"Tanger Telegramm" (2004)

Zürich, Switzerland: bilgerverlag (book, anthology), 2004.
11.75" x 8.25" x 1", 352 pages, softcover, ISBN 3-908010-65-9.

tanger telegramm, an anthology of literature about and inspired by Tangier, Morocco, assembled and edited by Florian Vetsch and Boris Kerenski, published as a 1st edition softcover by bilgerverlag (Zürich, Switzerland) in 2004. This was reprinted in 2017.

This anthology of works about Tangier contains “Drei Briefe” by William S. Burroughs – three letters to Allen Ginsberg [20 Jan. 1954; 26 Jan. 1954; 1 Feb. 1954] – at pages 112-113.

The poem “William Lee” by Katharina Franck, at pages 114-115, concerns Burroughs.

There are additional mentions of Burroughs in Udo Breger’s “Mt Asche im Gepäck nach Tanger”, pp. 154 and 156-160, in Harold Norse’s “aus ‘Bastard / Die Memoiren eines gefallenin Engels’”, pp. 175-183, and some other more minor spots.

This additionally contains Brion Gysin contributions and mentions.

Not in Shoaf.

Not in Schottlaender.

Contents:

• Mohamed Choukri: untitled poem
• Florian Vetsch and Boris Kerenski: "Das TANGER TELEGRAMM" (preface)
• Hans Christian Andersen: "Ein Besuch in Afrika" (prose)
• Gertrude Stein: "Aus der Autobiographie von Alice B. Toklas" (prose)
• Alice B. Toklas: "Aus 'Was erinnert wird'" (prose)
• Elisa Chimenti: "Lieder Arabischer Frauen":
• "Der Ofen des Töpfers" (poetry)
• "Magic" (poetry)
• "Die junge Ziege liebt das Gebirge" (poetry)
• "Selim" (poetry)
• "Der Palast von Safi" (poetry)
• "Der Hiai" (poetry)
• "Abendlied" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Tangier Street Scene" (photograph)
• Roberto Arlt: "Das Ländliche Leben in de Fiktion und in der Wirklichkeit" (prose)
• Ira Cohen: "Berber Girls" (photograph)
• Roberto Arlt: "Wollüstiger Tanz" (prose)
• Truman Capote: "Tanger" (prose)
• Mohammed Bennis: "Tangis" (prose/poetry)
• Juan Goytisolo: "Aus der Rückforderung des Conde don Juliàn" (prose)
• Mohamed Choukri: "Tingis" (poetry)
• Maliki el Assimi: "Tanger" (poetry)
• Chamseddoha Boraki: "Tanger: Diese verfluchte verbotene Liebe" (prose)
• Tahar Ben Jelloun: "Le Mirage" (prose)
• Tahar Ben Jelloun: "Tanger Tor Afrikas" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Souvenir de Tanger" (poetry/manuscript)
• Ira Cohen: "Zoco Chico Gedicht" (poetry/manuscript)
• Mehdi Akhrif: "Fraülein Makali" (prose)
• Mehdi Akhrif: "Aus Helenas Grabstätte" (poetry)
• Paola Igliori: "Tanger" (poetry)
• Daniel Halpern: "Dunkle Nacht" (poetry)
• Danie Halpern: "Hotel Carlton, Tanger: Die Alstadt" (poetry)
• Ulick O'Connor: "Aus den Tagebüchen" (journal)
• Ira Cohen: "Blind Lottery Winners (Tangier)" (photograph)
• Hadayatulla Hübsch: "Tanger – Danger (don't enter) - Mind the step" (prose)
• Jörg Fauser: "Tanger Sutra" (poetry)
• Jörg Fauser: "Tanger" (prose)
• Jack Kerouac: "Aus Engel, Kif und neue Länder" (prose)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Aus den Notizbüchern":
• "1. Jun1 1961" (journal)
• "Tanger 4. Juni 1961" (journal)
• "Traum: 15. Juni 1961" (journal)
• "9. Juli 1961 Tanger" (journal)
• "20. Juli Marrakesch –" (journal)
• "Djemâa el Fna in Marrakesch" (poetry)
• "24. Juli" (journal)
• "Tanger 2. Aug. 1961" (journal)
• "8. Aug. 1961 Traum –" (journal)
• "Gestern Waschzettel für das Ansen-Buch:" (journal)
• "20. August 1961 Traum" (journal)
• "24. August –" (journal)
• "24. Aug. 2 Uhr nachm. '61" (journal)
• William S. Burroughs: "Drei Briefe":
• "20. Jan. 1954 / Tanger" (letter)
• "26. Jan. (1954) / Tanger" (letter)
• "1. Feb. 1954" (letter)
• Katharina Franck: "William Lee" (poetry)
• Jürgen Ploog: "Tanger Tagebuch" (prose)
• Roberto de Hollanda: "Ploog mit Strassenhändler" (photograph)
• Klaus Maeck: "Hamak / Das unsichtbare Buch" (prose)
• Katrin Achinger: "'Das Leben, wie es sein sollte' / Neu überall":
• "29.12.94 Hamburg" (journal)
• "01.01.95 Tanger" (journal)
• "02.01.95 Tanger" (journal)
