François Maher PresleyAuthor and photographer
(* 1961 in Kuwait City) is a German author of Syrian origin, essayist, photographer, curator, art critic, cosmopolitan and philanthropist.
Life
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Works
Non-fiction
Travel literature
Fiction, poetry and autobiography
Editorships
Art catalogs (selection)
Participations / anthologies
Contributed
literature
voluntary work
Memberships
Web links
Individual evidence
Life
Presley, born in Kuwait City, is "a native Arab who spent his childhood years in Syria". [1] From the age of six and after the Six Day War, he lived with his father in Hamburg, among others, and for a few years in Haffkrug and Escheburg. The last time he saw his hometown Damascus, his mother and the family there, was in the summer of 1974, when it was time to return home if necessary. The Yom Kippur War had just ended for eight months, there was a fragile ceasefire, and Richard Nixon was stopping off in the Syrian capital on his Middle East tour. Presley separated from his father at the age of 17. The contact with both parts of the family was completely stopped by him, which is related to a psychologically and physically very violent childhood, which he partly in his work diary - early poetry and prose [2] under the heading "Index", but also in his monastery diary. A moment contains 1000 experiences [3] processed. Even then he was active as a writer - albeit mostly lyrically.
On May 8, 1980, he received German citizenship. From 1979 to 1981 he completed a commercial apprenticeship, worked for a few years before completing his studies with a scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. Before studying, he toyed with the idea of devoting himself entirely to literature in a monastery and moved to a southern German Benedictine monastery for a few weeks at the end of January 1985, about which he published his first well-known book. [4]
Presley organized about 120 art exhibitions [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10], including works by Antoni Tàpies, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall or Rinaldo Hopf, Justus Uder, Alfred Hrdlicka and Joseph Beuys. From January 1990 to December 1999 he was the head of Kultur aktuell - Association for the promotion of cultural life in Hamburg eV
especially the northern German art scene and from 1999 to 2005 the Forum Alstertal, a residential project with a culture and event center in the north of Hamburg, which was carried out on behalf of the owner and oldest daughter of Hamburg's honorary citizens Hannelore Greve and Helmut Greve Annelie Kümpers-Greve and her husband Rainer Kümpers.
In addition, Presley was the editor-in-chief of the magazines Nord magazine for culture, politics and business
and Culture in Hamburg. The unconventional interviews conducted by François Maher Presley received great praise, for example with Domenica Niehoff (“I am also just a person”, May / June 1990), the MEP Christa Randzio-Plath (“I would like to see more Consideration and tolerance lives… ”, July / August 1992), the Minister for Culture and Education of the Republic of Hungary Bertalan Andrásfalvy (September / October 1991) or the chief reporter of the Bild (newspaper) Ute Daum-Stummer (May / June 1992). At the Nord magazine for culture, politics and business
he worked from December 1988 to May 1989 with the writer Hans Eppendorfer. Differences in content led to the separation of the publishing house from Eppendorfer. Nevertheless, the contact between Presley and Eppendorfer continued for almost 9 years. François Maher Presley processed the complex experiences with Eppendorfer in the short story Fulfillment
(Work diary - early poetry and prose) [11], in the chapter 14. Life
of the novel 17 lives[12], an obituary in March 1999 [13] and in the biography Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography.In the latter title, Eppendorfers relationship to Domenica Niehoff, his wife Margret Hildebrand and Hubert Fichte is presented. Presley also doubts the authenticity of the interviews based on previously unpublished correspondence between Eppendorfer and Fichte, which Eppendorfer made the breakthrough, but also gave Fichte a lot of public attention.
