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1. Free Lutz!

   50 years ago a calculator generated a literary text for the first time ever. And this was in Stuttgart my hometown.
   Theo Lutz wrote 1959 a program for Zuse Z22 to create stochastic texts. On the advice of the Stuttgardian philosopher Max Bense, he took sixteen nouns and adjectives out of Kafka’s “Schloss,” which the calculator then formed into sentences, following certain patterns. Thus every sentence began with “ein” or “jeder” (“one” or “each”) or the corresponding negative form “kein” or “nicht jeder” (“no” or “not every”). Then the noun, selected arbitrarily from the pool of sixteen, was linked through the verb “ist” (“is”) with the likewise arbitrarily chosen adjective. Then the whole assembly was linked up through “und,” “oder,” “so gilt” (“and,” “either,” “thus”) or given a full stop. Following these calculation instructions, by means of this algorithm, the machine was able to construct such sentences as:

   EIN TAG IST TIEF UND JEDES HAUS IST FERN
   (A day is deep and every house is distant)
   JEDES DORF IST DUNKEL; SO GILT KEIN GAST IST GROSS
   (Every village is dark, thus no guest is large)

   Johannes Auer - 06.11.2012 - 13:51