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German writer and translator Carl Weissner has died at the age of 72 in Mannheim, Germany.

As translator of writing by such figures as Andy Warhol, JG Ballard, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa, Weissner was a key figure in post-war avant-garde German poetry, and was responsible for bringing a liberal western sensibility to German arts and letters.

According to American poet John Bennett, “Carl Weissner was a force. Besides translating the likes of Bukowski, Burroughs and Nelson Algren into German, Carl (as fluent and deft in English as he was in German) wrote his own stuff ranging from the experimental to novels and engaged in a wide variety of literary collaborations…he’ll be missed.”