Ferdinand Kriwet

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Ferdinand Kriwet (born August 3, 1942 in Düsseldorf ; † December 17, 2018 in Bremen ) was a German radio play author and artist . His work includes painting, sculpture, music, texts, poetry and mixed media. His artistic focus was on “visual texts”, visual and concrete poetry and interdisciplinary language communication. At the end of the 1960s , Heinz Schwitzke established that Kriwet's audio texts belong to those radio plays that come closest to Friedrich Knilli's theory of the total sound game .

Life

Between 1959 and 1960, Ferdinand Kriwet wrote a book with no end or beginning as a teenager, an entry succeeds at every point, the title: ROTOR. Krivets radio work began in 1961 with the spoken text Offen . This was followed by visual texts that left the traditional medium of books and were published in exhibitions and on billboards. At the same time, Kriwet developed theoretical manifestos on acoustic literature, which became the basis for his radio work. He composed images and sound for text films , which were shown in mixed media shows in art halls, churches and cinemas.

The sound material for his audio texts comes mainly from radio and television, a sound pool that constantly surrounds us on all waves. Organized according to semantic and musical-rhythmic points of view, the media quotes add up to impressive auditory collages. His early audio pieces deal with the mass media representations of the first manned moon landing (1969) and the American presidential elections in 1973, fragments from sports reports and other speech and sound material from the radio.

As a full member of the German Association of Artists , he took part in many annual DKB exhibitions; most recently in 1981 at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Kunsthalle Nürnberg .

Kriwet has received international awards for its diverse activities. With Voice of America , Apollo America , Campaign , Ball , Radioball and Radio , six of his early radio works were first released on phonogram in 2007.

Works (selection)

Text plate (1975)
State coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia (1988)
  • Rotor; With an afterword by Konrad Boehmer . DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1961.
  • through the run on the redder. Reading text , Wolfgang Fietkau, steps 10. Berlin 1965.
  • book rat catcher. Visual text comments. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1965.
  • Apollo America (= edition suhrkamp, ​​410). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1969.
  • Publit. Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco, 1971.
  • Stars. Lexicon in 3 volumes. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1971.
  • Com. Mix. The world of image and sign language. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1972.
  • Campaign; Election campaign in the USA. Droste, Düsseldorf, 1973. With an LP .
  • Text plate. Design for the Rosenthal artist plate, limited edition, 1975.
  • State coat of arms of North Rhine-Westphalia . Plastic made from round metal pins in the plenary hall of the state parliament building in North Rhine-Westphalia, 1988.
  • Audio texts. Box with 3 LP picture discs. Edition RZ, Berlin 2007.
  • Kriwet Bibliography 1–401. Verlag Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, Cologne, 2012.
  • SURIUM. Grass Publishers, Brauweiler, 2018.
  • RUM LIKE NUM. Grass Publishers, Brauweiler, 2019.

Radio plays

  • Open (Hörtext 1) , SWF 1962.
  • Yeah (audio text 2) , 1965.
  • Response (Hörtext 3) , 1965.
  • Oos is oos (audio text 4) , SWF 1968.
  • One Two Two (audio text 5) , WDR / SFB 1968.
  • Apollo America (audio text 6) , SWF / BR / WDR 1969.
  • Voice of America (Hörtext 7) , WDR / SWF 1970.
  • Model Fortuna (Hörtext 8) , WDR 1972.
  • Campaign (Hörtext 9) , WDR / SFB / ORTF 1973.
  • Ball (audio text 10) , WDR / NDR 1974.
  • Radioball (Hörtext 11) , WDR 1975 ( Karl Sczuka Prize ).
  • Number (audio text 12) , BR 1976.
  • Pause (Hörtext 13) , WDR 1977. ( Radio play of the month June)
  • Dschubi Dubi (audio text 14) , HR / WDR 1977.
  • Radioselbst (Hörtext 15) , WDR 1979.
  • Radio (Hörtext 16) , WDR / Radio France / Sveriges Radio 1983. ( Premios Ondas )
  • ZeitZeichen December 31, 1983 , WDR 1983.
  • Kriwet: Hörwerk / Frühwerk (compilation with some audio texts and unpublished poems), D-Kultur 2011.
  • Rotor , speaker and director: Michael Lentz . BR radio play and media art 2011. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
  • Christian Wittmann / Georg Zeitblom : BeatTheater 2011. An audio collage in ten form parts based on an exposé by Ferdinand Kriwet (1964) and using original quotations , D-Kultur 2011.
  • Rotoradio , D-Kultur 2012 ( radio play of the month July 2012).
  • Jochen Meißner : Rotating Spheres. Ferdinand Kriwet - a circumnavigation , radio feature SWR 2012.
  • Radio-Revue (audio text 19) , DLR / WDR 2013.

Exhibitions

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio play author Ferdinand Kriwet has died. In: wdr.de . December 20, 2018, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Art Report 2'81: 29 Annual Exhibition Nuremberg. In: kuenstlerbund.de . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on December 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Michael Lentz: Ferdinand Kriwet: Rotor. (mp3 audio, 49.7 MB; 45:19 minutes) In: BR radio play Pool. July 5, 2011, accessed December 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Düsseldorfer Stadtchronik 1972. In: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kriwet, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play author and artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 2018
Place of death Bremen