Herbert Kapfer (Author)

Herbert Kapfer (born March 2, 1954 in Ingolstadt ) is a German author , editor and radio play director .

Herbert Kapfer (2016)

Life

From 1972 to 1974 Herbert Kapfer completed a journalistic training at the Munich press training institute. In 1970 he published his first poems and short prose in literary and subcultural magazines, and from 1971 broadcasts for public radio programs. From 1980 he published radio plays, plays, prose, essays and literary collages . He was co-founder in 1978 and until 1983 lyricist and musician of the Bavarian acoustic band Dullijöh . In 1988 he became dramaturge in the radio play department of Bavarian Radio . From 1996 to 2017 he headed the radio play and media art department there . Kapfer was the initiator and director of the intermedium festival held in 1999 and 2002 . He is the founder of the intermedium records series , in which numerous artistic editions have appeared. From 2012 to 2017 he was the coordinator of the radio and web project The Sources Speak . Kapfer is editor of the works of Richard Huelsenbeck and co-editor of letter editions, u. a. to Franz Pfemfert . He publishes on Dada , literary , contemporary and media history .

Works (selection)

As an author

unta oba sau. Bavarian poems. Friedl Brehm , Feldafing 1973.
Collective transport. Pieces. Friedl Brehm, Feldafing 1982, ISBN 3-921763-77-0 .
Revolution in Munich. Writers tell of the Soviet republic. (With Carl-Ludwig Reichert ). Weismann, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-88897-032-6 .
Hidden Chronicle 1914. (With Lisbeth Exner ). Galiani, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86971-086-0 .
Hidden Chronicle 1915–1918. (With Lisbeth Exner). Galiani, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86971-090-7 .
sounds like radio play 1989–2017. Belleville, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-946875-20-8 .
1919. Fiction. Verlag Antje Kunstmann , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95614-283-3 .

As editor

Richard Huelsenbeck : Transformations. Anabas, Giessen 1992, ISBN 3-87038-242-2 .
Richard Huelsenbeck: Aztecs or the Knallbude. A military novella. Anabas, Giessen 1992, ISBN 3-87038-243-0 .
Hans Arp , George Grosz , Richard Huelsenbeck: Fantastic prayers. (Reprints from 1916 and 1920). Anabas, Giessen 1993, ISBN 3-87038-255-4 .
Richard Huelsenbeck: Why Dada. Texts 1916–1936. Anabas, Giessen 1994, ISBN 3-87038-264-3 .
Weltdada Huelsenbeck. A biography in letters and pictures. (With Lisbeth Exner). Haymon, Innsbruck 1996, ISBN 3-85218-211-5 .
From broadcast game to media art. The history of the radio play in Bavarian radio. Complete directory 1949–1999. Belleville, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-923646-97-6 .
Pfemfert. Reminders and settlements. Texts and letters. (With Lisbeth Exner). Belleville, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-923646-35-6 .
intermedium 2. Identities in the 21st century. (With Peter Weibel ). BR / ZKM , Belleville, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-934847-02-1 .
Robert Musil : The man without qualities. Remix. (With Katarina Agathos). Belleville, Hörverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-89940-416-5 .
Intermediality and open form. Radio play and media art in the BR. Complete directory 1996-2005. (With Katarina Agathos, Barbara Schäfer). Belleville 2006, ISBN 3-936298-47-5 .
what if? Future images of the information society. (With Stefan Iglhaut, Florian Rötzer ). Heise, Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-936931-46-4 .
Radio play. Authors' talks and portraits. (With Katarina Agathos). Belleville, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3936298-68-0 .
Richard Huelsenbeck: Dada logic 1913–1972. Belleville, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-943157-05-5 .

Eran Schaerf : Frequency-modulated scenario. (With Joerg Franzbecker). intermedium / Belleville, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3943157-61-1 .

Radio plays

The roof over your head. BR 1980.
Stay away from the window. BR 1982.
Beat. (With Karl Bruckmaier , Carl-Ludwig Reichert). BR 1989.
euro anthem. (With Ulrich Bassenge ). BR 1990.
do you know me gentlemen. a workshop program about ernst jandl and ernst kölz. (With Mira Alexandra Schnoor). BR 1990.
Hard cuts, untamed words, everyone hears voices. (BR 1991).
dr. huelsenbeck's mental healing method. (With Regina Moths, Peter Blegvad , John Greaves ). Rough Trade Rec. 1992.
Settlement in Mexico City. Franz Pfemfert in exile. BR 1999.
Media meditation. BR 2004.
The private novel 'Envy'. 36 Answers from Elfriede Jelinek to questions from Herbert Kapfer. (With Elfriede Jelinek). BR 2011.
Further into the night. Calendar 1937–1939. Text collage based on Hannah Höch . Composition and realization: Helga Pogatschar . BR 2014.

