François Maher Presley

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François Maher Presley
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François Maher Presley (* 1961 in Kuwait City ) is a German author, essayist , photographer , curator , art critic , cosmopolitan and philanthropist .

Life

Presley, born in Kuwait City , is "a native Arab who spent his childhood years in Syria". From the age of six he lived with his father in Hamburg, among other places, and for a few years in Haffkrug and Escheburg . The last time he saw his hometown Damascus , his mother and the family there, was in the summer of 1974. Presley separated from his father at the age of 17. The contact with both parts of the family was completely stopped by him, which is related to a psychologically and physically very violent childhood, which he partly in his work diary - early poetry and prose under the heading "Index", but also in his monastery diary. A moment holds 1000 processed experiences . Even then he was active as a writer - albeit mostly lyrically.

On May 8, 1980, he received German citizenship . From 1979 to 1981 he completed a commercial apprenticeship, worked for several years before becoming a university with a scholarship from the Gifted of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation completed. Before studying, he toyed with the idea of ​​devoting himself entirely to literature in a monastery and moved to a southern German Benedictine monastery for a few weeks at the end of January 1985 , about which he published his first well-known book.

Presley organized around 120 art exhibitions, including works by Antoni Tàpies , Salvador Dalí , Joan Miró , Marc Chagall or Rinaldo Hopf , Justus Uder , Alfred Hrdlicka and Joseph Beuys . From January 1990 to December 1999 he was the director of Kultur aktuell - the association for the promotion of cultural life in Hamburg eV - especially the northern German art scene and from 1999 to 2005 the Forum Alstertal , a residential project with a culture and event center in the north of Hamburg The owner and eldest daughter of Hamburg's honorary citizens Hannelore Greve and Helmut Greve Annelie Kümpers-Greve and her husband Rainer Kümpers were commissioned.

In addition, Presley was editor-in-chief of Nord-Magazin for culture, politics and business and culture in Hamburg. In it he published a. a. unconventionally conducted interviews, for example with Domenica Niehoff (“I am also just a person”, May / June 1990), the MEP Christa Randzio-Plath (“I would like to see more consideration and tolerance…”, July / August 1992) or the Minister for Culture and Education of the Republic of Hungary Bertalan Andrásfalvy (September / October 1991). He worked on the magazine from December 1988 to May 1989 with the writer Hans Eppendorfer . The contact between the two lasted for almost 9 years. François Maher Presley processed the complex experiences with the murderer Eppendorfer in various texts and in the biography of Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography . Eppendorfer's relationship to Domenica Niehoff, his wife Margret Hildebrand and Hubert Fichte is presented here.

In 2005 Presley left Germany and moved to Marrakech , Morocco. Since 2007 he has been traveling large parts of the world. He has described many of these trips to almost 80 countries in the multi-volume series Other countries and cultures . During his professional activities and worldwide travels, Presley et al. a .:

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By 2018, texts by François Maher Presley had been published in 65 books, in five languages, fiction, poetry, non-fiction and photo books. Over the years there have been countless articles, a selection of which is in the book Mit Deutschland im Wandel. Sociopolitical essays have appeared. The novellas Lola , Blutrot Passepartiert and The Scout were translated into Hungarian by Dezső Tandori and published in the Világirodalmi folyóirat (world literature magazine) together with texts by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Ulla Hahn , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Sergei Dovlatov , Klas Östergren , Ferando Camon. These three novellas are u. a. in the volume Werkagebuch - Early Poetry and Prose , which together with his first work, Monastery Diary. A moment holds 1000 experiences to be counted as diary literature. In addition, he initially wrote a large number of poems that also deal with social problems and appeared in various anthologies and later collections.

Another focus of his work is travel literature , which he illustrates with his own photos. The photograph has been taking about 2,014 a broad space of his work and develops more and more into their own style. The “weird” pictures and the combination of the picture series are striking. Presley's aim is to work out what is available to the public, to discover one's own creativity and to develop and shape the world through a very subjective view of things. He does not understand architecture as static and solely shaping the social environment of its residents, but also people as someone who, through their intellectual capabilities, shapes, designs and develops architecture - detached from the actual specifications of the architects, builders or the specifications of urban planning . Countless numbers of photos were published as postcards, postcard books or in calendars.

