Review of Helene Hegemann’s essay “Patti Smith” – Culture

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Marlene Knobloch

Patti Smith is on Instagram. Patti Smith posts photos of old telephones and nicely written notebooks that could also be used as decoration in a vintage café in Prenzlauer Berg. Patti Smith, the ecstatic borderline artist, the experimental poet who seeks freedom and truth, will post disdainful selfies online in 2021, and Helene Hegemann will never forgive her for any of this.

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