Friedemann Derschmidt
Friedemann Derschmidt (* 1967 in Salzburg , Austria ) is an Austrian documentary filmmaker and freelance visual artist specializing in video and media.
Life
Friedemann Derschmidt deals with art-based research . He teaches and works at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the film and television research laboratory. In his documentaries, exhibitions and research, he deals with memory and narration, the transformation of narration into history and issues of non-verbal transmission. Both in the context of his own projects and in supervising students, he pursues the concept of research-based teaching, i.e. an examination of the development processes of artistic production.
From 2011 to 2013 he headed the FWF project Memscreen (with Karin Schneider, Tal Adler, Attila Kosa) and in the follow-up project Conserved Memories (with Karin Schneider, Tal Adler, Niko Wahl, Anna Szöke) he devotes himself to the development of his Reichel complex project . With The Phantom of Remembrance 2013 he won the Diagonale's best short documentary film and his book Tell You It Your Kinde - National Socialism in Your Own Family was awarded one of the 15 most beautiful books in Austria in 2015 by the Federal Chancellery. Since 2013 he has been working with the Israeli artist Shimon Lev on the permanent development of the Two Family Archives project , which has been shown internationally since 2014. The 8-channel video installation 4 × Sally - a synoptic portrait of the Hitler Youth Salomon (Sally Perel) was created in this context . With the Family Archives project , Derschmidt goes beyond two family archives and synoptically focuses on a wide variety of family narratives in alternating collaborations with several artists. Family Archives was shown for the first time in July 2018 in the art pavilion in the old botanical garden in Munich.
In addition, he has a long-term cooperation with the Roma club Gipsy Radio and the jazz club Porgy & Bess. Other projects by Friedemann Derschmidt are, for example, the "Wine tasting with the homeless" with the homeless magazine "Augustin" in Vienna. As part of a cooperation with the Austrian / Palestinian musician Marwan Abado , he traveled twice to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, which ended in 2010 with a satellite broadcast of a concert from the Unesco Palace in Beirut to Bethlehem in Palestine.
Since 2015 he has formed the board of trustees of the Anni & Heinrich Sussmann Foundation together with Ronen Eidelman and Daniela Zobel .
Works
Art projects
permanent breakfast
Derschmidt is the inventor and founding member of the participatory art project permanent breakfast , the "everlasting breakfast in public space", a breakfast pyramid game about a social movement that started in 1996 and has meanwhile spread worldwide and the rules of which have been translated into around 20 languages.
Despite its independence, the project feels connected to other worldwide “Reclaim the street” movements and sees itself as a real and virtual, aesthetic and discursive network.
The "open source" project is now operated in many places around the world by its own communities under different names, such as:
- Desayuno con Viandantes (Valencia, Spain)
- Persistent breakfast (Zerbst, Germany)
- Desayuno Calle (Puerto Rico)
- Urban Morgenmad (Denmark)
israel complex
After 25 study trips by the ritesinstitute and the creation of a basic network between Austrian, Israeli and Palestinian artists and intellectuals, the ritesinstitute repeatedly organized cultural and artistic events on the subject of Israel:
- “Laboratorium Österreich” xhibit of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2013; Co-curator with Tal Adler and Karin Schneider
- Film festival “Oy-Vienna” in Israel; Cinematheken Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem 2009; on behalf of the City of Vienna on the occasion of 100 years of Tel Aviv; with Tal Adler and Karin Schneider
- November 2008: "Israel in the Eyes": Days of Israeli Documentary Films in the TOP Kino (together with Tal Adler and the barbur Group / Jerusalem)
- April 2008: West and East in the MQ Freiraum of the Sala Manca Group - Jerusalem
- May to October 2008: “overlapping voices. Israeli and Palestinian artists ” in the Essl Collection , together with Tal Adler, Amal Murkus and Karin Schneider.
Israeli and Palestinian artists were invited to all events.
Movies
- "Come and see Rudyn - stories of a dancer from Vienna", Austria 1999 (in advance as a video in February 1998; directed by Friedemann Derschmidt and Walter Pucher )
- "Old House - Scenes from a Memory", Austria 2001
- "Championship", Austria 2005
- "The Phantom of Memory", Austria 2013, Diagonale Prize 2013
Exhibitions
- 2017 Two Family Archives, Warsaw; Austrian cultural forum
- 2017 4xSally; Salon Gallery Warsaw; Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw
- 2017 4xSally; Van Leer Institute Jerusalem
- 2017 Islam Exhibition in Schallaburg; Austrofez by Friedemann Derschmidt
- 2017 Lower Austrian Provincial Exhibition: His Story by Lev and Derschmidt
- 2016 4xSally; Jewish Museum Vienna
- 2016 Pillars of Memory; Masc Foundation
- 2015 His Story; Augarten radius of action
- 2015 you tell your child - gallery of the cultural center Minoriten Graz
- 2014 Two Family Archives P8 Gallery Tel Aviv
- 2013 Wall newspaper # 17: Made in China Czech Style; Steinbrenner, Dempf and Huber
- 2013 Laboratory Austria xhibit Vienna
- 2008 Overlapping Voices - Essl Museum
- 2008 REACTIVATE !! Part 2; Espai d'art Contemporani de Castelló,
- 2008 INSTANT URBANISM; Dansk Arkitektur Center - Alt om København
- 2007 INSTANT URBANISM Swiss Architecture Museum SAM Basel
- 2005 pocket exhibition; Barbur Gallery Jerusalem
- 2004 Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF); Van Nelle Ontwerpfabriek, Rotterdam
- 2004 Forum Stadtpark Graz; InterAct / permanent breakfast
- 2004 Kunsthalle Wien: permanent breakfast
Conferences
- July 2017, "Nationalism in the History of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Violence" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
- November 2016, "INTERTWINING HERITAGE: Language, Research and Representation Based on Cultural Trauma" , Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; organized by Friedemann Derschmidt with Yochi Fischer and Shimon
- June 2013, "Conference Doing Memory - Art, Research and the Politics of Memory and History." International art research conference organized by Karin Schneider as part of Memscreen
Other Projects
- "Gipsy World - Music and more" 2006 and 2010 (one week each Roma club in " Porgy & Bess ", Vienna)
- "Roma Blood" together with the Roma internet radio "Gipsy Radio"
Awards
- Prize: 15 most beautiful books in Austria for "Tell it to your child - National Socialism in your own family" Löcker Verlag
- Diagonale Award for "The Phantom of Memory" as the best short documentary, 2013
- Prize of the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Foundation 1998 for "Come and see Rudyn" (video)
- Price d. Province of Lower Austria 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ I'm a Jewish Man in Love with a Hitler Youth. Podcast. In: tlv1.fm. Accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ^ Art Pavilion - Current exhibition program. 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Aschauer: Home, foreign home: Marwan Abado. January 27, 2012, accessed July 26, 2018 .
- ↑ About. In: sussmannfoundation.org. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ malmoe - contradict - not on neutral ground. Retrieved July 29, 2018 .
- ^ Wiener Zeitung Online: Top Kino . In: Film - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on July 29, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derschmidt, Friedemann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian documentary filmmaker and freelance visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg , Austria |