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German

1943 —1999

Ulrich Raschke was a German poet and publisher who explored experimental literary forms, including one of Germany's early examples of computer-inspired poetry through his punch-card work Karneval: Gedichte auf Lochkarten programmiert.

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Ulrich Raschke, born in Germany in 1943, was a German poet and publisher associated with the experimental literary culture of West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1965, he published Kadaver, followed by Karneval in 1967 and Zungenreden in 1968. That same year, he co-founded Euphorion Verlag with Heinz Jacobi, an independent publishing house that operated until 1973. In 1970, Euphorion published Karneval: Gedichte auf Lochkarten programmiert (Carnival: Poems Programmed on Punch Cards), a work consisting of a text volume, punch cards, and decoding instructions. Using FORTRAN IV programming principles and punch-card technology, the project applied computational structures to poetry, allowing readers to generate different textual combinations through the arrangement of cards. Raschke passed away in 1999.