During a stay of several months in Waldheim (Central Saxony) in 2016 , he came into contact with the Waldheim correctional facility there , the Zeithain correctional facility and the Dresden correctional facility, as well as with the rehabilitation measures in the penal system. Some of his publications also deal with this topic, including the published volume Rehabilitation through Art and Culture. Developments in the prison system . The exhibition accompanying this book was shown in Dresden, Mittweida and Waldheim, where it was last given its own exhibition gallery through the cultural foundation initiated by the author. He also wrote three books about the small town in central Saxony ( Waldheim in central Saxony , Waldheim Top 25 , Mord in Waldheim. Once upon a time in the Zschopautal ), to which he devoted various funding measures to his foundation (see below), as well as other small towns in all of central Saxony (among others Döbeln , Geringswalde , Freiberg , Kriebstein , Roßwein , Zettlitz , Hain, Flöhe).

In 2017, Presley came into contact with the Lama and Li Gotami Govinda Foundation , thus also with the work of Lama Anagarika Govinda , to which Presley comments in various of his books written in Saxony. Presley is one of the initiators who keep the memory of the Waldheimer "cosmopolitan" in Saxony. In this context, Birgit Zotz wrote about Presley and Govinda in the brochure A Faraway Returns, texts on the burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim in 2018 : “Both personalities are cross-border commuters who cross conventional barriers to travel through cultures and Disciplines of art to keep moving. ”In the publications Waldheim in Mittelachsen , Waldheim Top 25 , Tibet's Saxon , Ernst Hoffmann becomes Lama Govinda , Mord in Waldheim and A Faraway Returns. Burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim Presley describes the life and work of the important Buddhist or makes him the subject of his story.

Some of his publications or editorships deal with the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann and Barthold Hinrich Brockes . Presley was the 1st chairman of the Hamburg Telemann Society from April 1996 to April 2002 . He also edited writings by the Russian-Israeli music teacher Michael Goldstein , from the estate of Gudrun von Brockhusen, the first wife of Hans Hartmut Hindenburg von Brockhusen, a grandson of President Paul von Hindenburg , Michael Goldstein's last partner. Gudrun von Brockhusen and Presley had a grandmother-grandchild relationship from 1991 until their death in 2007. The author dedicated the volumes Telefonat mit Baronin and Telefonat mit Baronin II to her.

His short stories and lyrical works were a. a. Illustrated by Michael Haller ( thinking games ), Bernhard G. Lehmann ( work diary: early poetry and prose and Mallorca - reality or dream ), Ekkehart Stark and Ralf Schneider or Winfried Wolk ( awakening - associations on Lanzarote ). In addition, his life was the subject of various works (e.g. by Gertraud Wendlandt (sculptor), Ane Königsbaum (photographer), Rinaldo Hopf (pop artist), Winfried Wolk (painter and graphic artist) or Otto Quirin (painter)). There were joint productions with the sculptor Iris Rousseau and the painter Petr Wiesner ( love poems ) and the painter and graphic artist Willibrord Haas ( Tomas - From the life of a callboy ).

With his stories, Thoughts on the Beach and 17 Lives , published in 2018 and 2019 , the people deeply characterized in them, archetypes of the German present, the timeless reflections with continually current allusions, with the art of bringing the incoherent into an organic context. With this, Presley developed his own narrative line.

Works

Non-fiction

Travel literature

  • Asia. Always say yes to life, never no . Travel stories through seven Asian cities Taipei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Siem Reap (Angkor), Luang Prabang, Bangkok. Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-930727-52-0 .
  • Other countries and cultures. Volume 6: Art and culture as part of life . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-47-6 .
  • Other countries and cultures. Volume 5: Travel Without Borders . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-38-4 .
  • Mallorca . Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-35-3 .
  • Other countries and cultures. Volume 4: The past is the present . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-30-8 .
  • Marrakech - living in a riad . Edited by Rena Dettmann, Stephan Puteick. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-29-2 .
  • A riad in Marrakech . Edited by Peter Bergmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-37-7 .
  • Mystical Marrakech. Life in another time . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-31-5 .
  • Other countries and cultures. Volume 3: Asia trip with the Queen Mary 2 . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-930727-21-6 .
  • My Morocco . Edited by Peter Bergmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-930727-24-7 .
  • Other countries and cultures. Volume 2: All one world . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930727-20-9 .
  • Other countries and cultures. Volume 1: Travel reports and impressions . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-930727-17-X .

