronowitz (1974) /DIALECTIC OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT by Adorno/Horkheimer (1973) / RITUAL, PLAY AND PERFORMANCE by Richard Schechner (1975)/THE DREAM DEFERRED by Samuel Kaplan (1974) / INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC by T.W. Adorno (1975)/THE INNERWORLD OF THE OUTERWORLD OF THE INNERWORLD by P. Handke (translator & Postscript, 1974)./TRUTH AND METHOD by H.G. Gadamer (1974) / THE BRECHT CHRONICLE by Klaus Volker (1975)/THE DEVASTATION OF THE INDIES by Bartholome de las Casas (1974) / THE END OF THE CHILEAN DEMOCRACY by L. Birns (editor), 1974 / A BOOK OF LIFE by Martin Gray (1974)/DARK SOLILOQUY) SELECTED POEMS by Gertrud Kolmar (1975) / SMUT by Christian Enzensberger (1973)/THE DEADLY SIMPLE MECHANICS OF SOCIETY by John Helmer (1973) / EDUCATION FOR CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS by Paolo Freire (1975)/FINAL CUT by Paul Sylbert (1974) / ECLIPSE OF REASON by Max Horkheimer (1973)/DRUGS AND MINORITY OPPRESSION by John Helmer (1975) / NEUROSIS AND CIVILIZATION by Michael Schneider                                                                          

TRANSLATOR: THE INNERWORLD OF THE OUTERWORLD OF THE INNERWORLD & THEY ARE DYING OUT & RADIO PLAY (all by Peter Handke)/NEUROSIS AND CIVILIZATION by Michael Schneider / POLITICS AND CRIME and THE CONSCIOUSNESS INDUSTRY by H. M. Enzensberger./THE RIDE ACROSS LAKE CONSTANCE AND OTHER PLAYS (including THEY ARE DYING OUT, MY FOOT MY TUTOR, PROPHECY, QUODLIBET, DISTRESS CALLS), Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975; / DID YOU EVER SEE HITLER by Walter Kempowski (Avon Books, 1976).Publications: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DRAMA (editor), Avon Books, 1973.

THEATRE WORK: KASPAR by Peter Handke, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carl Weber, director, 1973 (Obie).FARMYARD by F.X. Kroetz, Yale University, Jack Gelber, directorMICHI'S BLOOD by F.X. Kroetz, Denise Gordon, directorDISTRESS CALLS & PROPHECY by Peter Handke, Nightshift, director Lindsay Smith, 1976, N.Y. City.THEY ARE DYING OUT by Peter Handke, Yale Repertory Theatre, (Lloyd Richards, Carl Weber, director), 1979 MEN'S BUSINESS by F.X. Kroetz, Nightshift, Lindsay Smith, director, Squat Theater, N.Y. 1979.                                                                                                                                                    

