Electroboy

Florian Burkhardt ( born March 13, 1974 in Basel, pseudonym: electroboy ) is a Swiss model, author and composer.

Life

Burkhardt joined after graduating from high school studies for a primary school teacher in a Catholic boarding school in train from, devoted himself at first but the professional snowboarding. In 1993 he founded the first Swiss Snowboard Magazine Independent and subsequently worked as a freelance editor for the largest circulation snowboard magazine in German-speaking Europe board generation.

Burkhardt then moved to Los Angeles, where he attended an acting academy. From an article in a film magazine resulting orders as photographic and runway model, which laid the foundation of his unexpected career as a model laid, which later led him to the catwalks of Milan, London and Tokyo.

Burkhardt worked for labels such as Prada, Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana and photographers like David LaChapelle and Albert Watson booked him for their projects.

After he finished the modeling, he moved to Zurich and organized in 1994 as electroboy parties where the visual and the arts should play at least one as important as the music itself. The events developed into elaborate festivals and Burkhardt was elected in 1995 with the promoters of the year in Switzerland.

Burkhardt later founded the commercial, a magazine for electronic music and led the first Swiss Electronic Music Awards ( SEMA ) by. He also began itself with the production of electronic music and released four CDs ( see discography ).

Burkhardt published in 2004 his first book, STOP.

In 2009, Burkhardt was the founder and Artistic Director of the Cabaret Voltaire in Berlin.

Since 2013 Burkhardt is active as a pictorial designer. It produces bold graphics vector-based, it can print on acrylic sheets with silicone color. Next he produced high-quality clothing in very small editions.

In the summer of 2014, the documentary electroboy by Marcel Gisler Burkhardt's life comes to the movies.

Discography

Writings

• STOP. Pro Business, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937343-63-6.