Claudia Schmitz-Esser

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Claudia Schmitz-Esser (* 1983 in Rum , Tyrol) is an Austrian author and performance artist. As an author she published under the pseudonyms Claudia Klingenschmid and Sissi Schmitz , as an artist she practices guerrilla knitting .

Life

Claudia Schmitz-Esser studied psychology, theater studies and modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She wrote her master's thesis on suffragettes in the US circus . She also took pantomime, theater and clowning lessons and worked as a clinical clown .

Inspired by the Guerrilla Knitting movement from the United States, she founded in 2010 in Munich together with the puppeteer Ina Hemmelmann the Street -Künstlerkollektiv The design women . They called their work “entanglements” and understood them as an homage to the work of women, which for centuries was restricted to private space and was thus excluded from any form of public recognition. As "Hermione" and "Sissi" they redesigned streets and squares about once a month. With their installations made of wool, felt and fabric, they wanted to tackle gender stereotypes in a humorous way and remind people of the value of housewife activities such as knitting, sewing and baking. For the Munich Oktoberfest , they made oversized beer mugs made of felt, on which sat brains made of wool, not foam heads. To do this, they wrote a recipe for baked brains on the asphalt. Your art is fleeting, the works disappear after a few hours or days. The duo is one of the first knitted guerilla groups in Germany and has also performed in Hanover, Berlin, Stockholm and New York. In 2012 Die Rausfrauen took part in the exhibition “Nadelwerke” in the Galerie Handwerk Munich and designed a performance as part of the Long Night of Museums .

Her debut novel Parasit ToGo was published in 2019 by Piper Verlag under the pseudonym "Claudia Klingenschmid" . The secret economy of an ancient animal . ToGo is the abbreviation for Toxoplasma gondii . From this perspective, the author tells how the parasite settles in the nervous system of its human and animal hosts and manipulates them.

Claudia Schmitz-Esser has lived in Graz since 2017 . She is married to the historian Romedio Schmitz-Esser .

Publications

  • as Sissi Schmitz with Ina Hermina: Das Rausfrauenbuch. A practical introduction to queer entanglements, tasteful wardrobes and creative cuisine. Guerrilla knitting, crocheting and sewing for on and outside , Frechverlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7724-7902-1 .
  • Romedio Schmitz-Esser with photos by Claudia Schmitz-Esser: Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza. The German Study Center in Venice (= Schnell-Kunstführer Nr. 2847), Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7954-7015-9 .
  • as Claudia Klingenschmid: Parasit ToGo - The secret economies of an ancient animal (novel), Piper, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-492-50209-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Circus Suffragettes - Josie DeMott, Zella Florence, Katie Sandwina . 2013.
  2. ↑ Werner Schandor: Your own thing between word and wool . , Portrait of the artist on kultur.steiermark.at
  3. ↑ Veronika Beer: Street Art: Drei Maß Hirn at Oktoberfest , zeit.de, September 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Laura Höss: Attention, the knitting guerrilla is coming !, Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 24, 2011
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Bosch et al .: “Nadelwerke” , brochure for the exhibition at the Galerie Handwerk Munich from October 17 to November 17, 2012 (pdf for download, p. 60)
  6. ↑ Werner Schandor: Infection novel of the month: A protozoan gives gas . haubentaucher.at , March 20, 2020
  7. ↑ Unusual Debut: A Parasite Told , FALTER 33/19 of August 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Schmitz-Esser, Claudia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klingenschmid, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Rum (Tyrol)