He also writes for the French literature magazine L'Atelier du Roman with authors like Milan Kundera and Michel Houellebecq.
Ulmen has also appeared in leading roles in successful cinema productions including "Herr Lehmann" (2003), the screenplay "The Elementary Particles" (2006), based on Michel Houellebecq's novel of the same title, and Men in the City directed by Simon Verhoeven and released in October 2009.
His visceral, savage writing style has led to comparisons with French novelist Michel Houellebecq.
In 2010, French author Michel Houellebecq published his novel, La Carte et le Territoire, translated into English as The Map and the Territory.
In the early 2000s v Poehl collaborated extensively with Bertrand Burgalat and his label Tricatel, notably on Michel Houellebecq's album "Présence humaine" (2000).
In 2002 her eponymous collection of texts and interviews was published including texts concerning John Armleder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Henry Bond, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Huyghe, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Olivier Mosset, Philippe Parreno, and Andy Warhol.
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Writers whose work has appeared in the magazine include Milan Kundera, Martin Amis, Benoît Duteurtre, Philippe Muray, Fernando Arrabal, and Michel Houellebecq.
The imprint is known for publishing debuts - notables include Colm Toibin's The South, Michel Houellebecq's Whatever and David Peace's Nineteen Seventy-Four.