Cluse Krings

Cluse Krings (* 1959 in Aachen ) is a German author , theater man , ethnologist and journalist .

Life

Krings studied ethnology and American studies at the Free University of Berlin . At the same time, he trained in the performing arts from 1979 to 1981 with Cornelia and Vladimir Rodczianko, Michel Richard from the Théâtre de la Gronde and members of the Living Theater , New York.

In 1981 and 1982 he and others were responsible for organizing events, public relations and theater production in the Art and Culture Center Kreuzberg (KuKu.CK) of the Berlin squatting movement. At the same time he was the founder and director of the theater project Paradis-o-Plastico in Aachen, which, together with the band Fleurs du Mal, developed the so-called “associative picture theater”.

From 1984 to 1989 he worked as an assistant director at the Teatro de la Riereta in Barcelona .

After returning to Berlin in the spring of 1989, he founded the Höhnende Wochenschau together with Wiglaf Droste . In this context, up to 1991 sixty performances took place in the Schauplatz -Theater, Flöz , Kino Eiszeit , House of Young Talents , 45 of which were premieres. This was followed by a tour of the GDR at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture . Together with the other members of the ensemble, he published the text volume of the Höhnenden Wochenschau under the title The small nagging against the big one .

He also worked as a freelance journalist for the daily newspaper (taz), the Berlin city magazines TIP and Zitty , Neues Deutschland , Radio Brandenburg , the weekly newspaper Der Freitag and the SFB . Subsequently, direction and libretto for the flamenco jazz show Orquesta BLAU , on Fridays PowWow for the weekly newspaper Freitag in the Berliner Volksbühne and 2003 resumption of the mocking weekly news daily on the progress of the Iraq war.

In 2008 Cluse Krings published the first volume of a novel biography about Abd ar-Rahman I , the first Emir of Cordoba , under the title The Four Mirrors of the Emir of Cordoba . Between 2011 and 2013 he developed the soundtrack for the audio book The Emir of Córdoba with musicians from Berlin, Cairo and Andalusia. In 2014, the audio book and an album with a music extraction of the audio book under the title New Andalusian Music with the bassist Rafael Fafi Molina, the Andalusian songwriter Sensi Falán and the voice of Nasser Kilada were released at the same time .

Since the mid-2010s, Cluse Krings has been using his experience of more than 20 years of research on the enlightened Islam of Andalusia to work with young refugees. He gives lectures on how therapists and doctors deal with people from foreign cultures. He advocated the thesis that the increasingly negative attitude towards refugees in parts of the population was systematically generated by politics and the media.

During the so-called Corona crisis, Krings published a series of articles with a similar tenor. Excerpt: "For months we have been experiencing a» pandemic «of more than unexplained danger. And a chaotic back and forth of government pronouncements and ordinances. The mainstream media outbid each other in slavish obedience and parrot the increasingly incomprehensible cacophony of the rulers. The latest twist is now to slander all those who see their economic existence, their physical and mental health endangered by mindless regulations and instructions and who exercise their right to freedom of expression. "Divide et impera," divide and rule, was already a common principle of oppression in ancient Rome. "

In an interview with the documentary filmmaker Robert Cibis as part of the "Narrative" series, Krings explained how historical events are reduced to historical and explanatory myths - in general and also in relation to Covid-19 disease.  

In 2019 the second volume of the biography of the first Emir of al-Andalus was published under the title "The fourth mirror".

Krings gives lectures on the history of Spain and Andalusia in Germany and Spain.

Cluse Krings lives and works in Berlin, Munich and Almería.

Publications

• The four mirrors of the Emir of Cordoba . HWS-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-022208-5 . (also as e-book, ISBN 978-3-00-026761-1 )
• The fourth mirror . HWS-Verlag Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-981-65112-6 .
• The Emir of Córdoba (audio book), HWS-Verlag Munich 2014, EAN 978 3 981 65110 2
• New Andalusian Music (CD), HWS-Verlag Munich 2014, EAN 428 0000 78601 2

Memberships

• Cluse Krings was a member of the fun party Kreuzberger Patriotic Democrats / Realistic Center

Individual evidence

1. ^ HWS-Verlag GbR: The mocking newsreel. February 14, 2012, accessed October 30, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Kubiss.de cultural and educational server for the Greater Nuremberg ( Memento of 19 March 2012 at the Internet Archive ) accessed on May 2, 2014.
3. ↑ http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Martin+Klingeberg/a/albums.htm
4. ↑ The Medical District and District Association Munich: Ethnopsychology - Psychotherapy with refugees. In: 6th Munich Week for Mental Health, 5. – 20. October 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians : Diversity in Practice - Migration and Health. (No longer available online.) November 13, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 30, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ NGfP Congress investigates the actual causes of flight and charges. In: Schattenblick ( electronic journal ). Retrieved December 13, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Cluse Krings: Divide and rule. nichtohneuns.de, May 30, 2020, accessed on May 30, 2020 . 
8. ^ Robert Cibis, Cluse Krings: Narrative # 2. May 20, 2020, accessed May 30, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Specimen copy DNB 1148318739 at the German National Library .
10. ↑ Sobre los orígenes de Andalucía Charla-coloquio. Retrieved September 3, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Cluse Krings: THE FOURTH MIRROR. Retrieved March 19, 2018 . 
12. ↑ HWS-Verrlag GbR, Munich: Emir-von-Cordoba. Retrieved October 30, 2017 . 
13. ^ Cluse Krings: new andalusian music. Retrieved March 19, 2018 .