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Natias Neutert


Natias Neutert (spoken: noytərt) (born February 24, 1947, Neusalz (now Nowa Sól, Poland) is a German bestseller author, poet, essayist, orator, translator, editor, curator, and artist, known for innovations on different cultural fields. As Maximilian D'Alumeuse Neutert appears in two novels of the German writer Hubert Fichte: Die Palette (The Palette) and Detlevs Imitationen «Grünspan». (Detlevs Imitations Verdigris), Neutert lived and lives, alternating, in Berlin and Hamburg.

Natias Neutert, son of author Günther and typist Brigitte Neutert (born Nessler), grew up with his brother Volker in Hamburg-Eppendorf and later on in borough Lokstedt with his much younger sister Renate. He attended the Rudolf Steiner School. After doing an apprenticeship as graphic illustrator, he studied philosophy, literary studies, and history of art at the University of Hamburg, and afterwards with a fellowship at the Franz Mehring-institute, an outposted section of the University of Leipzig in Berlin-Biesdorf. During the semester break, he hitchhiked crisscrossing Europe, and earned his living as a street magician, conjuring, playing music, reciting own poems and those of others, philosophizing, and telling stories.

Neutert was embedded in Germany's 1968er-Bewegung. He was companion of the provos and activist within the German student movement. He vigorously opposed militarism, Vietnam war, and urban demolition, and fought for women's rights. As a conscientious objector, he fled hitchhiking from Hamburg to West Berlin, landed in borough Kreuzberg. Together with Dimitrius Boyksen and Harun Farocki, he squatted the vacant spaces of the former gallery "Zinke" as their temporary waypoint reading their poems and stories publicly. and experimented with drugs. before he found a twenty-Mark-chamber.


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