Gregor Weichbrodt

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Gregor Weichbrodt (* 1988 in Potsdam ) is a German author and artist .

Life

Weichbrodt grew up in Potsdam. After graduating from high school and training as a media designer, he studied communication design at the Berlin University of Technology and Economics . In March 2015, Weichbrodt completed his university studies on the subject of “conceptual / uncreative writing”.

He has lived in Berlin since 2010.

Work (selection)

In 2012, Weichbrodt, together with Grischa Stanjek, published the seminar paper This is the day your grandchildren will tell you about - a transcription of the television program Germany's Next Topmodel in the form of a Reclam drama, which received a lot of press coverage. Despite the great demand, the 120-page book was not published by a publisher for legal reasons. The text later became the basis for a theater production at the Rottstrasse 5 Theater under the direction of Honke Rambow .

In the spring of 2014, Weichbrodt published the book On the Road - an approx. 100-page route description for Jack Kerouac's self-discovery trip from the Beat novel of the same name . In doing so, Weichbrodt collected the waypoints that Kerouac traveled in his novel and had a route description displayed using the Google route planner. The work received particular attention in the English-speaking world. It was made in Zurich in the LUMA Westbau on the occasion of the exhibition Poetry will be made by all! curated by Kenneth Goldsmith and Hans Ulrich Obrist , among others . A theater production based on the text took place in March 2015 in Philadelphia, USA, staged by the theater group 14th Street under the direction of Mike Durkin.

In October 2014, Weichbrodt and Hannes Bajohr founded the text collective “0x0a” for digital conceptual literature. "0x0a" became famous in spring 2015 with a collection of 282,596 Facebook comments from the right-wing national Pegida movement, which Weichbrodt had collected over a period of over a month with the help of a Python script. Bajohr and Weichbrodt publish the text corpus on their website for downloading and send their own literary interpretation after the text: In Faith, Love, Hope they sort out all sentences from the corpus that start with “I believe”, “I love” or “I hope” began after the Pauline virtues (“Faith, Love, Hope”) as a parody of the goal of the Pegida movement itself, namely to save the Christian West from an alleged Islamization of Germany. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Dresden Chamber Choir , parts of the text corpus were performed under the direction of Alexander Keuk in the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden in February 2016 under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann .

In January 2015 the English-language title I Don't Know was published by Frohmann-Verlag . In it, the speaker of the text goes through a variety of topics that are contained in Wikipedia - from combustion engines to literature to soccer players - and claims in a 400-page monologue that he does not know any of the topics mentioned. A performative contradiction that “reduces the encyclopedic order of the digital age to absurdity”.

In 2016 the Gruntgesets for the Federal Republic of Germany was published digitally, which can also be ordered as a book. On this occasion, Bayerischer Rundfunk conducted an interview with Weichbrodt on its Puls program . The new version of the Basic Law contains blatant spelling errors in all 146 articles that the author had programmed. The satirical project wants to draw attention to the “Reichsbürger” , who are often right-wing extremist conspiracy theorists. The Basic Law does not apply to them, and they consider the Federal Republic of Germany to be a country occupied by the USA. They often disseminate their theories on the Internet - which is what inspired Gregor Weichbrodt to write his work with spelling errors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Siebeck: “Top Model” finals in Reclam optics “So properly washed” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 12, 2011, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 9, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Casting Show: Drama, Baby - Media - Tagesspiegel. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ "Top Model" show as a drama: "Wow, so right as from space". In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Top model drama: “Wooow! Look at these hips! ” In: Berliner Zeitung. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Iris Alanyali: Fortunately, Heidi Klum did not burst her pants . In: Welt Online . December 15, 2011 ( welt.de [accessed April 9, 2016]).
  6. ↑ "Wow! Great ”-“ Really, Wusch, as you always say ”. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  7. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Drama, Baby! - The finale of “Germany's Next Top Model” as a Reclam magazine - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ taz, the daily newspaper : - taz.de. (No longer available online.) In: www.taz.de. Archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; Retrieved April 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.taz.de
  9. ↑ Germany's next top model: Curtain up on the next act of tragedy. In: www. Handelsblatt .com. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Heidi Klum's GNTM at the off-theater. In: www.bz-berlin.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  11. ↑ The world as Heidi and ... - Prenzlauer Berg Nachrichten. In: www.prenzlauerberg-nachrichten.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  12. ^ Alison Flood: Kerouac's On the Road followed on the road via Google Maps . In: The Guardian . February 17, 2014, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 9, 2016]).
  13. ↑ Sat-nav directs Kerouac fans to ultimate road trip | The Times. In: The Times . Retrieved April 9, 2016 (UK English).
  14. ↑ Alexandra Alter: Student Reinterprets 'On the Road' Via Google Maps. In: WSJ. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  15. ↑ About. In: Poetry Will Be Made By All. January 28, 2014, accessed April 9, 2016 .
  16. ^ On the Road. In: Poetry Will Be Made By All. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Poetry will be made by all! | e-flux. In: www.e-flux.com. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  18. ↑ On The Road For 17,527 Miles: A GPS Performance Art Piece. In: Geekadelphia. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Schulze, Holger: Going for a drink, driving the bus. (PDF) In: MERKUR. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  20. ↑ a b Pegida postings on Facebook: What the neighbor thinks but doesn't say. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Aaron Clamann: Literpaturprojekt 'Faith, Love, Hope': The Creed of 'Pegida'. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Artists collect 282,000 Facebook comments from Pegida fans. In: derStandard.at. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  23. ↑ The language of Pegida. In: 0x0a. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Karsten Blüthgen: Seekers on the pulse of time . Ed .: Saxon Newspaper . Saxon Newspaper, Dresden 2016.
  25. ↑ DNN-Online: World premieres - Jubilee concert of the Dresden Chamber Choir in the Dreikönigskirche / Kultur News / Kultur - DNN - Dresdner Neuste Nachrichten. In: www.dnn.de. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  26. ↑ more Light: Kan Kun. In: mehrlicht.twoday.net. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  27. ↑ E-book column "E-Lektüren" The shakiness of consciousness in an emergency . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed April 9, 2016]).
  28. ↑ Bajohr, Hannes: Infra-thin platforms. (PDF) In: MERKUR. Retrieved April 9, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Satirical “Gruntgesets” for citizens of the Reich. Ainichkeit und Rächt und Freiheit , br.de., January 8, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Soft bread, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam