Manfred Kohrs

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Manfred Kohrs, 2017

Manfred Kohrs (born January 24, 1957 in Hanover ) is a German economist , artist and tattoo artist . He is considered one of the pioneers of the modern tattoo scene and from the beginning rejected the idea that tattooing was a commercial activity. Kohrs was already working in the mid-1970s on "combining tattooing and art". "He understands his work as art" was the headline of the scene magazine NaNa 1982. Kohrs was a mentee of the Frankfurt tattoo artist Horst Klassenbach ("Tattoo Samy"), with whom he designed tattoo machines and made the first piercing barbells . He has lived and worked in Resse since 1997 and has been involved in tattoo research since 2018.

biography

Manfred Kohrs grew up in Hanover-Linden . From 1963 he attended the elementary school in Letter and from 1972 to 1975 he trained as a fitter at the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in Hanover. In the 1970s he played rugby , in the position of the right outer three quarters , at SC Germania List . In 1977 Kohrs opened the first tattoo studio in Hanover. 1977 to 1981 a period of service as a SaZ with reconnaissance wing 52 of the Air Force in Leck . From 1983 he founded several corporations, including a haulage company and a dentist company . Manfred Kohrs gave up tattooing around 1990 in favor of studying economics. He completed a degree in business administration and a postgraduate degree in economics ; since 1995 he has worked in corporate and tax consulting.

Activity as a tattoo artist

Manfred Kohrs, 1976

Manfred Kohrs got his first tattoo on his arm during his school days at the age of twelve and began to tattoo by hand at the age of 13, the so-called " Peikern ". In January 1975 he had Herbert Hoffmann tattoo him and learned the basics working with a tattoo machine. On January 26, 1975 Kohrs met on the occasion of happenings in the Kunstverein Hannover on Timm Ulrichs and Horst Streckenbach. Ulrichs, had exhibited some “old-skool” tattoo motifs on canvas, and Straßenbach tattooed Kohrs in front of the NDR camera. In the following years Kohrs learned to tattoo at Linienbach and after two years working as a travel tattoo artist he opened the first tattoo studio in Hanover in 1977. Kohrs made his machines and accessories himself; He continued to develop the tattoo machine, which was manufactured by Linienbach from 1965 onwards. They differed from the common models that Samuel O'Reilly had patented, for example in the type of drive. So Kohrs relied on rotation instead of magnetic fields. The model `76 Manfred Kohrs also went on sale in Australia. In the late 1970s, Kohrs had a meeting with Fukushi Katsunari through a brokerage from Fahrtbach . In 1983, a plastic surgery clinic in Braunschweig approached Kohrs to tattoo the areola for a nipple reconstruction. In the period that followed, Kohrs carried out such work several times, supplied hospitals with the appropriate equipment and trained medical professionals. At the end of the 1980s Kohrs ended his career as an active tattoo artist.

In the summer of 2016, Kohrs reappeared in the tattoo scene. After a break of 30 years he gave a detailed interview to Stadtkind Hannovermagazin and Tattoo Kulture Magazine , in December 2016 he visited the exhibition Nailed to the Cross (PMA Tattoo Hanover). In spring 2019 he gave the writer Paul-Henri Campbell a detailed interview for the book Tattoo & Religion. The colorful cathedrals of the self. Under the title Manfred Kohrs Making History, Writing History - Between Practice, Reconciliation and Research , Kohrs gives an autobiographical insight into the past 50 years of his work.

"If" a tattoo shows who you are "then you should consider when choosing the motif and the part of the body that you may not want to show everyone who you once were in the future."

- Manfred Kohrs.

Association work

Rotary machine "Kohrs 1978" (Liner), art exhibition "skin stories" in the art gallery fürth 2015.

