Friedrich W. Block

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Friedrich Wilhelm Block (born January 11, 1960 in Berlin ) is a German curator and literary scholar .

Life

After studying German and art / visual communication in Kassel, Friedrich W. Block worked at the University of Kassel from 1987 to 1997 in the areas of German as a foreign language (employee of Gerhard Neuner) and modern German literature (employee of Anselm Maler). In 1998 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the connection between subjectivity and media using the example of experimental poetry. Since 1997 he has been the managing curator of the Brückner-Kühner Foundation in Kassel. Since 1999 he has also directed the Kassel art temple .

Friedrich W. Block mediates and conducts research in the fields of contemporary literature and art, the culture of the comic and international linguistic art, in the field of which he also works artistically. His long-term curatorial projects have included the Kassel Komik Colloquium since 2000, the language art series 3durch3 from 2003 to 2016 and the p0es1s project on intermedia language art since 1992.

He is married and has three children.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: The winged snail. Grotesque humor from six centuries. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1988, ISBN 3-550-06420-9 .
  • as editor: Transfutur. Visual poetry from the Soviet Union, Brazil and German-speaking countries. Jenior & Pressler, Kassel 1990, ISBN 3-928172-02-6 .
  • as editor with Hermann Funk: Art - Language - Mediation. On the connection between art and language in mediation processes (= standpoints on the mediation of language and culture. 3). Goethe-Institut, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-930220-20-2 .
  • as editor: do we get along? For the mutual assessment of literature and science. Anselm Maler on his 60th birthday. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-30015-8 .
  • as editor: New Poetry and as Tradition. War, Passau 1997.
  • IO. poesis digitalis (= foliage. 21). Blattwerk, Linz et al. 1997, ISBN 3-901445-20-X .
  • Observation of the 'I'. On the connection between subjectivity and media using the example of experimental poetry. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89528-251-0 (At the same time: Kassel, University, dissertation, 1998).
  • as editor with Christiane Heibach and Karin Wenz: p0es1s. Aesthetics of digital poetry. The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1345-X .
  • as editor: Komik - Medien - Gender. Results of the Kassel Komik Colloquium (= cultures of the comic. 3). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89528-533-1 .
  • as editors: Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner. "The only functioning authors' association". Euregio, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-933617-31-6 .
  • as editor with Rolf Lohse: Change and Institution of the Comic. Results of the Kassel Komik Colloquium (= cultures of the comic. 5). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-963-7 .
  • with Jonathan Bragdon and Eli Content: Close your eyes. Catalog. Kunsttempel Kassel - Art and Literature eV, Kassel 2015.
  • p0es1s. Review of digital poetry. Ritter, Klagenfurt et al. 2015, ISBN 978-3-85415-527-0 .
  • as editor: Art & Comedy. Results of the Kassel Komik Colloquium. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1154-9 .
  • In transition. Texts on poetry. Ritter, Klagenfurt et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-85415-563-8 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990: Transfutur. Visual poetry from the Soviet Union, Brazil and German-speaking countries. Kunstetage Kassel (curated with Valeri Scherstjanoi and André Vallias)
  • 1992: W / O - Visual Poetry in Berlin. Galerie Pankow Berlin (curated with Valeri Scherstjanoi)
  • 1992: p0es1e. Digital poetry / digital poetry. Galerie am Markt, Annerberg-Buchholz (curated by André Vallias with Friedrich W. Block)
  • 2000: p0es1s. International digital poetry in Munich and Kassel
  • 2003–2016: 3durch3 in Kassel and Stuttgart
  • 2004: p0es1s. Digital poetry / digital poetry. Kulturforum Berlin
  • 2007: poeticum07. Language games. Art temple Kassel
  • 2007: POIESIS. Poems between pixels and program. Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro (curated with André Vallias)
  • 2009: POESIS. Poetic language games. Academy of Arts, Berlin.
  • 2011: MOVENS . Academy of Arts, Berlin
  • 2016: Welcome Wutwut Werther. Funny language art. Art temple, Kassel.
  • 2015–2017: Watching the mouth - With Luther into the world of words / Luther and Grimm literally in Berlin, Köthen, Kassel, Heidelberg and Ljubljana
  • 2017: p0es1s - postdigital. Kassel, temple of art.
  • 2018: Tupi, or not tupi. Anthropophagic poetry. Art temple, Kassel.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich W. Block: Observation of the 'I': On the connection between subjectivity and media using the example of experimental poetry . Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89528-251-0 .
  2. ↑ curator | Brückner-Kühner Foundation. Retrieved on May 7, 2017 (German).
  3. ^ Friedrich W. Block | ELMCIP. Retrieved May 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Publications | Brückner-Kühner Foundation. Retrieved on May 22, 2017 (German).
  5. ↑ Grimmworld sends language to the marble run . In: https://www.hna.de/ . June 15, 2016 ( hna.de [accessed May 7, 2017]).
  6. ^ “Watched for the mouth” in Kassel, Heidelberg and Ljubljana | Brückner-Kühner Foundation. Accessed June 2, 2017 (German).
  7. ↑ p0es1s - postdigital | Art temple. Accessed June 20, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Tupi, or not tupi | Art temple. Accessed June 20, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Block, Friedrich W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Block, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar, curator and foundation director
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin