Hans-Joachim Schulze (artist)

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Hans-Joachim Schulze , also Hans Schulze, (born August 17, 1951 in Schalkau ; † August 23, 2017 in Berlin ) was a painter, action artist and founder of Group 37.2, an important and legendary figure on the opposition art scene in the GDR .

life and work

Schulze grew up without parents in Schalkau, Thuringia, trained as a carpenter, worked as a night watchman in Sonneberg and was imprisoned for a few weeks in 1973. Then he had to do his basic military service in the National People's Army . From 1975 to 1981 he studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig , a. a. with Hans Mayer-Foreyt . In 1979 he became the first student in Hartwig Ebersbach's experimental class. With Ebersbach and others, he first founded a working group and, in the summer of 1982, the group 37.2, whose core also included the photographer Peter Oehlmann, the psychologist Annelie Harnisch, the photographer Gunda Schulze and the cyberneticist Brunhild Matthias. As a diploma in 1981, he did not present finished works, but a room full of finished and semi-finished works and photo documents of his actionist practice as a work process. An experiment for which Schulze - unique in the history of the university - received a diploma without evaluation. Between 1982 and 1985 27 similar performances by Group 37.2 took place in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Leipzig, Halle and Berlin. Including the four-part series "Acoustic Aspects I-IV" in the Kulturhaus Nationale Front in Leipzig from 1982 to 1983. During the performances intended as analysis processes that were supposed to set free collective energies, free jazzers like Manfred Schulze , Manfred Hering and Joe Sachse , Wolfram Dix , Erwin Stache u. a. In 1983 Schulze received the order from the FDJ district management to design a model youth club for Leipzig-Grünau. When Schulze designed a wall for the Grünau youth club “Am transition” with young people in 1984, there was a scandal with the cultural officials of the GDR. Schulze was advised not to do anything anymore, whereupon he saw no more chance of realizing his ideas of art and communism in the GDR and in 1985 left for West Germany. Even before his departure, Schulze, together with the tantrum punk rockers Chaos and Zappa as a noise trio Pffft ...! a legendary appearance at the performance art festival of the opposition GDR art scene Intermedia I 1985 in Coswig. Stations in London (1987-89) and San Francisco followed.

Since 1990 he has been back in Berlin until 1993, with short and very long operas together with Renate Uhlmann and Robert Linke. He worked with Kassandra Bosell, Michael Pfender, Renate Uhlmann and Robert Linke from 1994 to 1996 on the “Maths of Water” complex and from 1996 to 1998 with Isa Adolphi on the “History and Dissolution of the Patriarchate”. From 2000 he worked with Robert Linke on the “ArbeitslosenOper”. Occasionally he published essays and works in the Prenzlauer scene magazines "Opponents", "Sklaven" and "Sklaven Aufstand". His last solo exhibition “Gods and Gods” was in 2008 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.

Schulze died on August 23, 2017.

Exhibitions

  • 1986 Deep views. Art from East and West Germany, Switzerland and Austria , Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadts
  • 1997 Draft for the text layers of the I-Ging , Galerie Eigen + Art, Leipzig
  • In 2005 you want a biological or a philosophical answer , Galerie Heimspiel, Frankfurt / M. (with Reiner Maria Matysik)
  • 2008 Goddesses and Gods , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (catalog)

Fonts

  • Hans Schulze, Microb and Mensch , in: Sklaven No. 32/33, 1997, p. 63
  • Hans Schulze, Economy and Gender , in: Sklaven No. 34, 1997, pp. 34–35
  • Hans Schulze, Depersonalization out of fear , in: Sklaven No. 38/39, 1997, pp. 10-11
  • Hans Schulze, B. Heisig and the history of the effects of matriarchy , in: Sklaven Aufstand, No. 47/48, 1998, p. 17
  • Hans Schulze, Über den Mondstaat , in: Opponents, Heft 1, 1999, p. 38
  • Hans Schulze, History and Dissolution of the Patriarchate , in: Opponents, Heft 6, 2000, pp. 21–26
  • Hans Schulze, The Clavis Fichtiania by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter , in: Opponent, Issue 18, 2006, pp. 66–68
  • Hans Schulze, Fragments on Water , Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2005

literature

  • Sascha Anderson, Memories flowing into one another , accompanying text in Hans Schulze, Fragments for Water, 2005
  • chA ° S, the failure of the valves or: from tantrum to pffft ...! , in: Alexander Pehlemann (Ed.): Warsaw Punk Pact. Punk in the Eastern Bloc 1977–89, Mainz 2018, pp. 30–35
  • Uta Grundmann, Klaus Michael, Susanne Seufert, Practicing the outside track. The other culture in Leipzig 1971–1990 , Leipzig 1996, pp. 62–74
  • Bert Papenfuß, Hans Schulze 1951–2017 , downward number 22, 2017 pp. 14–16
  • Britt Schlehahn, Action and Revolution. The artist Hans-Joachim Schulze died a year ago, Kreuzer Magazin 8/2018
  • Hans Schulze, Goddesses and Gods , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2008
  • Harald Schluttig, On the peculiarity of the artistic creative process of Hans-Joachim Schulze and the group 37.2 , diploma thesis Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig (cultural and art studies), 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anderson 2005
  2. ↑ Schlehahn 2018
  3. ↑ Schulze 2005, p. 269
  4. ↑ Grundmann 1996, p. 64
  5. ↑ Grundmann 1996, p. 62
  6. ↑ Schulze 2005, p. 271
  7. ↑ Grundmann 1996, pp. 67, 69-71
  8. ↑ Grundmann 1996, pp. 67, 69-71
  9. ↑ Grundmann 1996, pp. 65-66
  10. ↑ chA ° S 2018, p. 35
  11. ↑ Schulze 2005, p. 269
  12. ↑ Schulze 2005, p. 269
  13. ↑ Papenfuß 2017
  14. ↑ https://www.bethanien.de/exhibitions/hans-joachim-schulze/
  15. ↑ Papenfuß 2017
personal data
SURNAME Schulze, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Schalkau
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 2017
Place of death Berlin