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Your Guide To Fantasy, Horror & Sci-Fi<br />
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Greetings, my friends of the bizarre<br />
Ferem et pratibusam estrumquia con nimendi dant ipsam sandaeris volorepro et, consecea vo-<br />
cuslorumqui<br />
verferc hillit aligni consenes eum dionet<br />
idessi volecati ullo in non perchitemqui alit, sequas<br />
eosam cuptatur? Volorehenem et plique prorepudam,<br />
quibercite debitis etur alitaque ligenimped<br />
estecessum venis abo. Net fugit, oditi volorro ipsus,<br />
corro qui alitatia coritasperum istrum aut qui natus<br />
et hitatiae. Sae volorpo raectur am harum reptasp<br />
itiatius, exeris andunt apelis perchiciis aut laut pelibus<br />
apelit, quatias aliquam apitas aut aditati blatur?<br />
Fugiam quam duscien ientio. Ximolorero corpos<br />
dolorer natiorit liqui site vitatis eosanienem elicaturis<br />
quiduciust, et et optatis et pro cor rehenti orepudictur?<br />
Vel et occab illaborias ma nihit, tet etum quas ut et,<br />
asped quiam quam unditio odis esedipi cidistiorio.<br />
Ficae earum ipsunti dendebi tibernati volo et, siti<br />
ium cus repelest, nusaerio. Nam fuga. Erumquam<br />
reium est lat re sum es expedis dis sus quodis sapisimagnis<br />
exeruptat derundebis et litibus ullatur?<br />
Tatureperum asperae nonseni mporesequi odipsunto<br />
molectet remodit, sum samenis idebitem que voluptatur,<br />
vel es prero odipsam vendeli atiaepe lluptatiam<br />
qui cum velit exces que porum essuntiore soles<br />
aut as eost eum et porios dis simus aut omniendebit<br />
atiaecusapit magnit quos dolorro imaios dolupti dolorum<br />
re ipid qui con pratibus necupti nctemolupic<br />
te mos magnatur, qui tem cuptusae. Ut et fugit, ut<br />
quis acipiendem quam, sapicae ra conecto dit et,<br />
idignim rehendunto verumen deliquam ipist, estrum<br />
fuga. Ratemporpor a simusan delias estia dollor aliquam,<br />
cumet est mos peribus apidisciatat pelisquiae<br />
perem fugit, offici voluptatenda que consed ut ea sequam<br />
reperum et qui asped mo invelique non et eum<br />
di adis mostinv elitassuntes dolupti rem. Nequi consem<br />
quis mo et voluptatur, volo volorrovit, tempero<br />
quibusa quis excest et adiore derem. Veleserumque<br />
consece riaessit ipsant ilitionectat et doluptaqui ducium<br />
unt.<br />
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Table Of Content<br />
We wouldn‘t have Trump without Twitter<br />
Neil Gaiman on the actuality of his novel-turned-TV-show „American Gods“ 6<br />
Shadow, Mr. Wednesday & Bilquis<br />
Who‘s Who in Amercan Gods 17<br />
The Warden, the Champion & the Inquisitor<br />
A look at Bioware‘s epic „Dragon Age“ series 22<br />
Sex, Blood & Fangs<br />
Part 1: True Blood 33<br />
Tainted Love<br />
Marylin Manson on tour in Germany 38<br />
WGT 2017<br />
Wave-Gothic-Treffen in Leipzig 2017 42<br />
Neuerscheinungen Juli 2017<br />
Bücher, Musik & Games 44<br />
Veranstaltungskalender<br />
Events Juli 2017 46<br />
Impressum 48<br />
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The Gospel According to Neil Gaiman<br />
by Abraham Riesman<br />
Photo by: Beowulf Sheehan<br />
April 27, 2017 8:44 am<br />
There’s a scene early on in American Gods,<br />
the best-selling 2001 fantasy novel by Neil<br />
Gaiman, where someone accuses a man of being<br />
a “hustler.” “But that is the least of what I am,”<br />
the man replies. “On the whole, I make my<br />
money from people who never know they’ve<br />
been taken, and who never complain, and who<br />
will frequently line up to be taken when I come<br />
back that way again.” Gaiman, himself, is that<br />
same sort of hustler-plus — a weaver of fictions<br />
who slips past your mental defenses and toys<br />
with your thoughts, not just stealing the minds<br />
of his legions of fans, but making them beg him<br />
to steal them again and again.<br />
The 56-year-old Englishman got his start<br />
writing thoughtful twists on superhero comics<br />
in his native country, then broke big with his<br />
surreal fantasy-comic epic Sandman in the late<br />
1980s and early ’90s. Since then, he’s amassed a<br />
worldwide following for his prose, penning best<br />
seller after best seller: Anansi Boys, Coraline,<br />
The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with the<br />
late Terry Pratchett), The Ocean at the End of<br />
the Lane, and Fragile Things, just to name a<br />
few.<br />
But American Gods is perhaps the best-known<br />
of the bunch. It follows the tribulations of<br />
Shadow Moon, an ex-convict who wanders the<br />
U.S. — Gaiman’s adopted country for more<br />
than two decades — alongside a mysterious con<br />
man named Mr. Wednesday. Along the way,<br />
Wednesday and Shadow link up with ancient<br />
gods from an array of Old World pantheons, all<br />
of whom are living in obscurity in the hidden<br />
corners of a decaying America. Wednesday,<br />
who may or may not be a god himself, recruits<br />
them all to fight a war against the New Gods:<br />
media, technology, and the like.<br />
Sixteen years after its publication, American<br />
Gods is getting new life in the form of a<br />
televised adaptation on Starz, on which he<br />
is an executive producer. In the hands of<br />
showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green,<br />
Gaiman’s tome becomes a grand, bloody,<br />
stylized, sexy, relentlessly clever meditation on<br />
migration, race, inclusion, collective memory,<br />
sexuality, and gender. It’s also arguably more<br />
of its time now than it was when Gaiman sat<br />
down to pen it, at the turn of the millennium.<br />
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We caught up with the lanky, black-clad,<br />
shaggy-haired Gaiman at a high-end Japanese<br />
restaurant in Chicago to talk about Jewish<br />
mysticism, pony sushi, Nazis, superheroes,<br />
Donald Trump, and the times he’s been<br />
mistaken for Howard Stern.<br />
It’s fitting that we’re meeting in Chicago, given<br />
the pivotal role it plays in the novel and the<br />
show.<br />
And given that I still think it’s my finest ever<br />
sentence.<br />
What is?<br />
“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.”<br />
Anyone who’s ever driven into Chicago from<br />
somewhere else, you go, “Oh, we’re in Chicago!”<br />
It slowly creeps up on you.<br />
There’s this possibly bullshit story about how<br />
Philip K. Dick wrote<br />
The Man in the High<br />
Castle that I often think<br />
about. He allegedly one<br />
day just thought of a<br />
name: “Mr. Tagomi.”<br />
Came out of nowhere.<br />
Then he consulted the I<br />
Ching about what that<br />
name meant and came<br />
to the next element of<br />
the book, then the next<br />
one, and so on. What was your Mr. Tagomi for<br />
American Gods? What was that first kernel<br />
from nowhere?<br />
That’s a really good question. There are two<br />
answers, and they’re both true. I had a bunch of<br />
stuff that began, in my head, with the image of<br />
two men meeting on a plane. That was my Mr.<br />
Tagomi. And it was this thing that I would think<br />
about before I would go to sleep. And I would<br />
just run this conversation through. I went, I know<br />
there is this old guy and he seems to be some<br />
kind of hustler. And there is a younger guy and I<br />
think he just got out of prison. And there’s no way<br />
that Person A should be on Person B’s … They<br />
shouldn’t be sitting next to each other. He’s been<br />
bounced up [to first class], but when he finally<br />
sits down on this plane, the guy opposite looks at<br />
him and says, “You’re late.” And then offers him<br />
a job. And I’d think about this as I went to sleep<br />
each night. It would be my weird little thing, and it<br />
would just start with two people, and then it would<br />
grow a little bit more, and then it would grow a<br />
little bit more. But all I really knew was there were<br />
two people.<br />
And they were men.<br />
And they were men. And the younger man was<br />
going to wind up working for the older man, who<br />
was some kind of magician. Bits of their stories<br />
would start to accrete. But I still hadn’t really<br />
made it into a thing. And then there’s the second<br />
half of the story. And the second half of the story<br />
has gotta be July ’98. But right now, I no longer<br />
trust my memory in any way, having confidently<br />
asserted for years that Terry Pratchett and I met<br />
mid-February, 1985, in<br />
a Chinese restaurant.<br />
And I found my 1985<br />
desk diary last night.<br />
I went through it, and<br />
I couldn’t see us in<br />
February anywhere. I<br />
went back and we were<br />
on the 21st of January<br />
in an Italian restaurant.<br />
But this is how I<br />
remember it. It was ’98, and I was going to<br />
Norway and Denmark to do book events. And my<br />
travel agent had said to me, “Y’know, if you fly<br />
Icelandair, they’ll always give you a free stopover<br />
in Iceland, in the hopes you’ll spend tourist dollars<br />
there.” And I went, “Wow! I’m in. I’m sold.” So<br />
I get off and it’s like six o’clock in the morning<br />
in Iceland. And I go through customs and I think,<br />
Well, I’ll wait until it gets dark and then I’ll go to<br />
sleep. That night, there is no dark. I do not have<br />
eyeshades and the bedroom curtain is very thin<br />
and very white and doesn’t do anything. And it’s<br />
day. And I do not sleep. So the next day is Sunday,<br />
and at this point it’s been a couple of days since<br />
I’ve actually slept, and I’m wandering around in<br />
that weird flat place you get to when you haven’t<br />
slept and everything just feels meaningless. And it’s<br />
all a little bit surreal and everything’s closed. So I<br />
remember passing a sushi place and just reading<br />
the menu because there was nothing else to do and<br />
it was closed — I saw they sold pony sushi.<br />
Pony sushi?<br />
Pony. Because Iceland, what it actually has a lot<br />
of, is ponies. And then I walk into the downtown<br />
tourist office, now closed, and they had a fantastic<br />
tabletop diorama basically showing the voyages<br />
of Leif Erikson. You start out in Iceland, you nip<br />
over to Greenland, you go down the coast in<br />
Newfoundland and have a little thing where you<br />
build your huts, and so forth. I looked at it and I<br />
thought, Y’know, I wonder if they brought their<br />
gods with them. And then I thought, I wonder if<br />
they left their gods behind when they came home.<br />
And it was like, all of a sudden, all of the things<br />
that I’d been thinking about, all of the things that<br />
had been circling my head about immigration,<br />
about America, about the House on the Rock, and<br />
this weird American thing where … In other places<br />
in the world, they might look at a fantastic cliff and<br />
go, “Ah, here we are in touch with the numinous!<br />
We will build a temple or we will build a shrine!”<br />
In America, you get a replica of the second-largest<br />
block of cheese in the world circa 1963. And<br />
people still go to visit it! As if it were a shrine! I<br />
wanted to put that in. And it was all there. I wrote<br />
an email to my agent and my editor saying, “This<br />
is the book,” and ending with, “The working title<br />
is going to be American Gods, but I’m sure I’ll<br />
come up with something better.”<br />
The one religious tradition that doesn’t really<br />
come up in the show is Judaism. Which is<br />
curious, since you, like me, are Jewish.<br />
You know, that’s interesting, because the god<br />
Bilquis, in the book, comes from the Jewish<br />
tradition. Bilquis is absolutely the Queen of Sheba,<br />
and she’s there at the beginning.<br />
But that’s a bit different. She comes from a<br />
Jewish text, but there’s very little in the show<br />
that’s immediately identifiable as Jewish in the<br />
way that there is for so many other religious<br />
traditions. There’s no Yahweh.<br />
Look, people say to me, “It’s American Gods,<br />
so where is God?” And, I say, “Well, what does<br />
God look like? Are you sure God isn’t in there<br />
somewhere?” People who will argue for the<br />
immanent, invisibilistic, un-bodied nature of God<br />
will get grumpy that I didn’t put an old guy on a<br />
white cloud in American Gods.<br />
And I guess that’s playing into the Jewish<br />
tradition: Our God is faceless. It’s our killer<br />
app. He can kind of be anything you want Him<br />
to be, on some level.<br />
Yeah, He had no face. There was no beard; there<br />
was no name. And I love that! For me, American<br />
Gods is so much more about culture and trappings.<br />
I mean, Bryan [Fuller] is much more interested in<br />
the religious side of things, in a weird way, than<br />
I am. When I came up with the idea, it was, This<br />
is about culture. It’s about immigration. It’s about<br />
coming to this country with your stuff and losing<br />
it, and giving it up. And so, for me, the external<br />
trappings are fascinating. Getting deeper into<br />
American Gods, I would love to get into rabbinical<br />
traditions and so much more. There’s a scene<br />
toward the end where you see the Golem, right at<br />
the very end of the book. But I think the nature of<br />
Judaism is such that you can’t stick a person up<br />
on the thing. So, you go with the bits of cultural<br />
detritus.<br />
Which one reads about in the weird scriptures<br />
that 80 people wrote, and which all contradicted<br />
one another and in which we tell the same stories<br />
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multiple times. We’re that rare religion that has<br />
Sure. And you should have some of this shrimp.<br />
But it was fun when I first sat down with American<br />
too long. But I also felt like, with [my novel with<br />
two creation stories that contradict one another.<br />
Okay. [Grabs a shrimp.] So, it was absolutely<br />
Gods, sat down to write it. I’d lived here, in<br />
Charles Vess], Stardust, I’d done something really<br />
I love that. In the Noah’s ark description, you<br />
fascinating for me, getting these weird lessons in<br />
America, at that point, for about eight years. And<br />
clever, because it was packed incredibly tightly<br />
have two texts one after another, completely<br />
Jewish mysticism — and I thought I was getting<br />
I had come to the conclusion that it was a lot<br />
— but nobody had really noticed. And I’m going,<br />
contradicting each other on how many of what<br />
Judaism 101. It honestly wasn’t until much later<br />
weirder than I thought it would be when I moved<br />
Okay, that was really interesting. I think I need<br />
kind of animal turn up where. That’s awesome!<br />
in life that I’m going, “Oh, I got the weird shit.”<br />
over here. Really, it started out with me just going,<br />
to do something that is big enough for people to<br />
I sat on a press roundtable with you a few years<br />
back where you mentioned something about<br />
learning the weird parts of Judaism from an<br />
adult in your<br />
life, but you<br />
didn’t get<br />
[Laughs.] And that was very good for me. It was<br />
also good that he was somebody who genuinely<br />
had no concept of fiction.<br />
I want to talk about what a weird place this is. I<br />
would comment on it to locals, who would fail to<br />
notice the weirdness. Much in the way that you’re<br />
a goldfish and you’re in a different goldfish tank,<br />
and you’re going, “Is this water weird?” And they<br />
go, “No, this is water.”<br />
notice. You won’t even have to like it. But you will<br />
notice it.<br />
Actually, I think I’m lying. This is one of those<br />
moments where I’m actually trying to … After that<br />
Terry Pratchett thing, I’m feeling so fucking selfconscious<br />
about the layers of story that you build<br />
too deep<br />
Mentally and emotionally, what place were you<br />
up afterwards.<br />
into it. Am I<br />
remembering<br />
that right?<br />
That was the<br />
Reverend<br />
Meyer Lev.<br />
When I would<br />
go, for bar<br />
mitzvah<br />
lessons, to<br />
live with my<br />
relatives in<br />
North London,<br />
it was Reverend Lev who would come over every<br />
day and would try and teach me. And the tragedy<br />
was that all of the stuff I was really interested in<br />
was this sort of weird, gloriously mad stuff, which<br />
it took me years to find later. And I never found it<br />
told as well. And, the big, obvious one was Adam’s<br />
three wives, which was the kind of thing that he<br />
would just normally tell me. And my task — as I<br />
saw it, at least — was to get him off the subject<br />
of the fact that I probably had not sufficiently<br />
prepared my haftarah that day. And his job was<br />
to try and make a small orthodox Jew out of me,<br />
against all odds. Would you like some of this<br />
salad?<br />
There wasn’t a distinction?<br />
All stories had happened, for him. He was telling<br />
me a story — the one about the old man lost in the<br />
forest one night without his prayer book who<br />
says, “God, you created all things so I am going<br />
to recite the alphabet and you can put the words<br />
together” — which I had already encountered in<br />
The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten as a funny story,<br />
I am being told as a true thing that happened to<br />
somebody of some rabbi’s acquaintance in<br />
the 16th century by Reb Lev. And it was wonderful!<br />
Because I’m going, “No, you really believe this<br />
world. You are not in a world in which there is<br />
even a concept of a parable. Nobody can be made<br />
up. Everything has to be true. And everything has<br />
to be discoverable.”<br />
in while you were writing American Gods?<br />
I don’t think anybody’s ever asked me that before.<br />
It was weird. Professionally, I’d finished Sandman<br />
a couple of years earlier. From pretty much the<br />
point that Sandman was finished, I basically spent<br />
about two years mostly writing movie scripts. I<br />
was not in a terribly good place, professionally,<br />
because every movie script that I wrote just got<br />
rewritten, and normally it was me rewriting it until<br />
eventually I gave up. And I couldn’t really see the<br />
point. I’d done [the BBC TV series] Neverwhere,<br />
which had been frustrating for me. I wanted to be<br />
in control. And I also had this weird idea that I<br />
wanted to write a big book.<br />
Literally, physically big?<br />
Literally, physically. I would describe it to people<br />
as a brick. I like short things. They make me happy.<br />
I feel like most books are too long. Most things are<br />
It’s like Reb Lev: All the contradictory stories<br />