 1975-1981:CO-PUBLISHER, Urizen Books, Inc.; Member Executive Committee American P.E.N. Translation committee;Advisory Committee Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines; I.C.A. sponsored visit to the People's Republic of Bulgaria, CulturalExchange Program; PUBLISHER/EDITOR / THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL READER by Andrew Arato (editor)/JESUS, SON OF MAN by Rudolf Augstein / THE STORY OF THE EYE by George Bataille/BLUE OF NOON by George Bataille / LITERATURE AND EVIL by George Bataille/PUNK ROCK by Dike Blair / THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED by Augusto Boal/THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF MONEY by Ernest Bornemann / THE RADICAL WILL: A RANDOLPH BOURNE READER by Olaf Hansen (editor)/NOTES ON CINEMATOGRAPHY by Robert Bresson / DETOUR by Michael Brodsky (Hemingway Prize)/WEDDING FEAST by Michael Brodsky / GRASSHOPPERS AND ELEPHANTS by Wilfred Burchett/SOUTH AFRICA STANDS UP by Wilfred Burchett / SOCIETY AGAINST THE STATE by Pierre Clastres/ THE GUAYAKI INDIANS by Pierre Clastres / THE INCONVENIENCE OF LIVING by Marvin Cohen/MARX ON MONEY by Suzanne de Brunhoff / THE LIFE OF THE AUTOMOBILE by Ilja Ehrenburg/THE CIVILIZING PROCESS by Norbert Elias / MAUSOLEUM by Hans Magnus Enzensberger/END PRODUCT by Hall & Sabbath / NONSENSE AND HAPPINESS by Peter Handke/BEAUTIFUL DAYS by Franz Innerhofer / ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN by Julia Kristina/ FARMYARD AND OTHER PLAYS by F.X. Kroetz / PADRE PARDONED by Gavino Ledda/SEX DIFFERENCES by Lee & Stewart / SELECTED LYRICS by Jerry Leiber/BABY THIS WAS ROCK AND ROLL by Leiber & Stoller / ANTI-SAMUELSON I & II by Marc Linder/THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER by Paul Milvy / POET IN OUR TIME by Eugenio Montale (Nobel Prize 1975)/YEARS OF APPRENTICESHIP ON THE COUCH by Tilman Moser / SARTRE BY HIMSELF by Jean Paul Sartre/ THE RAILWAY JOURNEY by Wolfgang Schivelbusch / ANGEL CITY AND OTHER PLAYS +BURIED CHILD & OTHER PLAYS + CHICAGO & OTHER PLAYS; FOUR TWO ACT PLAYS + THE UNSEEN HAND & OTHER PLAYS by Sam Shepard/INSIDE EAST GERMANY by Jonathan Steele / THE USSR VERSUS DR. MIKHAIL STERN by August Stern/PANORAMA OF THE 19TH CENTURY by Dolf Sternberger / PIONEERING IN THE URBAN WILDERNESS by Jim Stratton                                                                           
TRANSLATOR: NONSENSE AND HAPPINESS by Peter Handke 


1982---: Free Lance Writer, Editor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Translator SCREENPLAYS:Feelings (adaptation/translation) Transatlantic; 1982 / Darlings & Monsters, 1983/Boogie [a.k.a. The Graduation Party] 1991 / Dream Icarus l994/ WRITE SOME NUMB'S, BITCH! 2008/ in progress: IN THE CUTTING ROOM /  PLAYS: The Wolves of Wyoming, 1984 / Palombe Bleu 1985 / Schizzohawk, 1986/B.L.T. or: The Last Time Can Be the Best Time 1987-9 / He/She, The Creature S.U./J.C./ 1989/...IT WON'T GROW BACK, 1989 {First Stage, L.A.] /  in progress; The Darlings & Monster Play. BALZAC'S GODOT, an adaptation of Le Faiseur, 1995

