Horst Dieter Bürkle

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Horst Dieter Bürkle (born August 17, 1934 in Teningen ) is a freelance artist in the field of audio-visual media.

Life

Horst Dieter Bürkle was born in Teningen im Breisgau in 1934. He spent parts of his childhood in Rappoltsweiler in Alsace . After school, he began an apprenticeship as a photographer in 1950, which he completed in 1953. This was followed by training as a film technician from 1953 to 1956. Bürkle then did a two-year apprenticeship as a reproduction technician in a Darmstadt publishing house. This was followed by a lengthy publishing activity as an architecture and landscape photographer (1958–65). From 1965 to 1971 he was a lecturer for advanced training courses on the subject of fine arts at a distance learning institute and from 1972 to 1975 he headed the Audiovision department at a task force company of the Bertelsmann Group, before starting freelance work in the audio-visual media field from 1976 exercised and in this context made many study trips through Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Central and South America. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Darmstadt Secession , of which he was managing director from 1995 to 2007. From 2001 to 2015 he was the board spokesman for the Darmstadt Secession. Since then he has been honorary chairman.

Horst Dieter Bürkle has lived in Darmstadt since 1957 . He first appeared on a voluntary basis in 1958 as a co-founder of the Darmstadt Film Club (later the Darmstadt Film and Video Club). In the 1960s and 1970s Bürkle volunteered as the regional director of the film clubs in Hesse and Franconia and as an advisory board member of the national short film association and editor-in-chief of the associated press organ. In 1969 Horst Dieter Bürkle became a committee member of the UNESCO- affiliated world umbrella organization "Union Internationale du Cinéma non-professionnel". In this committee he was editor-in-chief of the association's publication and from 1974 to 1977 he was vice-president.

In 1990 Bürkle joined the “Archive of Darmstadt Artists”, in 1991 was appointed to the board, and until 1998 he was second chairman. In 1993 he took over the supervision and management of the foyer gallery in the Staatstheater Darmstadt. In 1996, together with Heinz Krapp, Otto Horn, Holger Wilmesmeier and Anna Dorothea Schneider, he founded the cinematic initiative “CinemArchiv” in the Darmstadt State Archive and from 2001 to 2015 he was co-curator of “Vogelfrei”, the art biennial in Darmstadt's composers' quarter, which has existed since 1995. In addition, Bürkle has been a volunteer since 2011 as a co-founder of the “KulturStärken eV” association.

Honors

Bürkle has received numerous prizes and awards for experimental, animated and documentary films at national and international short film festivals.

• 2004: Bronze plaque of merit from the city of Darmstadt
• 2013: Johann Heinrich Merck honor of the city of Darmstadt

Exhibitions and participations

• 1992 "Homage to the Cellar" gallery in the Keller-Klub, Darmstadt
• 1997 "Aspects of Photography" foyer gallery in the Staatstheater Darmstadt, (together with Axel Deus, Ruth Hommelsheim, Teun Hocks, Robert Häusser and Roger Richter)
• 1999 »Animal Worlds« Darmstadt Secession, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
• "Small is not small is not small" Center le Mail, Troyes / F and Alpha Galerie, Freiberg / Saxony
• 2000 "Small is not small is not small" Museum and Art Gallery, Chesterfield / UK
• 2001 "As lost as safe" Darmstadt Secession, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
• 2005 »Twelve Positions of the Darmstadt Secession« Künstlerhaus Graz, »Tendenzen« Darmstädter Sezession, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
• 2007 »Location« Darmstadt Secession, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
• 2009 Darmstadt Secession, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
• 2010 »Image of Man« Darmstadt Secession, Ziegelhütte Darmstadt, »Critical Mass« Darmstadt Secession, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
• 2011 »Films and Objects« room 6 in the Atelierhaus Darmstadt (E)
• 2012 »Light« Darmstadt Secession, Ziegelhütte Darmstadt
• 2014 »ART.by.friends« 24th Dreieich Art Days, Städtische Galerie
• 2014 »11 or 12 things I know about myself« Kunstpunkt Darmstadt - project space for current art (E)

Publications

• 2012: From someone who set out to find his pictures, Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt.

literature

• Inventory. The Darmstadt Secession 2013, Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2013.