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We Jazz—Shadow Shapes/
Dorothy Ashby by David Mittleman, Don Cherry by Magnus Nygren, Peter Evans by Andrey Henkin, The Return Of the Q***r Jazz Scene by Tina Edwards, Jimetta Rose & the Voices Of Creation by Samuel Lamontagne, Asher Gamedze by Teju Adeleye, Jazz Taphonomy by Seymour Wright, Discaholic column by Mats Gustafsson, Guy Stevens by Lander Lenaerts, reviews, plus more/
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Modern Matte 21—The Shape of Things to Come/
Join Modern Matter on an exciting journey into the future. Our latest issue stands at the nexus of art, culture, and technology. In it, we break new ground through images, interviews, and articles created with the assistance of AI. In fact, 80% of the research materials and ideas were conducted by the AI assistant, making this a truly groundbreaking publication, once again pushing the boundaries of the possible/
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Real Review 14—DIRECT PERCEPTION/
We spend almost a third of our lives connected to the internet, in a space-time of total internal reflection. Online lacks any randomness or chance; and this illusion of fate and order is at odds with the actual structure of the universe. Online we are not social beings but commodified identities; immersed in diluted ideas, weak connections and fleeting emotional states that neither originate within us, nor belong to us. We are possessed by the internet, and so dispossessed of life.
What is after the digital? We interview critical theorist JONATHAN CRARY on the internet complex. Artist CHRISTINE SUN KIM reviews contemporary society. TANYA AND ZHENYA POSTERNAK review graffiti written by soldiers in Ukraine, while SIRKHANE DARKROOM reviews the role of play on the Turkey-Syria border. RHEA DILLON performs an opera of the street, EMILY BARKER reviews accessible bathrooms and KAZEEM KUTEYI goes outside. SETH WHEELER and JAMILA SQUIRE review shoplifting. JACK SELF reviews object persistence, MADDY WEAVERS reviews comfort and SAMIHA MEEM reviews the Adobe Suite. JERRY GOGOSIAN reviews Instagram, LUCY ROEBER reviews the M**f and JACKIE WANG reviews Tiqqun… […]
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Dazed Summer 2023/
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📚💫Summer Sale💫📚
Interview—Jennifer Lawrence/
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Toiletpaper 20/
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We Jazz—Universal Beings/
Stories include Makaya McCraven by Ayana Contreras, Sonny Rollins by Ashley Kahn, Amina Claudine Myers by Seymour Wright, Adolphe Sax by Harry Eddy, Ronald Snijders by Mike Bindraban, introducing our new columnist Mats Gustafsson, Puristamo Helsinki pressing plant photo essay by Mathias Foster, reviews…
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Dummy—Lüge/
Immer wieder verständigen wir uns in der Gesellschaft darüber, was wir als wahr anerkennen und was nicht. Dass die Erde eine Kugel ist, werden die meisten unterschreiben, dass Corona lebensgefährlich war, schon weniger. Und ist Helene Fischer eine Frau? Oder wird sie vielleicht nur als solche gelesen und ist in ihrem tiefsten Inneren ein Mann? Gerade in den vergangenen Jahren haben gesellschaftliche Debatten zu neuen Perspektiven auf lieb gewonnene Wahrheiten geführt/
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Flash Art—anti cynicism/
”Folks don’t understand how hard it is to make a thing that has fuzzy boundaries. It’s very, very difficult to make a thing that doesn’t arrive already predigested. It’s a consequence of where we are in history.” Arthur Jafa’s words resonate meaningfully throughout this issue, as does Anne Imhof’s response: “There are layers of meaning in the images. And the images are many. Crystalized.” The question of how we relate to consumerism — our lifestyle addiction, materialist sensibility, and digital delirium — should be a constant struggle. Instead, we try to mitigate our impulses with a sort of self-flagellating self-awareness. This reflexive tendency to balance out material desire with a sense of guilt epitomizes the new definition of cynicism.
