Jochen Markhorst

Jochen Markhorst (1964) writes on Dylan songs. He grew up in Arnhem, The Netherlands and in Hanover, Germany, with Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde as soundtrack. Jochen bought Blood On The Tracks and Street Legal from his pocket money, studied German language at Utrecht University, translated Russian at the Military Intelligence Service, teaches language training courses at companies and lessons in schools, translates German literature, Dutch websites and English subtitles and always plays the music of Dylan in the background.

Markhorst, however, is not one of the hardliners who honour the rather narrow-minded motto Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan – Jimi Hendrix is certainly not the only one who can brush up a Dylan song. He defends this controversial opinion, among other things, in his articles for Untold Dylan (bob-dylan.org.uk) en Bob Dylan In Nederland (bobdylaninnederland.blogspot.com/) and, obviously, in his fifteen (Dutch, English and German) books on Dylan songs.

Jochen has been living in Utrecht for 40 years now, is still married to the same great, attractive woman and has two sons who have left home by now, but fortunately still study, work and live in Utrecht.