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0:00 Pre-event
6:13 Program
51:13 Q&A
Join us for a conversation with Grace Ambrose (C’11), editor of Kleenex/LiLiPUT (Thrilling Living), a lavishly illustrated English-language edition of Marlene Marder’s German-language diary documenting her time in Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Zurich’s first all-female punk band, and most important musical export of any gender or genre. Neither memoir nor scrapbook, but something defiantly in the middle, Kleenex/LiLiPUT is a compelling example of what it looks like to document one’s own life, and all the insights and messiness that entails. This project is an interpretation, a translation, a republication, an attempt to expand and enhance Marlene’s unruly original. The book recounts touring, recording, and music business dealings, all from the perspective of Marder, the band’s guitarist. It is an important document of what it was like to participate in the burgeoning music industry, just as punk was taking off.
Grace Ambrose (C '11) is a writer and editor based in Kansas City, MO. She was previously coordinator of Maximum Rocknroll, the world’s longest continuously published punk periodical. She runs the Thrilling Living record label and is the editor of the book Kleenex/LiLiPUT about the seminal Swiss band of the same name.