Max O. Menos is a Ger­man au­thor, mu­si­cian, pho­to­gra­pher, gra­phic de­sig­ner, web de­sig­ner, co­py­wri­ter, rea­der, ci­ne­aste, bud­dhist, pas­sio­nate cook, lo­ver of the En­glish lan­guage, fa­ther, and—you’d have to put it this way—a coun­try bump­kin-at-heart. Af­ter se­ve­ral years of «con­clave» in a small vil­lage on the beau­ti­ful is­land of Samos, Greece, the for­mer Ham­burg re­si­dent now pre­do­mi­nant­ly lives in an even smal­ler vil­lage at the Nor­thern Ger­man Bal­tic coast.
 
Texts: From a ve­ry young age Max O. Menos has been wri­ting (ve­ry) short and not-so-short sto­ries. Un­for­tu­nate­ly for Eng­lish spea­king rea­ders, all of these are in Ger­man, as is the no­vel in de­ve­lop­ment, «Ya­mu­na und der Mann aus Ka’Ar­ratt».
 
Music: Max O. Menos was a foun­ding mem­ber of Soulounge, quite a po­pu­lar pro­ject even be­yond Ger­many’s bor­ders. He pro­duced Doris Decker’s first al­bum and the se­cond one of Fred Adrett. The first al­bum by Max O. Me­nos him­self was re­leased in 1989/90 when he still went by the name of «Zhouy»; «Zhouy At The Zoo» has been a sold-out ra­rity for years. Among others, this al­bum to­day is avail­ab­le again as a down­load through bandcamp.com.
 
Images: «A pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words» — for view­ing Max O. Me­nos’ pic­tures (or bet­ter, pho­tos, to be more pre­cise) you’d need no ex­pla­na­tion what­so­ever. Just klick on the link to the left, «BILDER».
 
You might contact Max O. Menos:

+49 (0)40 — 75 36 89 58