Ingeborg Drews

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Ingeborg Drews (born as Ingeborg Weiser ; * July 26, 1938 in Cologne ; † August 21, 2019 there ) was a German poet , visual artist , art therapist and journalist .

Life

education

Ingeborg Drews studied painting and graphics from 1958 to 1960 at the Cologne factory schools and at an École des Beaux-Arts in Paris . She studied commercial English and French, graduating from the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1974 to 1978, in order to subsequently work at Deutsche Welle Cologne in the areas of Africa-English and Africa-French.

From 1975 to 1978 she studied all graphic techniques at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences for Art and Design (again, former Cologne factory schools): screen printing, etching, stone printing (under Pravoslav Sovak ), graduating in free graphics in 1978. She subsequently had numerous exhibitions her paintings and graphics, as well as readings of her poems, satires and prose pieces in galleries and libraries.

From 1991 to 1995 Ingeborg Drews was enrolled at the University of Cologne in the field of art therapy and psychology and completed her diploma in psychiatry with a thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche's three decades before his derangement, language tests and psychological development. She graduated from the University of Cologne with Meinhard Adler . She was then still enrolled and studied sociology, art therapy, English studies, psychology, art history and philosophy. In 2003 she did her doctorate there with the work The beautiful glow. The aesthetics of kitsch with Hans-Günter Richter .

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Since 1958 Ingeborg Drews has dealt with painting, drawing, etching, other graphic techniques, writing and reciting poems, satires, the illustration of her books and since early youth with photography. The field spans in the word area: poetry, prose and satire, scientific treatises, as well as journalism. And in the picture area landscape painting, abstract painting, portraits of trusted friends, self-portraits, fantastic etchings and pen drawings, watercolors, pictorial impressions, portraits of writers and artists, erotic body images. After studying psychology / art therapy, pictures of phases of mental illness, dealt with painterly documents in painting, research and analysis based on art therapy followed.

Portraits of long-term friends and relatives (for example Gigi Campi , Paul Dümpelmann, Walter Hanel , Rene Rothschild, Sigi Schulz, Marcelo Verzoni, Arno Levy, Dirk Spiekermann, Hermann Bortfeldt, Marita Palm, Doris Wolf, Zoot Sims) appeared in her paintings as well as Jérôme Savary and the artists of his troupe).

She also wrote scientific treatises on sublimation in art and on the occurrence of kitsch in all walks of life (see dissertation from 2003). While observing the works of other artists, she published sketchy, literary descriptions.

In addition, photography has emerged more and more; Large photos of special areas, and there signs of social conditions (Poland, Morocco, France, India, details of rather inconspicuous areas in Germany).

Every year, special attention was paid to the presentation of the work and fate of the banned and burned poets of the Nazi era and their authors, their literary descriptions (essays), such as drawn / painted portraits. For well over thirty years she has made contributions to the anniversary of the book burning with exhibitions and lectures / readings (most recently in 2011 at the NS Documentation Center in Cologne), with an exhibition of portraits of poets and a reading about the encounter with Wilhelm Unger .

Verbally and in photography she portrays important jazz musicians whom she met from 1958 in Cologne, Paris and London.

She had her first literary publications in VO Stomps Alphabet . Radio broadcasts of the poems began in 1960 on Deutschlandfunk . She had publications in Emmanuel van Stein's Sprachgitter magazine . Since around 1985 journalistic texts by her have been published in Gigi Campis Il Salotto , a cultural magazine, later in Campis Jazzette .

Drews has been a journalist from the very beginning, since 1998 she has been writing regularly for the Jazz Podium (the oldest jazz magazine in Germany), as well as for art magazines such as KÖLNKUNST, neue rheinland, FERMATE, and full-page portraits for the features section of the Kölnische Rundschau .

Primarily in the field of painting and photography, she continued to have numerous exhibitions, often combined with readings at home and abroad.

They have been linked since the post-war years, when she met many jazz musicians, but also well-known visual artists of the time, photographers, people of the theater (such as Gisela Holzinger, Dieter Flimm , Jérôme Savary, Helmut Griem , Wolfgang Forester) in Gigi Campi's legendary ice cream parlor a lifelong friendship with artists such as the jazz musician Attila Zoller and the initiator of great art events Gigi Campi; she also maintained contact with numerous writers and artists.