In 1977 Kohrs invited a number of tattooists registered in Germany and Switzerland - including Linienbach, Edward Sstak "Tattoo Eddy" († January 23, 1993, Fürth), Herbert Hoffmann , Heinrich Dietz and Theodor Vetter to an information meeting in Hanover . "At that time there were only 14 self-employed tattooists in the whole of Germany." The purpose of this meeting was to found a national association in order to subsequently introduce technical and hygienic standards. At the time, Straßenbach and Kohrs were the only German tattoo artists who used an autoclave to sterilize the devices. Kohrs then got in touch with the US tattoo artist "Philadelphia Eddie" Funk and was initially involved in the National Tattoo Club of the World . Between 1976 and 1984 Kohrs traveled to the USA several times, attended tattoo conventions and published in association magazines and journals. At the first "Convention" of the National Tattoo Club of the World, January 24-25, 1976 in Houston (Texas) and at the convention from March 23-25, 1979 in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Denver (Colorado), he met u. a. to David Yurkew , Don Ed Hardy , Arnold Rubin and Terry Wrigley , who accepted him as the 25th member of the European Tattoo Artist Association (ETAA).

art

As part of the exhibition "Timm Ulrichs: Tattoo Pictures" (January 12th - March 9th 1975) at the Kunstverein Hannover, a tattooing campaign took place on January 26th, 1975, on which Straßenbach his future student Manfred Kohrs in front of the running camera of the NDR tattooed. On January 28, 1975, the NDR reported in the program Nordschau-Magazin about the “Happening at the Kunstverein Hannover. "Sammy" from Frankfurt on his art and tattooing ". Kohrs was a member of the Kunstverein Hannover from 1977 to 2013.

From 1981 Manfred Kohrs, as a member of the Kunstverein Hannover, realized a number of artistic projects and devoted himself more to painting and conceptual art . He drew cartoons and towards the end of the eighties he designed various motifs for Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions , from which in 1987 the work "Future Music" emerged.

Exhibitions

Special exhibition Christian Warlich on St. Pauli in the MHG 2019

From October 9, 2015 to November 8, 2015 the kunst galerie fürth presented the exhibition Skin Stories Tattoo und Kunst, u. a. with Timm Ulrichs, Wim Delvoye , Manfred Kohrs, Simone Pfaff and Volker Merschky . A rotary tattoo machine manufactured by Kohrs in 1978 was presented as part of the exhibition.

From November 27, 2019 to May 25, 2020, the Museum of Hamburg History presented a special exhibition entitled Tattoo-Legenden. Christian Warlich on St. Pauli , which was curated by Ole Wittmann . A section of this exhibition shows objects and documents from the work of Kohrs as a tattoo artist. a. a travel tattoo kit of the early 1970s.

research

Manfred Kohrs & Ole Wittmann at the Museum for Hamburg History 2019

Kohrs has been chairman of the board of the Institute for German Tattoo History (IDTG), which he founded, since 1997 . The Hamburg art historian Ole Wittmann has been vice chairman and scientific director there since 2019, the art historian Klaus Gier is his deputy. The IDTG deals with the “implementation of scientific events and research projects on German tattoo history in an international context.” Kohrs publishes his own memories and results of his research work and others. a. in Tattoo Kulture Magazine .

From May 2018 to November 2019 Kohrs worked as a research assistant on the research and exhibition project “The legacy of the Hamburg tattoo artist Christian Warlich (1891–1964)”, which was carried out and curated by Ole Wittmann. The results of this research went into the special exhibition Tattoo Legends. Christian Warlich to St. Pauli (2019/20) in the Museum of Hamburg History .

In 2018, Manfred Kohrs took over the legacy of his former mentor Horst Linienbach from Herry Nentwig , who was able to save it from destruction in 2001 after Fahrtbach's death. This estate is also evaluated and published by the IDTG. Selected objects, including the first album of routes Bach's templates from 1949, will be shown in the special exhibition Tattoo-Legenden. Christian Warlich on St. Pauli (2019/20) in the Museum of Hamburg History. Kohrs gives lectures on his research work at specialist conferences and conventions. B. in September 2019 at the annual BMXnet Conference in Essen.

