Bernhard German

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Bernhard Deutsch (* 1959 ) is a German art machine maker and performance artist . He lives in Schwäbisch Hall .

Life

After graduating from the technical grammar school, German studied philosophy and sociology in Tübingen. He works as a freelance artist in Schwäbisch Hall-Steinbach. His atelier Villa Wunderwelt and his machines installed in public spaces shape the cityscape and are among the sights in southwest Germany.

After a large retrospective “35 years of art vending machines” in the summer of 2013 in the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum , Deutsch auctioned 101 of his vending machines at the finissage .

Deutsch is the initiator of the handicraft Christmas market in Schwäbisch Hall. He also appears as a magician and is a puppeteer in the Princess Gisela Theater . As a city ​​guide , he stages the visit of Doctor Faust in Schwäbisch Hall and the life of the executioner Andreas Bürg, based on historical sources from the 16th and 17th centuries .

aesthetics

Bernhard Deutsch's machines perform actions by characters who often speak Swabian against the insertion of coins . The focus is always on the interaction between machine and human. In various works, Deutsch is devoting himself to new genres of machine construction, such as "school tomatoes", "prophetomats", "esoteromats", "frivolomats" and "politomats".

Works in Schwäbisch Hall (selection)

  • Mrs. Kehrer and Mrs. Schäufele, Henkersbrücke
  • Ms. Göschle and Ms. Mödele - The curious cabinet of Dr. Plunder, Sulfersteg
  • Curiosity machine, Schwatzbühlgasse, passage through the milk market
  • Prophetomat Complizius Complizissimus / Skunkomat / Esoteromat / Peepshow for cold rats u. a., Villa Wunderwelt
  • Escape room
  • Animation machines for historical events, Käshof in the Hohenloher open air museum Wackershofen
  • Spendomat, Hällisch-Franconian Museum

literature

Gertrud Schubert: Makers of sense, city discoverer, Lobomat inventor: Bernhard Deutsch , in: Hohenlohe. Landscape, people and culture , Künzelsau 2002, pp. 158–161

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The portrait: Bernhard Deutsch from Schwäbisch Hall, hobbyist and gag machine manufacturer, (radio broadcast of SDR 1 on October 30, 1990, archived in the Baden-Württemberg State Archive)  in the German Digital Library
  2. ^ Andreas Maisch, Daniel Stihler, Heike Kraus: Schwäbisch Hall: History of a city . Published by the Schwäbisch Hall City Archives and the Schwäbisch Hall History Workshop, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2006, ISBN 389929078X , p. 438
  3. ↑ Stefan Reis: Kunst in Automaten ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Main-Echo , January 10, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mainecho.meapp1.fidion.de
  4. ^ Ute Friesen, Jan Thiemann: Weird home. Wacky sights in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8062-2263-0 , pp. 146-147 .
  5. ↑ Rainer Redies, André Wais (ed.): Imperial cities in the German south-west , DRW-Verlag, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2004, ISBN 3871815314 , p. 218
  6. ↑ Monika Everling: Haller Bernhard Deutsch shows 90 machines in the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum , Haller Tagblatt , June 16, 2013
  7. ↑ Harald Holz: Chattering, singing and silent automatons , SWR4 , June 12, 2013
  8. ↑ Sonja Alexa Schmitz: Tinkerer with a lot of humor , Neue Württembergische Zeitung , June 24, 2013
  9. ↑ Christmas market ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , w.news, business magazine of the Heilbronn-Franken Chamber of Commerce, November 15, 2001 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ihk-wnews.de
  10. ↑ Curtain up , Prinzession-Gisela-Theater on nurzu.de
  11. ↑ On the road with the hangman , nurzu.de
  12. ↑ Book and Library , Volume 47, 1995, p. 541
  13. ↑ Matthias Slunitschek: perplex and entertain , Heilbronner Stimme , August 8, 2013
  14. ^ Art walk: Art in public space , website of the city of Schwäbisch Hall
  15. ↑ Escape room. In: nurzu.de. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Spendomat , schwaebischhall.de
personal data
SURNAME German, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art machine maker and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaebisch Hall , Germany