Germans keep doing it

[Ya Sam]

As Dave Monroe would put it: Willkommen!


>From: Marscalla at aol.com
>To: markekohut at yahoo.com, ottosell at googlemail.com
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Germans keep doing it
>Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:16:34 EST
>
>
>Michael Naumann was a leading employee of the Rowohlt Verlag, the  
>publisher
>of all of Pynchon's works in Germany. In the nineties  he lived for several
>years in New York to manage the american  activities of his company - and I
>think 'acquaintance' is right, because some of  the members of Rowohlt 
>tried to
>use their connections and - sometimes  successfully - arranged meetings 
>with
>their author. One of Naumanns successors,  Nico Hansen, travels regularly 
>through
>Germany talking about his friendship with  P., how familiar they were with
>each other and the like - embarrassing. Naumann  later became the first 
>minister
>of cultural affairs in germany, after two years  he was dismissed, and he 
>is
>now editor of the magazine "Zeit", together  with the former german 
>chancellor
>Schmidt.
>
>I hope this information is of any use,
>
>  a brandnew member from germany
>
>mario scalla
>

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