Elke Kruse

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Elke Kruse , better known by her pseudonym Käthe Kruse (born September 10, 1958 in Bünde , Westphalia ), is a German artist .

life and work

From 1982 to 1987 Elke Kruse was a member of the group Die Tödliche Doris . During this time, she made her living doing odd jobs. The Tödliche Doris was founded in 1980 by the art students Nikolaus Utermöhlen and Wolfgang Müller and performed with changing ensemble members a. a. to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and at the documenta 8 in Kassel. The actress and artist Tabea Blumenschein was one of the best-known members at the time . The band dissolution took place at the same time as the two founders graduated in 1987 and was part of Wolfgang Müller and Utermöhlen's master class work.

Since 1980 the squatter lived in the same house at Görlitzer Bahnhof in Berlin for 33 years . The house was legalized in 1983 and the squatters were given rental contracts. Nan Goldin , who she housed there for two months in the summer of 1984, immortalized Elke Kruse and her daughters in numerous photographs that are now in international collections and museums. One of these photos, in which her two underage daughters are seen naked, was confiscated in England in 2007 for pornography and sparked a scandal.

Today Elke Kruse lives in the Tauthaus am Engelbecken, which has become a symbol of anti- gentrification since its luxury renovation .

Three years after the group broke up, in 1990, Kruse began studying visual communication at the UdK in Berlin and in 1997 became a master student of Heinz Emigholz , the successor to filmmaker Wolfgang Ramsbott, where the founders of the band and the first drummer of the deadly Doris Chris Dreier studied from 1980 to 1987. Käthe Kruse has two daughters and is married to the Swiss writer Yves Rosset. She has performed with her children since 2013, addressing autobiographical topics such as her abortions or singing songs from the 1980s.

Elke Kruse lives today as a performer and artist in Berlin.

Discography

  • Elegy in March (solo publication), Berlin (1989)

In anthologies

  • What is there on Kottbusser Damm , in: "Neuköllnbuch", Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2003
  • Visiting only , in: "Bielefeldbuch", Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2003
  • Mariechen, Mariechen, you've lost something! , in: "Breasts get", Verbrecher Verlag, 2004
  • Stay calm, there will be nothing , in: “Deproduktion - Abortion in an international context”, Alibri Verlag, Aschaffenburg, 2007
  • MANKO - Experimental in and around a house , in: "... Mixing up stagnant waters", Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, 2009

Works

  • Praise of the past tense. Music, art and living in West Berlin in the 1980s , mikrotext, Berlin, 2017 ISBN 978-3-944543-52-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: "Children, Kitchen, Close Combat"
  2. ↑ Focus: "Porn Scandal"
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Gentrification-Heimatschutz"
  4. ↑ franzmagazine: Käthe Kruse & “Thank you! The deadly Doris ”in the gallery of the city of Schwaz
  5. ↑ KUNSTDUNST Magazin Berlin: Käthe Kruse: "I'm never bored, because I'm always concerned with the world"
personal data
SURNAME Kruse, Elke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruse, Käthe (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German drummer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bünde , Westphalia