Elke Koska

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Elke Koska (2013)

Elke Koska (* 1947 or 1953 (?)) Is a German actress and art manager . In 1969 Koska met the future German action artist HA Schult , became his muse and manager and took part in many of his performance activities .

Life

Elke Koska with HA Schult , Jürgen Roters and Bernhard Mattes when the wing car returns to the roof of the Cologne City Museum (2013)

After attending a nuns school, Koska began training at the drama school in Munich . Here she played with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Hanna Schygulla in the Antiteater, among others . She has taken on roles in Fassbinder plays, television films and TV series. In 1968 she played the role of Jeanie at the side of Donna Summer in the German version of the musical Hair and reached number 4 on the charts with this production. In 1969 Koska met the artist Hans-Jürgen Schult, whom she married a little later.

She ended her acting career and devoted herself to the artistic actions and the organization of the performances of her husband and the staging of the HA Schult brand . He referred to Koska as his muse , and she herself became an integral part of his art activities. With flashy clothes, eye-catching red hair and eccentric make-up, she staged herself as an action artist for decades and also designed her own exhibitions. She became internationally known in 1996 with the HA-Schult project Trash People , which deals provocatively around the world with the growing affluent waste. She accompanied, managed and enabled HA Schult's art campaigns worldwide.

After the divorce from HA Schult after 25 years of marriage, she continues to work as his manager. Elke Koska received media attention through her unusual place of residence in Cologne on the ramp on the right bank of the Deutzer Brücke . In 2010 she had to move out of the windowless rooms, which she had lived in for 15 years, for renovation work on the bridge. Koska has an extensive collection of several thousand unusual teapots, cups and other everyday objects. She lives in Cologne-Rodenkirchen and got married two more times after divorcing Schult.

Quote

"I see school as a life's work." ( Elke Koska : Die Welt, April 30, 2006)

Directorial work

  • Biokinetic Landscape , 1970
  • Tourist situation , 1970
  • Guest worker situation in 1970
  • Die Stadtstraße , 1971 (together with HA Schult)

Filmography

Guest appearances

literature

While working with HA Schult, Elke Koska also worked as the editor of numerous catalogs and accompanying books. She was co-author of some works herself:

  • The school question Art is life. Ha Schult s rally through Germany , DuMont, Cologne 1971, with HA Schult and Thomas Lüttge

Remarks

  1. ↑ The artist does not give her year of birth herself. Two different years of birth are given in the literature. In connection with the publication of the musical Hair , the date of birth is stated as May 4, 1947 (Borken) discogs: Elke Koska and in a report by the news magazine Der Spiegel from December 7, 1970, the age is given as 23, while in the catalog of the German National Library the year of birth is 1953 DNB entry: Elke Koska is listed.

Web links

Commons : Elke Koska  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ welt.de: Berufswelt einer Muse , accessed on January 20, 2015
  2. ^ David Barnett: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the German Theater . Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-5218-5514-3 , pp. 37f
  3. ↑ Media Control Charts History. Retrieved January 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Hair , 1968, Polydor 2459188
  5. ↑ freundederkuenste.de: Exclusive interview Michaela Boland meets Elke Koska, the shrillest muse of all time , accessed on January 20, 2015
  6. ↑ haschult.de: Trashpeople , accessed on January 20, 2015
  7. ↑ welt.de: Berufswelt einer Muse , accessed on January 20, 2015
  8. ↑ wdr.de: Westart-Talk from November 23, 2014 ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  9. ↑ freundederkuenste.de: Exclusive interview Michaela Boland meets Elke Koska, the shrillest muse of all time , accessed on January 20, 2015
  10. ↑ planet-wissen.de:Ezentriker , accessed on January 20, 2015
  11. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Cologne celebrities and their hobbies Not all cups in the cupboard yet , accessed on January 20, 2015
  12. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Cologne celebrities and their hobbies Not all cups in the cupboard yet , accessed on January 20, 2015
  13. ↑ a b c d Documenta GmbH (Ed.): Documenta 5 , Kassel 1972, p. 105
personal data
SURNAME Koska, Elke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress and art manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1947 or 1953