In 2005 Presley left Germany and moved to Marrakesh, Morocco, where he lived for a total of 3 years. Since 2007 he has been touring large parts of the world. In his works he does not describe this restlessness / travel activity as a “vacation from one's own life”, but as his “real life”. He has many of these trips to soon 80 countries in the multi-volume series Other countries and cultures
described. [15] During his professional activity and his worldwide travels, Presley met among others:
• Bertalan Andrásfalvy, Minister for Culture and Education of the Republic of Hungary, in 1991, whom he invited to a representative exhibition of contemporary Hungarian art in Hamburg, accompanied him on an official visit to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and accepted his invitation to Budapest (source: Nord- Magazine for culture, politics and economy, issue 4/1991);
• His Majesty Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, King of the Ashanti, in his seat of residence Kumasi / Ghana at the end of 1999. The author described this encounter in the books Akwaaba - Welcome to Ghana
and in Other countries and cultures, Volume 6. In return, Presley received His Highness Okotwaasuo Kantamanto Woworae Agyekum III in Hamburg in 2001. from Adieu Swedru / Ghana in Hamburg im Forum Alstertal
(Source: Kultur in Hamburg, issue 4/2001);
• Prince Khalid of Ra's al-Khaimah (emirate), United Arab Emirates, in September 2007, who gave a dinner for the author in his residence;
• Stephen Asamoah-Boateng, Minister for Tourism and Minority Affairs, on the occasion of the work on the book Akwaaba - Welcome to Ghana
2007 in Accra / Ghana;
• Presley was also a guest of the government of Libya four times between 2007 and 2010 [16];
• Tabita Shokai, Minister of Health of Sudan, November 2007.
As a philanthropist and initiator of the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture, [17] whose CEO he is, he dedicates himself, among other things, to conveying cultural values to children and young people. [18] [19] [20] In November 2013 he became a board member of Telemann Foundation, in January 2018 to the board of trustees of Mittagskinder Foundation[21] appointed.
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By 2018, texts by François Maher Presley had been published in 65 books, in five languages, fiction, poetry, non-fiction and photo books. Over the years there have been countless articles, a selection of which is in the book With Germany in transition. Sociopolitical essays[22] have appeared. The novellas Lola, Passeparted blood red
and The scout
were translated into Hungarian by Dezső Tandori and published in Világirodalmi folyóirat
(Weltliteratur-Magazin) published together with texts by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Ulla Hahn, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Sergei Dovlatov, Klas Östergren, Ferdinando Camon. These three novels can be found in the volume Work Diary - Early Poetry and Prose, that along with his first work Monastery diary. A moment holds 1000 experiences
is to be counted as part of the diary literature. Characteristic of his narrative work is the mixture of autobiographical, real experiences and the slipping into the surreal. In addition, he initially wrote a large number of poems that also deal with social problems and appeared in various anthologies and later collections.
Another focus of his work is travel literature, which he illustrates with his own photos. Photography has taken up a large part of his work since around 2014 and is increasingly developing into his own style (approx. 8,500 motifs with a total print run of around 6 million pieces) [23]. The “weird” pictures and the combination of the picture series are striking. Presley's aim is to work out what is available to the audience, to discover one's own creativity and to develop and shape the world through a very subjective view of things. He does not understand architecture as static and solely shaping the social environment of its residents, but also people as someone who shapes, designs and develops architecture through their intellectual possibilities - detached from the actual specifications of the architects, builders or the specifications of urban planning . [24] In other illustrated books, the image combinations tell not only of other views, but also of their own stories, which often accompany the images in text - and on an equal footing. His industrial photography, the majority of which is commissioned, can also be described as "lyrical", each representation can stand for itself and each image appears like a poem. Countless photos have been published as postcards, postcard books or in calendars.
During a stay of several months in 2016 in Waldheim (Central Saxony) he came into contact with the Waldheim correctional facility there, the Zeithain correctional facility and the Dresden correctional facility, as well as with the rehabilitation measures in the penal system. Some of his publications deal in detail with this topic, including the edited volume Rehabilitation through art and culture. Developments in the prison system, in which, in addition to a series of interdisciplinary texts by various authors and interviews with murderers on the topic, numerous visual examples are shown. The exhibition accompanying this book was shown in Dresden, Mittweida and Waldheim, where it was last given its own exhibition gallery through the cultural foundation initiated by the author, in order to be available as a whole to interested public and the city of Waldheim. He also wrote three books about the small town in central Saxony (Waldheim in central Saxony, Waldheim Top 25, murder in Waldheim. Once upon a time in the Zschopautal), to which he devoted various funding measures to his foundation [25], as well as other small towns throughout Central Saxony (including Döbeln, Geringswalde, Freiberg, Kriebstein, Roßwein, Zettlitz, Hain, Flöhe).
