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EISENSTEPPE – Spuren des Hoboismus in Deutschland (IRON STEPPE – Traces of hoboism in Germany)

Hoboism is an North American phenomenon describing the nomadic lifestyle of iternant workers who moved from town to town by illegal freighthopping, especially in the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Soon it became part of the hobo culture to communicate through an own language in secret signs. Hobos left their marks along their route and often chose nicknames, so called monikers, to combine them with the date, messages, thoughts or little epigrams. Although the intentions might differ, hoboism is alive in the United States and monikers are still written on freighttrains by railworkers, outlaws and adventurers.

When the author Jan Klöthe started exploring the German hobo scene in 2012, the movement was existing round about a decade. Just like graffiti in the 1980s, Europeans adopted the American trend and hoboism seems to have become a sub-genre of the writing culture.

In EISENSTEPPE the author introduces protagonists like Stefan Haehnel, MSABE-82, KATDOG, NOTZ, CAUGH, Norman B., WAITS, STYLO, A. M. Schlesinger and OGTOK with text- and photo chapters. The reader also gets exclusive insights through interviews with Wolf Daubin on his monikers and two train drivers. On 120 pages the representatives of a new “generation hobo” share their mindset and enlighten with thoughts and intents on their passion. EISENSTEPPE is limited to 150 copies and available exclusively at Hitzerot!

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EISENSTEPPE – Spuren des Hoboismus in Deutschland

Exclusive release at Unlock Book Fair in Cologne 31.08-01.09.2019 at the CityLeaks Festival!

Limited to 150 copies! Including: Stefan Haehnel, MSABE-82, KATDOG, NOTZ, CAUGH, Norman B., WAITS, STYLO, A. M. Schlesinger, OGTOK and Wolf Daubin.

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Video games

Today I discover a thing about how to live. I always played video games, but at some point I had a burn out of sorts and I just couldn't bring myself to sit behind the computer anymore. The resolution to play video games was just too awful. But I know video games. I really enjoy them from time to time and I know how to play them, I really do, it is a thing I am seriously good at. However, I just hated how it slurped up all my time and turned me into a loser. Even though at times I could really just relax with a nice video game. But yeah, I just couldn't do it anymore. This past week, however, I have been growing in a certain kind of awareness. You see, I have been writing consistently every day, and that also took up a lot of time, and since nobody reads it, in a way that was just more time that I was throwing away, but in some ways, it's my life's work et cetera. So I decided I should get up earlier on my free days and write; you know, so that I could have a full day for the rest of the day doing other things. But then, I started structuring the rest of the day as well, you know, with independent activities, unaffected by the weather and such. So I started making sudoku's, and I loved how I could just spend time that way, you know, before I knew it I had been chilling for an hour or more with one of those neat little puzzles. But then the puzzle was over and I was like: I am not gonna make another right after it, you know, I wanted to do something a bit more free form, so I started composing you know and that was awesome, you know, it's just a really rewarding form of creativity, you know? Composition. But that opened up my day something fierce; now I was watching movies, going outside for walks, making my bed and all that, and it was all really great, but then I thought, what about video games, and I decided I should play Tetris, but that was just a momentary relief, because the question came again and I was like, I'll read books, but still I was wondering, what should I play for video games, and then it came to me: video games destroy your day. So I figured, you can decide that you don't want to have a day, right, you can choose not to live in your routine, right, you can decide not to go about your normal trajectory, do something you've never done before or something; and that's gaming in a way. You postpone or lengthen your day. You just decide not to go to bed or get up earlier perhaps, or in any case you're not writing, you're not doing sudokus, you're not composing et cetera. You know, I love the days, right, what are days for? Right? It's very weird to live for productivity. You know, writing is the cornerstone of my day. But as I said, I don't have to have a day, I can just decide I am gonna game all day. Also, I have a part of the day reserved for writing, in the early morning, but if I sleep out or have to work, writing is all over the place, and so on. I mean, there are no rules, but it's all meant for me to help me do things, I mean I suppose I still really like playing video games, I just don't see the point, you know, and that's a really sad thing, when you can't see the point of things you enjoy. Actually, I suppose we really only enjoy things because we believe they have a point, and nothing really has a point. That's why Ecclesiastes is so true. You know, you can become addicted to gaming, which is logical, because it is so nice to be freed from your routine, but the routine is your real life, the routine is where the religion is. You see, you really don't have to do that much during your day, and there's actually little more pleasant than doing nothing, but you have to invest time in certain things, right, because they are better that way. I believe in meaning, I believe in art. I am an artist. You know, I really enjoy watching television, but only because it is surprising and organic. If I try to watch television for its own sake, I go crazy. You know, the great thing about sudokus is that you are flying through time even whilst you can listen to music.

Music is actually more enjoyable when you are effictively killing time. You know, I read a post on Gamespot by a journalist who said Skyrim helped her during her depression, I really can't imagine that. It seems to me gaming is either synonymous to depression or heteronymous from it. But yeah, gaming is wasted time. It takes so much energy, so much time, but if you want that, it is great. You know, I am not even sure if "gamer" is a real identity. You know, you shouldn't live at all for games. You know, a well-spend day is pretty low in activity I suppose. Gaming exists in a weird netherworld of activity and passivity anyway. Some people game to socialize, I don't think it's very suited for that. You should game, specifically, to get away from the pressures of your routine. It's an activity to break up your routine. It has nothing to do with creating beauty or conviviality. You know, I believe sometimes I wanna get a girlfriend, well, it's embarrassing, but the best thing I can think of is writing a great composition and getting in touch with women through that network that is an effluence from that. But of course, you never know where you might meet a nice girl. And I have some experience with approaching women, although it wasn't always a success. Ah well.