Adam silk

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Adam Silk , born as Wilhelm Silk (born July 2, 1929 in Hannover-Linden ; † April 29, 2004 in Limburg an der Lahn ) was a German master typesetter, gallery owner, writer, publisher, art and theater critic.

Life

Adam Silk opened one of the first private galleries in Hanover in 1958 after training as a typesetter and years of traveling in northern Germany (until 1962). The gallery was regarded as a meeting point for the art scene of the second post-war generation. After moving to Frankfurt am Main in 1962 , Silk continued his gallery activities here. He lived in a house on Röderbergweg No. 64 together with the artists Alf Bayrle and Thomas Bayrle . In the 1980s in the context of the progressive publishers March, Melzer and Athenaeum , Silk was a co-founder of the Hessian Literature Office (today the Hessian Literature Forum ).

As the first town clerk in Unna in 1982/83 he wrote his book Taubenkasper. Adam Silk has been a PEN member since 1990 . That year he received a long scholarship for the Künstlerhof Schreyahn . In 1991 he received the Gerrit Engelke Prize from the city of Hanover. In 2000 he was awarded the Nicolas Born Prize of the State of Lower Saxony.

Since 1998 Adam Silk has been teaching “Literature and New Media” at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe (HfG). In cooperation with his students, he implemented a variety of projects, for example he founded the poem generator "Versfabrik".

Adam Silk was married to the sculptor Ann Reder . Adam Silk died on April 29, 2004 in Limburg / Lahn of complications from pneumonia. He is buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery. Since July 16, 2005 there is the Adam Silk Archive in Karlsruhe, which administers the handwritten estate. Adam Silk's library is kept in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover.

Adam Silk worked as a typographer, writer, gallery owner, lecturer and critic and published several literary magazines, including Yardbird, the Egoist and the New Egoist.

Fonts

“Johanna from Brunswick. A German Requiem. ”From 1986. The work thematizes the fate of 19-year-old Erna Wazinski , who was sentenced to death by a Nazi special court at the end of 1944 and executed for looting.
  • 1976: What was there ... . In: Neue Szene Frankfurt am Main 1970–76. A culture reader. Edited by Katharina Bleibohm and Wolfgang Sprang. With the support of the Department of Culture and Leisure of the City of Frankfurt am Main. Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 1976, pp. 127-129.
  • 1979: The ABC of Paralysis (prose, postscript).
  • 1980: As seen (Roman, Rowohlt).
  • 1981: Zero in Frankfurt? For Hermann Göpfert and Rochus Kowalleck. In: Phoenix. Old Opera Frankfurt. Concept and realization of exhibition, festival, book and newspaper: Manfred de la Motte (more the “stable”), Walter E. Baumann (more the “mobile”). Frankfurt a. M. 1981
  • 1983: after everything has been enumerated, [...]. In: Walter Hanusch. 11.-Sept. - 9th Oct. 1983. galerie + werkstatt e. V. Wolfenbüttel Art Association. Verlag Werkstätten Galerie tg TIMM GIERIG, Frankfurt a. M. 1983, p. 2.
  • 1985: Taubenkasper. Of battles, victories, defeats, entanglements, the Weimar Republic and the colliery colony (novel, Athenaeum).
  • 1986: Johanna from Brunswick. A German Requiem (Roman, Athenaeum; Revonnah 1999, 2nd extended edition 2001). ISBN 3-934818-25-0
  • 1987: Rebecca or a house for virgins of the Jewish faith in Frankfurt am Main (novel, Athenaeum).
  • 1999: Beckett (essays, Revonnah). ISBN 3-934818-35-8
  • 2000: ... it's just a journey ... (1st part of the novel trilogy "Three Old Painters", Revonnah). ISBN 3-927715-69-7
  • 2012: ABC of paralysis. A pub novel . Published by Harry Oberländer and the Adam Silk Archive. Zurich 2012.

Publications

  • 1958–1976: Yardbird / Egoist / Der neue Egoist (magazine, Hanover Frankfurt).
  • 1958–1962: Writings on contemporary art (series, Linden).
  • 1962 Allusions by Albert Schulze Vellinghausen, Friedrich Verlag, Hanover
  • 1963 and 1983: What's there. Art and literature in Frankfurt (anthology, Frankfurt).
  • 1978: Poetic express mail (magazine, Wunstorf).
  • 1986/87: Hessischer Literaturbote (magazine, Frankfurt).
  • 1987: Childhood losses (other editors: Wolfgang Fienhold, Klaus E. Schmidt-Mâcon; Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt).
  • 1998–2004: Munitionsfabrik (No. 1–12, newspaper, Karlsruhe University of Design).
  • 2002: TransAtlantik (magazine, Karlsruhe University of Design).

Design, typography, graphics

  • 1960–1980: Theater heute (magazine, Velber near Hanover).
  • 1962: Allusions by Albert Schulze-Vellinghausen, Friedrich Verlag, Hanover
  • 1960s magazine and posters for the Volksbühne Frankfurt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. in the following:: Henning Rischbieter: Writing, Knappwurst evening guests. Memories. zu Klampen 2009, pp. 149–152.
personal data
SURNAME Silk, adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Silk, Wilhelm (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, art and theater critic, editor, gallery owner and master typesetter
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2004
Place of death Limburg on the Lahn