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literature on his works is well known. Together with Carl Weissner and other colleagues he published several issues of the literature magazine

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which included work by

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and the first German translations of short stories by

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. His later works are mostly German detective stories. "Der Schneemann" has been made into . He died when a truck hit him while walking on a motorway near Munich. Fauser's

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, '' Rohstoff'', a cutting look at the German counter-culture scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has been translated into English by Jamie Bulloch as ''Raw Material'' and published by Clerkenwell Press. His

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''Für eine Mark und Acht'' was adapted into the 1998 film '' Frankfurt Millennium''.

Works

* ''Aqualunge'', Göttingen 1971 * ''Tophane'', Gersthofen 1972 * ''Die Harry-Gelb-Story'', Gersthofen 1973 * ''Open end'', München 1977 * ''Marlon Brando – der versilberte Rebell'', München 1978 * ''Der Strand der Städte'', Berlin 1978 * ''Alles wird gut'', München 1979 * ''Requiem für einen Goldfisch'', Basel 1979 * ''Trotzki, Goethe und das Glück'', München 1979 * ''Der Schneemann'', München 1981 * ''Mann und Maus'', München 1982 * ''Blues für Blondinen'', Frankfurt/M. 1984 * '' Rohstoff'', Frankfur/M. 1984 * ''Das Schlangenmaul'', Frankfurt/M. 1985 * ''Kant'', München 1987 * ''Jörg-Fauser-Edition'', Hamburg **Bd. 1. ''Romane I'', 1990 **Bd. 2. ''Romane II'', 1990 **Bd. 3. ''Erzählungen I'', 1990 **Bd. 4. ''Erzählungen II'', 1990 **Bd. 5. ''Gedichte'', 1990 **Bd. 6. ''Essays, Reportagen, Kolumnen I'', 1990 **Bd. 7. ''Essays, Reportagen, Kolumnen II'', 1990 **Bd. 8. ''Marlon-Brando-Biographie'', 1990 **Beiheft. ''Informationen und Bilder'', 1990 **Erg.-Bd. ''Das leise lächelnde Nein und andere Texte'', 1994 * ''Blues in Blond'', Hamburg 1992 * ''"Ich habe eine Mordswut"'', Frankfurt/M. 1993 * ''Lese-Stoff'', Frankfurt/M. 2003

References

1944 births 1987 deaths People from Bad Schwalbach Burials at the Ostfriedhof (Munich) German-language poets German male poets {{Germany-writer-stub