Tim Mohr, the journalist and translator who chronicled the political significance of the Eighties East German punk scene and co-wrote memoirs with Weapons N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Kiss chief Paul Stanley, has died. Michael Reynolds, Mohr’s pal and writer at Europa Editions, confirmed the information in an announcement to Pitchfork, writing that Mohr died at his dwelling in Brooklyn. Reynolds shared in an announcement to Rolling Stone that the reason for dying was pancreatic most cancers. Mohr was 55.
“Tim was not solely somebody I knew professionally; he was additionally a superb and pricey pal with whom I’ve had loads of enjoyable over the virtually twenty years we knew one another and with whom I shared many necessary moments,” Reynolds wrote in a heartfelt assertion about Mohr. “I’m inconsolable at his passing. I’m livid with the universe. I miss him terribly. I liked and admired Tim for his eloquence, his ethical compass, his giant, insurgent coronary heart, his consummate cool.”
Tim Mohr started his profession as a DJ residing in Berlin within the Nineties earlier than returning to america and dealing as a journalist in New York. Through the years, he revealed tales in The New York Instances E book Evaluation, Particulars, Inked, and New York, and, ultimately, turned an editor at Playboy. Towards the top of the aughts, Mohr employed Weapons N’ Roses’ bassist Duff McKagan to put in writing a monetary column for Playboy—a relationship that might result in the 2 males collaborating on McKagan’s 2012 memoir It’s So Simple (And Different Lies). McKagan remembered Mohr in a publish on X at the moment, writing: “We misplaced a superb man, a FAMILY man, a pal, and a literary LION.”
Mohr additionally labored on Gil Scott-Heron’s unfinished memoir The Final Vacation, Paul Stanley’s 2014 memoir Face the Music: A Life Uncovered, and Genesis P-Orridge’s posthumously revealed e-book Nonbinary from 2021.
In 2018, Mohr launched his personal e-book, Burning Down the Haus, which chronicled the position of East German punks within the political shifts of Eighties Germany—and the toppling of the Berlin Wall. The e-book was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
For a few years, Mohr labored as a German-to-English translator who translated Alina Bronsky’s seven novels, in addition to works by Dorothea Dieckmann, Charlotte Rochee, Stefanie de Velasco, and Alex Beer. He particularly centered on feminine writers and texts exterior of mainstream literature.
