Asteris Koutoulas

Asteris Koutoulas, also in the transcription Kutulas (Greek Αστέρης Κούτουλας; born April 5, 1960 in Oradea ) is a Greek living in Germany event and music producer, publicist, translator, filmmaker and author.

Life

Koutoulas was born in 1960 in Romania, the son of Greek immigrants who moved to the GDR in 1968. He attended school in Dresden the Cross ( 1976-79 ) and studied from 1979 to 1984 German and History of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

He translated (as Asteris Kutulas ) and mostly in collaboration with Ina Kutulas numerous since 1981 works by important Greek authors into German, such as poetry, essays and prose of Odysseas Elytis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Dionissis Karatzas, Constantine Cavafy, Jannis Ritsos and Giorgos Seferis and also the autobiography and writings on music by Mikis Theodorakis. In most of the more than 40 stand-alone editions of books, he was also the publisher and usually Nachwortautor. In addition Koutoulas published a series of his own texts, interviews and translations of works by other authors in various German and Greek literary magazines and newspapers ( privateer (magazine), Accents ( magazine), meaning and form, Lettre International, new German literature, FAZ, märkische or newspaper, Frankfurter Rundschau, taz, Chronicles, Vima, Eleftherotypia, etc.). Koutoulas combined with Jannis Ritsos until his death in 1990, a deep friendship.

Koutoulas was from 1987 to 1989 in the GDR, the publication series Bizarre cities out of which many writers, painters and musicians involved, and from 1990 to 1991, the magazine Sondeur. In these publications he worked with a variety of artists together and moved their texts or visual artistic works, such as those of Peter Böthig, Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski, Adolf Endler Jan factor, Claudia Gehrke, Annett Gröschner, Durs Grünbein, Matthias Baader Holst Horst Hussel, Johannes Jansen, Frank Lanzendörfer, Steffen Mensching, Bert Papenfuss - Gorek, AR Penck, Kathrin Schmidt, Peter Wawerzinek, Trak Wendish among others Koutoulas lived between 1992-1996 alternately in Athens and Egger village (near Berlin) and lives since 1997 in Prenzlauer Berg ( Berlin).

Since 1980 he collaborates with Theodorakis, for which he produced over twenty CDs and about 100 concerts worldwide organized (eg in Canada, Chile, Russia, Israel, South Africa, Turkey, Australia and most European countries). Since the late eighties contributing to the official website Theodorakis ( by Guy Wagner), for which he wrote a number of contributions. Koutoulas, published in 1998 in Greece, the Theodorakis plant Directory established as the standard work of Theodorakis research.

He looked further since the early 1980s as a co-writer and director on various documentary productions as well as a dramaturge for theater productions.

Since the early 1990s, he has worked as a music and event producer. As CEO of his company Asti Music he not only organized numerous productions of Greek artists ( Demis Roussos, Maria Farantouri, Dimitra Galani, Elli Paspala, Alkistis Protopsalti, George Dalaras, etc.) in Europe, but mediated or accompanied concerts by international stars such as Mercedes Sosa, Zülfü Livaneli, Sting, Thomas Anders, Milva, Kelly Family, etc.

Worked 1999-2010 world as a manager and producer of the director and lighting architect Gert Hof. Produced at this time about 40 mega events around the world, including the Millennium events in 2000 at the Victory Column in Berlin and at the Acropolis in Athens and the Millennium Events " 1000 years Hungary " in Budapest and for the Chinese government in Beijing to continue in 2004 for the European Union, the " Welcome Europe Event " on Malta, the " city Day" in 2003 for the city of Moscow on Red Square, 2003 Donald Trump the "Lights of Freedom Event " in Atlantic City, 2005, "Light from the Arab World " event for the Sultan of Oman, 2009, the opening of the European capital of Culture in Vilnius, 2010, the closing ceremony of the Israel Festival in Jerusalem, etc. in all these events Gert Hof directed and held the overall artistic direction. As a producer Koutoulas also collaborated with the composer of the music for these events, such as Mike Oldfield, Roger Waters, Scorpions, Klaus Schulze, Pericles Koukos, Ruslana, Westbam and others, and with the musicians involved in the events, as Gabi Delgado -Lopez, Buena Vista Social Club and elsewhere