Fiction, poetry and autobiography

  • Princess Françoise and the Royal Storyteller . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-59-9 .
  • 17 lives. Novel . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-43-8 .
  • Thoughts on the beach. A Malloquin story . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-61-2 .
  • Murder in Waldheim. Once upon a time in the Zschopau valley . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-56-8 .
  • India - colors and faces . Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-930727-36-0 .
  • Mallorca . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-930727-58-2 .
  • Telephone conversation with the baroness. Volume 2. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-33-9 .
  • Myanmar encounters . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-39-1 .
  • Monastery diary. A moment holds 1000 experiences . Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-28-5 .
  • Telephone conversation with the baroness. Volume 1. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-25-4 .
  • Work diary - early poetry and prose . Introduced and with an afterword by Matthias H. Rauert. Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-23-0 .
  • Love poems . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-930727-22-3 .
  • Tomas - from the life of a call boy . "Culture in Hamburg" publishing company, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-930727-12-9 .
  • Mallorca - reality or dream . Edited by Jörn Eckmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930727-01-3 .
  • Brain games. Surreal short stories . "Culture in Hamburg" publishing company, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-930727-03-X .
  • A moment holds 1000 experiences . Reidar-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-924848-05-X . (as: monastery diary. 2nd revised edition, 2013).

Editorships

  • Rehabilitation through art and culture. Developments in the prison system . Edited by François Maher Presley and Jörg Wolfgang Krönert, contributions by Frank Czerner, Sebastian Gemkow, Anja Kirsten, Ingo Ließke, François Maher Presley, Ramona Sonntag, Gunther Spahn and Mathias Weilandt, in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978- 3-930727-54-4 .
  • Michael Goldstein : Peter Stoljarski Pjotr ​​Solomonowitsch Stoljarski . The violin teacher and his factory of talents in Odessa . Edited from the estate and with a foreword by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-34-6 .
  • Ursula Willer: Years like back then . Edited, edited and with an introduction by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-51-3 .
  • Georg Philipp Telemann . The Hamburg years . Edited and with texts by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-41-4 .
  • 75 years of the Wellingsbüttel Citizens' Association . Edited and with contributions by François Maher Presley. With contributions by Jürgen Kux, Hartwig Fiege et al. "Kultur in Hamburg" Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930727-06-4 .
  • 700 years of the Alstertal 1296–1996: Alstertal artists introduce themselves . Edited by François Maher Presley, Antje Wilke, Ursula Willer. With a foreword by Christina Weiss . “Culture in Hamburg” publishing company, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930727-05-6 .

Art catalogs (selection)

  • Justus Uder . Edited by the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture. in-Cultura.com , Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-66-7 .
  • Art stairs in the Museum Waldheim. Contemporary graphics. Edited by the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-930727-43-8 .
  • Ekkehard Stark - watercolors, oils, drawings . Preface by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com, Waldheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-930727-70-4 .
  • Jörn Konrad . Foreword by Christine Dorothea Holzig, introduction by François Maher Presley, Galerie Friederike Völker, Hamburg 1999.
  • Otto Quirin . Foreword by Alexander Stuhlmann , Chairman of the Management Board of Hamburgische Landesbank, Girozentrale, introduction by François Maher Presley, Hamburgische Landesbank, Hamburg 1999.
  • Otto Quirin . Greetings from Mayor Henning Voscherau on Otto Quirin's 70th birthday. Preface by François Maher Presley. "Culture in Hamburg" "Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930727-07-2 .
  • walking - Bernhard G. Lehmann . Texts by Uwe Lempelius, François Maher Presley, Marion Janet Deike, “Culture in Hamburg” publishing company, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-930727-02-1 .