In Waldheim Presley came with the Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation
in contact, thus also with the work of Lama Anagarika Govindas, who was born as Ernst Lothar Hoffmann in Waldheim in 1898 and to whom Presley refers in various of his books written in Saxony. Presley is one of the initiators who keep the memory of the Waldheimer "cosmopolitan" in Saxony. This happens through the activities of those named after him François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture. In this context, Birgit Zotz wrote about Presley and Govinda in the brochure A well-traveled returns, texts on the funeral of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018, stated: "Both personalities are cross-border commuters who cross conventional barriers in order to stay in motion as travelers through the cultures and disciplines of art." [26] In the publications Waldheim in Central Saxony, Waldheim Top 25, Tibet's Saxon, Ernst Hoffmann becomes Lama Govinda, murder in Waldheim
and A well-traveled person returns. Burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim
Presley describes the life and work of the important Buddhist or makes him the subject of his story.
Between the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lama and Li Gutami Govinda Foundation
Volker Helmut Manfred Zotz, his wife Birgit Zotz and Presley developed a relationship that, in addition to working together to commemorate Lama Govinda in his native Waldheim, also resulted in a private exchange. The couple named their daughter Justina Françoise Nitya Zotz by the middle name after François Maher Presley, who gave the child the books 17 lives
and Princess Françoise and the Royal Storyteller
dedicated.
Some of his publications or editorships deal with the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann [27] and Barthold Hinrich Brockes. Presley was the 1st chairman of the Hamburg Telemann Society from April 1996 to April 2002. He also edited the writings of the Russian-Israeli music teacher Michael Goldstein [28], from the estate of Gudrun von Brockhusen, the first wife of Hans Hartmut Hindenburg von Brockhusen, a grandson of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, Michael Goldstein's last partner. Gudrun von Brockhusen and Presley had a grandmother-grandchild relationship from 1991 until their death in 2007. The author dedicated the volumes to her Telephone conversation with the baroness[29] and Telephone conversation with Baroness II.[30]
His novellas and lyric works were written by Michael Haller, among others (Thinking games), Bernhard G. Lehmann (Work diary: early poetry and prose and Mallorca - reality or dream), Ekkehart Stark and Ralf Schneider [31] or Winfried Wolk (Awakening - associations in Lanzarote)
illustrated. In addition, his life was the subject of various works (e.g. by Gertraud Wendlandt (sculptor), Ane Königsbaum (photographer), Rinaldo Hopf (pop artist), Winfried Wolk (painter and graphic artist) or Otto Quirin (painter) with the sculptor Iris Rousseau and the painter Petr Wiesner (Love poems)
and the painter and graphic artist Willibrord Haas (Tomas - From the life of a callboy).
With his stories published in 2018 and 2019 Thoughts on the beach
and 17 livesPresley knows as a great narrator of contemporary literature, the people deeply characterized in it, archetypes of the German present, the timeless reflections with constantly updated allusions, with the art of bringing the incoherent into an organic context.
Non-fiction
• Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3- 930727-57-5.
• Nile impressions.
Edited by Kai Mathias Eckmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-48-3.
• Wildlife South Africa. Marloth Kruger National Park.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-63-6.
• Waldheim Top 25.
Edited by Gaby Zemmrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-930727-55-1.
• Travel and dining.
Edited by Kai Mathias Eckmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-930727-50-6.
• Islam and Germany: Islamism's gateway to the western world?
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3- 930727-27-8.
• Waldheim in Central Saxony.
Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3- 930727-44-5.
• Sculpture. The long way using the example of a bronze.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-40-7.
