The deadly Doris

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The Deadly Doris 1984 in New York

Die Tödliche Doris was a Berlin artist group that was founded in 1980 by the art students Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen as a music band and which was joined eight months later by the art student Chris Dreier . In the course of its history, which lasted until its dissolution in 1987, the group also became active in art , photography , cinematography , video , performance and literature .

occupation

The deadly Doris 1983 on an alleged Kirlian photograph - v. l. To the right: Utermöhlen, Müller, Kruse

1981 Dagmar Dimitrov replaced Chris Dreier. After Käthe Kruse took over the role in 1982 , a line-up around Wolfgang Müller , Nikolaus Utermöhlen and Käthe Kruse had been consolidated, and since 1980 they had sporadically supplemented Tabea Blumenschein . This also worked in Germany in 2019 and in Japan in 2020, the last Doris album "Reenactment - Das Typische Ding". Around 1981 Wolfgang Müller's brother Max was also involved in the project for a short time.

history

The deadly Doris in 1987 when she was dissolved in Kumpelnest 3000

Initially carried by the swing of punk , new wave and its German manifestation, the NDW , the group quickly broke away from categories and movements. Instead, it coined its own style, namely that of the “Geniale Dilletanten”, a term that went back to a volume of the same name published by Wolfgang Müller in 1982 in Merve Verlag . The deliberate retention of the misspelled word " Dilettante " for the title of the Merve book goes back to an originally unintentional spelling error on the program of the " Festival Genialer Dilletanten ".

When it was dissolved at the end of 1987 - the project had been limited to seven years from the start - the group was internationally known. Exhibitions, film screenings and concerts led to numerous cities in Germany and to New York, Amsterdam, Brussels, Basel, Helsinki, Budapest, Warsaw, Vienna, Paris, Bordeaux, Tokyo and the like. a.

After the dissolution, "The School of the Deadly Doris" was formed, which quickly vanished into thin air after the publication of some solo projects. Dagmar Dimitroff died in a car accident in 1990 and Nikolaus Utermöhlen died in 1996 from the consequences of his HIV disease. Chris Dreier, Tabea Blumenschein, Käthe Kruse, Max Müller and Wolfgang Müller continued to be artistically active. The latter is the editor of the four volumes that have been published in loose succession by Martin-Schmitz-Verlag in Berlin since 1991, which extensively edit the work of the deadly Doris. In 2017 Volume 5 ("Performance") was published, 2018 Volume 7 ("Costumes and Scenes"), 2019 Volume 8 ("Theater") each in the hybriden-Verlag and 2020 Volume 9 ("The Catalog of Works") in the Gallery K ', Bremen .

In 2002 Die Tödliche Doris offered most of her musical work (8 hours) for free download on its own website. Due to new GEMA regulations , which make giving away music on the part of authors subject to a charge, the project had to be discontinued in 2005 until further notice. Upon request, Wolfgang Müller then "privately" sent all the links that led to the tracks until 2015.

concept

The deadly Doris asked the question of her identity again and again and made the embodiment of this figure the actual subject, the core of her artistic work. Die Tödliche Doris responded to every registered determination with the question of further, different possibilities, at the same time she carried her ideas into the most diverse artistic media and philosophized with their assumed or alleged identity. "Doris was a pop star without a body. She proved her presence through permanent absence. Due to her disembodiment, her character, personality, identity and style were missing. For Doris it was not a problem. Because of the ideas that other people developed of her , these properties and with them your body gradually developed by themselves. "

The diverse work of the Berlin group was based on music and gradually occupied all branches of art from the media of film, literature and photography to performance and video to painting and sculpture.

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music

During the time of her existence, Die Tödliche Doris has released numerous cassettes and LPs in editions of between 20 and 3000 copies, including an "invisible" one that arises when the LPs "six" and "Our Debut" are simultaneously on the respective A- and B-sides plays, text and music are precisely coordinated and fit into one another in seconds. Die Tödliche Doris also made music with deaf people or engaged light music combos from the employment agency's artist agency (the Gerry Belz Showband ), who then played live to noise tapes (1984). One of the band's most famous pieces, “Tanz im Quadrat” , was covered in 2001 as a pop version by Stereo Total . In 2003 Andreas Dorau covered the Doris song "From the Secret Annex".

Even after their dissolution, Wolfgang Müller regularly published classics by Tödliche Doris in a new form, two editions of works that made the rare cassettes available on vinyl for the first time ("Angeldust" and "Strudelsölle") are particularly noteworthy.

