despalles overcomes the distance that still exists between the German and French language areas. Thus the artist's books of the edition are mostly conceived from the outset as bilingual, French and German, or even trilingual. As a rule, they appear as first publications, always with unpublished translations. In them, artists and poets from different aesthetic categories meet.
Heinz G. Hahs /
Johannes Strugalla
Versäumt zu scheitern
Poems by Heinz G. Hahs.
Choice of the poems, original woodcut, book design, handset typography and printing by Johannes Strugalla.
Johannes Strugalla
Heinz G. Hahs, "Versäumt zu scheitern"
(Failed to fail)
German. 28 pages, 32,3 × 21,5 cm. 135 copies, numbered and signed by author and artist.
Mainz 1985.