Adaptations, translations, journalism ( selection)

• Mikis Theodorakis: Anatomy of Music, Translated and annotated by Asteris Kutulas, editions phi, 1985 ISBN 3-88865-031-3 Echternach
• Mikis Theodorakis: My position in the music scene, Edited and translated by Asteris Kutulas & Peter Zacher, Reclam, Leipzig 1986 ISBN 3-379-00034-5
• Jannis Ritsos: stones, bones, roots. Essays and interviews. Edited and translated by Asteris Kutulas, Kiepenheuer Verlag, Leipzig and Weimar, 1989 ISBN 3-378-00321-9
• Jannis Ritsos: monochords. Transferring Asteris Kutulas. With drawings by Gottfried Bräunling, Romiosini Verlag, Cologne 1989 ISBN 3-923728-40-9
• Jannis Ritsos: The Sondeur. Transferring Ina & Asteris Kutulas. With drawings by Trak Wendish, bankruptcy book publishing Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 1989 ISBN 3-88769-311-6
• Jannis Ritsos: semicircle. Erotica. Edited and transferred from Asteris Kutulas. With drawings by Gottfried Bräunling, bankruptcy book publishing Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 1989 ISBN 3-88769-312-4
• Giorgos Seferis: All full of gods, essays, Edited, translated from the Greek, with an afterword by Asteris Kutulas, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990
• Odysseas Elytis: Diary of an unseen April. German - Greek. With five collages by the author. Transferring Asteris Kutulas, Romiosini Verlag, Cologne 1991
• Constantine Cavafy: The lie is only aged truth. Notations, prose and poetry from the estate. Edited, translated from the Greek, with an afterword by Asteris Kutulas, Hanser Verlag, Munich 1991
• Express suit from the inner immigration. Text & graphics from the GDR, Edited and with an afterword by Asteris Kutulas and Udo Tietz, editions phi, Echternach 1992
• Odysseas Elytis: The scent of Mittagsmahls. Edited and transferred from Asteris Kutulas. With illustrations by Fränz Dasbourg, editions phi, Echternach 1993
• Constantine Cavafy: The four walls of my room. Discarded and unpublished poems. Edited and with an afterword by Asteris Kutulas, transferring Ina & Asteris Kutulas, Hanser Verlag, Munich 1994
• Giorgos Seferis: Six Nights on the Acropolis, Roman, Edited and with an afterword by Asteris Kutulas, Translated by Asteris and Ina Kutulas, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995
• Mikis Theodorakis: The Metamorphoses of Dionysus. Libretto & other texts, with nine collages and a text by Ina Kutulas, Edited, translated and with an essay by Asteris Kutulas, Romiosini Verlag, Cologne, 1995
• Mikis Theodorakis: The Ways of the Archangel, Autobiography 1925-1949, Edited and translated by Asteris Kutulas, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 1995 ISBN 3-458-16689-0
• Jannis Ritsos: deformations. An inner biography. Poetry texts encounters from 1930 to 1990. Selected and edited by Asteris Kutulas. Romiosini Verlag, Cologne 1996 ISBN 3-923728-68-9
• Asteris Kutulas [ in Greek ]: the composer Mikis Theodorakis. Texts - working directory - Reviews (1937-1996), Livanis Verlag, Athens 1998
• Mikis Theodorakis: Until he dances again, Autobiography 1949-1952, Edited and translated by Asteris Kutulas, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt 2001 ISBN 3-458-17091- X, review
• Nikos Engonopoulos: conversations with the driver prohibited. Poems from the Greek surrealism. Edited by Asteris Kutulas, transferring Asteris & Ina Kutulas, axel dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001
• Jannis Ritsos: The Return of Iphigenia. Monologues. With stone drawings by the author. Translation and afterword by Asteris and Ina Kutulas, Insel Verlag, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 2001 ISBN 978-3458192183
• Jannis Ritsos: The Moonlight Sonata. Transferring Asteris Kutulas and Steffen Mensching, axel dielmann verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001 ISBN 3-933974-21-6, criticism
• Constantine Cavafy: Family Cavafy. Edited by Asteris Kutulas, transferring Ina & Asteris Kutulas, axel dielmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001
• Asteris Kutulas: Mikis Theodorakis. A Life in Pictures. Book with DVD & 2 CDs, Schott Music, Mainz 2010 ISBN 978-3-7957-0713-2
• Dionisis Karatzas: suicide of the reserve month. Greek poems about the sea and love, Selected and edited by Asteris Kutulas, from the Greek of Ina and Asteris Kutulas, drawings of Trak Wendish, diamond edition (Edited by Holger Wendland), Görlitz 2010 ISBN 978-3-933777-20 - 1
• Georgios Neophytou: DNA - A play. Translated by Ina and Asteris Kutulas 2012 ( premiere: Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden & Satiriko Theatro Nicosia, 21 June 2012 Wartburg )
• Even if each heaven is missing ... In Search of a Lost ( Greeks ) country. Greek Literature (1901 to 2013) in new and first translations, Compiled by Asteris and Ina Kutulas that hear. Journal of Literature, Art and Criticism, 58, Issue 249, Göttingen 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1235-7

