Tim Mohr

Writers Klaus Stimeder (aka JM Stim) (left) and Tim Mohr (right) in Washington D.C. in October 2012 at a reading of JM Stims book

Tim Mohr is a New York-based translator,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} writer,^{[11][12][13][14][15][16]} and editor.^[17]

Biography

He has translated the German novels Guantanamo, by Dorothea Dieckmann (published in the U.S. by Soft Skull and in the U.K. by Duckworth), Wetlands and Wrecked by Charlotte Roche (both published in the U.S. by Grove/Atlantic and in the U.K. by 4th Estate), Broken Glass Park, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine,^[18] Just Call Me Superhero, and Baba Dunja's Last Love by Alina Bronsky^[19] (all published worldwide by Europa Editions), Tiger Milk by Stefanie de Velasco, and Tschick by Wolfgang Herrndorf, published in English as "Why We Took the Car."^{[20][21][22][23][24][11]}

Guantanamo was the recipient of the Three Percent award for best translation of 2007. The Hottest Dishes was named to Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2011 list^[25] and the Los Angeles Public Library's Best Books of 2011,^[26] and nominated for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin literary award.^[27] Tiger Milk was also long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin award.^[28]

A project Mohr was working on with Hunter S. Thompson at the time Thompson's death was published as the writer's final interview^[29][30][31] in Playboy's May 2005 issue and later included in the book Ancient Gonzo Wisdom,^[13] published by Da Capo.

Mohr collaborated^[32] with original Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan on It's So Easy (and other lies), McKagan's memoir,^[33] published in October, 2011. The Los Angeles Public Library included It's So Easy on its list of the best books of the year,^[34] and the book was also named one of Amazon.com's "Best Books of 2011: Entertainment Section".^[35] Mohr also edited^[36][37][38] Gil Scott-Heron's posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, which was published in January, 2012.

In April, 2014, KISS frontman Paul Stanley published Face the Music, a memoir he collaborated on with Mohr.^[39] The book peaked at number two on the New York Times Best Seller list.^[40]

Mohr's narrative history of East German punk rock and the role the movement played in bringing down the Berlin Wall and in forming the culture of 21st century Berlin was published in German by Heyne^[41] in 2017 as Stirb nicht im Warteraum der Zukunft: Die ostdeutschen Punks und der Fall der Mauer and is forthcoming in English.^{[11][42][43][11][44]}

References

External links

• German-language profile of Mohr in the Vienna daily paper Wiener Zeitung.
• Love German Books on Guantanamo.
• Words Without Borders on Guantanamo.
• A review in Slate that calls Wetlands the 2 Girls 1 Cup of novels.