Audiobook editions

Arno Schmidt : Nobodaddy's children. (Radio play adaptation with Klaus Buhlert ). The Hörverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-89584-572-7 .
Everything Lalula. Songs and Poems 1920–2002. (Ed. With Wolfgang Hörner). Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-8218-5241-0 .
wake up. re: lax. readings, remixes, soundtracks, video. (Ed. With Katarina Agathos). intermedium records 2003, ISBN 3-934847-75-7 .
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: Words Sex Cut. Original sound recordings 1973. (Ed. With Katarina Agathos ). intermedium records 2005, ISBN 3-943157-23-7 .
the artist as a young dog. peter weibel tribute album. (Ed. With Margit Rosen). intermedium records 2009, ISBN 978-3-939444-72-5 .
intermedium records. (Ed. From 2000 to 2018, from 2007 with Katarina Agathos). CD / DVD series with works by and about Ammer , Ball , Brinkmann , Beckett , Claus , Console , Goetz , Farin , Harlan , Jandl , Jeck , Jelinek , Karmakar , Kubin , Kandinsky , Kluge , Latour , Lax , Lentz , Meinecke , Melián , Moufang , Metzger , Herta Müller , Wolfgang Müller , Roth , Riedl , Ruttmann , Schaerf , Schlamminger , Weibel , Witzel , Ror Wolf .

Prizes and awards

Toucan Prize 2019

1983: Schiller Memorial Prize / grant from the state of Baden-Württemberg. To Herbert Kapfer for Zacherl's Bread and Peace. Folk piece. World premiere: Stadttheater Heidelberg, April 19, 1984.
1985: Ingolstadt Art Prize
1987: Scholarship for the Munich Year of Literature
1990: Civis Prize for euro anthem. Radio play. (With Ulrich Bassenge), BR 1990.
2005: German audio book award in the "Best of All" category for Robert Musil : The man without qualities. Remix. Concept and script: Katarina Agathos and Herbert Kapfer.
2014: German Record Critics' Award . Annual price. For Lisbeth Exner and Herbert Kapfer, Verborgene Chronik 1914. Read by Meike Droste and Wolfgang Condrus , directed by Ulrich Gerhardt . 6 CDs, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-1571-8 .
2016: German audio book award in the category "Best Publishing Achievement" for The Sources Speak . The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945.
2018: Wilhelm Hausenstein award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts "for services to cultural mediation".
2019: Tukan Prize of the City of Munich for 1919. Fiction (Verlag Antje Kunstmann).

Web links

Commons : Herbert Kapfer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ZKM, intermedium
↑ Oliver Ruf: Review: Richard Huelsenbeck: Dada logic 1913–1972. Edited and commented by Herbert Kapfer . In: City of Pirmasens in connection with the Hugo Ball Society. Editor: Eckhard Faul (ed.): Hugo-Ball-Almanach. Studies and texts on Dada . New episode, no. 4 . edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-246-1 , p. 269-271 .
↑ Herrmann Weber: Pfemfert, Plättner and Hoelz. New biographical studies on "social rebels" . In: Germany Archive. Journal for the United Germany . No. 3 . Leske + Budrich, 2001, ISSN 0012-1428 , p. 485-487 .
↑ Andreas Platthaus: The author doesn't write a single word. Others are responsible for the staccato of voices in this book: Herbert Kapfer's fascinating montage fiction "1919" from literary phantasms tells the story of a fateful year in Germany. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 76 , March 30, 2019, p. 10 .
^ BR radio play Pool - Jelinek / Kapfer: The private novel Envy - 36 answers
^ German Audiobook Prize 2005: The Man Without Qualities, Remix
^ Prize of the German Record Critics 2014
^ German Audiobook Prize 2016: The Sources Speak. ....

personal data
SURNAME	Kapfer, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, editor and radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ingolstadt

[1] ZKM, intermedium

[2] Oliver Ruf: Review: Richard Huelsenbeck: Dada logic 1913–1972. Edited and commented by Herbert Kapfer . In: City of Pirmasens in connection with the Hugo Ball Society. Editor: Eckhard Faul (ed.): Hugo-Ball-Almanach. Studies and texts on Dada . New episode, no. 4 . edition text + kritik, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-246-1 , p. 269-271 .

[3] Herrmann Weber: Pfemfert, Plättner and Hoelz. New biographical studies on "social rebels" . In: Germany Archive. Journal for the United Germany . No. 3 . Leske + Budrich, 2001, ISSN 0012-1428 , p. 485-487 .

[4] Andreas Platthaus: The author doesn't write a single word. Others are responsible for the staccato of voices in this book: Herbert Kapfer's fascinating montage fiction "1919" from literary phantasms tells the story of a fateful year in Germany. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 76 , March 30, 2019, p. 10 .

[5] BR radio play Pool - Jelinek / Kapfer: The private novel Envy - 36 answers

[6] German Audiobook Prize 2005: The Man Without Qualities, Remix

[7] Prize of the German Record Critics 2014

[8] German Audiobook Prize 2016: The Sources Speak. ....