• With Germany in transition. Sociopolitical essays 1999–2011.
Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2.
• Akwaaba - Welcome to Ghana.
Edited by Gerhard Buchmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3- 930727-18-6.
Travel literature
• Asia. Always say yes to life, never no. Travel stories through seven Asian cities Taipei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Siem Reap (Angkor), Luang Prabang, Bangkok.
Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-930727-52-0.
• Other countries and cultures. Volume 6: Art and culture as part of life.
Edited by David Eschrich. in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-47-6.
• Other countries and cultures. Volume 5: Travel Without Borders.
Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-38-4.
• Mallorca.
Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-35-3.
• Other countries and cultures. Volume 4: The past is the present.
Edited by David Eschrich. in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-30-8.
• Marrakech - living in a riad.
Edited by Rena Dettmann, Stephan Puteick. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-29-2.
• A riad in Marrakech.
Edited by Peter Bergmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-37-7.
• Mystical Marrakech. Life in another time.
Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-31-5.
• Other countries and cultures. Volume 3: Asia trip with the Queen Mary 2.
Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-930727-21-6.
• My Morocco.
Edited by Peter Bergmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-930727-24-7.
• Other countries and cultures. Volume 2: All one world.
Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930727-20-9.
• Other countries and cultures. Volume 1: Travel reports and impressions.
Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-930727-17-X.
Fiction, poetry and autobiography
• Tomcat Arthur from Rochsburg Castle,
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-930727-69-8
• Princess Françoise and the Royal Storyteller,
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-59-9
• 17 lives. Novel.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-43-8.
• Thoughts on the beach. A Malloquin story.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-61-2.
• Murder in Waldheim. Once upon a time in the Zschopau valley.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-56-8.
• India - colors and faces.
Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3- 930727-36-0.
• Mallorca.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-930727-58-2.
• Telephone conversation with the baroness.
Volume 2. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-33-9.
• Myanmar encounters.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-39-1.
• Monastery diary. A moment holds 1000 experiences.
Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-28-5.
• Telephone conversation with the baroness. Part 1.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-25-4.
• Work diary - early poetry and prose.
Introduced and with an afterword by Matthias H. Rauert. Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-23-0.
• Love poems.
Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930727-22-3.
• Tomas - from the life of a call boy.
"Culture in Hamburg" publishing company, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3- 930727-12-9.
• Mallorca - reality or dream.
Edited by Jörn Eckmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930727-01-3.
• Brain games. Surreal short stories.
"Culture in Hamburg" publishing company, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-930727-03-X.
• A moment holds 1000 experiences.
Reidar-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-924848-05-X. (as: Klostertagebuch. 2nd revised edition, 2013).
Editorships
• Rehabilitation through art and culture. Developments in the prison system.
Edited by François Maher Presley and Jörg Wolfgang Krönert, contributions by Frank Czerner, Sebastian Gemkow, Anja Kirsten, Ingo Ließke, François Maher Presley, Ramona Sonntag, Gunther Spahn and Mathias Weilandt, in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978- 3-930727-54-4.
• Michael Goldstein: Peter Stoljarski Pjotr Solomonowitsch Stoljarski. The violin teacher and his factory of talents in Odessa.
Edited from the estate and with a foreword by François Maher Presley. in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-34-6.
• Ursula Willer: Years like back then.
Edited, edited and with an introduction by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-51-3.
• Georg Philipp Telemann. The Hamburg years.
Edited and with texts by François Maher Presley. in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-41-4.
• 75 years of the Wellingsbüttel Citizens' Association.
Edited and with contributions by François Maher Presley. With contributions by Jürgen Kux, Hartwig Fiege et al. "Culture in Hamburg" Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930727-06-4.
• 700 years of the Alstertal 1296–1996: Alstertal artists introduce themselves.
Edited by François Maher Presley, Antje Wilke, Ursula Willer. With a foreword by Christina Weiss. “Culture in Hamburg” publishing company, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930727-05-6.
Art catalogs (selection)
• Justus Uder.
