Heisterkamp

The family name Heisterkamp is very common in the Lower Rhine - Münsterland area, in the Ruhr area and in the Dutch provinces of Overijssel and Gelderland . The name is made up of the words Heister (Dutch. Also Heester = shrub , altniederl. Also Heist or Heyst) and Kamp (lat. Also camp) together, which, taken together, on a site with shrubs and small deciduous trees near a farm indicate . In Middle High German , Heister was also used for young beech trunks .

Alleged statement by Joseph Beuys (to Peter Heisterkamp): "With the name Heisterkamp you can never become an artist."

Well-known namesake are:

• Alexander Heisterkamp (* 1972 in Münster), physicist, Kaiser Friedrich Prize winner 2005
• Bennie Heisterkamp (* in the Netherlands), founder of the Dutch freight forwarding company Heisterkamp
• Günter Heisterkamp (* 1937), em. University professor of psychology
• Jens Heisterkamp (* 1958), German publicist and anthroposophist
• Norbert Heisterkamp (* 1962), German actor
• Peter Heisterkamp, ​​artist name: Blinky Palermo (1943–1977), German visual artist

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Dean of Art: Blinky Palermo in Munster in: Die Zeit from February 24, 2011. Retrieved on July 1, 2011.
2. ↑ Tim Ackermann: Color landscapes of a bureaucrat in: Welt am Sonntag from October 21, 2007. Accessed on July 1, 2011.