TOM DE TOYS (real name: Thomas Holzapfel = Crabapple): the author of the german book "MORE NOW – CHANGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS FROM SYMBOLICITY TO PRESENTICITY" was born in Jülich (Germany) in 1968 and lived from 1997 til 2012 in Berlin. He published "Direct Poetry" (poetology of transreligious holEism) under more than 40 pseudonyms for almost three decades. Since 1989 he works actively both as a painter and as a performance artist for the philosophy of holEism. In 1990 he founded the so-called G&GN-Institut ("Institute For Complete Nothing@All"). In 1994 he discovered the theory of E.S. ("Extended Sobriety") whereby authentic (i.e. fulfilled) love poetry can be politicised against the conventional misuse of the expression "love" (as in 95% of all fake love poems "longing" is meant indeed). In 2000 he received the very first NAHBELL prize, a kind of alternative Nobel Prize for german contemporary poetry. In 2001 he invented QUANTUM POETRY which was world-premièred at the university of São Paulo (thanks to Goethe-Institut). Since 2012 De Toys lives in the district Eller Süd of Düsseldorf. His german poetry works as well as his photo art and landscape drawings appear already in many themed compilations (all available books @ www.neurogermanistik.de). Since 1998 De Toys writes short poems and english poems once in a while under the pseudonym of Tomithy Holeapple who translated also some pieces of his german oeuvre. In 2019, after a thirty year break, he started playing free jazz piano again: NONDUALJAZZ.de

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