Henryk Gericke

Henryk Gericke (* 1964 in East Berlin ) is a German writer and gallery owner .

Life

After completing his apprenticeship as a bookbinder, Gericke worked as a printer in Progress Film-Verleih from 1983 to 1986 and in the office for art-related architecture from 1986 to 1989 . Since 1984 he has been the author and publisher of independent editions and has published articles in self-published magazines ( Ariadnefabrik , Einsatz , schlag , Liane, etc.). In 1990 he was one of the founders and partners of the Druckhaus Galrev publishing house , which he left in 1993. Gericke has been a freelance writer since 1993. In 2004 he received the Alfred Döblin scholarship from the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 2006 he wrote the screenplay for the movie ostpunk - too much future . In 2010 he opened the Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin. Together with Thomas Gust he runs the art cell identity shop .

Works

• 1996: autoreverse . Poems, edition qwert zui opü , Berlin.
• 1997: something with an order . edition pages, Berlin.
• 2000: Soundtrack to the Exodus (text about the wave of emigration from the GDR in 1984). Ireland Almanac, Unrast Verlag .
• 2001: what I heard, what I saw, what I thought, what happened next . edition pages, Berlin.
• 2003: an annotated selection of unwritten laws . Peter Ludewig Verlag , Munich.

Translations

• 1995: Gerard Manley Hopkins . pied beauty / pied beauty . Poems. Broadcasts together with Stefan Döring , Gerhard Falkner and Andreas Koziol , edition qwert zui opü, Berlin.
• 1996: Würgemale (texts by the Stranglers ). Transmissions together with Andreas Koziol, Bert Papenfuß ; Graphics by MK Kähne and Ronald Lippok . White Elephant Gallery, Berlin.
• 2007: Edward de Vere . echo verses , poems. Transmission together with Andreas Koziol, Peter Ludewig Verlag, Munich.

Original graphic editions

• 1985–1987: Caligo (together with the painter Ronald Lippok).
• 1987: Autodafé . Self-published.
• 1988: Braegen . Self-published.
• 1990: LeiLei . Graphics by Ronald Lippok. Ursuspress 16.

Audio books

• 1996: autoreverse . Music: Bernd Jestram . LP, Hidden Records , Berlin.

Exhibitions

• 2003/2004: Production of the event series Degenerate Youth - Youth and Subculture in Times of Dictatorship .
• 2005: together with Michael Boehlke curator of the exhibition ostPUNK! - too much future . Co-editor of the catalog of the same name.
• 2009: together with Michael Boehlke, Grit Seymur and Frieda von Wild, curator of the exhibition In Grenzen Frei - Fashion, Photography, Underground in the GDR 1979-89 . Co-editor of the exhibition catalog of the same name.
• 2009: Exhibition design and shadow curatorium of poesie des untergrunds - The literary and artistic scene in East Berlin 1979-89 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Henryk Gericke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Henryk Gericke's website