History

Pork salad press was originaly established by former East German butcher A. Zieler, who - before the wall went down - published east german poetry and political statements in a small black and white xeroxed magazine called Minced meats (translated), which was distributed as a political satiric underground magazine.

The magazine became a cult fanzine in West Germany, and that is how I came in contact with it. I met Andreas Zieler through friends by coincidence in berlin in 1994, and since I was both a curator and interested in publishing I found his way of working fasinating.

I had previously worked at Grand entertainments and wanted to establish my own company, so I talked to Andreas about it and he agreed to and was interested in collaborating. The first books we published together was former east germans critiques among others Heino Müller and Michael Wupper.

Since I wanted to do more art oriented publications, I started to ask younger German and Danish artists to contribute with drawings and texts to a magazine, and that was the first step to recreate Zieler's magazine, and of course i called the new artist fanzine: Minced meat.

That ended in the summer of 1997, when Zieler died (age 64) of a heart attack. Since 1997 I have been interested in publishing and producing both CDs and books.