Heinz Havemeister

Heinz Havemeister (* 1958 in Eisenberg ) is a German curator , musician and author .

Life

Havemeister studied art history from 1982 to 1987 at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1988 to 1990 he was co-editor of the original graphic magazine Liane , in collaboration with Volker Handloik , Michael Thulin (d. I. Klaus Michael ) and the photographer Susanne Schleyer and participated in unofficial magazines. From 1990 to 1993 Havemeister worked for the Berlin publishing house Druckhaus Galrev .

Havemeister is active as a musician in various formations, in the Bolshevik Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot (until 2012) and with Frank Bretschneider as guitarist in Heinz & Franz , a. a. In 1989 he worked with Heinz & Franz in Matthias Baader Holst's poetry performance between colorful and bestial in the Moritzbastei in Leipzig . He took part in various theater productions and wrote the libretto for the oratorio The Ending 20th Century (composition by Frank Keding) for choir and symphonic wind orchestra (UA 2008 Volksbühne Berlin).

With Ronald Galenza, Havemeister is one of the most important biographers and historiographers of the musical independent scene in the GDR and is an expert on rock and punk. The band published with Galenza in 1999 caused a sensation. We want to always be good ... punk, new wave, hip-hop and independent scene in the GDR via the u. a. the weekly newspaper Die Zeit wrote on October 7, 1999: "Anyone who reads the excellently illustrated work knows everything about everyone who danced the pogo in the last GDR decade and picked up the guitar regardless of the state." The daily newspaper Die Welt posted on October 16, 1999 found out that when reading the volume the reader learns “in addition to the subtle forms of state repression, almost in passing, a number of illuminating facts about the collapse of the cultural and social context in the declining GDR”.

Havemeister works and lives in Berlin .

Publications and editions

• Liane magazine 1988–1990 (Ed. With Volker Handloik , Michael Thulin the Elder , Klaus Michael and Susanne Schleyer ).
• Matthias Baader-Holst: between colorful and bestial ... all the dead albanians on my surfboard. Tape, Edition Liane 1989.
• We always want to be good ... punk, new wave, hip-hop and independent scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990 . Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-306-3 (Ed. With Ronald Galenza).
• Feeling B - Mix me a drink: Punk in the east. Verlag Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-89602-905-3 (Ed. With Ronald Galenza).

Articles and contributions, etc. a.

• Contributions to the photographer Frank Hermann and to photographic self-portraits. In: Entwerter or. Special edition photography 2/1988.
• From zero to zero. A report on existing and newly founded galleries in East Berlin. In: Fine Arts 12/1990.
• Contribution to pictures from the GDR. Venice Biennale. In: Kunstforum International Vol. 106, August – October 1990. (Ed. Thomas Wulffen).
• Either or in no man's land. Punk in the GDR 1984–1989. Between repression and appropriation (with Ronald Galenza). In: Michael Boehlke, Henryk Gericke (eds.): OstPUNK - Too Much Future. Exhibition catalog. Verbrecher Verlag Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-932754-62-X .
• Contribution to Lick Me Alive. Punk in the east. Verlag Neues Leben 2012, ISBN 978-3-355-01807-4 (Ed. Frank Willmann).

Contributions to galleries, photography, fine arts, punk and independent bands, etc. a. in fine arts , Kunstforum International , Taz , Zitty .

literature

• Torsten Wahl: Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister on punk in the GDR: 'We always want to be good'. The sound of a scene. Berliner Zeitung September 16, 1999.
• André Meier: Dance the pogo with the Stasi. A thick book provides thorough information about the independent scene in the GDR. The time 41/1999, October 7, 1999.
• Thomas Krüger: The early multimedia paradise. The first comprehensive volume on punk, new wave, hip-hop and the independent scene in the GDR 1980–1990 . Die Welt October 26, 1999
• Anke Westphal: Panik and Circenses. You can also say thick ribbon as a long goodbye. In: Horch and Guck 3/2000.
• Frank Kämper: We always want to be well-behaved ... A musical pop-cultural history of the GDR. Neue Musikzeitung 2000/10 (nmz October 2000).
• Stefanie Oppel: 'Rejection of slave language' - conversation with Heinz Havemeister. In: Berliner Hefte for the history of literary life 4/2001 (Eds. Peter Wruck and Roland Berbig).
• Wolfram Krabiell, Heinz Havemeister: Form spa bands! A conversation with the musical director and the guitarist of the Bolshevik Kurkapelle Schwarz-Rot (BKSR) about the new record and the band's 15th anniversary. Journal of Youth Cultures 07/2002
• Born a white negro. The best pop books of the fall. Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Mix me a drink - Feeling B. Punk in the East. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. Die Welt October 5th, 2002.
• Torsten Wahl: 'Mix me a drink' tells the story of the East Berlin punk band Feeling B nettles in the system. Berliner Zeitung October 15, 2002.
• Rebecca Menzel: R. Galenza u. a. (Ed.): We always want to be good ... (review). In: H-Soz-Kult, July 18, 2006.