Angelika Janz

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Angelika Janz (* 1952 in Düsseldorf ) is a German writer and visual artist .

Life

Angelika Janz studied German, art history and philosophy in Essen and Bochum. From 1979 to 1988 she was a teacher and lecturer in adult education in philosophy. She has been artistically active since 1977 and received a number of prizes and grants within the visual arts and literature, especially in the 1980s. In 1979 she developed the fragment text , which is now the subject matter at the German Institute Greifswald.

From 1988 to 2008 she worked as a permanent freelancer at the Museum Folkwang in Essen in the museum education service. Angelika Janz is the author of works in the genres of poetry, prose, essay and visual poetry and has been concerned with the relationship, correspondence and sewing of image and text in the visual arts since the 1970s. a. with the essay fragment as an attitude . She is the author of 2 radio plays produced (RIAS Berlin and Radio Bremen). Her artistic vita shows numerous individual and group exhibitions at home and abroad as well as (spoken word) performances. Until 1996 Angelika Janz performed with the jazz and poetry group “Trilemma”, which she (co-) founded in 1994, among others in the Cologne city garden.

In 1993 she moved to Western Pomerania, where she lives with her husband, the sculptor Dieter Eidmann. Since then, she has founded and organized numerous socio-cultural initiatives and festivals in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and to this day works primarily with children and young people in the countryside. Angelika Janz combines her work with children and young people with art. In the KinderAkademie, for example, under the motto “Watching Close-Up Instead of Television”, daycare and school children of all types of school are brought closer to basic cultural education in a playful way across the lessons. In 1998, she founded the “Youth clubs in rural areas” association for young people, thereby setting up over 20 youth clubs in the former Uecker-Randow district , of which only a few existed in 2010 for reasons of cost. From 1999 to 2003 she organized various socio-cultural festivals, such as the “Polish Week 2000” in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the “Nordic Sound” cultural festival and “DANCE TENSIONS” in Greifswald.

After an interruption of her varied activities due to a serious illness (2003) she returned to work in 2005. From 2005 to 2010 she headed the writing workshop at the NB Radiotreff Neubrandenburg and published the documentary "Lebensfilme".

Since 2005 she has been leading the socio-cultural project “Children's Academy in Rural Areas” and has been the initiator of numerous z. Projects of basic cultural education with a focus on violence prevention and inclusion in schools and daycare centers in their area have also received national awards. In 2014/15, her KinderAkademie art and inclusion project "Nahsehn statt Fernsehn" received the federal presidential award as a "place in the land of ideas".

Since 2007 she has headed the women's culture group “Soul Worlds” in Torgelow, which she networks with her children and youth groups in various cultural activities.

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Angelika Janz uses various artistic forms of expression in her work: poetry and prose , radio plays , radio reports and “ spoken word ” performances, interactive art events, exhibitions, lectures, art and literary criticism, as well as working with musicians. Her characteristic style in her experimental texts is characterized by metaphors , neologisms and opposites.

Many of her artistic works can be classified under the umbrella term visual poetry - she is one of the most important representatives of this literary direction in Germany.

Other works show image text correspondence that is intended to expand each other. Angelika Janz explains her fragment texts as follows: “A text fragment is clearly 'completed' at the edges with the least amount of letters…”.

One example of her interactive art actions is the “write how to go” campaign in Essen in 1979: she wrote poems on the asphalt with chalk: “The pedestrians carry the chalk words away under their steps.” (Angelika Janz).

Some of her texts have been translated into Polish.

Exhibitions

From 1980 her versatile works were shown in various exhibitions abroad, for example in many European countries, Poland and New Zealand.

Many of her last domestic exhibitions were in Western Pomerania, such as the Kulturwerk Vorpommern, the German Institute Greifswald or the Literature Center Greifswald, such as the 2010 retrospective “The arbitrariness of fragments”, which mainly showed fragmentary texts and picture text collages. In 2017 she exhibited at the Koeppenhaus Literature Center in Greifswald under the title “Seams - Paths to the Fragment 1979 to 2017”. Current exhibition from May 30th, 2019: Angelika Janz. "Every beginning is ceremony!" Retrospective exhibition with fragmentary texts, collages, drawings and picture-text installations, Vorpommersches Künstlerhaus Heinrichsruh 2019

Literature (selection)

  • Angelika Janz. The epitome . Sassafras-Verlag, Krefeld 1979.
  • Angelika Janz / Uwe Meier-Weitmar. Selbander , Edition Howeg, Zurich 1989.
  • Angelika Janz. Corridor . Scherrer and Schmidt, Cologne 1991.
  • Angelika Janz. An interesting breakfast that learns to be trendy . Karl Riha, Siegen 1995.
  • Angelika Janz (Ed. Franzobel). Weird intention . edition ch, Vienna 1995.
  • Angelika Janz. places sewn alphabeties . Wiecker Bote publishing house, Greifswald 2002.
  • Angelika Janz. TEXT PICTURE. Selected Works 1: Visual Works and Essays . freiraum-Verlag, Greifswald 2012. ISBN 978-3-943672-09-1
  • Angelika Janz. Forward with rearview mirror . edition bookmarks, Steffen Druck, Friedland 2012. ISBN 3-941681-31-1
  • Angelika Janz. "Trust the change", red thread lyric, Vorsatz-Verlag Dortmund 2014
  • Angelika Janz. Outside life went on but the films tore down . Retrospective postcard collection on the occasion of the exhibition "Thoughts" with Dieter Eidmann, Orangery Putbus / Rügen 2015

Awards and scholarships (selection)

  • Angelika Janz received grants for her work as an artist, for example a work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1978 and a work grant from the German Literature Fund and another art grant from the Franco-German youth organization "Cité Internationale des Arts" Paris for a work on the Pariser Passagen, and a work grant from the German Art Fund (together with UM-Weitmar). In 1985/86 she had a studio in the "Künstlerhaus Bethanien" in Berlin.
  • In 1981 she received the 1st prize for experimental literature from the city of Düsseldorf.
  • For her social activities she was named "Committed Woman 1998 of the Uecker-Randow District".
  • In 2010 she received an honorary certificate from the Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for her voluntary work.
  • In 2008 she received the German Local Sustainability Award of the German Environmental Aid and the Green League "Zeitzeichen" for her environmental commitment and the founding of her KinderAkademie.
  • In 2011, 2012 and 2016, their children's academy in rural areas was one of the 100 most sustainable projects in Germany (Werkstatt N-Projekt), certified by the German Sustainability Council.
  • In 2012 she received the sponsorship award from the State Association for Socioculture MV eV
  • In 2014/15 her "Children's Academy in Rural Areas" received the award "Excellent place in the land of ideas" with the project "Nahsehn statt Fernsehn"
  • 2015 KUNO Poetry Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Children's Academy in Rural Areas - Near TV instead of TV Retrieved on May 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Land of Ideas, version of July 8, 2014 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Angelika Janz. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ wordpress.com , published on October 24, 2012 by lyrikzeitung
  5. ^ Art and Culture Council Vorpommern-Greifswald
personal data
SURNAME Janz, Angelika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf