"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. The cover collage was done by Stephen Aiken using collage material supplied by Cherie Nutting.

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]