• "04.01.95 Tanger" (journal)
• "07.01.95 Tanger" (journal)
• "08.01.95 Tanger" (journal)
• "09.01.95 Tanger" (journal)
• John Hopkins: "Aus den Tanger Tagebüchern 1962-1979":
• "31. Marz 1967" (journal)
• "2. April 1967" (journal)
• Brion Gysin: "Die Geiseln" (prose)
• Udo Breger: "Mit Asche im Gepäck nach Tanger" (prose)
• Brion Gysin: "To say good silence by" (art)
• Stephen Davis: "Bou Jeloud" (prose)
• Klaus Maeck: "Hamouka" (prose)
• Gregory Corso: "Einige marokkanische Ansichten":
• "Über die Kleider arabischer Frauen" (poetry)
• "Die Luft muss weichen" (poetry)
• "Arabische Männer in Cafés" (poetry)
• "Tanger, Europäischer Sektor" (poetry)
• "Ein Mann geht ins Meer, Tanger" (poetry)
• Harold Norse: "Aus Bastard / Die Memoiren eines gefallenen Engels" (prose)
• Tennessee Williams: "Sprachloser Sommer in Tanger" (poetry)
• Millicent Dillon: "Aus Jane Bowles / Lauter kleine Sünden / Eine Biographie" (prose)
• Jane Bowles: "Alles ist schön" (prose)
• Paul Bowles: "Hier bin ich" (poetry)
• Paul Bowles: "Taedium Vitae" (poetry/manuscript)
• Paul Bowles: "Polemos" (poetry)
• Paul Bowles; "Nachts" (poetry)
• Paul Bowles: "Etikette" (poetry/manuscript)
• Thomas Stemmer: "18. November 1999" (prose)
• Pocaio: "Akimbo" (prose)
• Frieder Schlaich: "Treffen in Tanger" (prose)
• Florian Vetsch: "Goodbye, Paul" (prose)
• Ira Cohen: "Paul's Slippers" (photograph)
• Ira Cohen: "The day that Paul Bowles died" (poetry/manuscript)
• Ira Cohen: "Notiz zur Entstehung der Gedichte" (essay)
• Ira Cohen: "Tanger Telegramm vom Majoun Reisenden" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Koda" (poetry)
• Ira Cohen: "Datura" (photograph)
• Panama Rose: "Haschischrezepte":
• "Marokkanisches Majoun" (recipe)
• "Aphrodisiakum" (recipe)
• "Tee" (recipe)
• "Sesambällchen" (recipe)
• "Haschisch-Harira" (recipe)
• "Hexensabbatsalbe" (recipe)
• "Nebukadnezzars Traum" (recipe)
• "Farouks Schwanz" (recipe)
• "Haschkekse" (recipe)
• "Das Antidot" (recipe)
• Alice B. Toklas: "Haschischkonfekt" (Brion Gysin's recipe)
• Mohammed Mrabet: "Das Röhricht" (prose)
• Mohamed Choukri: "Die Warnung" (prose)
• Mohamed Choukri and Mohamed Alouta: "Tangers verborgene Geographie" (interview)
• Hassouna Mosbahi: "Eine Nacht in Tanger" (prose)
• Alfred Hackensberger: "der einzig wahre schriftsteller von tanger" (poetry)
• Edmund White: "Aus der Jean Genet Biographie" (prose)
• Jean Genet: "Aus dem Tagebuch des Diebes" (prose)
• Gottfried Benn: "Dass die Wirklichkeit nicht ist" (essay)
• Barbara Hutton: "The Casbah / Die Kasbah" (poetry, translated by Florian Vetsch)
• Florian Vetsch: "Dass die Wirklichtkeit nicht ist" (essay)
• Ted Morgan: "Blue Chip" (prose)
• Larbi Layachi: "Der Kindsmörder" (prose)
• Roberto Arlt: "Aserbaijan" (prose)
• Karen Duve: "Sklavenmarkt in Tanger" (prose)
• Alfred Hackensberger: "Zwischen Teufel und hellblauem Meer" (poetry)
• Alfred Hackensberger: "Orientalismus" (poetry)
• Alfred Hackensberger: "Immeuble Paris, 5. Stock, Gynäkologische Praxis, Sprechzimmer" (script)
• Alfred Hackensberger: "Magie" (poetry)
• Rodrigo Rey Rosa: "Videos" (essay)
• Rachid Mimouni: "Radioberichte aus Tanger" (prose)
• Rachid Mimouni: "Donnerstag 3/03/1994 / Die Rose" (prose)
• Rachid Mimouni: Donnerstag 6/10/1994" (prose)
• Roland Barthes: "Einst, in Marokko" (prose)
• Rolf Winnewisser: "A Blindman's Holiday" (prose)
• Alex Monte: "Mesostichen aus der Internationalen Zone" (prose/poetry)
• Wolf Pehlke: "Welt Eins – Welt Fünfzehn" (prose)
• Peter Z. Herzog: "diary process" (poetry)
• Peter Z. Herzog: "kleine märchenpolitik" (poetry)
• Peter Z. Herzog: "(fortwährende abwandlung über&durch eine dreifache meerespforte:::)" (poetry)
• Zeittafel [Chronology]
• Kleines Glossar [Small Glossary]
• Beiträgerinnen & Beiträger [Contributors]
• Ausgewählte Literatur [Selected Literature]
• Textnachweis [Text References]
• Bildnachweis [Picture References]
• Dank [Thanks]