Wow!!! What a find! Thank you!!!As per above, but image:
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So yes, Tempo.
Other person = "Olaf Marx".
Hiding on the site all the while.
FWD.
That feels like a pen name TBH.As per above, but image:
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So yes, Tempo.
Other person = "Olaf Marx".
Hiding on the site all the while.
FWD.
There is a Wikipedia page for him but it only says that he died in 1993 in Hamburg and doesn't give a cause of death. Interestingly, the Swiss writer Christian Kracht dedicated his novel 1979 to him. The novel is about a German man and his ex-boyfriend who travel to Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution. The book's original cover was designed by Peter Saville of Factory Records.Wow, how tragic to hear he passed so young. I wonder what happened to him? Moz seems so comfortable with him in that shot, I'd have never guessed it was someone he didn't know well
This looks the best guess.The 1993 article translates the beginning as:
"Olaf Marx, editor at TEMPO since 1988, died on February 4th at the age of 35. He is conducting his interview with his idol: the English pop singer Morrissey."
Confirmation of said person existing at Tempo:
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And a tiny snippet of an image from an/the article?
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Roughly "hate or die".
Regards,
FWD.
An article (similar?) with pay wall removed.He seemed to be a quite often quoted "Pop journalist" if you search for him and he seemed to very influentual in the 80ies music journalism scene. I found a snippet that said
he considered Morrissey "as one of the most important poets of the 20th century". It also says "Marx, beautiful, gay, sharp-tongued, was a working-class child..." then comes the paywall ^^
But he obviously was a household name in the music journalism scene at the time and a Morrissey fan (next to the photo above it says: "Morrissey and Marx: Brothers in spirit")
The photo of the article above also says that he couldn't finish his article about Morrissey's interview and that it was also the last one he ever did.
The 1993 article translates the beginning as:
"Olaf Marx, editor at TEMPO since 1988, died on February 4th at the age of 35. He is conducting his interview with his idol: the English pop singer Morrissey."
Confirmation of said person existing at Tempo:
View attachment 100789
And a tiny snippet of an image from an/the article?
View attachment 100791
Roughly "hate or die".
Regards,
FWD.
Thanks, FWD. I meant this one:An article (similar?) with pay wall removed.
If it's different - let me know the link.
Regards,
FWD.
Thank you.Thanks, FWD. I meant this one:
https://www.welt.de/kultur/pop/plus170956083/Pop-wird-immer-spiessiger-nur-Morrissey-nicht.html
Wow, how tragic to hear he passed so young. I wonder what happened to him? Moz seems so comfortable with him in that shot, I'd have never guessed it was someone he didn't know well
That feels like a pen name TBH.
I feel like David's guess is the best. This is Sascha today and I feel like give it 30 years and this definitely could be him.
Yes. His full name was Olaf Dante Marx and his critical essays and articles about Pop culture and it's late and modificated development in Germany are outstanding.
It is from a long forgotten time when music journalists had a high reputation.