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GGL and IndulgenceFor the commemorative publication on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the TGM in 1990 I wrote the essay “Anmerkungen zum Schriftschaffen seit 1945” (Notes on Typography since 1945).

Anyone having experienced “Gutenberg’s Machine Gun” (Erik Spiekermann about GGL, an honorary title that will have stuck by now) on stage or in dialogue, will never again have the courage for

The first time I just missed him. It was in 1961, my first semester at the Meisterschule für Grafik, Druck und Werbung in Berlin. GGL had just finished teaching there, but

For many years, my relationship with GGL was not exactly cordial, but nevertheless quite friendly. Once – I can’t remember the reason – he spent the night at our house, together