In 2006 the first LP "" was re-released on DVD - all texts and music are now completely converted into signs. The premiere of the DVD "Deaf Music - Die Tödliche Doris in sign language design" by Wolfgang Müller took place in the Berlin Deaf Center in Friedrichstrasse. The two albums that are played together appeared on the major label in 2015 as "Die Insichtbare LP Nr.5". The vinyl LP box “Die Tödliche Doris - Reenactment - Das Typische Ding” was also released on this label in 2019 with 31 sound recordings of dildos and vibrators, 31 illustrations by Tabea Blumenschein and 31 reviews by Katrin Kämpf.

art

The choirs and solos box

One of the earliest works of art by the Tödliche Doris is the concept work "Material for the Post-War Era", developed since 1979 and exhibited in 1981 in Kiel, Düsseldorf and Wolfsburg. The work by Nikolaus Utermöhlen and Wolfgang Müller consists of hundreds of machine passport photos that were originally thrown away and mostly torn by the authors, which were reconstructed and put together like a puzzle, accompanied by a film of the same name, which was shown for the first time at the Paris Biennale in 1981 . As a variation on this theme, the film "Der Fotomatonreparateur" was made in 1983, which shows discarded, filmed test photos of the mechanic responsible for repairing the passport photo machine. He clearly anticipates the idea from " The fabulous world of Amélie ".

In 1982 the group, consisting of Dagmar Dimitroff, Nikolaus Utermöhlen and Wolfgang Müller, produced the performance How to make a record out of a yellow tub / water music together with the Einstürzende Neubauten .

On New Year's Eve 1983 the group took part in the exhibition Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk by Harald Szeemann at the Delphi cinema in Berlin. In mid-1984, a green box was released under the title “Choirs and Solos” containing eight miniphon records, a battery-operated player and an accompanying book. This “... funny alienation of the two most important devices of the music consumer ...” is now a sought-after collector's item . Wolfgang Müller was ultimately able to convince Ursula Block / Yellow Music and Carmen Knöbel / Pure Freude of the idea, for which Alfred Hilsberg / Zigzack had an option contractually but rejected.

In 1985 she worked on a series of 44 abstract paintings, working according to the flip book principle, which she published in 1987 in a volume under the title "The entirety of all life and everything beyond". The Berlin-based Martin Schmitz Verlag has been publishing books with and about the group's work since 1991, and Hybriden-Verlag has taken on this role since 2017.

The deadly Doris was a participant in documenta 8 in Kassel . The Museum of Modern Art in New York , the Musée d'Art Moderne Paris and numerous other museums around the world invited the group to appearances and film screenings. A "Reenactment - Die Tödliche Doris - The Typical Thing" by Wolfgang Müller with Tabea Blumenschein was shown in the Hyper exhibition of the Hamburg Deichtorhallen 2019. Here the band consists of 31 performing vibrators, their music arises from the sounds of their vibrations under the influence of batteries.

The house of the deadly Doris was used from 1987 to 1991, since then it has served as a storage room for the works of art by the deadly Doris and houses her archive. It reopened on July 14, 2019 under the direction of Dr. To Paenhuysen , who also compiled the catalog raisonné for Wolfgang Müller. Since then, the irregular series of events “Eventualities” has taken place in the house and other locations, in which archive material of the deadly Doris is shown in new contexts and updates.

Movie

In 2003, the Berliner Hauptstadtkulturfonds enabled the restoration and archiving of all Super 8 films that the group shot between 1980 and 1987, a total of over 7 hours of material. Since then, the films have been publicly accessible again in digital form, even if only in indirect form, as the circulation is limited to seven copies. The Moritzburg / Halle Foundation acquired the DVD for the State Museum of Saxony-Anhalt as the first public collection in 2004 , and in 2005 the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. The Super 8 films became part of the Julia and Mario von Kelterborn collection and the Design University of Kobe in 2017.

Some of the Super 8 originals are also in museums. The film “Wallpaper” (27 min.) Is a 16 mm copy in the collection of the Design University of Kobe, Japan, “The Life of Sid Vicious ” (12 min.) Is a video copy in the video collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art first presented the films in an exhibition in September 2007 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in January 2009.

Works

Discography

Cassettes

  • "The Seven-Headed Informator", Berlin 1980
  • “The typical thing”, Berlin 1981
  • “Tabea and Doris are still allowed to dance Apache”, Berlin 1981
  • "The deadly Doris is applying for a seat in the Berlin Senate", Berlin 1981
  • "Helgoland July 23, 1983", Berlin 1984
  • “Die Über-Doris / The Super-Doris”, (spoken by David Steeves, German / English), Berlin 1986
  • "Live SO 36, November 19, 1982", Berlin 1986, (bootleg booted by the DTD)
  • “Choirs & Solos live in the Delphi Palace - New Years Eve 1983/84”, Berlin 1986
  • "Lospiele", Berlin / Bremen 2013

