Thomas Kapielski
Thomas Alfred Franz Kapielski ( born September 16, 1951 in Berlin -Charlottenburg ) is a German writer, visual artist and musician.
Life
Thomas Kapielski was born in Berlin -Charlottenburg and lived with his sister and parents there in his early years. After moving to Berlin- Neukölln he visited the Fritz Karsen School in Berlin - Britz. After high school he studied geography, philology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. Towards the end of the 1970s Kapielski began with his extensive artistic activity. He wrote Conceptual, began with objects, photographs, collages and paintings that has picked up everyday, combined with text and highlighted the absurd, unusual ordinary life.
From the early 1980s Kapielski was also active as a musician, which he - among other things together with Frieder Butzmann - mostly minimalist, avant-garde pieces recorded and performed, the everyday sounds, noise and words whip. They have been grouped in this time the scene of the Berlin Ingenious Dilettantes.
It was at this time Kapielski began more frequently to photograph and established in the following years, an extraordinary kind of slide shows. The reliability of adhesive hook, the smallest travel agencies in the world, cars with sore eyes and other experiences from the outside world were to slide-show themes.
A first publication, The bestwerliner Tunkfurm appeared in 1984. During the next years Kapielski took literary activities (combined with slide shows ), often together with Helmut Höge and Sabine Vogel, too. In Maas Publisher appeared Aqua botulus, in Karin Kramer Verlag The Ego and His oath of disclosure: loss of funds. Against too much success, he struggled but by unpredictability. His work as a columnist for the taz ended in 1988 with a scandal after Kapielski had described in an article the noble disco jungle as "gas chamber full".
Kapielski published from the 1990s texts, inter alia, in time, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Frankfurter Rundschau. More books appeared at the Berlin Merve Verlag, the Kapielski has long been associated amicably, first Davor still comes and Then was who managed also in the SWR -best list and were subsequently re-released by Zweitausendeins. The Valentine Musäum in Munich also provided a showcase and a catalog of Kapielski pictorial work. Thomas Kapielski was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize to Klagenfurt in 1999, but did not win a prize.
It was followed by the diary - novels Sozialmanierismus and world favor with Merve and Zweitausendeins. Both volumes are an unusual mix of aphorisms, stories of everyday life, philosophy, art theory and Abseitigem.
From 1998 to 2004 he was a visiting professor of performance at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.
His sociological use in the defense of the Stammtisch understand as a place of free speech and the pub per se (World Heritage "Golden Rooster " on Heinrichsplatz chez rings with Bernd Kramer ). Musically Kapielski is active in the original Oberkreuzberger nose flute orchestra. Artistically he has more facing the pictorial again in the years 2005 and 2006: As a special form of art operating criticism he makes in several solo exhibitions (Berlin, Zurich ) with oil paintings ( oil paintings ) on the mechanisms of value creation through art fun. His theory of art to be read in his 2006 book Merve blowing.
Works
Fine Arts
- Kapielski - BLACK AND WHITE. Kapielski greets the rest of the world, beer Verlag, Berlin 1981
- After collapse of sobriety. Catalog of works from 1979 to 1996, Vienna Verlag, Berlin, 1996
- Vedutas, lamps, animals, Art Book Cologne, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-940602-02-2
Music
- Rosa rushes, 1982
- Good morning, Mommy! ( with Frieder Butzmann ), 1986
- WAR WAS PUR ( with Frieder Butzmann ), 1987
- With the original Oberkreuzberger nose flute orchestra - The Grind Choir: Kuschelrotz, 1998
- With the original Oberkreuzberger nose flute orchestra - The Grind Choir: Quiet Days in Rüsselsheim, 2002
- With the original Oberkreuzberger nose flute orchestra - The Grind Choir: Popelärmusik, 2007