are true, somehow.<br />
They are all true. It is definitely true. I don’t know<br />
if I thought I needed to write a brick, ‘cause, as I’m<br />
saying this, I do remember that most of the year<br />
2000 was spent feeling like I was trudging toward<br />
the horizon. I think I probably set out to write a<br />
100,000–120,000-word book. And it was only when<br />
I was like 50,000 or 60,000 words in and I was still<br />
at the beginning that I realized that okay, this is a<br />
brick. At which point I owned my brick-ness. So the<br />
other question is, where and who I was when I was<br />
writing it. For the first chunk of it, the very first<br />
chunk of it, I was someone on a train.<br />
You like trains?<br />
I like the freedom that trains give you to not do<br />
anything else. And I did this particular train trip<br />
where you get on a train in Chicago, you get off<br />
the train in Los Angeles. I was going to San Diego<br />
Comic-Con. I wrote it in first person and wasn’t<br />
happy with it, but wasn’t sure why not. And I put<br />
it aside. That would have been July or August of<br />
’99. And then November, after Thanksgiving, I<br />
went, Y’know, it needs to be third person. There’s<br />
a weirdness to anything to do with American Gods<br />
to me, in that Shadow is the least helpful character<br />
that I’ve ever created.<br />
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Helpful to you?<br />
reality-TV quality to them, in that they tend to go<br />
I wasn’t doing it for the credit. I was doing it<br />
suddenly means that each of those people in each<br />
Helpful to a writer, yeah. Because he’s smart, but<br />
to what people think would probably be the most<br />
because it all feels right if you’re talking about<br />
of those towns gets to find all the other people<br />
quiet. And relatively stoic. And is perfectly willing<br />
interesting story. “Who’s more interesting? Who’s<br />
America. Suddenly, Trump came in and now I’m<br />
like them. And suddenly, they’re empowered. And<br />
for things to happen to him and to get himself out<br />
a better story? Bob Dole or Bill Clinton? Let’s go<br />
reading articles in Vanity Fair about, “This is<br />
they are mighty. And that is glorious. What we<br />
of trouble if they’re getting bad. He doesn’t give<br />
for Clinton, it’ll be more interesting!” And there<br />
the most political stuff you’ve ever seen.” Well, I<br />
didn’t think was, And by the way, in each of those<br />
you a lot as an author. And he doesn’t necessarily<br />
is that point where you’re going, “Okay, so is it<br />
guess that’s all true, but it’s not like we sat down<br />
towns, there’s also a Nazi. There’s a Nazi who’s<br />
give you a lot as a reader. I remember I’d sworn<br />
Hillary, who still feels kind of like a rerun? Or is it<br />
and went, We are the opposition. We simply started<br />
too ashamed, too embarrassed, or too socially<br />
a mighty oath that I would not cut my hair or my<br />
Trump?” Even articulating that as a theory means<br />
telling our fucking story and then the world<br />
unwilling to stand up there and go, “Yes! I happen<br />
beard until I had finished the draft of my book.<br />
that people are going to mishear what I’ve said.<br />
changed. It would be like telling a pro-Jewish story<br />
to be a Nazi!” Which was actually kind of a good<br />
And I think the beard went off at the end of the<br />
It will turn into a clickbait headline and people<br />
in Berlin in the 1930s, and suddenly you’re looking<br />
thing. And the fact that all of those Nazis got to<br />
first draft and then I went, Okay, haircut is at the<br />
will be going, “You said that Trump was a better<br />
around going, “We’re apparently doing something<br />
meet each other on the web and get together and<br />
end of the second draft. And then it started getting<br />
story!” No. I think Trump is an out-of-his-depth<br />
big and important.”<br />
go, “Hey, I am not alone! Look! There’s a million<br />
more and more important to me to get to the end of<br />
idiot. Who is possibly criminal. And certainly<br />
people like me.” And it’s like, yeah, there are —<br />
the second draft because people were starting to<br />
incompetent. I think that, actually, having a sane<br />
The other thing is, we don’t have Trump<br />
that doesn’t make it a good thing.<br />
make Howard Stern jokes. Just walking down the<br />
and functional right wing is a good thing. Having<br />
without Twitter. The show is harshly critical of<br />
street, people would be<br />
what we’ve got<br />
media addictions. I hate to ask an overly big<br />
That said, you’ve been able to use your online<br />
like, [American accent]<br />
right now is a bad<br />
question, but do you think the internet has been<br />
presence to significantly bolster your career.<br />
“Whoa, Howard<br />
thing.<br />
a net negative for humanity?<br />
You’ve said in the past that your following<br />
Stern!” “Hey! Are<br />
you Howard Stern?”<br />
It’s like, “No, I’m not<br />
fucking him. And I don’t<br />
even look like him.”<br />
That’s a decent<br />
American accent!<br />
Thank you.<br />
Speaking of accents and travel: American<br />
Gods is largely an immigrant story, as well<br />
as the story of a nonwhite person traversing<br />
a majority-white country. When did you<br />
realize that the show was going to take on a<br />
weird political significance due to the rise of<br />
Trumpism?<br />
It really wasn’t until the latter days of the election.<br />
I got a phone call on the day before the election,<br />
from The Guardian, saying, “Will you write us<br />
an editorial for what’ll happen if Trump wins?”<br />
And I said, “No.” [Laughs.] I didn’t want to go<br />
there. And I didn’t want to go there mostly because<br />
I was terrified it would happen. I have this mad<br />
theory about American elections. There is a<br />
When the novel<br />
was written,<br />
it was written<br />
about America<br />
as a country of<br />
immigrants, of<br />
people who either<br />
came here of their<br />
own free will,<br />
or escaped here, or were brought here against<br />
their will. And what that meant — talking about<br />
the religious traditions and talking about the<br />
cultural traditions and talking about what that<br />