Edited by the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-66-7
• Art staircase in the Waldheim Museum. Contemporary graphics.
Edited by the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-43-8.
• Ekkehard Stark - watercolors, oils, drawings.
Preface by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com, Waldheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-930727-70-4.
• Jörn Konrad.
Foreword by Christine Dorothea Holzig, introduction by François Maher Presley, Galerie Friederike Völker, Hamburg 1999.
• Otto Quirin.
Foreword by Alexander Stuhlmann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Hamburgische Landesbank, Girozentrale, introduction by François Maher Presley, Hamburgische Landesbank, Hamburg 1999.
• Otto Quirin.
Greetings from Mayor Henning Voscherau on Otto Quirin's 70th birthday. Preface by François Maher Presley. "Culture in Hamburg" "Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930727-07-2.
• walking - Bernhard G. Lehmann.
Texts by Uwe Lempelius, François Maher Presley, Marion Janet Deike, “Culture in Hamburg” publishing company, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-930727-02-1.
Participations / anthologies
• A well-traveled person returns. Burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018.
Edited by Birgit Zotz. Edition Habermann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96025-014-2.
• Tibet's Saxon. Ernst Hoffmann becomes Lama Govinda. Anagarika Govinda.
Edited by Birgit Zotz. Edition Habermann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-96025-007-4.
• Wellingsbüttel yesterday and today.
Edited by Ursula Willer. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-930727- 49-0.
• Georg Philipp Telemann. A Hamburg foundation.
in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-42-1.
• Georg Philipp Telemann in Hamburg (1721–1767): Documents tell stories. An exhibition by the Hamburg Telemann Society and the Hamburg State and University Library,
August 19 to October 2, 1998. Published by the Hamburger Telemann-Gesellschaft e. V. With a foreword by François Maher Presley and contributions by Annemarie Clostermann, Krista Sager, Horst Gronemeyer. “Culture in Hamburg” publishing company, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930727-08-0.
• Wellingsbütteler impressions.
Edited by Ursula Willer. “Culture in Hamburg” publishing company, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930727-11-0.
• Világirodalmi folyóirat.
Nagy Vilag. Budapest 1992, HU ISSN 0547-1613.
• Berlin and I - an anthology.
Bernhard Sowinski (ed.). Dümmer-Verlag, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-427-91201-9.
• Life between the lines.
VfA Verlag freelance authors, 1987, ISBN 3-88611-046-X.
• Gauke's Yearbook '87.
Gauke GmbH - Verlag für Sozialökonomie, Kiel 1986, ISBN 3-87998-067-5.
• Lyrics today.
Czernik-Verlag "Edition L", Loßburg 1985, ISBN 3-924600-29-5.
• Lyric 84/85.
El'Leu, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-85667-017-1.
• Authors introduce themselves 1/86.
Czernik-Verlag "Edition L", Loßburg 1986.
• Speak of today - be silent about tomorrow.
Bert Schlender publishing house, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-88051-101-2.
• Time to try the wings.
Verlag Bert Schlender, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-88051-108-X.
• Men write new love poems.
Bert Schlender publishing house, Göttingen 1983, ISBN 3-88051-037-7.
Contributed
• I was never like the others / From the kitchen to the top floors of the international business world.
Wilma Bosse, partially edited and advised: François Maher Presley, Pro Business 2016, ISBN 978-3-86460-554-3.
• Shoulder disease patient book / Answers to the most common Fran from everyday life in my practice.
Thomas von Rothkirch, cover design and processing: François Maher Presley, in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2009,
ISBN 978-3-930727-19-3.
• For Hans Werner Henze / A sculpture.
