Hartmut Geerken

Hartmut Geerken ( born January 15, 1939 in Stuttgart ) is a German musician, composer, writer, publicist, radio playwright and filmmaker.

Life

Geerken Oriental Studies, Philosophy, German and comparative religious studies in Tübingen and Istanbul, where he also began a dissertation on Hellmut Ritter. Then he gave German courses for the first Turkish migrant workers in Anatolia, which should go to Germany. As an employee at the Goethe Institute, he was from 1966 to 1972 in Cairo, from 1972 to 1979 in Kabul from 1979 to 1983 and worked in Athens, since he lives in Herrsching am Ammersee.

Services

Geerken is active as an organizer, coordinator and artist. As a percussionist he is working (eg, Sun Ra, John Tchicai, Sainkho Namtchylak Salah Ragab and Rudi Theilmann ) with various free jazz and avant-garde musicians. As a poet, he is the protagonist of concrete poetry and organizes performances, the annual " New Poetry Colloquium " in Bielefeld. As a performer and composer, he was active in six films by Herbert Achternbusch and appeared as an actor in two plays Achternbusch at the Munich Chamber playing on. 1991/92 he held the chair of poetics (Interactive radio drama ) held at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.

Geerken has also rendered outstanding services to the memory of the German literati Anselm Ruest. When he examined a no longer inhabited house in southern France in the footsteps of the estate of Victor Hadwiger, he found there instead, parts of the estate by Anselm Ruest, who had died in 1943. Ruest was initially. Together with Mynona, editor of the magazine stirnerianischen The only one who appeared from 1919-1925 in small numbers Thanks to the discount discovery made ​​it possible to compile a complete set of the magazine and in 1980 surrendered as an eBook.

Awards

Works

• Book publications, inter alia, " Marble Poems " (1965), " offsets " (1972), " jumps after go pink " (1981), " postmark jerusalem" (1993 ), " kant " (1998), " Ogygia: from the end of the south " (2004 ), " phos" (2005), "studies, etc. ' " (2006), " klafti " (2007), " cyrillic " (2007), " SOYD " (2008), " moss " (2008), " Gavdos " (2009), " sans soi diss " (2011)
• Co-editor of the series Early texts of modernity. Editor of the works of Solomon Friedlaender and various texts of expressionists, Dadaists and anarchists from the first half of the 20th century and biographer of Sun Ra.
• Compositions, installations, records / CDs, films and radio plays

A complete list of his works is his private Web site (see below) to see.