"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme

"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne

"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.

"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment

"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day

"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
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An Invitation

Create original art to win a signed copy of Kino or for a chance to have your art appear in a remix e-book edition of Kino!

Wintergarten

Dear Friends,

A few years ago, a lost silent film appeared on my doorstep in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It turned out to be Tulpendiebe, the first film my grandfather Klaus “Kino” Koblitz directed in 1927.

As a celebration of my grandfather and his work, I started Tulpendiebe, a blog intended as a way to keep his ideals alive by collecting traces of the art, people, and events that shaped his life: the movies that inspired or outraged him, his friends and enemies, and the places that mattered to him.

However, Kino’s vision was never that of a single genius creating out of nothing. He knew that art requires inspiration, collaborators, and freedom in order to grow and breathe.

That’s why I want to invite you to participate in Tulpendiebe. I am looking for likeminded souls to help me extend my grandfather’s legacy.In the spirit of artistic freedom and collaboration, I am looking for art, fiction, music, photography, and videos that have a connection to my grandfather’s life and work.

For inspiration, you can:

use any post on the Tulpendiebe blog.
expand on an excerpt from Kino, a novel about my grandfather’s story.
make a trailer, poster, or soundtrack for one of Kino’s films.
submit photographs from the locations.
remix any of the film stills, intertitles,portraits, videos, or paintings.
base your work on any other submission.
let your creativity unfold!

Atticus Books is considering all artwork and writing for inclusion in an enhanced multimedia remix e-book edition of Jürgen Fauth’s Kino, a novel based on my grandfather’s life and work.