Walter Moers

Person · Open Library

Born

1957

Works

53

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1957-05-24

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

7,906

Total plays

883,475

Walter Moers (born 24 May 1957, Mönchengladbach, Germany) is one of the best-known and most commercially successful German comic creators and authors. Walter Moers held odd jobs after leaving school before starting a commercial apprenticeship. He taught himself how to draw. Moers has been publishing since 1984. He first became known with cartoon-like comics that were marked by an ironic view of the world and a conscious violation of political correctness. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wal

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

   · 1983 · cited 30,476x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,410x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,384x

4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,272x

5. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

   · 1943 · cited 13,057x

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Quotes

• “In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money – it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.”
• “I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has left an instrument it becomes its own master, a free and independent creature of sound, weightless, incorporeal and perfectly in tune with the universe.”
• “In my position I simply can’t afford pangs of conscience. Fortunately, they fade the more power one acquires. It’s an entirely natural process.”
• “You probably suppose that what you heard last night was music. Allow me to correct you: it was acoustic alchemy, hypnosis by means of sound waves. Music is the least resistible of all the arts, so I simply had to make use of it. Try getting an audience to dance by reciting a poem! Try getting them to march! Impossible! Only music can do that.”
• “It symbolizes the three components of power: power, power and power.”
• ““How can the answer to today’s questions be in such an old book?”“The answers to almost all of today’s questions can be found in old books,” Smyke retorted. “If you want to find out, look them up. If not, forget it.””

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