Clemens Wallrodt

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Clemens Wallrodt (born May 14, 1960 in Schleusingen as Clemens Seiffert ; † June 19, 1995 ) was a German painter .

Life

Wallrodt completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in southern Thuringia . After completing his apprenticeship, he worked in various professions, including as a stage technician at the Meininger Theater . He was involved in the Montagskreis Suhl for the social peace service as well as in the Helba residential community in Meiningen and appeared as a singer in temporary formations such as “Five Year Plan”.

Living in East Berlin since the 1980s, Wallrodt trained himself as a painter. Wallrodt participated in the unofficial artist magazines Braegen (edited by Henryk Gericke ) and Liane (edited by Volker Handloik , Heinz Havemeister , Michael Thulin the i. Klaus Michael and Susanne Schleyer) and exhibited, among other things, in the unofficial galleries De Loch on Schönhauser Strasse Berlin and in the gallery Wohnmaschine Friedrich Loock in the Tucholskystraße Berlin . On New Year's Eve 1989 the ACUD gallery was opened in Berlin's Rykestrasse with works by Wallrodt.

When the ruins of the Wertheim department store on Oranienburger Strasse, which burned out during the war , threatened to be blown up by decision of the Berlin City Administration, Wallrodt belonged to Leo Kondeyne, Paulo San Martin, Andreas Rost, Thomas Sojka ("Tombo") and other artists on 13. February 1990 to the occupants of the building. The preservation of the building is thanks to this spectacular action. It also marked the birth of the Kunsthaus Tacheles , which until it was vacated in September 2012 gave numerous artists from all over the world work and living space and became a model for further artistic repairs. The Tacheles pioneers included, for example, Christian Lorenz (“Flake”) from Feeling B and the video artist Stefan Schilling from Dresden.

As an electrician and painter, Wallrodt was actively involved in the expansion and renovation of the Künstlerhaus from the start. Among other things, he designed the first gable with a neon light installation “Where's Captain Nemo?” And steel structures in the café of the house. Wallrodt died in a car accident on June 19, 1995 on the way back from an exhibition in Paris when he was killed in his car by his own works of art.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Galerie DeLoch Schönhauser Strasse Berlin. October 1987
  • Gallery Wohnmaschine by Friedrich Loock, Tucholskystraße 34, Berlin-Mitte 1988.
  • Galerie Weißer Elefant Berlin Mitte, May 1996.
  • flood 2 . Exhibition in the Peripherie Gallery in the Tübingen brewery, September to October 1999.
  • represented in the exhibition poetry of the underground - the literary and artistic scene in East Berlin from 1979 to 1989 in the youth (resistance) museum Galiläakirche Berlin, August to September 2011.
  • Brush and click: Clemens Wallrodt, Thomas Sojka, Stefan Schilling. Paintings, photography and films from the early years of the Kunsthaus Tacheles gallery neurotitan in Haus Schwarzenberg Berlin, June 2012.

literature

  • Gerd Haenel: A conversation with Clemens Wallrodt and Tom Soika. On May 1st in the 'Tacheles' Oranienburger Strasse, East Berlin. In: Pictures from the GDR. Kunstforum International Volume 109/1990.
  • Gerd Haenel / Clemens Wallrodt conversation. Slaves Issue 17, October 1995.
  • 2.15 p.m. Scheinschlag Berliner Stadtzeitung 07/2002, August 28 to September 26, 2002.
  • Daniel Schoeps: Scene myth "Tacheles". Magic world of the meantime. Der Spiegel November 23, 2008.
  • Jörn Hasselmann and Tobias Reichelt: Kunsthaus Tacheles cleared. Ruined everything. Der Tagesspiegel September 5, 2012.
  • Ulrich Gutmair: End of the Tacheles. Memory of a ruin. The disappearance of the Kunsthaus Tacheles will change Berlin. The question is how? One last tour and a look back. The daily newspaper September 12, 2012.

Movie

  • The traveler is dead - Clemens Wallrodt 1960–1995 by Klaus Tuschen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunsthaus Tacheles cleared: Everything ruined. Accessed October 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Clemens Wallrodt, Thomas Sojka, Stefan Schilling. Paintings, photography and films from the early years of the Kunsthaus Tacheles. Accessed October 14, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Wallrodt, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seiffert, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleusingen
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1995