Jörg Fauser (1944 – 1987) was born near Frankfurt. After dropping out of university, he spent some years living in Istanbul and London, making a living in office jobs, as an airport worker and night watchman, among other things. In 1974, he switched to writing. His novels, poems, newspaper articles and short stories occupy an exceptional position in German literature. Jörg Fauser died in an accident on a motorway near Munich on the night after his birthday.

»At first, I didn’t want to become a professional writer, I just wanted to write. I imagined a normal existence while producing a few eternal things on the side.«
Jörg Fauser

Carl Weissner (1940 – 2012) was born in Karlsruhe and studied English at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg. From 1965 onwards, he published a number of literary journals (such as UFO and Gasolin23, together with Jörg Fauser, Jürgen Ploog and others). In 1966, Weissner went to New York for two years, where he immersed himself in the beat and underground scene and got to know William S. Burroughs and Charles Bukowski. He later made a name for himself in Germany as a translator.