Julia Knobloch

My poem Worms/Vermayza, circa 1978, was published by in between hangovers. Read it here :)

I'm honored and excited to be featured as Poet of the Week with Brooklyn Poets. Earlier this month, another poem was published on ReformJudaism.org Read it  here .

A documentary by Michael Gregor and produced by doc.station Hamburg about the origins and legacy of the Chachapoya tribe in Amazonia will air on Arte on March 8, 2014 (Chachapoya - Karthagos vergessene Krieger) and on PBS on April 2, 2014 (Secrets of the Dead). I did the line-producing for the New York shooting and interviewed one of the experts.

My friend Jessica Talbot has launched a website to accompany her book Hummingbird that she is about to finish. The site is dedicated to stories about finding a place called home, and she has invited me to contribute as a guest writer: Love and the Cities .

My latest translation hits the Kindle Single Store tomorrow: Revolte im Theatersaal (Wild in the Seats by James Wolcott) looks back on 100 years of Rite of Spring, in German.

I'm currently translating James Wolcott's Kindle Single The Gore Supremacy, his homage to Gore Vidal. My translations so far  - missing in this list is S.G. Redling's Flowertown plus the forthcoming thriller Blood Stained, by CJ Lyons.

Für die deutschen Leser: Letzte Woche erschien der neue Roman von Marisha Pessl im S. Fischer Verlag. In New York war ich für die Organisation des Drehs von Trailer und diesem Online-Spiel mit verantwortlich:  Amerikanische Nacht I organized the shooting of the German trailer for Marisha Pessl's new book, Night Film, in New York.

My translation into German of S.G. Redling's "Flowertown" (Die Sperrzone) is now available on amazon.de Over the past months I've been translating Kindle Singles from Nelson DeMille, Rick Marin, Jonathan Biss, and Michael Famighetti.  I just started with Mark Obbie's "God's Nobodies - Misguided Faith and Murder in the Life of One American Family."

My translation of Traci Hohenstein's thriller "Burn Out" (German title: Verschwunden in den Flammen) is now available on amazon.de!

Unsere Reportage Flüchtiges Silber - Die Heringsfischer von Bristol Bay" läuft am Freitag, 22.2. 2013 um 18:25 auf arte. Our documentary about the herring fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska, airs this February on arte.

Intimate, quiet, lyrical, and extremely powerful - the documentary The Iran Job is all of the above. Recently, this independently produced film portraying an American basketball player’s season with a club in Iran filled one of the theatres at the IFC Center for nearly three weeks, until Hurricane Sandy brought life in Lower Manhattan to a temporary halt. The great success among the public speaks for the documentary’s importance and validity and its brilliant, entertaining storytelling. Detailed and calm observations of human encounters, spontaneous moments that are allowed to breathe and unfold on screen, and an outwardly neutral yet sharp-eyed political perspective make this documentary debut an astounding one. Filmmaker Till Schauder produced the documentary together with his Iranian-American wife Sara Nodjoumi. He followed Kevin Sheppard, at the time a 29-year old basketball player from the US Virgin Islands, to the Iranian city of Shiraz, where Kevin was under ...

Our edit for our documentary about heringfishermen and yupik culture in the Bristol Bay area in Alaska brought me to Berlin for the summer. 2 more weeks to go and I'll be back in NYC!

I recently finished translating the fantastic long essay "Beethoven's Shadow" by Jonathan Biss for AmazonCrossing and am excited to see it published soon! 

I recently conducted an insightful interview with director Joan Braderman about her documentary about the feminist magazine Heresies. You can find an edited version on telegraph21.com

My article about censorship in Portugal just got published on openDemocracy.

Our Alaska documentary has been green lighted and it looks as if I will spend the spring in snow and ice! Other things that have been going on: I've joind the Advisory Group of the art organization HAWT as media coordinator, and have been writing press releases and web site content for the Theatre Museum NYC and CityKinder. My immigration is moving ahead step by step...

As this year ends, I'm gearing up for new exciting things to come in 2012: My colleague Sandra Pruefer and I are making good progress with the preparations for our Alaska wildlife documentary, and I'm editing last changes in the program for my 'Literay New York' Travel Tour, which I will guide in the spring. Other projects are flourishing as well. A good year, and there's even a better one to come. Happy Holidays!

My latest article for the German Art Magazine Kunst und Auktionen appears on August 26, featuring summer days in NYC: Alexander McQueen, Lyonel Feininger, and the young Mexican artist Erika Harrsch.

My new "Letter from New York" appears these days in Kunst und Auktionen in Germany, featuring Urs Fischer's 6 million record Lamp/Bear, an epic bid marathon at Christie's and Francis Alys' Story of a Deception. English translation under way.