We want to focus on the opposite tendency. Titled ANTI CYNICISM, this issue features an artist whose work has been controversial since day one. As Arthur Jafa comments in his conversation with Anne Imhof, people either find her work to be the most amazing experience they’ve ever had, or else they hate it. Imhof addresses our titular theme with a special production, conceived especially for the magazine, in which, wearing Saint Laurent, she has been photographed in Berlin and New York by Joshua Woods.
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Standard 31—goodbyes and coffee/
New design, more content and more sustainable printing! ⚡️💫👌
Gurke with Curlz/
Mit viel Liebe und voller Stolz stellen wir euch GURLZ WITH CURLZ Issue 04 vor. Auch in diesem Jahr schafft das Magazin wieder einen ästhetischen Raum für die Perspektiven und Expertise Schwarzer Frauen* in Bereichen wie Kunst, Kultur, Politik, Wissenschaft und Lifestyle. Neben ausdrucksstarken visuellen Inhalten findet ihr eine Vielzahl an interessanten Artikeln und spannenden Interviews von und mit inspirierenden Persönlichkeiten, wie beispielsweise Autorin und Vermittlerin für Rassismuskritik Tupoka Ogette, Dermatologin Dr. Ephsona Shencoru und Journalistin Anna Dushime. Wir stellen kleine und große Brands vor, teilen Reisetipps für verschiedene afrikanische Länder und Aufrufe zu beruflicher Vernetzung. Des Weiteren findet ihr mit Influencerin Christl Clear und der Fashion Brand Kids of the Diaspora erstmalig auch Schwarze Perspektiven aus Österreich. Insgesamt liegt der Fokus der sorgfältig kuratierten Inhalte bewusst auf den schönen und wertvollen Dingen, die Schwarze Menschen, ihre Community und Kultur, ausmachen und bewegen/
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R***e Faire 42—45/
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Eaten—Vegetables/
From the unusual origins of the baby carrot to the enduring legacy of taro in Hawai’i and the mostly naked life of America’s first celebrity body builder, EATEN No. 17: Vegetables has all the vitamins and minerals your brain needs to get you through the summer/
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Art Aurea—Kunststoff/Plastic.
Arts & crafts magazine in DE+ENG.
Vom Zauber eines Stoffes, der zum Problem wurde. Vieles, was uns die Moderne gebracht hat, ist Segen und Fluch zugleich. Dies gilt auch für Kunststoffe. Ihre technischen Eigenschaften wie Formbarkeit, Festigkeit oder billige Verarbeitung haben maßgebliche Entwicklungen in Wissenschaft, Technik und Wirtschaft überhaupt erst möglich gemacht. Leider hat man die damit verbundenen Gefahren ignoriert. Leichtfertig und verschwenderisch eingesetzt, belasten Kunststoffabfälle nun unsere Böden, schwimmen in furchterregenden Mengen in Flüssen und Meeren und zerstören Leben, tierisches und am Ende wohl auch menschliches. […]
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ZWEIKOMMASIEBEN 27/
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Kunstforum 289—Cuteness/
Niedliche Kunst? Das galt lange als Widerspruch in sich. Kunst konnte vieles sein – aber gewiss nicht süß. Während durch Readymades, Pop Art oder Appropriation Art andere Motive der Konsum- und Populärkultur selbstverständlich aufgegriffen wurden, blieb „Cuteness“ lange eines der letzten Tabus in der Bildenden Kunst. Doch durch Globalisierung und Soziale Medien werden etablierte Kunstvorstellungen und Werkformen immer wieder herausgefordert – so auch, indem das Niedliche in den Bereich der Bildenden Kunst vordringt, wie etwa in der fortlaufenden Serie „Hello Masterpiece“ von Leslie Holt, die das berühmteste Kätzchen der gegenwärtigen Konsumkultur, Hello Kitty, auf die bedeutendsten Kunstwerke der Welt treffen lässt/
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032c Issue 43—CULTURE CRISIS. Therapies for the confused/
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💫open Thu—Sat 12—18:00/
Vestoj—The platform for critical thinking on fashion/
»On Every Day Live« is an exploration of routines, rituals and repetitions, the many ingenious ways in which the weak make use of the strong, how ‘common people’ reappropriate and subvert material culture to suit their own interests and rules, and a lyrical and critical exploration of generic, inexpensive and mass produced objects. We are looking at the practice and poetics of the everyday, consumption as a creative act, and consumers not as passive receptacles, but rather active agents with the ability to adapt the system imposed on them in a myriad of small, personal and intuitive ways in order to navigate and enjoy life/
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Lesung bei uns im Hof 💫 Zukunftsaussichten begleitet von Donner, es war dramatisch schön⚡️
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Eye 104
The urge to make static artwork that depicts or creates movement has long been a human preoccupation. In our Reputations interview, influential Elle art director and photographer Peter Knapp talks about his desire to infuse magazines with movement. At a time – the 1960s– when the conventions of fashion publishing and photography were being reinvented, Knapp was a central figure.
The practice of motion design has a deep history and rich present; ‘Jump cuts’ is an examination of some current practitioners who are creating resonant, personal work – from Saskia Marka’s TV titles, via Hiromu Oka’s animated Riso prints, to the haunting transformations that Dirk Koy shares on social media. This is a tantalising time – especially now that the means to make ‘direct film’ (to borrow Len Lye’s useful term), are on most designers’ computers.
Christopher Wilson’s thorough feature about the series of Album Cover Albums engages with a period when graphic design and music culture were entangled to an unprecedented degree. As Wilson demonstrates, the books ‘traced shifts in graphic design and in ideological differences between generations of designers.’
In Ukraine, art director Glib Kaporikov and editor Anna Karnauh have made an edition of design magazine Telegraf that shows the design community’s response to war. Karnauh says: ‘Telegraf is about a new reality, where creativity is the weapon against the aggressor.’
Bricks from the kiln 06/
This instalment of Bricks from the Kiln doubles as issue 06 of the journal and as an exhibition catalogue for the thematic show ‘BFTK #6: Tentative — Incomplete — Inconsistent: A Catalogue of the Disappeared, Destroyed, Lost or Otherwise Inaccessible’. Presenting objects, artworks, artefacts, models, events and animals that no-longer — or never did — exist in physical form, the exhibition explores themes of death, destruction and reincarnation, examining persisting interests in notions of ephemerality and permanence, memory and record, preservation and erasure, creation and reconstruction. How do we remember and memorialise? How is space given to the unrecorded? How do we experience the out of reach, concealed, unseen, undiscovered? How can the dematerialised be materialised again, through the mediation of writing, image and sound?
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Backstage Talks 07—Empathy for sale/
How much empathy should we sell to our clients and how much do we need to keep for our teams, and ourselves? We talked about the importance of empathy in creative work with Anna Kulachek, Brian Collins, Hedda Lilleng, Mark Pollard, David Numwami, Heidi L Maibom, Tereza Ruller and more!
Backstage Talks is a magazine of casual, but in-depth dialogues on design and business. Our decisions shape and influence this complex world—to have a chance to make the right ones, we need to talk.
