Creamcheese

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The Creamcheese was a restaurant in Düsseldorf's old town that opened on July 21, 1967 and existed until December 1976.

history

Building Neubrückstrasse 12, 2016

Founded by Hans-Joachim Reinert (* 1930 ) and Bim Reinert (* June 3, 1934 in Jüchen ; † June 3, 2011 in Düsseldorf as Resi Lingen) and conceptually designed by the sculptor Günther Uecker , the filmmaker Lutz Mommartz , the designer Danilo Silvestrin and the all-round artist Ferdinand Kriwet , a spectacular and original restaurant was created at Neubrückstrasse 12, as reported by the Frankfurter Rundschau in January 1968. Uecker joined the artist group ZERO , founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene , whose works revolved around light, movement, space and time, dynamics and vibration. These elements should also determine the cream cheese. The idea of ​​combining pop music with art was based on the model of Andy Warhol's club The Dom .

The equipment, such as a 20-meter-long counter with a mirror-lamellar rear wall by Heinz Mack, titled “The Mouth”, a painting by Gerhard Richter in the anteroom, which showed a girl lying down, up to 24 televisions running, one to the podium The raised dance floor, the “action space” and various art objects such as an oversized nail in a metal cage as an object by Uecker, title: “electric garden”, made the Creamcheese an intellectual bar in the late 1960s. The Creamcheese Manifesto provided the program for the artist restaurant.

Known far beyond Düsseldorf's city limits, the name Creamcheese stood for a progressive music sound. Well-known bands such as Atomic Rooster , Iron Butterfly , Camel , Pink Floyd , Birth Control , Supertramp , Genesis , Deep Purple and Frank Zappa , whose song Son of Suzy Creamcheese provided the name for the insider meeting, could be heard . Suzy Creamcheese is a fictional character who appeared on Zappa's album Freak Out! has several appearances. Uecker had met Zappa during his stays in New York. On his tours in December 1970 and November 1971, Zappa also appeared in Düsseldorf and visited the Creamcheese on these occasions. German groups like Tangerine Dream , Can , Kraftwerk or free jazzers like Peter Brötzmann played live at Creamcheese.

Achim Reinert stood in his long black leather coat with a cashier in front of his stomach like a living sculpture at the door. Well-known artists such as Blinky Palermo , Imi Knoebel and Katharina Sieverding served behind the counter . The Creamcheese not only attracted music and dance enthusiasts, but also artists such as Joseph Beuys , Anatol Herzfeld and Günther Uecker were among the regular audience. Inspired by Johann Kuiper, various “pub theater” performances took place, sponsored by the owners at the time, Bim and Achim Reinert. For example, on December 5, 1968, the artists Beuys and Herzfeld performed the joint action Handaktion and Der Tisch . Mommartz made two short films at Creamcheese in 1967/68: Above / Below and Opposite . Mommartz showed both films in 1968 at Documenta 4 in his two-screen cinema . The Cream was also available for film screenings and avant-garde fashion shows . With his round discs, the circularly arranged words projected on the wall, Krivet created a new type of visual design of texts which, together with the stroboscopic light, created completely new sensory impressions for the visitors.

Thus the Creamcheese became a total work of art and developed into a piece of contemporary history. The long-time documenta exhibition director Arnold Bode said in 1968 about the Creamcheese: “This is not a pub, but as a space a total work of art”.

In December 1976 the restaurant moved to Flingerstrasse 11. The new version of the restaurant could no longer follow on from the old success. The replica of what was then "Germany's longest bar" was temporarily exhibited with the original exhibits in the Düsseldorf Art Museum in the Ehrenhof , which had bought almost all of the Creamcheese's artistic interior. The Creamcheese was also mentioned in “Summer of Love”, an exhibition by Tate Liverpool in cooperation with the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main and the Kunsthalle Wien .

Creamcheese e. V.

In July 2005, Hans Herriger, Peter and Petra Rewald, Günter Leyl, Robert Eglauer, Thomas Aulenkamp, ​​Andreas Hesselmann, Ralf-Georg Wegemann, Birgit Marlis Bongardt and Michael Meglitsch founded the "Creamcheese Association".

The Creamcheese e. V. is a culturally effective association in the sense of the art and culture association of Creamcheese from 1967 to 1976. The purpose and task of the association is to maintain the memory of the cultural life in and around the Creamcheese, which has been an important cultural one during its existence Was a meeting point for artists and other cultural carriers.

The association organizes authentic events in the form of revival parties with original and replicated inventory.

literature

  • Thomas Hecken: Pop and Politics. Considerations using the example of 'Creamcheese' and the 'International Essen Song Days 1968' . In: Dirk Matejovski, Marcus S. Kleiner , Enno Stahl (eds.): Pop in R (h) einkultur. Surface aesthetics and everyday culture in the region. Klartext, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8375-0005-9 , pp. 245-264.
  • Tiziana Caianiello: The "Lichtraum (Hommage à Fontana)" and the "Creamcheese" in the museum kunst palast: On the musealization of the Düsseldorf art scene in the 1960s (writings on culture and museum management) ; transcript Verlag; April 1, 2005 ISBN 978-3899422559 , pp. 95-164
  • Uwe Husslein (Ed.): Pop am Rhein ; Walther König publishing house; December 10, 2007 ISBN 978-3865603753 , pp. 8-45
  • Alexander Simmeth: Krautrock transnational: The reinvention of pop music in the FRG, 1968-1978 ; transcript Verlag; June 16, 2016 ISBN 978-3837634242

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Bim Reinert - co-founder of Creamcheese , on creamcheese-ev.de, accessed on July 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Clemens von Looz-Corswarem, Benedikt Mauer (ed.): The large Düsseldorf Lexicon. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7743-0485-7 , p. 576.
  3. ↑ Antonia Loick: What was going on in Düsseldorf 1950-2000. Sutton, Erfurt 2000, ISBN 3-89702-273-7 , p. 43.
  4. ↑ Uwe Husslein (Ed.): Pop am Rhein ; Pp. 10-11
  5. ↑ Alexander Simmeth: Krautrock transnational: The reinvention of pop music in the FRG, 1968-1978 ; P. 113
  6. ↑ Creamcheese Manifesto In: emuseum.duesseldorf.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020
  7. ↑ Uwe Husslein (Ed.): Pop am Rhein ; P. 12 and p. 25
  8. ↑ Dietmar Kirves film documentaries In: kirves.no-art.info. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  9. ^ Lutz Mommartz: Above / Below , short film 1967
  10. ^ Lutz Mommartz: Opposite , short film 1968
  11. ↑ Case study 6: Lutz Mommartz, Zweileinwandkino, 1968 In: stiftung-imai.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020
  12. ↑ Antonia Loick: What was going on in Düsseldorf 1950-2000. Sutton, Erfurt 2000, ISBN 3-89702-273-7 , p. 44.
  13. ^ Tiziana Caianiello: The "Lichtraum (Hommage à Fontana)" and the "Creamcheese" in the museum kunst palast ; P. 127
  14. ↑ Manfred Schwarz: Stranded Ascension. In: The time. September 17, 2009, No. 39 ( article in the creamcheese-ev.de portal , accessed on March 27, 2015).