Tim Mohr, the German-to-English translator, journalist, editor and author who collaborated on memoirs by Duff McKagan and Paul Stanley, died at his home in Brooklyn on March 31, 2025. He was 55. Pancreatic cancer was reported as the cause of death, according to accounts attributed to his friends and collaborators.
How did Tim Mohr die?
Mohr died at home in Brooklyn on March 31, 2025, aged 55. Pitchfork reported that friend and publisher Michael Reynolds confirmed his death and gave the cause in a statement to Rolling Stone. Publishers Weekly attributed the reported cause, pancreatic cancer, to friend and literary collaborator Paul Stanley. The reports identify the cause through associates rather than a public medical record.
Who was Tim Mohr?
Mohr’s career crossed Berlin’s music scene, New York journalism and editing, literary translation, and book collaboration. He began as a club DJ in Berlin, later worked as a journalist in New York, and spent several years as an editor at Playboy, according to his Hachette Book Group author biography.
His work as a translator brought German-language fiction to English readers. He translated seven novels by Alina Bronsky, as well as books by Dorothea Dieckmann, Charlotte Roche, Stefanie de Velasco and Alex Beer. His translation credits also included Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Why We Took the Car, as listed in Publishers Weekly’s obituary.
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What did Tim Mohr write?
Burning Down the Haus
Mohr’s own book, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, was published by Algonquin Books in 2018. It chronicles East German punks and their role in the political changes of the 1980s and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Publishers Weekly reported that the book was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
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Mohr collaborated on memoirs by Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses and Paul Stanley of KISS. His other book projects included work on Gil Scott-Heron’s unfinished memoir, The Last Holiday, and Genesis P-Orridge’s posthumously published Nonbinary (2021), according to Pitchfork.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What distinguished Mohr’s translation work?
Mohr’s translation career was notable not only for its range of German-language authors but also for the voices he chose to bring into English. Michael Reynolds, executive director of Europa Editions, said Mohr objected to what he saw as the field’s dominance by established male writers and translators. Reynolds told Publishers Weekly: “When Tim began working as a literary translator it seemed to him (and to many of us) that the world of literature in translation had a laddish patina to it, that it was dominated by white guys translating well-established white guys. Tim took issue with that and was determined to establish his reputation as a translator of female voices, and, at the same time, of voices from outside the mainstream,”
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