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Racquet 22/
Get ready to get dirty! Spring is here, and so is Racquet No. 22, in which we celebrate clay court tennis. Inside, we take a deep dive—or should we say dig—into our favorite playing surface. We visit clay manufacturers in Charlottesville, VA and Buenos Aires and view the majestic Monte Carlo Country club from the sky. Keeping with the terra battue, we finally answer the question: Just who exactly was Roland Garros? In this issue we also profile American star Michael Mmoh and the “Little Maestro” of the Philippines Felicisimo Ampon, and cover the Austin Open as only we can. Finally, we offer two fantastic excerpts from new books by Robert Lopez and Janet Malcolm. The cover features the painting “Down the Line” by the British artist Charlotte Keates, whose work is also presented inside/
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WINTER OPENING HOURS Thu—Sat 12—18:00 From now on the store is open Thu—Sat 12—18:00. Please note, it is possible to visit funk outside our opening hours by appointment. Furthermore we are offering free bike delivery in Cologne-City and shipping/ - #funkmagazineköln @gruppemagazine @moreorlessmag @amstrandmagazin @flaneurmagazine @thisorient_com
Zur 1-Jahresfeier von funk magazine verbinden wir Kunst und Spiel und verlosen gemeinsam mit KUNSTFORUM International 3x Ausgaben des aktuellen Bandes 276 „KUNST = SPIEL!“. Die Spielregeln sind simple und die beste Story gewinnt! Verlinkt bis zum 27. August @funk_magazine und @kunstforum_international in einer eurer Stories, die uns spielerisch das Kindliche in der Kunst vermittelt. Die GewinnernIn wird am 28.08.21 via PN benachrichtigt. Im aktuellen Band „KUNST = SPIEL!“ nimmt uns Gastherausgeberin Larissa Kikol mit auf den Spielplatz der Kunstwelt. Dabei sucht sie nach der Kraft der kindlichen Kreativität in der Kunstproduktion und ihrem Wert für den Kunstbegriff an sich. Spielen ohne Regeln, Kunst ohne Grenzen oder nach Jonathan Meese „Kunst ist das Kind in dir!“ Ein herzliches Dankeschön gilt der KUNSTFORUM International für die Geburtstags-Kollaboration. Wir freuen uns auf eure kommende Ausstellung im Raum für unabhängige Magazine. - #funkmagazineköln @kunstforum_international
HAMAM #4—Naked/ not in the obvious sense for a bathing periodical, but as a commentary on the natural, unaltered state of things. Being naked isn’t about exposing your body. It’s about being visible, vulnerable, and ready to let go. - #funkmagazineköln @hamammagazine
REAL REVIEW #11—WHAT TO BELIEVE/ The collective trauma of the pandemic has become an excuse for global capital to accelerate the total commodification of everyday life. Everything is for sale. There is more merchandise than love, more sponsored content than truth. No society in human history has demanded so many people be such active participants in producing the contemporary. No contemporary has ever been so aggressively monetised. As a coping mechanism, many amongst us have decided to check out from reality altogether; preferring to inhabit tailor-made fantasies and simulations. But only children believe that closing their eyes renders them invisible to monsters. When the monsters are real, closing our eyes rather increases the danger. INSIDE REAL REVIEW 11—We interview physicist CARLO ROVELLI on the modern concept of time. Philosopher TIMOTHY MORTON pens a love song to non-human life. Artist HELEN MARTEN contributes a multiple in the form of a scratch card. YUK HUI reviews history and technology, while KELLER EASTERLING reviews designing reality. Economist CHIARA DI LEONE reviews negative interest rates, while an anonymous writer from domyessayright.com reviews DAVID GRAEBER'S book Bullsh*t Jobs. MAISA IMAMOVIC reviews product styling for online shopping (photography by CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS), while GABRIELLE de la PUENTE reviews Long Covid. Also in the issue: LAURA LIZONDO and DEBORA DOMINGO-CALABUIG review LILLY REICH; artist ANDI SCHMEID reviews ultra-high net worth real estate; KRIS KOZLOWSKI reviews the lawn; BELLA GLADMAN reviews the X-FILES; architect EDDIE BLAKE reviews hi-viz clothing, and JACK SELF reviews conspiracists and Tales from the Black Museum/ - #funkmagazineköln #realreview @realrvw