NON-FICTION: WRITE SOME NUMB'S, BITCH! [Adventures in Telemarketing]In progress: THE HANDKE PROJECT including psycho-analytic-linguistic, drama and prose monographs, which can be seen at:  THE FOLLOWING SITES AND BLOGSSCRIPTMANIA PROJECT MAIN SITE: http://www.handke.scriptmania.com 
and 12 sub-sites
http://www.handkelectures.freeservers.com [the drama lecture] 
http://www.van.at/see/mike/
[dem handke auf die schliche/ prosa, a book of mine about Handke, in German]http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/ [the current American Scholar caused controversy about Handke, reviews, detailed of Coury/Pilipp's THE WORKS OF PETER HANDKE, review of CROSSING THE SIERRA DEL GREDOS, PART I OF A PSYCHOANALYTIC MONOGRAPH]http://www.artscritic.blogspot.com[some handke material, too, the Milosevic controversy summarized] MAIN LINK TO ALL THIS MATERIAL AND MORE IS:  http://www.handke.scriptmania.com/favorite_links_1.htmlIn progress: THE DEVELOPING ACCOUNT OF TIME IN BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR [Part I completed.] FICTION:in progress: The Darlings and Monsters Spiral /1944-47  The Idllic Years[No Irony]/:    POETRY: Headshots (1985) / It Won't Grow Back (1985)/ Steeped in Seattle [prose poems and sketches] 2008 / POLY-GLOT-POLITICAL [in progress]THEATRE-WORK: Recording of an adaptation of RADIO PLAY I by Peter Handke, Theatre for Your Mother, Mark Lutvak, director,1981FARMYARD by F.X. Kroetz, Theatre for the New City, Larry Sacharov, director,1981MICHI'S BLOOD by F.X. Kroetz, Taller Latinamericano/ Creation Productions, Mark Lutvak, director, 1982 /THEY ARE DYING OUT by Peter Handke, B.B.C. recording, Penny Gold director, 1983/ THEY ARE DYING OUT by Peter Handke, Provincetown Theatre, Lynn Holst artistic director, Mark Lutvak, director, 1983/FERNANDO KRAPP WROTE ME THIS LETTER by Tankred Dorst [based on Unamuno's Nothing Less Than a Man] Premiere, Seattle 1996, [published in German Theater Contemporary, Carl Weber, editor, Johns Hopkins University Press./ EDITORES KOMMT ALLES AUF DAS LICHT AN by Wolfgang Roth, 1983 / HAMLET MACHINE AND OTHER PLAYS by Heiner Mueller for Carl Weber, (Translation editing), P.A.J. Press, 1984A TWIN LIFE by Robert Kalich l994.TRANSLATOR: The Imaginary Photo Museum by Fritz Gruber (Harmony Books), 1982
QUARKS by Harald Fritsch (with the author), Basic Books 1983 / TELL 38, by Rolf Hochhut (Little, Brown), 1984/ DESCRIPTION OF A PICTURE by Heiner Mueller (with Carl Weber), 1985 , P.A.J. Press, 1989./THE PLAGUE IN SIENA by Erich Wolfgang Skwara, with after word, Ariadne Press, 1993/ WALK ABOUT THE VILLAGES by Peter Handke, Ariadne Press l994, with an essay postscript & notes./WHERE-BORN by Robert Schindel, with after word, Ariadne Press, 1994 / CHARADE by Christian Zauner, with after word, Ariadne Press, 1993/FLOWERS FOR JEAN GENET by Josef Winkler 1994, Ariadne Press/ OHNE LEITBILD by Theodor Adorno, Columbia University Press, 1995 / DIE NORMALITAET EINER BERLINER REPUBLIK by Juergen Habermas, Nebraska University Press, 1996/ SPRING-TIME by Reto Henny, 1997, privately published /COLLECTED PLAYS of Peter Handke, Volume I, Methuen, 1997/ Butterblumen by Josef Winkler, Salzburg Festival Catalog, Residenz Verlag 2008
DEVELOPING ACCOUNT OF TIME IN BAJA CALIFORNIA PART I, 1995/LOVE LETTER TO JERRY LEIBER, 1996/ WRITE SOME NUMB'S BITCH: Adventures in Telemarketing, 2000/ A PATIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF HIS ANALYSES, 2003  CONTRIBUTOR: /The Los Angeles Times Book Review, St. Monica Review, The Jewish Journal, Los Angeles [contributing editor]; / The Austrian Symposium, U.C. Riverside; Ariadne Press;Member Seattle Psychoanalytic Society/ 1996 – 2006 Visiting Scholar, Department of German, University of Washington,  

2010 UPDATE... The Handke Project is nearing the completion of needing to be sorted out,
only a few more long pieces to write, unless he writes another biggie of course, reread the last two volumes of his diaries, an essay on his poetics, on his development as a prose writer....
i delved around the publishing past last year and wrote it up in three takes, starting with my association with Farrar, straus, then, in German the complex relationship with Suhrkamp and authors, and then a history of urizen books. all on line at this site. right now, i am writing in German 1944-50 DIE IDYLLISCHEN JAHRE: KEINE IRONIE. DECKERINNERUNGEN. Ought to be done by mid year, at whic point we will turn back to the New York novel, many parts of which puzzle exist...m.r. feb '10


update 2015