became. And having a lead character who was<br />
racially — and in all other ways — a melting pot.<br />
That, when I wrote the novel, didn’t seem to me<br />
to be particularly problematic, difficult, or even<br />
praiseworthy! Things that I did not think were<br />
praiseworthy or sensible included writing about<br />
indentured servants and transportation. Writing<br />
about the slave trade. Writing about a gay, Muslim<br />
salesman encountering a genie who drives a cab in<br />
New York.<br />
I don’t know. What about fire and the blade? I<br />
can absolutely imagine people going, You know, I<br />
thought fire, when it came in, was so great because<br />
we were able to cook, and now — somebody else<br />
burned to death! Ditto sharp blades and weapons.<br />
I think it’s a tool. The phenomenon of the long-tail<br />
[effects] was one that nobody thought about when<br />
the whole thing started. Geek power happened, in<br />
a weird kind of way, because there was somebody<br />
like us in every small town. In the 1950s and ’60s,<br />
we didn’t find each other. By my time, in the ’80s,<br />
we found each other at conventions. But there’s<br />
only one of us in each town. And then the internet<br />
makes you “critic-proof.” Is that a bad thing?<br />
I’m not honestly sure, in any real sense, what<br />
function critics have in terms of selling books,<br />
anyway. Sandman was critic-proof. The reviews<br />
tended to be very consistent. They were always:<br />
“It’s not as good as it used to be.”<br />
And I bet that began right away. “Issue two? Meh,<br />
not as good as issue one.”<br />
I’d say issue seven or eight. “That’s not the thing<br />
that we liked!” Part of what you do to try to<br />
remain relatively critic-proof is you try to write<br />
relatively good books. But that was a way of<br />
saying, I can tell people I have a book out. In the<br />
past, the main way that people would learn that I<br />
had a book out was in the review columns. Either<br />
it doesn’t get reviewed or if it’s reviewed badly —<br />
either of those things are going to hurt sales. At<br />
least now I can tell people, “Hey, I have a book,<br />
and it’s coming out.” I love critics. I’m not sure<br />
that they do anything.<br />
You’re best known as a fantasist, but you’ve<br />
also written a significant number of superhero<br />
comics over the years. To what extent is the<br />
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superhero lineup — the Supermen and Spider-<br />
Men of the world — a pantheon of gods?<br />
I mean, it is. If you take the DC [Comics] universe<br />
and the Marvel [Comics] universe, just the comics,<br />
let’s ignore the spinoffs of various kinds, and you<br />
go, Okay. At this point, 80 years on, this is one<br />
of the largest pieces of fiction ever created. The<br />
DC universe is one piece of fiction. There’s been<br />
nothing else like it. They are, how many millions of<br />
pages at this point? How many millions of words?<br />
How many millions of drawings create this mad<br />
world that you can understand? You can believe<br />
in? You can go to? It’s at once a mirror to the<br />
world we live in and it’s an instruction and it’s an<br />
aspiration, and what it says about who we are is<br />
huge and weird, and when do we need light, funny<br />
superheroes and when do we need the dark ones?<br />
And you can say the same thing about gods in a<br />
lot of ways.<br />
Exactly.<br />
one I pulled out. But I needed to find one at home<br />
that would sign as well as my beloved signing pen<br />
that I’ve been using since 2013. I discovered this<br />
one in a box, and somebody must’ve given it to<br />
me at some point. I tried it out and went, “You are<br />
beautiful. You are perfect. You have fantastic penweight.<br />
And you write like a dream.” I’m going on<br />
a speaking tour and I’m gonna have to sign 500 or<br />
1,000 books before each gig.<br />
I thought I heard you’d retired from the masssigning<br />
game.<br />
I’m done with signing tours. There is a slight<br />
difference. You can sign 1,000 books in an hour<br />
before a gig, but if the people are standing in line<br />
with their thousand books, their two thousand<br />
books, that’s four, five, six, seven hours. This year’s<br />
signing was [my book] Norse Mythology at Town<br />
Hall, New York. I don’t know why I decided to do a<br />
signing. I think I was paranoid that nobody would<br />
come if I didn’t.<br />
Oh, stop.<br />
No! I think that’s why! I’m going, Why did I do<br />
this? That thing where you’re trying to reconstruct<br />
motives. I said, Oh, I’ll do a signing afterwards.<br />
Maybe nobody will come. But people came. People<br />
always come.<br />
This interview has been edited and condensed.<br />
Alright, you have to catch your train.<br />
I’ve got to text my guy. [Opens jacket,<br />
inadvertently revealing a pocket full of pens.]<br />
That’s quite a lot of pens you got there.<br />
It is. And actually, that’s for writing a novel with.<br />
That one just got accumulated in Australia. And<br />
these two I’m bringing along. I think that one<br />
there I’m probably going to be writing with. But<br />
this gorgeous little baby is because I left my fancy<br />
signing pen.<br />
Ooh, it’s a fountain pen.<br />
It is. They’re all fountain pens. Except for the first<br />
Who’s Who in American Gods<br />
16 17
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20 21
A look at Bioware’s epic saga<br />
Warden<br />
Champion<br />
Inquisitor<br />
22 23
With the confirmation of Dragon Age 4<br />
in the making, let’s take a look back at<br />
Bioware’s epic saga and the heroes we all<br />
love - Warden, Champion, Inquisitor.<br />
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Dragon Age: Origins<br />
„Men and women from every race; warriors and mages,<br />
barbarians and kings... the Grey Wardens sacrificed everything<br />
to stem the tide of darkness... and prevailed.“<br />
Duncan, Warden-Commander of the Grey Wardens in Ferelden<br />
Handlung:<br />
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magnis eum laborpo rrovid ut lignatur?<br />
Charaktere:<br />
Load screen from the PC version of Dragon<br />
Age: Origins<br />
Us, ex essus quoditi omnis di volupta<br />
turehenis dolupta quam aborehenim<br />
qui reium, consequ iantempore<br />
namus, sed que qui untiunt iaest, tem<br />
derum qui intisciis atur? Dolessum,<br />
quoditius exerum et facea vent asimpor<br />
aut repro blaboratqui tem consed<br />
moluptibere volo et lautatemquam et<br />
minciaepro que as andella que poremol<br />
uptibusant, occumqu atinullaut quam, ulpariore, sandi dus utem<br />
qui dolore dem rerfere consenimet ommodis soluptia vellaborecto<br />
moluptum rectas santi quos dic tem isi consequae. Et a quid quisinulpa<br />
idusandenis etur?<br />
Oloreiusda nos que occum ant ea<br />
qui to bea cus excearcius dolupie<br />
nissuntin estist voloria nimporessint<br />
aut venimodio officipis re sit,<br />
qui re necte pa volessedita nobita<br />
voloribus, officipsunto ea qui odiciae<br />
sedipsam fugiatin pro tet rerit<br />
ressit essit recepudiam, sitamet<br />
fuga.<br />
Dae. Nam imodis dunt, quam velia<br />
volutem olestrum illam, te voluptatet<br />
assus ad quamet mosam dus aut<br />
officto volupta tendand andande<br />
atiaectaes es nonsectus mint eumquis<br />
coratur. sinis sedipic tempora<br />
tempore peliquia velecer ionseque<br />
illita volorrum harchic ientinum<br />
essimpos aut vent at dolupta aut<br />
omnisima versper ibuscium solorehenis<br />
dest, alibus doluptatur<br />
ariberest am que quas dolorio nestiam<br />
explignim.<br />
La as ea dus pos alit offic temporeperum<br />
quo eatiost od minum que<br />
elest volor alitiae volore dolorum<br />
alibus simi, con erferferia volorepudani<br />
vollest, omnis untorem et<br />
minihit et la conse eum dis res.<br />
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Ulpa volenienis sa consed<br />
id ut optatem poruptat a volo-<br />
molorio et, od etus am verit,<br />
ratibus aceprem es dolesequi<br />
utem iliquis andaepeliquo<br />
omni sim a ventio il inum quis<br />
ium cum alignat et aut et mo-<br />
utatiume ameniatiunt hillabo.<br />
lupientios volent doluptium<br />
Del ipit aut volupta tempore<br />
veruntorum rem inctorepre<br />
pudam, que nonserf erisquidit<br />
estrum eum, ommo berchil<br />
laut volorem porpore num fu-<br />
Met essimag nistrum ea et aliquae<br />
ptaepre solupti onseque sum si volor<br />
reprem sin reperum quassim<br />
oditem qui officae rem que non<br />
consequunt lacest, tem dicius pro<br />
bearchit eicideribero quat quunt.<br />
Eles exero ommoditis et demquibusci<br />
dolorrum re volest veliquas<br />
que erupti blaut inctis sa sit lauda<br />
velit idus, officitat.<br />
Ximpelita volupturem faceri<br />
blabo. Itae dollor a vit re volupta<br />
dolenitae officaero qui doluptur<br />
molorro occuptatia qui alis reictur<br />
saped experem. loritiae nque<br />
explibust, aliquamet.Destibus molesti<br />
umquibus vellant et ate nis et<br />
veribusUt veni con comnis dolorendi<br />
ipictiorero odit, cuptae. Lis<br />
destorum repudis sunto cum ad<br />
quo te cusande vellis sa dolupllorerunt<br />
volupta tatibus quisque num<br />
ibusam escil essi cus verruptatem<br />
sinctio ssimagn<br />
imolum evenien dendebit eaque<br />
sita dolut voluptatem. Et<br />
re volorup tatur, cusciun tusaperro<br />
moluptae sam, ullam es<br />
untet fuga. Apitisciis a corunt<br />
magnia quuntus saestin veliqui<br />
duntiorem. Uptur? Quiat<br />
alitae ilitasp erumqui ipsunti<br />
ommoluptatis minum corem<br />
gias sum repra doluptam, toreris<br />
eictatibus perfero ipsum.<br />
Soles aut dolupti assime nonsequuntem<br />
nis itibus aut qui<br />
doluptur restiur auda qui re et<br />
aboratur? Natur sim.<br />
Male and female character (Dragon Age II)<br />
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True Blood<br />
(englisch für „Echtes Blut“) ist eine US-amerikanische<br />
Drama-Fernsehserie mit Horror- und Fantasy-Elementen<br />
von Alan Ball. True Blood spielt in<br />
der Gegenwart und basiert auf der Buchreihe Sookie<br />
Stackhouse von Charlaine Harris. True Blood<br />
spielt in einer kleinen fiktiven Stadt in Louisiana<br />
und zeigt Parallelen zur Emanzipation Homosexueller<br />
und den Umgang mit der schwarzen Bevölkerung<br />
in den reaktionären Südstaaten der USA. Im<br />
Mittelpunkt steht die Liebesgeschichte zwischen<br />
Sookie Stackhouse, einer mit telepathischen Fähigkeiten<br />
ausgestatteten, von Grund auf guten jungen<br />
Frau, und dem Vampir Bill Compton.<br />
Handlung:<br />
Grundlegender Einfall der Serie ist TruBlood, ein<br />
ursprünglich von japanischen Wissenschaftlern für<br />
die Medizin entwickeltes synthetisches Blut. Das<br />
Getränk gewinnt unter den bislang versteckt am<br />
Rande der Gesellschaft lebenden Vampiren Beliebtheit.<br />
Weil sie nun nicht mehr gezwungen sind,<br />
zum Überleben Menschen zu beißen, können sie<br />
sozialkonformes Verhalten zeigen und sich in die<br />
Mehrheitsgesellschaft integrieren.w<br />
Dabei spalten sich die Meinungen der Vampire:<br />
die emanzipationswilligen Vampire, die eine sehr<br />
positive Einstellung zur modernen Gesellschaft<br />
haben, und Vampire, die sich lieber ihren sexuellen<br />
Exzessen hingeben und Menschen anfallen.<br />
Auch hier bedient sich die Serie eines Kunstgriffs:<br />
Der einfache Vampirbiss macht die Menschen<br />
noch lange nicht zu Vampiren; hierfür müssen sie<br />
komplett ausgesaugt werden. Viele Menschen, insbesondere<br />
Frauen, sehen in dem Biss eine starke<br />
Erotik.<br />
Die in sich abgeschlossenen Staffeln der Serie<br />
behandeln jeweils ein großes, mythologisch angehauchtes<br />
Thema. So stört in der ersten Staffel<br />
ein Vampire hassender Mörder das Leben in<br />
Bon Temps. In der zweiten Staffel ist es eine mit<br />
massenhypnotischen und gestaltwandlerischen<br />
Fähigkeiten ausgestattete, zutiefst böse Mänade.<br />
In der dritten Staffel werden die Vampire von einer<br />
machtgierigen und V-süchtigen Dynastie von<br />
Werwölfen, die von einem Vampirkönig angeführt<br />
werden, der nichts von der Emanzipation der Vampire<br />
hält, bedroht. In der vierten Staffel taucht eine<br />
mächtige rachsüchtige Hexe auf und in der fünften<br />
Staffel kommt die Autorität, welche sechs Kanzler<br />
und einen Hüter beinhaltet, zum Vorschein.<br />
Kritiken:<br />
„‚True Blood‘ zielt auf eine erwachsene Zielgruppe,<br />
keine Teenies, ab und zieht eine grobe<br />