Journal du Thé exhibition @funk magazine | 12.05.—26.06. Well, there is tea. A liquid inside a cup, whether brewed with utmost care from the most precious of leaves or just hot water, poured over a bag from the store. And then there is the moment, the calm, the vapour condensating on your face in little droplets. Surely, this isn’t about hydration or a caffeine kick. But it is something that makes tea into this force that lets us slow down and grants serene moments to our lives […] —Excerpt from Journal du Thé - »Outside, Together« w/Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck & Kohei Yamamoto. A Journal du Thé exhibition with the support of Poetic Pastel. A selection of photographs and a film by Yoshihiro Kamemura on view at funk magazine. - #funkmagazineköln #funkexhibition @journal_du_the @johannatagada @kohei___33
Shoplifters—Drawings/ Shoplifters features the work of contemporary artists, photographers, designers, illustrators etc,. Shoplifters doesn’t have a single identity, it’s size, paper, typography, and tone changes each time it’s published. Shoplifters Issue 9: Drawings is a 536 page, alphabetically organized, directory of artists who draw AND their drawings. The work has been beautifully reproduced using fluorescent inks as a replacement for cyan, magenta, and yellow, giving these drawings the vibrance and saturation of the original pieces (and sometimes a little extra B-)). INTRODUCTION: Written by C.W. Moss SIZE: A4 (210 x 297mm) PAGES: 536 PRINT: Fluorescent CMYK BINDING: Extremely fat soft cover PAPER: Munken Print White (120 GSM) Designed and published by @actual_source - #funkmagazineköln #shopliftersmagazine
funk surprise in March—Pfeil Magazine/ Pfeil Magazine—within the format of a magazine, each page of Pfeil represents the floor, walls, or ceiling which together create an imagined room displaying a printed exhibition. Each issue is dedicated to a specific word, and artists are invited and given space to work on and with this term, and to construct or deconstruct the architecture around it. Combined, the contributions transform into an organic display surrounding the leitmotif/ Published by @montezpress designed by @jmmp.eu Issue #13 Mother—The notion of a mother seems simple enough. But just one shy cut beneath the surface lies a multitude of facets, problems, questions, contradictions and wonders all connected to the idea of maternity. Biologically speaking, every person has a mother; perhaps it is the one fact we all have in common. Nevertheless this issue, dedicated to Mother, raises more questions than it is able to answer. Precisely because everyone appears to understand what a mother is, many crucial aspects of the topic are never questioned and are instead taken as a given. Is a mother defined by just having a child, or is it a child that defines the mother? Can we look at the mother without assuming womanhood? Can we untie the gendered attributes bound to the role of a mother? And what exactly are the notions of gender and sex that are connected to the common idea of motherhood? Where do they stem from? What kind of social, biological and economic pressure do mothers and potential mothers face? - #funkmagazineköln #pfeilmagazine
Fensterverkauf/ Freitag 19.02. 13—18 Uhr! (Morgen!) Sei es Inspiration, eine Reise oder die Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftlich relevanten Themen—Die Welt der unabhängigen Magazine schläft nicht! Es sind spannende Hefte bei funk magazine eingetroffen. Schaut in unseren Highlights nach aktuell verfügbaren Titeln und kommt morgen vorbei! - #funkmagazineköln #buylocal #independentmagazines
Letzte Woche ging unser allererstes Überraschungsmagazin an unsere allerersten Abonnenten raus! Und hier ist es—ein Herzensprojekt, das seinen Anfang zeitgleich mit funk magazine mitten in der Pandemie genommen hat/ A—Z DAS DEUTSCHLAND MAGAZIN/ Deutschland – was für ein Wort, was für ein Land! A—Z widmet ihm ein ganzes Magazin. Aber: Hier stehen Patriotismus und Deutschtum-Verherrlichung ebenso wenig auf dem Programm wie das Ausschlachten altbekannter Kartoffel-Klischees. Es geht um die Vergrößerung des Bildausschnitts, um den Gewinn neuer Perspektiven, Stimmen und Positionen: Vermeintlich „deutsche“ oder auch „undeutsche“ Themen sollen in ihrer Vielschichtigkeit untersucht werden – völlig subjektiv. A—Z richtet den Blick sowohl auf aktuelle und gesellschaftspolitisch relevante Fragen als auch auf absurd-abseitige Aspkte. Dabei steht die Diversität der Features und Mitwirkenden an erster Stelle: Eine Vielzahl der Beiträge – seien es Texte, Fotos oder Illustrationen – stammt von Amateur*innen, die ihre individuellen Meinungen zu Deutschlandthemen vorstellen und von persönlichen Erfahrungen berichten. A—Z ist ein unabhängiges Magazinprojekt, eine subjektive Enzyklopädie in 26 Ausgaben: pro Buchstabe ein Heft. In alphabetischer Reihenfolge erscheint A—Z dreimal jährlich. 128 Seiten, Format: 21x28cm Papier, innen: Munken Print White 120g/m2 Umschlag: Invercote G, 240g/m2 Auflage: 1000 Herausgeber: Marcel Heise, Jakob Weber/ - #funkmagazineköln #abiszmag
Last day this year/ Dear friends and funk-fans! On Tuesday, 15th December, we will open our doors for you. This will be the last possibility this year to visit our store. Please note, we offer FREE BIKE DELIVERY in Cologne-City. Don’t hesitate to drop us a PM or email [email protected], we will bring you your magazine, or send it with post in case you live too far :) - #funkmagazineköln
Fukt 19—The Storyline Issue/ “In times of global threats — from the pandemic to climate change, senseless politics, and periods confined to our homes — we may long for stories more than ever. Stories that let us see the world through the eyes of others and help us to make sense of it all, allowing us to remember and to imagine, to understand the unfamiliar, the strange and unknown.” Björn Hegardt, Editor/ - #funkmagazineköln #fuktmagazine
free bike delivery in Cologne-City/ Of course, nothing compares to a haptic experience. And gratefully, our space remains open! But if you don’t feel like leaving your house these days, check out our feed and categories-highlights. Don’t hesitate to drop us a PM or email [email protected], we will bring you your magazine, or send it with post in case you live too far :) that way we stay sporty and you happy! #funkmagazine
FREI-HAUS-LIEFERUNG/ Angesichts der aktuell widrigen Umstände, wollen wir euch die Möglichkeit geben, kontaktvermeidend in den Genuss unserer Magazine zu kommen. Dafür stellen wir für den innerstädtischen Bereich einen frei-haus-Lieferservice zur Verfügung. Bestellungen außerhalb Kölns werden via Post versendet. Auf unserem Instagram Feed und in den Highlights ist der aktuelle Katalog nachzuverfolgen. Schreibt uns einfach eine PM oder Email an [email protected] mit euren Bestellungen oder Fragen zum Sortiment. Wir beraten euch gerne die passende Lektüre für aktuelle Stimmungslagen, Wissensdurst und Lesefreudigkeit auszusuchen/ #funkmagazineköln
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R-E-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E cura—no. 34—is intended as a dynamic and flexible exhibition space in constant evolution, where the reader can discover the most interesting expressions of contemporary visual arts—from: italy. COMING SOON—15.08. / 14:00—Krefelder Str. 7—9, 50670 Köln-Hansaring - - #funkmagazineköln #slowreading #independentmagazines #magazinestore #magazinedesign #editorialdesign #specialmagazines #shutupandread #bringmehomereadme #printisnotdead #readmagazines #buylocal #hansaringköln #curamagazine
what has been arriving into the funk collection? this is badland—no. 4—are we home?—dedicated to the exploration of art, design and culture from balkans and beyond—cover:rita lino+kids by viktor naumovski—from: germany, berlin. COMING SOON—15.08. / 14:00—Krefelder Str. 7—9, 50670 Köln-Hansaring - - #funkmagazineköln #slowreading #independentmagazines #magazinestore #magazinedesign #editorialdesign #specialmagazines #shutupandread #bringmehomereadme #printisnotdead #readmagazines #buylocal #hansaringköln #balkans
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