She recited her poems to the music of the guitarist Attila Zoller. Drews continued this tradition with Ali Haurand and Gerd Dudek . She had other presentations and performances with Lajos Dudas and Philipp van Endert on the occasion of the memorials for the late Attila Zoller in Munich, Vienna, Stuttgart (Hungarian cultural institutes) as well as Neuburg ( Birdland ) and at the Goethe Institute in Budapest (recitation of poems and prose on Attila Zoller, Concerts of Musicians. Translation of the poems into Hungarian). After Gigi Campi's death in 2010: Memorials in Freiraum and Old Pawn Shop Cologne, with the musicians Gerd Dudek, Hagen Horn, Ali Haurand, collaboration with Heinz Bähr on a brochure about Gigi Campi and Nekrolog in the Jazz Podium .

Drews died in 2019 at the age of 81 and was buried in the family grave in Cologne's southern cemetery.

Archives

Drews' artistic works are in the exile archive of the German Library in Frankfurt am Main. Original portraits of emigrants from the Nazi era (purchased), essays on these portraits (book), other books, dissertations and printed matter. In the German Literature Archive Marbach , in the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (drawings, etchings, paintings, photos, documentations about exhibitions, articles in art magazines, a film by Gisela Holzinger, who reads Drews works in the gallery ON and the Studio Dumont, recorded by Uwe Oldenburg (WDR)). Furthermore, the CD Cascades , volumes of poetry and excerpts from anthologies, catalogs, as well as around 30 colored original etchings and some originals of paintings, landscapes.

The Heinrich-Böll-Archiv , LiK, and the Rheinisches Bildarchiv contain volumes of poetry, poems, 81 titles of a literary nature, photographs, portraits of artists and artistic events, treatises, dissertations, and features.

In the Bibliothèque nationale de France , the Photography department contains: 40 Parisian photographs and award-winning photos (Legnica / SATYRYKON). Film: Trailer for the film by M. Bleckmann: In search of lost poetry . In it, a detailed interview about Ingeborg Drews and her works with the head of the Département des Gravures et de la Photographie, Mme. Marie-Cécile Miessner, Paris, from 2010. In the Département Gravure: The illustrated volumes of poetry. Etchings, drawings, satires. In the Musique department: CD Jazz / Lyrik (Konnex), article in the jazz podium from the last ten years and other articles, book by Friedemann Holst-Solbach with Drews poems set to music in five languages.

The Lippmann + Rau music archive contains articles and correspondence as well as photos that have to do with jazz.

For inclusion in the new historical archive of the City of Cologne, works are initially included provisionally. The previous ten-year inventory disappeared or was affected when the archive collapsed in 2009. The whereabouts of the archive material is unclear. Finding aid provides information about the lost inventory.

Awards

  • 1989 Satire Prize, Sofia / Grabovo: House of Humor and Satire (Museum): silkscreen: Oh Othello, you forgot your monocular.
  • 1989 Dormagener Quill Literature Prize (poetry), for the volume Am Rande der Stunden (Pendragon-Verlag)
  • 1990 First prize from the Bulgarian Artists Association (Sofia, Bulgaria) for: Satirical graphics: A German authority on a windy morning
  • 1999 SATYRYKON: (Legnica / Poland) Prize for a photo in the field of social satire: Paris and its black traces. Catalog
  • 2001 SATYRYKON: (Legnica / Poland) Prize for satirical photo, humor: BSB - the conspiracy of the cows. Catalog
  • 2005 Prize / catalog and individual exhibition of satirical photos (80 exhibits in the Centrum Cultury, Legnica). Invitation to Legnica for a week. Reception. Brochure.
  • 2015 Prix Spécial of the cartoonists festival in Saint-Just-le-Martel , France.

Member of the international jury of SATYRYKON, over ten years invitation to participate in the exhibitions and lectures at the Salon International de la Caricature, du Dessin de Presse et d´Humour, St.Just, France.