Film

• Canto General. The Great Song of Pablo Neruda and Mikis Theodorakis - A film by Joachim Tschirner, Rainer Schulz and Asteris Kutulas, directed by Joachim Tschirner, Camera: Rainer Schulz, expert advice, interviews, paraphrase, translation: Asteris Kutulas, Berlin 1983 ( Produced for the DEFA - Dokfilmstudio, 40 min. )
• Say sky. Even if no one is. Encounter with Jannis Ritsos - Director: Joachim Tschirner scenario: Joachim Tschirner & Asteris Kutulas, Camera: Rainer Schulz, interviews, paraphrase, translation: Asteris Kutulas, Berlin 1984 ( Produced for the DEFA Dokfilmstudio, 60 min. )
• Mikis Theodorakis. Zorbas Ballet - A film by Asteris Kutulas, London 1989 ( Produced for Zorba -Production, 12 min. )
• Sun & Time - A film by Klaus Salge & Asteris Kutulas, Berlin 1999 ( Produced for ARTE, 52 min. )
• The Short Life of Chris Gueffroy - A film by Klaus Salge, Dramaturgy collaboration: Asteris Kutulas, Berlin 2010 ( Produced for RBB TV, 42 min. )
• Mikis Theodorakis. Composer - A film by Asteris Kutulas & Klaus Salge, Berlin 2010 ( Produced for ARTE, 53 min. )
• Recycling Medea - A film by Asteris Kutulas, Berlin 2013 ( 86 min. )

CD productions (as producer or co- producer)

• Mikis Theodorakis - Theodorakis sings Theodorakis (1991 )
• Mikis Theodorakis - Macbeth / Theatre Music ( 1993)
• Mikis Theodorakis & Maria Farantouri - Birthday Concert (1995 )
• Mikis Theodorakis & Zülfü Livaneli - Together ( 1996)
• Mikis Theodorakis - First Symphony & Adagio (1996 )
• Maria Farantouri - Poetica (1997)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Mikis (1998)
• George Theodorakis - Nothing in mind ( 1998)
• Maria Farantouri - Asmata (1998)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Requiem (1999)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Symphonietta & Etat de siege (1999)
• Theodorakis & Farantouri & Rainer Kirchmann - Sun & Time (2000)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Mauthausen Trilogy ( 2000)
• Mikis Theodorakis & Guests - Happy Birthday, Miki! (2000)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Carnaval & Raven (2002)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Resistance (2005)
• Mikis Theodorakis - First Songs (2005)
• Mikis Theodorakis - The Metamorphosis of Dionysus / Opera ( 2006)
• Mikis Theodorakis - Rhapsodies for Cello and Guitar (2006)
• Maria Farantouri - Way Home (2007)
• Mikis Theodorakis - East of the Aegean (2008)
• Mikis Theodorakis & Francesco Diaz - Timeless ( 2010)
• Konstantin Wecker, Gerhard Schöne, Hans -Eckardt Wenzel, Bejarano & Microphone Mafia, Jayrope, Petros Pandis, inter alia, - Viva Mikis Theodorakis 85th Tribute (2010)