Bernhard G. Lehmann, cover design François Maher Presley, in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-930727-14-5.
literature
Birgit Zotz et al.: A faraway returns, texts on the burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018. Edition Habermann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96025-012-8.
voluntary work
• 1990 to 1999 chairman of Kultur aktuell - Association for the Promotion of Cultural Life in Hamburg eV
• 1996 to 2002 1st chairman of the Hamburg Telemann Society
• 2000 to 2006 1st chairman of Akwaaba eV
• Since 2013 board member of the "Telemann Foundation" [32]
• Since 2016 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture
• Since 2017 member of the board of trustees of the “Stiftung Mittagskinder” [33]
Memberships
• Collecting Society Wort (VG Wort)
• Collecting Society Bild-Kunst (VG Bild-Kunst)
• Hamburg Authors' Association
Web links
• Literature by and about François Maher Presley (https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=118 830937) in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about François Maher Presley (https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2014151965) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Biography with portrait photo at the publisher in-cultura.com (https://www.in-cultura.com/newpage15/)
• francois-maher-presley.com (http://www.francois-maher-presley.com/)
Individual evidence
1. Matthias H. Rauert: Vademecum for deaf ears. In: François Maher Presley: With Germany in Transition. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2, p. 8.
2. Work diary - early poetry and prose. Introduced and with an afterword by Matthias H. Rauert. Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-23-0
3. Monastery diary. A moment holds 1000 experiences. Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-28-5.
4. François Maher Presley: One moment holds 1000 experiences: monastery diary. Reidar-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-924848-05-X.
5. godfreystudio.org (http://www.godfreystudio.org/footnotes.html)
6. winfriedwolk.com (http://www.winfriedwolk.com/pdf/Presley_en.pdf)
7. Abendblatt.de (http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/journal/article106692320/Von-allen-Seiten-ansehen-und-anfa ssen.html)
8. in-cultura.com (http://www.in-cultura.com/newpage15)
9. telemann-stiftung.de (http://www.telemann-stiftung.de/veranstaltungen/)
10. in-cultura.com (http://www.in-cultura.com/newpage15)
11. François Maher Presley: Work Diary - Early Poetry and Prose. Introduced and with an afterword by Matthias H. Rauert. Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-23-0.
12. François Maher Presley: 17 lives. Novel. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-43-8.
13. François Maher Presley: With Germany in Transition. Sociopolitical essays. 1999-2011. Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2.
14. François Maher Presley: Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-57-5.
15. in-cultura.com (https://www.in-cultura.com/newpage31)
16. Other countries and cultures. Volume 2: All one world. Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930727-20-9.
17. francois-maher-presley.com (http://www.francois-maher-presley.com/)
18. sz-online.de (http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/waldheim-wird-zur-kunststadt-3332342.html)
19. francois-maher-presley.com (http://www.francois-maher-presley.com/)
20. youtube.com (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=flCwTPkILkQ/)
21. stiftung-mittskinder.de/ueber-uns/kuratorium (https://www.stiftung-mittskinder.de/)
22. With Germany in transition. Sociopolitical essays. 1999-2011. Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in- Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2.
23. in-cultura.com (http://www.in-cultura.com/newpage15)
24. Foreword Mallorca. Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-35-3.
25. lvz.de (http://www.lvz.de/Region/Doebeln/Das-rockt-Presley-stell-neuen-Waldheim-Hit-vor)
26. Birgit Zotz: "François Maher Presley and Anagarika Govinda." In: A well-traveled man returns. Texts on the burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018, Edition Habermann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3- 96025-012-8, pp. 35–40, here p. 40.
27. Cf. Annemarie Clostermann: Georg Philipp Telemann: The Hamburg Years. Edited and with texts by François Maher Presley. Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-41-4.
28. Michael Goldstein: Peter Stoljarskij Pjotr Solomonowitsch Stoljarski. The violin teacher and his factory of talents in Odessa. Edited from the estate by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com GmbH, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-34-6
29. Telephone conversation with the baroness. Volume 1. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-25-4.
30. Telephone conversation with the baroness. Volume 2. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-33-9.
31. Waldheim Top 25. Ed. By Gaby Zemmrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-930727-55-1
32. telemann-stiftung.de (http://www.telemann-stiftung.de/)
33. stiftung-mittskinder.de/ueber-uns/kuratorium (https://www.stiftung-mittskinder.de/)
