Gottfried Distl

The Limit of Songs Gottfried Distl

Gottfried Distl was born in 1954 in the shadow of the Iron Curtain on the borderline between Eastern and Western Europe, when Rock & Roll became popular. Inspired by the American Beat Generation and the poets of the Beat and Pop Revolution of the 1960s he started out in the 1970s with his body poetry in the aftermath of Viennese Actionism. In the 1980s he joined the German New Wave Art Pop Movement, wrote the novel Ice Golem - A Hot Adventure with a Cool Monster and later in his life worked as a Hollywood reporter for many years. The Limit of Songs is the first English-language Edition of his lyrics and poems written between 1975 and 2011.