Works (selection)

  • The usual great moment . Poems, Grupello Verlag, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-933749-12-3 .
  • On the edge of the hour . Poems, Pendragon Verlag, Bielefeld 1989, ISBN 3-923306-26-1 .
  • Forbidden / Banished / Burned . Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025333-1 .
  • Poetry texts spoken / 17 titles Cascaden , in collaboration with the musicians Gerd Dudek and Ali Haurand. CD released by Konnex 2006, KCD 5181 (Lyrik & Jazz, Gedichte / Drews / Musik A. Haurand, double bass / Gerd Dudek, sax.)
  • Painting / graphics / aphorisms . Catalog for the exhibition (80 exhibits) in the gallery of the Chamber of Crafts in Cologne 1990, foreword: Antje Soléau
  • My Paris wears green shoes. An autobiographical story , Roland Reischl Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-943580-04-4 .

Settings

  • Friedemann Holst-Solbach (2010): "Suffering not understood". 12 poems by Ingeborg Drews in four languages: German, English, Russian and French. With 14 illustrations of her painted and drawn pictures. Music book with CD. ISMN 9-790-50075-012-3 (online order) and ISMN 9-790-500750093 (specialist trade)
  • Alice Samter: setting of the poem Rose (from the volume Grupello-Verlag) in 2002. It was premiered in Berlin with cello accompaniment and the opera singer Rosemarie Arzt at the funeral service at the Heerstraße cemetery on the occasion of Alice Samter's funeral in 2004

Radio broadcasts

Her poetry has been featured on the following radio shows:

  • 1962 to 1963: Deutschlandfunk, Lyrisches Intermezzo (read by Eva Schwarz), Drew's poems, still under her maiden name Inge Weiser
  • 1977 to 1980: Radio Ljubljana / Yugoslavia: Literarni Nocturno, 10 poems in Slovenian, texts: German city images, three programs with interview / music, editor: Rapa Suklje
  • 1983: Deutschlandfunk: Lyrik heute (broadcast by Jürgen Becker Lyrik / radio play): 8 poems, read by Jochen Breiter
  • 1990: Deutsche Welle, Slovenian Service - 10 poems translated by Radio Ljubljana, read by speaker Peterlin. Editor: Loys Lampret: Interview with the painter and poet Ingeborg Drews
  • 1990: WDR Budengasse: Editor Ursula Kaps, interview and broadcast. About writing, with poems by Ingeborg Drews on the occasion of the Dormagener Quill Literature Prize
  • 1995/96: Deutschlandfunk: literary broadcast, editing Hans Bender: New poems by Ingeborg Drews. 2nd broadcast, editor Erhard Kluge: Poems by Ingeborg Drews
  • 1997: WDR - Forum der Poesie 1997 - Reading recorded in the Cologne Central Library: Poems by Ingeborg Drews
  • 1998: DW .: Reading of the poems in the Ilap. Portuguese service of Deutsche Welle, translated from Spanish, (poems for the Rielo Foundation) and broadcast in the magazine Cultural. With interview. Editor: Paula Carvalho
  • 1999: Deutsche Welle, reading of English poems in the English service. Interview and portrait of Ingeborg Drews, poet. Editor: Jeremy Lane
  • 2000: Deutsche Welle: INSPIRED MINDS 'Arts on the Air'. Editor Brendain O'Shea. Artist of the week: Ingeborg Drews: Poetry and Jazz
  • 2003: Forum der Poesie, WDR 3 Lyrische Perspektiven in Cologne, editor Michael Kothes: 6 poems by Ingeborg Drews. DLF: mosaic
  • 2003: NDR Hannover, editor Ms. von Schwarzkopf, Cologne. About writing poetry. Portrait of Ingeborg Drews.
  • 2013: WDR Cologne. Editor: Frank Höller. About the novel Mein 'Paris wears green shoes'.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Drews: Forbidden Banished Burned. Portraits of ostracized authors of the Nazi era in words and pictures . Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025333-1 .
  2. ↑ 2006: CD: Cascaden , Lyrik und Jazz, published by Konnex.
  3. ↑ burial place. In: Findagrave.com. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ www.st-just-humour.fr (French)
personal data
SURNAME Drews, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiser, Ingeborg (maiden name); Weiser, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, visual artist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2019
Place of death Cologne