Participations / anthologies

Contributed

  • I was never like the others / From the kitchen to the top floors of the international business world . Wilma Bosse, partially edited and advised: François Maher Presley, Pro Business 2016, ISBN 978-3-86460-554-3 .
  • Shoulder disease patient book / Answers to the most common Fran from everyday life in my practice . Thomas von Rothkirch, cover design and processing: François Maher Presley, in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-930727-19-3 .
  • For Hans Werner Henze / A sculpture . Bernhard G. Lehmann, cover design François Maher Presley, in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-930727-14-5 .

François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture

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Presley is the initiator of the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture and is its chairman. Among other things, the foundation is dedicated to conveying cultural values ​​to children and young people.

literature

  • Birgit Zotz et al. a .: A well-traveled man returns, texts on the funeral of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018 . Edition Habermann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96025-012-8 .

voluntary work

  • 1990 to 1999 chairman of Kultur aktuell - Association for the Promotion of Cultural Life in Hamburg eV
  • 1996 to 2002 1st chairman of the Hamburg Telemann Society
  • 2000 to 2006 1st chairman of Akwaaba eV
  • Since 2013 board member of the "Telemann Foundation"
  • Since 2016 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the François Maher Presley Foundation for Art and Culture
  • Since 2017 member of the board of trustees of the "Stiftung Mittagskinder"

Memberships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias H. Rauert: Vademecum for deaf ears. In: François Maher Presley: With Germany in Transition. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2 , p. 8.
  2. ^ Work diary - early poetry and prose
  3. ^ Monastery diary. A moment holds 1000 experiences
  4. ^ François Maher Presley: A moment holds 1000 experiences: monastery diary. Reidar-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-924848-05-X .
  5. ↑ godfreystudio.org
  6. ↑ winfriedwolk.com
  7. ↑ Abendblatt.de
  8. ↑ in-cultura.com
  9. ↑ telemann-stiftung.de
  10. ↑ in-cultura.com
  11. ^ François Maher Presley: Hans Eppendorfer. The leather man. Attempt a biography . in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-930727-57-5 .
  12. ↑ in-cultura.com
  13. ↑ (Source: NordMagazin für Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft, Edition 4/1991)
  14. ↑ Akwaaba - Welcome to Ghana . Edited by Gerhard Buchmann. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-930727-18-6
  15. ↑ Other countries and cultures. Volume 6: Art and culture as part of life . Edited by David Eschrich. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-47-6 .
  16. ↑ With Germany in transition. Sociopolitical essays. 1999-2011. Introduced by Matthias H. Rauert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-930727-32-2 .
  17. ^ Foreword Mallorca . Edited by Jörg Wolfgang Krönert. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-35-3 .
  18. ↑ lvz.de
  19. ↑ Birgit Zotz : "François Maher Presley and Anagarika Govinda." In: A well-traveled man returns. Texts on the burial of Lama Govinda's ashes in Waldheim 2018 , Edition Habermann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96025-012-8 , pp. 35–40, here p. 40.
  20. ↑ Cf. Annemarie Clostermann: Georg Philipp Telemann: The Hamburg Years. Edited and with texts by François Maher Presley. Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-41-4 .
  21. ^ Michael Goldstein: Peter Stoljarskij Pjotr ​​Solomonowitsch Stoljarski. The violin teacher and his factory of talents in Odessa. Edited from the estate by François Maher Presley. in-Cultura.com GmbH, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-930727-34-6
  22. ↑ Telephone conversation with the baroness . Volume 1. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-930727-25-4 .
  23. ↑ Telephone conversation with the baroness. Volume 2. in-Cultura.com, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-930727-33-9 .
  24. ↑ Waldheim Top 25 . Edited by Gaby Zemmrich. in-Cultura.com , Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-930727-55-1
  25. ↑ francois-maher-presley.com
  26. ↑ sz-online.de
  27. ↑ francois-maher-presley.com
  28. ^ Telemann Foundation - Board members. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  29. ^ Stiftung Mittagskinder> About us> Board of Trustees. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Presley, François Maher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Presley, François M .; Maher Presley, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Syrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuwait