Inge Kurtz

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inge Kurtz, 2009, in front of his own work

Inge Kurtz (* 1949 in Grieskirchen ) is an Austrian - German painter and feature writer.

Life

After graduating from high school, Kurtz first studied graphics and painting in Linz , and later journalism in Vienna and Munich . In 1977 she began working as a journalist at Bayerischer Rundfunk (Zündfunk editorial team) in Munich. Since 1980 she has been working as a feature writer for various ARD broadcasters , especially for the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt . In 1982, the hr broadcast their radio play The grateful attack object , which dealt with the effects of domestic violence and was awarded the German Social Prize and the Elisabeth Selbert Prize . A variety of features and radio projects followed.

In 1982, together with Jürgen Geers , she designed the hr- documenta project Der Meinungscontainer - Acoustic Graffiti , an experimental arrangement in the Kassel pedestrian zone in which graffiti art , social interaction and radiophonic means of design were supposed to enable a snapshot of social awareness. The radio play relic of this interactive project was awarded the Special Prize of the Prix ​​Italia in 1983 . Another media project followed in 1985: The Liebes Volk campaign , in which 350 unknown Germans accepted the request to practice the art of public free speech on the radio. A project that was supported by the then President of the Bundestag Rita Süssmuth , the rhetoric professor Walter Jens , and the cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt . In the years from 1986 to 1993, numerous original sound collages were created, which, among other things, deal with the Second World War . Documentaries on topics relevant to contemporary history and portraits of mostly unknown people from contemporary history are some of her favorite subjects. In the years from 1994 to 1999, she and Geers produced an extensive collage of numerous contemporary witness memories: Under the grass above . The 16-hour program was broadcast on November 28, 1999 as a radio day on hr2 . The authors were awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize for this work in 2000 .

In addition to her radio work, she has increasingly turned back to artistic work since the end of the 1990s. A large number of - sometimes large-format - pictures were created, often computer-generated pixel paintings , in which graffiti and comic shapes can also be found. Montage and collage techniques were used to fuse elements of drawing and painting with photographic sequences. Her work has been exhibited in Wiesbaden, Munich, Passau, Wasserburg, Traunstein and Burghausen, among others. Since 2013 she has been a member of the artist group Die Burg , since 2015 a member of GEDOK - Munich. She lives in Tittmoning-Törring (Rupertiwinkel).

Awards

Works (selection)

  • We show you how, we do it for you - students play school , hr 1980
  • The grateful target - report from a women's refuge , hr 1982
  • Speaking against the wall - the opinion container , SFB 1984
  • In the field, the man is still worth something - former Wehrmacht soldiers talk about the war , hr 1986 - as a CD edition in Hörverlag under the title My Memory , ISBN 978-3-86717-748-1
  • It is not a nice death slain by the enemy - a married couple tells of war and displacement , hr 1987 - as a CD edition in the Hörverlag under the title My Memory , ISBN 978-3-86717-748-1
  • Imagine it's war and nobody goes there - German deserters tell , hr 1988 - as a CD edition in Hörverlag under the title My Memory , ISBN 978-3-86717-748-1
  • Rifle at hand and on to the oath - portrait of an Austrian partisan group , SFB 1989
  • Speak so that I can see you - guided tour of a cabinet of the human voice , hr1989
  • Zero feeling - portrait of a drug addict , hr 1991
  • Fly maybeetle! - Childhood memories of the war , SFB / WDR 1993 - as a CD edition in the Hörverlag under the title My memory , ISBN 978-3-86717-748-1
  • Frankfurt, a German city remembers. With Monika Held and Florian Schwinn , radio play documentary in CD box, pool documentation, Hessischer Rundfunk, Berlin, Frankfurt 1994
  • Life goes on - ideas of the hereafter. Popular belief in the original sound , hr1995
  • Nothing but sayings - a Hanswurstiade , hr 1996
  • Under the grass above - 100 years of Germany , HR 1999. With Jürgen Geers. As a cassette and CD edition by Hörverlag under the title Unter dem Gras über und Meine Geschichte , ISBN 978-3-86717-567-8
  • With exorbitant respect - a portrait , cabaret story (s) Gerhard Polt, hr 2002, audio CD hr, ISBN 3-89844-217-9
  • Wanderlust - the adventurer Georg Kirner , hr 2007
  • Arrived - successful integration in Germany , hr 2011
  • Kaftan and Lederhose - international understanding in Bavarian , hr 2013

literature

  • Uwe Kamann: Hearing nothing but hearing. The hr radio day "Under the grass above", in EPD media, December 1, 1999
  • Heide Platen: "The original sound maniacs" 100 years in one radio day, Inge Kurtz and Jürgen Geers, the inventors of the original sound radio play, in CUT 11/99
  • Christian Deutschmann: "The Last Suitcase" Radio Day at the hr: "Memories of 100 Years of Germany", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 27, 1999
  • Thomas Thieringer: “Deep layers of memory uncovered” The radio play prize for the war blind goes to the duo of authors Inge Kurtz and Jürgen Geers, in Frankfurter Rundschau, April 4, 2000
  • Herbert Riehl-Heyse: In the meantime, "Fischbein-Geschichte", in Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 2, 2001
  • Sabine Wollowski: "Under the grass above" Narrated life in the 20th century, in FRIDAY, January 24, 2003
  • Wolfgang Schneider: "The Babylonian murmur of the ages" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 12, 2010
  • Lars von der Gönna: “When we asked Rommel for sand from the Sahara - My memory, contemporary witnesses tell of the war”, in WAZ June 2, 2012
  • Christoph Mahnel: "Memory as a memorial for the future", in Literaturmarkt.info, April 30, 2012
  • Katja Sebald: "Apocalyptic images, fascinating tinkering" in SZ, June 24, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Sebald Starnberg: Apocalyptic images, fascinating tinkering . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 24, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Kurtz, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German painter and feature writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Grieskirchen