Frank Jankowski

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"Bad luck cards" of the "Euro-Memory"
Novel "Letter ..." cover
1000 Mark assembly

Frank Jankowski (born August 17, 1963 in Gifhorn ), actually Frank Richardt (family name changed by naming in 1967 ), is a German author and artist.

He writes epic and dramatic works, published translations and a novel and designed various websites . His photomontages and banknote collages became known to a wider public after commissions and protection from Peter Raue and through exhibitions in the Museum for Communication in Berlin, Frankfurt / Main and Nuremberg.

Career

Frank Jankowski, son of a West German pharmacist and a North Greek politician, studied theater studies , politics and Russian linguistics and literature in Munich and Berlin from 1986 to 1993 , graduating with a Magister Artium . He visited u. a. several seminars with Wolfgang Längfeld and Günter Rohrbach . In 1991 he completed a semester abroad in Leningrad . Since May 1989 he has been studying in Berlin.

From 1994 to 1996 he completed his dramaturgy internship and assistant at the Deutsches Theater (with Jürgen Gosch ) and Maxim-Gorki-Theater (with Oliver Reese ). His daughter was born in 1996. 1996–1999 he worked for publishers, as a PR consultant, editor and translator (including "Up to the Stars" by Leonid Andrejew ). On behalf of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, he set up and maintained an Internet portal for Marzahn -Nordwest in 2000 , so he was more intensively involved with the new media , especially with digital photography . This was followed by the realization of an exhibition project on digital photography in Europe 's largest discotheque - "Fit your Image". In 2004 he designed the so-called "Euro Memory", a board game as an art object with 100 individual photo montages in a wooden frame. From 2004 to 2010 Jankowski published various photo documentations and commissions for artistic works by Peter Raue . In 2007 his first novel, "Letter oder die Verrückung des Everyday", was published, which was praised by numerous reviews. From 2009 to 2011 exhibitions of the banknote collages in the Museums for Communication in Berlin , Frankfurt / Main and Nuremberg were supervised and designed by him. In 2010 he worked on 3D design as part of the 3ds Max project . In 2011 he designed several artistic works for the new branch of the law firm Hogan Lovells Berlin and Morrison & Foerster .
Jankowski lives and works in Berlin.

Works (selection)

  • Letter or the crazy everyday life , Berlin: Kato-Kunst - & - Verl., 2007
  • Upper Bavaria , Cologne: Hayit-Verl., 1993
  • CIM market overview: Production and personnel control center with Wolfgang Mai, Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1992, ISBN 3-528-06466-8

Web links

Commons : Frank Jankowski  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://henschel-schauspiel.de/de/werk/1446
  2. ↑ http://www.euro-memory.de/
  3. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Jankowski, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richardt, Frank (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifhorn