Kleenex / LiLiPUT

This is the most extensive document of this influential group, unparalleled in its depth and candor. Features over 200 images, zines, flyers, photos.

In 1986, guitarist Marlene Marder published a German-language diary chronicling her experiences with Kleenex/LiLiPUT, Zurich's pioneering all-female punk band. Thrilling Living is delighted to present a lavishly illustrated English-language edition, featuring over 200 images, including fanzines, interviews, flyers, and photographs. This edition has been updated with a new introduction and afterword by editor Grace Ambrose and translator Jen Calleja, in addition to the original foreword by Greil Marcus.This book stands as the most extensive record of this influential group, unmatched in its depth and candor. It provides a firsthand account of touring, recording, and navigating the music industry, all from Marlene Marder's perspective as the band's guitarist. It serves as an important historical document, capturing the essence of participating in the burgeoning music industry during the rise of punk. Neither a mere memoir nor a scrapbook, "Kleenex/LiLiPUT" defies categorization, offering a compelling glimpse into the act of documenting one's own life, with all its insights and messiness.This project represents an interpretation, a translation, a republishing effort—an endeavor to expand and enrich Marlene's original work. Initially released by Nachbar der Welt Verlag, the publishing imprint that preceded Edition Patrick Frey, Thrilling Living takes pride in making this significant narrative accessible in English for the first time.