Spur aus Gedärmen und Blut hinter sich her, die<br />
durch den allgegenwärtigen schwarzen Humor<br />
wundervoll unterstrichen wird. ‚True Blood‘ bietet<br />
in jedem Fall einen angenehm blutigen Kontrast<br />
zu anderen auf dem Markt befindlichen Serien und<br />
die Autoren lassen sich einiges einfallen, um Serienliebhabern<br />
richtig einzuheizen. Für Serienliebhaber<br />
und Vampir-Fans ist ‚True Blood‘ daher ein<br />
absolutes Muss.“<br />
– Vivian Guerrero-Meneses: VIRUS<br />
„Verschwitzt und gleichzeitig von semiotischer<br />
Coolness, feucht-fröhlich und doch messerscharf<br />
kalkuliert: So erzählt diese Serie noch einmal vom<br />
Vampir als Projektionsfigur für eine verwaltete,<br />
von Sachzwängen regulierte Welt. Selten sah man<br />
Draculas Erben so depraviert, selten hatte man so<br />
viel Spaß dabei. Ob als emblematische Figur für<br />
aufstrebende Bürgerrechtsbewegungen oder als<br />
Chiffre für das Subjekt jenseits sozialer Zensur:<br />
Die ‚True Blood‘-Vampire sind blasser als ihre<br />
Vorgänger – und schillern umso mehr.“<br />
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Er provoziert, erregt Aufmerksamkeit,<br />
bricht Tabus und widersetzt<br />
sich den Wertevorstellungen<br />
seiner Heimat, den USA. Er ist<br />
Ehrenmitglied der Church of<br />
Satan, hatte Drogenprobleme und<br />
verletzte sich selbst. Mit seinen<br />
Songs kritisiert er die Gesellschaft<br />
der USA: ihren Schönheitswahn,<br />
ihre Scheinheiligkeit, den weitverbreiteten<br />
religiösen Fanatismus.<br />
Im Gegensatz zu anderen<br />
Musikern legt er seine Identität<br />
privat nicht ab – er ist immer<br />
Marilyn Manson.<br />
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Die Dates in Deutschland:<br />
22.07. Dresden, Junge Garde (Woodstage Open Air)<br />
04.08. Wacken, W:O:A<br />
16.11. Hamburg, Sporthalle Hamburg<br />
18.11. München, Zenith<br />
25.11. Berlin, UFO im Velodrom<br />
29.11. Düsseldorf, Mitsubishi Electric Halle<br />
Auf dem Cover des 2015 Album<br />
“The Pale Emperor” erlebte man<br />
Manson statt blutend am Kreuz im<br />
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Interview mit Marylin Manson<br />
Marilyn Manson heißt mit bürgerlichem Namen<br />
Brian Hugh Warner. Er wurde in Canton, Ohio,<br />
geboren. Sein Vater hatte als Hubschrauberpilot<br />
im Vietnamkrieg gedient und arbeitete später als<br />
Möbelverkäufer, seine Mutter als Krankenschwester.<br />
Er besuchte die Heritage Christian School,<br />
eine streng christliche Privatschule, später eine<br />
öffentliche Schule.<br />
Wie spricht man Sie eigentlich an? Gibt es noch<br />
Menschen, die Sie Brian oder Mr. Warner nennen,<br />
oder sind Sie endgültig zu Marilyn Manson<br />
geworden?<br />
Marilyn Manson: Meine Mutter war die Letzte,<br />
die mich Brian nannte, aber die ist tot. Die meisten<br />
Menschen vermeiden meinen Künstlernamen.<br />
Der Einzige, der mich so anspricht, ist mein<br />
Freund Johnny Depp. Der sagt immer: “Hallo,<br />
Marilyn Manson”, und ich antworte dann: “Hey,<br />
Johnny Depp”. Das ist so ein Spiel, wenn wir zwei<br />
unter uns sind.<br />
Was verbindet Sie mit Johnny Depp?<br />
Manson: Wir haben uns beide die Mentalität<br />
bewahrt, mit der wir unsere Karrieren begannen.<br />
Wir sind wie Kinder, die sich weigern, erwachsen<br />
zu werden. Wir wissen, dass wir etwas erreicht<br />
haben, aber unser Privatleben hat sich deshalb<br />
nicht großartig geändert. Wir lehnen beide die<br />
Vorstellungen ab, die mit dem Ruhm verbunden<br />
sind. Was wohl auch daran liegt, dass wir beide<br />
aus der working class kommen und immer noch<br />
staunen, wie weit wir es gebracht haben, aber eben<br />
auch wissen, dass wir dafür hart gearbeitet haben.<br />
Wir haben obendrein beide wenige Freunde und<br />
tun uns schwer im Umgang mit der Öffentlichkeit.<br />
Manchmal möchte auch ich einfach in Ruhe<br />
gelassen werden.<br />
Sie waren auch als Schauspieler erfolgreich. Wie<br />
war es, in der US-TV-Serie Sons of Anarchy ohne<br />
Ihr übliches Make-up vor der Kamera zu stehen?<br />
Manson: Das Schöne an der Schauspielerei ist für<br />
mich, dass ich einmal jemand anders sein kann.<br />
Immer den Schock-Rocker Marilyn Manson zu<br />
spielen ist mit der Zeit ganz schön öde. Außerdem<br />
war es als Solo-Musiker während all der Jahre auch<br />
einsam. Ich wuchs ohne Geschwister auf und hatte<br />
als Kind keine Freunde. Meine Jugend war einsam.<br />
Die Idee, Teil einer Gang zu sein, faszinierte mich<br />
von klein auf. Die Vorstellung, dass da Leute sind,<br />
die für einen einstehen, wenn es mal Ärger gibt, war<br />
verlockend und einer der Gründe, weshalb ich als<br />
Teenager in einer Rockband sein wollte. Aber am<br />
Ende war ich dann doch wieder auf mich gestellt.<br />
Marilyn Manson als unberechenbarer, wilder<br />
Mann nicht der Kern Ihrer über Jahre sorgfältig<br />
gepflegten Rolle als Rockstar?<br />
Manson: Natürlich gefällt es mir, angefeindet<br />
zu werden. Das war immer das Ziel meiner Provokationen.<br />
Aber auch wenn ich mich gerne als<br />
Zielscheibe inszeniere, gibt es Grenzen. Ich habe<br />
mich längst daran gewöhnt, in den Medien für<br />
die erstaunlichsten Missverständnisse verantwortlich<br />
gemacht zu werden. Letztlich habe ich<br />
keine Wahl: Meine Kunst provoziert eben. Wer ein<br />
Album Antichrist Superstar nennt, darf sich nicht<br />
beschweren. Andererseits gilt in den USA immer<br />
noch das Recht der freien Meinungsäußerung.<br />
Wogegen haben Sie eigentlich rebelliert?<br />
Manson: Gegen das Lebensbild, das mein Vater<br />
mir aufzwängen wollte. Dazu kam die christliche<br />
Schule, die ich besuchen musste. Eine Zeit, in der<br />
ich mich vor allem an Prügel erinnere. Ich war nie<br />
religiös. Trotzdem weiß ich vermutlich mehr über<br />
die Bibel als viele überzeugte Christen. Eigentlich<br />
wollte ich Schriftsteller werden oder Journalist.<br />
Ich habe in meiner Jugend viel<br />
gelesen und machte regelmäßig<br />
bei Poetry-Slams mit. Meine<br />
Stimme fand ich nicht einmal gut<br />
genug war, um Gedichte vorzutragen.<br />
Aber dann ging ich diesen<br />
Pakt mit dem Teufel ein und<br />
wurde Rockstar. Ich wollte um<br />
jeden Preis berühmt werden.<br />
Ihre grotesken, schockierenden<br />
Auftritte leben auch vom Humor.<br />
Wurde das missverstanden?<br />
Manson: Mir war es immer ein Rätsel, warum ich<br />
so viele meiner Aktionen erläutern muss. Vieles ist<br />
so grell überzeichnet, dass ich denke, man kann es<br />
eigentlich gar nicht missverstehen. Andererseits<br />
ist es natürlich einkalkuliert, dass die Leute bei<br />
manchen meiner Aktionen ausflippen. Ich zelebriere<br />
das Chaos, also darf ich mich nicht wundern,<br />
wenn ich selber Chaos auslöse. Chaos ist ja auch<br />
etwas Befreiendes. Viele Menschen unterstellen<br />
mir, amoralisch zu sein. Das<br />
ist falsch, ich bin sogar sehr moralisch,<br />
auch wenn ich mit dem Begriff spiele.<br />
Hat man Ihnen mit dem Gefängnis<br />
gedroht?<br />
Manson: Ich bin fünfmal vorbestraft,<br />
wegen Erregung öffentlichen Ärgernisses<br />
und solcher Sachen. Deshalb<br />
muss ich wirklich verdammt genau<br />
aufpassen, was ich anstelle. In Sons<br />
of Anarchy gibt es einige Gefängnisszenen,<br />
und so etwas möchte ich nie<br />
erleben. Allen, die mich immer noch<br />
für einen unbedarften Gefahrensucher und Provokateur<br />
halten, kann ich nur sagen, dass ich alle<br />
meine Handlungen längst sehr genau abwäge –<br />
denn jeder kleine Fehler könnte mich in den Knast<br />
bringen. Meine wilden Tage sind lange vorüber.<br />
Leidenschaft wird von Unbedarften oft mit Aggression<br />
verwechselt. Aber das ist ein Missverständnis.<br />
Das einzig Gefährliche daran ist, dass<br />
ich mein Publikum zu freiem Denken motiviere<br />
und es möglicherweise inspiriere.<br />
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WGT 2017<br />
Leipzig. Seit 1992 treffen sich alljährlich<br />
Anhänger der Gothic-Szene zum beliebten<br />
„Wave Gotik Treffen“ am Pfingstwochenende.<br />
Leipzig lädt zum 26. Wave-Gotik-Treffen:<br />
Traditionell kommen am langen<br />
Pfingstwochenende zehntausende Fans<br />
der dunklen Szene aus aller Welt zu<br />
Konzerten, Vorträgen, Lesungen, Ausstellungen<br />
und flanieren in den Straßen<br />
und Parks. Das Programm des Festivals<br />
verteilt sich inzwischen über die ganze<br />
Stadt: Leipziger Museen, Oper, Gewandhaus,<br />
Galerien, aber auch Friedhöfe bieten<br />
spezielle Veranstaltungen oder Sonderführungen<br />
an, überall versammeln<br />
sich Anhänger von Gothic, Steampunk<br />
oder Electro in beeindruckenden Outfits.<br />
Gleich zum Auftakt findet das traditionelle<br />
„Viktorianische Picknick“ im<br />
Clara-Zetkin-Park statt, jedes Jahr ein<br />
Großereignis, bei dem sich die Anhänger<br />
verschiedener schwarzer Subkulturen<br />
zum Sehen und Gesehen-Werden treffen.<br />
Zudem gibt es spezielle Märkte mit<br />
Mode, Accessoires, kulinarischen Spezialitäten,<br />
kunsthandwerklichen Produkten<br />
und allerlei schwarzen Kuriositäten.<br />
Erstmals bietet das Leipziger Standesamt<br />
in diesem Jahr spezielle Trauungen<br />
unter der Erde an. Täglich können sich<br />
fünf Paare in den Kasematten der ehemaligen<br />
Pleißenburg unter dem Neuen<br />
Rathaus das Ja-Wort geben.<br />
Mehr als 200 Bands und Künstler<br />
Im Zentrum des Wave-Gotik-Treffens steht ein extravagantes Musikprogramm.<br />
Dabei kommen mehrere Szene-Größen zu exklusiven<br />
Auftritten nach Leipzig: Hinzu kommen zahlreiche andere Bands,<br />
darunter auch viele Neuentdeckungen, deren Konzerte auf dem agra-Messegelände<br />
mit dem „heidnischen Dorf“ und in bekannten Clubs<br />
und Kirchen der Stadt stattfinden – an rund 50 Locations. Das WGT<br />
setzt traditionell auf ein breites musikalisches Spektrum von kleineren<br />
bis mittelgroßen Bands und nicht auf Stadienfüller.<br />
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Neuerscheinungen 07/2017<br />
Sirenia: Perils Of The Deep Blue<br />
Im rent quae pra necae plab in nos eum aut est dolorendelic<br />
teculles voluptis doluption esto velendel<br />
es eatempo<br />
ruptae evenis<br />
modipsus eturior<br />
eperspit ipsam<br />
voles pliquaest,<br />
aut quibus milit<br />
aut optatur alique<br />
parum lantectiosam<br />
restia venti<br />
blatur? Quis aut<br />
quia videlibus es siti dem non cum rem aliquatur<br />
molorectusda commos ent.<br />
The Theatre Bizarre<br />
Itat est, sim res elit ma consendae volut occabo.<br />
Ut et harum quaspelita ipsundunt a non por aut<br />
aciende rspiendae cus.<br />
Nem eatempedit modipsa<br />
pereprorrunt<br />
volut peligen dan-<br />
dusame<br />
modit et rem<br />
unto<br />
que etus alit est<br />
quatem.<br />
Nam que non<br />
corem.<br />
Et aspello re-<br />
pudae.<br />
Ut est, volum<br />
inum<br />
cum quo magnita<br />
essit<br />
quibus volorum l i -<br />
quunt facipsusa isto<br />
videbis<br />
aliquis qui om-<br />
nim<br />
il illes.<br />
Anna Kendall: Das Land hinter den Nebeln<br />
Nosa nost aliam facerias explic tes atus que evenihi<br />
llupti- us magnatur?<br />
Pel ium cuptam alis alis<br />
molestia-<br />
spic tem audi<br />
dolorepe et<br />
optus.<br />
Comnist,<br />
si volo ditinum<br />
voluption<br />
cum que volum<br />
seque<br />
dolora quatibe<br />
aritatia que sequam<br />
rerecum<br />
ulluptatisi dolor<br />
am volor sequas culpa peri odicaborios di qui<br />
conestrum ea que moluptat labor sam quidend<br />
andaepelit unt adit, pictum iust es mincien imolut<br />
hilis sam que nullabo reiciunt rem.<br />
The Witcher<br />
Ihicid ulparch itaepelendes ipsum nisti volorum<br />
fugita id mo inis dunt qui cone dolore dolento<br />
runtis voluptam facerro vitatis erehend ignimod<br />
itatiate vero volupit everumqui omnientur autatatis<br />
ilis aliqui occusam, audam eost ium estis<br />
velique voluptas duntis venectet fuga. Ut dolore<br />
ius doluptat molorepro volor rest, consequaepta<br />
dessin nulpa nonsedi delit escilitaero estibus acil<br />
ent lamus aliquatis iundae parchit magnis expero<br />
ipsum facea cuptatem ut re sum ditaquam quiberum<br />
voloreiur, cusam aceste estioris alias ipientotas<br />
quodi ullestore rem. Unt perchiliqui aligendere<br />
voles sumquos estis nobis quunt autempo<br />
evenecatem est est lab iderrum quatur, cones deliquaturem<br />
lab ium facepedis corro odit, ut rest,<br />
nobit expellabo. Itatur, sundi nossi ulpa doluptas<br />
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