Bernd Schulz (curator)

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Bernd Schulz (born November 24, 1941 in Beckingen / Saar; † January 28, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , curator , cultural mediator and university teacher .

Life

Bernd Schulz studied forest sciences at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Breisgau). After graduating, he worked as an assistant to Michail Prodan , the founder of forest biometrics , with cybernetics and data processing and wrote computer programs for biometric research.

He turned down a career offered to him in the state forest administration of the Saarland and began to work in 1969 as a radio reporter and science journalist. In 1970 he became head of the science and cultural criticism department in the radio of the Saarland broadcasting company . From 1972 to 1974 he was also editor of the Quadriga Funkkolleg Biologie (joint production of the three Südwest-Rundfunkanstalten and the Hessischer Rundfunk). From 1974 he was chief reporter culture of the Saarland broadcasting company.

Schulz became known in the 1970s primarily through the magazine “Kultur Aktuell” in the medium-wave program of the Saarländischer Rundfunk, which, unusual for a feature section of the time, deliberately crossed the line between humanities and natural sciences, whereby ecology (then still a largely unknown foreign word) and education policy formed the main focus. Schulz also presented the culture magazine “Sammelsurium” of the three Südwest broadcasting corporations on television for ten years. Through his commitment to the mediation of contemporary art, he became a member of the International Artists' Committee (IKG) in 1976 at the invitation of Joseph Beuys . In 1977 he resigned his position as chief reporter and justified his move with criticism of the growing influence of politics on programming and the lack of internal freedom of the press in Saarland broadcasting. In the following years Schulz worked as a freelance author for various radio and television companies. He also worked as an assistant at the Institute for Consumer and Behavioral Research at Saarland University and founded the press service “Consumption and Behavior”. In addition, he was involved as an actor and director in theater projects (so-called Theater Saarbrücken and mobile children's theater). In 1984 Schulz developed the concept for the establishment of a cultural center with a focus on contemporary art on behalf of the city of Saarbrücken, which was opened in 1985 as the " Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken ". Schulz managed the house until 2002. From 1987 to 1992 Schulz was a member of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees. The Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken became known for its focus on "media art", whereby the artists usually developed projects on site. In 1994 the gallery became part of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation . The gallery developed a special profile with exhibitions in which sound plays a central role (“ sound art ”). In addition to the more than 100 art exhibitions that Schulz curated, there was also an extensive program of concerts of contemporary music.

Schulz, who was a member of the art commission (Comité technique d´achat) of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in the 1980s, also showed important positions of contemporary art in France (e.g. Jean Le Gac , Bernard Pagès, Jean -Luc Vilmouth , Patrick Raynaud and Jacqueline Salmon). Schulz has been an honorary professor at the Saar College of Fine Arts since 1997 . Before that he had lectureships at the art academies in Paris and Nancy . In 2008 he received the honorary award of the German Sound Art Prize.

After a temporary stay in Canada, he lived in Berlin since 2006.

Texts on sound art

  • Another look at technology , in: Paul DeMarinis: Buried In Noise. Eds. Ingrid Beirer, Sabine Himmelsbach, Carsten Seiffarth, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86828-141-5 .
  • Curating sound, a dialogue (with Carsten Seiffarth) , music concepts, special volume Klangkunst, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3-88377-953-9 .
  • Resonances, Aspects of Sound Art , Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-932183-30-4 (with CD).

Artist monographs and catalogs on sound art

Discography

  • Rolf Julius, small music Vol. 4, dance for two blue rectangles, Saarländischer Rundfunk u. Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Edition Robert Zank 1996
  • Robert Minard, Silent Music, Production: Saarländischer Rundfunk and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Edition Robert Zank 1999
  • Christina Kubisch, Sechs Spiegel, HBK Saar, production: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken and Saarländischer Rundfunk, Edition Robert Zank 1995
  • Akio Suzuki, NA-GI “calm”, 1997, performance and composition, production: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Edition Zank 1997

Texts

  • The change in perception - subject and ambivalence, in: Live Is Art Enough, Performance and Extended Art Forms, Ed. Anita Beckers, Cologne 1998
  • Dialectical images, On the archeology of the private, in: Robert F. Hammerstiel , "Glücksfutter", Heidelberg 1998
  • Sublimation instead of exhibitionism, privacy and the public in the fine arts, in: The lust for public confession, Ed. Peter Winterhoff-Spurk , Konrad Hilpert , St.Ingbert 1999
  • From distant vision to near vision, in: Resource Art, The Elements Newly Seen, Ed. Georg Jappe , Cologne 1989

Honors

2008: Honorary Prize of the German Sound Art Prize

Memberships

Internationales Künstlergremium (IKG) and Deutscher Werkbund

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HBKsaar honorary professor and former head of the Saarbrücken city gallery Bernd Schulz has died. News HBK January 30, 2017, accessed January 8, 2020
  2. ↑ Saar College of Fine Arts. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Hans Bünte u. a .: History and stories of the station on the Saar, 50 years of Saarländischer Rundfunk, ed. Axel Buchholz and Fritz Raff, Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna, 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29818-9
  4. ↑ KUNSTFORUM international, Vol. 29, Mainz 1978
  5. ↑ Sensational resignations from the SR, EPD (Evangelischer Pressedienst) April 2, 1977, Medium, "Forum" 1977 ("The harmonization not withstood")
  6. ↑ Advertising: There are the “secret seducers”, in: Psychologie heute, July 1978, Issue 7, keyword “Advertising” (together with Wolfgang von Keitz ) in: Basic Psychological Concepts, Rowohlts Enzyklopädie, Hamburg 1981
  7. ↑ s. Johannes Bunge: "so-called. theater Saarbrücken Försterstraße 23 “, 2016, Saarbrücken, AQ-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-942701-21-1 , especially p. 48
  8. ↑ "Art so that the head stays mobile", 10 years city gallery, Dillingen 1995, ISBN 3-925303-94-4
  9. ^ Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken 1994–2011, Altenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-932183-51-5
  10. ↑ Catalog of the German Sound Art Prize 2008, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924790-81-3
  11. ↑ klangkunstpreis.de. Retrieved April 24, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, curator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckingen
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2017
Place of death Berlin