Backer (1925-2003) was the editor of Neue Texte. Adam Lerner contributed a forward to the catalog in which he described Backer as a "life artist" because he devoted the entire body of his life's work to an enterprise that comprised a movement toward a single goal - dedicating his career as a photographer, sculpture, poet and editor to" coming to terms with his teenage involvement in the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.