Records

  • "S / t" (known as: 7 fatal accidents in the household), 12 "Maxi, Hamburg 1981
  • "S / t", LP, Hamburg 1982
  • “Chöre & Soli”, 8 mini phonograph records with player, battery and book in box, Berlin / Düsseldorf 1983
  • "Natural catastrophes", catalog & single, Berlin 1984
  • “Our Debut”, LP, Düsseldorf 1985
  • "Six", LP, Düsseldorf 1986
  • "Live Playbacks", LP, Berlin 1986
  • “Our debut + six”, double LP, Tokyo 1986
  • "The invisible 5th LP materializes as CD", CD, Berlin 1993
  • “Nursery Rhymes for true Fools of the Grail”, CD, Washington 2002
  • "Fallersleben", LP, Friedrichshafen 2004
  • "Two hearts", 7inch, Friedrichshafen 2004
  • "Welten - Worlds - Ohontsa'shón: 'a", LP, Friedrichshafen 2005
  • "Musiken" I-IV, 2 7inch vinyl, Berlin 2009
  • "STOP of Information", 12 "Maxi, Berlin 2013
  • "The invisible LP No. 5" re-release by Die Tödliche Doris, major label, Leipzig 2015
  • "Speech break", LP, Goteborg 2018
  • "The typical thing - reenactment (I)", lim. LP box set with 31 illustrations, Major Label, Leipzig 2019

Work editions

  • "Angeldust", double LP in box, Germany 2003
  • "Strudelsölle", 6-CD in box, Friedrichshafen 2004

bibliography

Primary literature

  • "Chöre & Soli", Düsseldorf / Berlin 1983 (booklet for the sound carrier of the same name, also as a single publication)
  • "Food preparation for the hungry", Berlin 1985 (multilingual brochure with texts, photos, drawings and a press review of all publications, concerts and performances up to 1984)
  • "The entirety of all life and everything beyond that", Darmstadt 1987 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name with 44 images)

Secondary literature

  • "Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 1", Kassel 1991
  • "Die Tödliche Doris, Weißer Burgunder aus Schweigen", German-English, Kassel 1993
  • "Doris as a musician, Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 2", Berlin 1999
  • "Die Tödliche Doris - KUNST (Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 3)", Berlin 1999
  • "Die Tödliche Doris - KINO (Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 4)", Berlin 2003
  • "Die Tödliche Doris - PERFORMANCE (Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 5)", Berlin 2017
  • "Die Tödliche Doris - COSTUMES and backdrops (Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 6)", Berlin 2018
  • "Die Tödliche Doris - THEATER (Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 8)", Berlin 2019
  • "Die Tödliche Doris - The catalog raisonné (Die Tödliche Doris, Volume 9)", Bremen 2020

Filmography

Super 8

  • "Sabine - from my diary", 10 min., 1980
  • "Material for the post-war period", 25 min., 2nd dramatized and abridged version: 9 min., Both 1981
  • "The Life of Sid Vicious", 12 min., 1981
  • "Energy bags and time bubble", 12 min., 1981
  • “Flies quickly, humming loudly”, 10 min., 1981
  • "Nobody sees the blindworm", 3 min., 1981
  • “The gray berry chicken”, 20 min., 1982
  • “Berlin Kitchen Music”, 5 min., 1982
  • "Textfilm", 3.5 min., 1983
  • "Die Tödliche Doris live on Heligoland, July 23, 1983", 6 min., 1983
  • “Flowers at the Father's Grave”, 12 min., 1983
  • “Der Fotomatonreparateur”, 2 min., 1983
  • "LIVE", 2.5 min., 1983
  • "Water Ballet", 3 min., 1984
  • "Wallpaper", 23 min., 1984
  • "Girls Hearts", 3 min., 1984
  • "Scenery", 60 min., 1984
  • "Dance 2", 0.5 min., 1984
  • "Two widows", 2.5 min., 1984
  • “Die Tödliche Doris”, 9 min., 1984
  • "Zoom", 2.5 min., 1985
  • “The invisible 5th LP materializes as a Super 8 film”, 3 min., 1985
  • “Cities”, 105 min., 1987 (The “City Film Berlin West” contained therein online here ) .
  • "Immaculate Conception", 1 min., 1986 (episode in Jesus - The Film )
  • “The entirety of all life and everything beyond it,” 1.83 seconds, 1987
  • “A woman at the same time in a different place”, 9 min., 1987

DVD

  • "Deaf Music / Deaf Music: Die Tödliche Doris in sign language design", DVD and book, Berlin 2006

Secondary literature and film

Movie

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  1. ↑ On the death of a queer punk icon: Tabea Blumenschein. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Music - wmueller. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Die Tödliche Doris / "" LP
  4. ↑ tell 5, March 1984, quoted from: Food preparation for the hungry, 1985.
  5. ^ Philo fine arts - subculture West Berlin 1979–1989: program. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .
  6. ^ Stiftung Kunstfonds - Grants / Awards - Scholarship holders and funded projects - Catalog raisonnés. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Eventualities - The House of the Deadly Doris. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Die Tödliche Doris  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files