Publications (selection)

  • Manfred Kohrs and Heiko Gantenberg: Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Pioneers in Fort Notch. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 38, May / June 2020, pp. 38–47.
  • From the Past - First US-Tattoo Convention Houson / Texas 1976 , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 37, March / April 2020, pp. 88–89.
  • Manfred Kohrs (inter alia): The Tattoo Researchers , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 35, November / December 2019, pp. 22–28.
  • Routebach, mentor of the tattoo youth , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 34, September / October 2019, pp. 26–32.
  • Manfred Kohrs - making history, writing history , in: Paul-Henri Campbell : Tattoo & Religion. The colorful cathedrals of the self. Wunderhorn , Heidelberg 2019, pp. 86–95.
  • Guardian of the lost treasure - Herry Nentwig , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 33, July / August 2019, pp. 22–32.
  • The forgotten pioneer - Horst H. Linienbach. Tattoo-Samy , in: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 32, May / June 2019, pp. 28–40.

Quotes

"A self-made artist whose works don't hang in the museum, but eat, sleep, smoke and ride the tram."

- Portrait in: NaNa Hannover No. 36 of December 23, 1982.

"In a circle around Horst Linienbach, Kohrs belonged to an avant garde of young tattoo artists of the 1970s ..."

- Paul-Henri Campbell

literature

Web links

Commons : Manfred Kohrs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ NaNa Hannover, No. 36 -Portrait of an artist- Manfred's pictures drive the tram , December 23, 1982.
  3. ↑ Stadtkind Hannovermagazin, July 2016 edition, pp. 44–49: needle stitches. Interview: Manfred Kohrs .
  4. ↑ Offenbach-Post , No. 180, 1984, Manfred Kohrs, a tattoo artist with artistic ambitions
  5. ↑ Phillipp Schaab: How the piercing became famous in Germany. In: Tattoo Magazine 07/20 (# 293), pp. 80–81 from June 19, 2020.
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  10. ^ Association news of the SC Germania List, December 1971
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  28. ↑ Sabrina Ungemach in Tattoo Kulture Magazine No. 22, 2017, pp. 44-52.
  29. ↑ Tattoo Kulture Magazin: Nailed to the Cross by PMA Tattoo Hanover. # 18 2016, pp. 70-71.
  30. ^ Paul-Henri Campbell: Tattoo & Religion. The colorful cathedrals of the self. (Interviews), Heidelberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-88423-606-2 , pp. 86–95.
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  37. ↑ See Federal Social Court, Az .: B 3 KS 2/07 R judgment of February 28, 2007
  38. ↑ Oliver Paaß: Needle in, needle out. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine Issue No.29 of January 20, 2019, p. 79.
  39. ↑ The National Tattoo Club of the World was renamed in 1984 by a membership resolution in National Tattoo Association, NTA ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationaltattooassociation.com
  40. ↑ Cellesche Zeitung , May 5, 1984, p. 23, -Youth from today-
  41. ↑ Mississippi Coast Observer, September 2012, Volume 13, Issue 3, p. 36 ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.myvirtualpaper.com
  42. ↑ National Tattoo Magazine, June 1978, p. 9, July 1978 p. 13, Sept. 1979 p. 8 ff. (English)
  43. ↑ Mississippi Gulf Coast's Observer , September 2012, Volume 13, Issue 3, p. 36 (English)
  44. ↑ Terry's Tattoo Studio (English); Terry Wrigley (1932–1999) ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tattooarchive.com
  45. ↑ Cellesche Zeitung , May 5, 1984, p. 23, "Pictures that get under your skin"
  46. ^ Sprengel Museum Hannover (ed.): Timm Ulrichs Die Druckgrafik , 2003, p. 154, ISBN 3-89169-183-1
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  48. ↑ List of members of the Kunstverein Hannover 2012, number 3020
  49. ↑ Cellesche Zeitung , May 5, 1984, p. 23, Jugend von heute
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  51. ↑ National Tattoo Magazine, June-July 1978, p. 13 cartoon by Kohrs
  52. ^ In the holdings of the KUNSTverein 2000 Wedemark eV
  53. ↑ Rainer Hertwig on August 17, 2015: Analog messages under the skin
  54. ↑ Invitation card from the art gallery fürth and the Fürth Culture Office, 2015. Skin Stories invitation card.pdf
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  56. ^ Foundation Historical Museums Hamburg: Tattoo Legends. Christian Warlich on St. Pauli. In: Ruhr University Bochum word mark. April 11, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
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  63. ^ Manfred Kohrs: Horst H. Linienbach the forgotten pioneer. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine Issue No.32 of April 12, 2019, pp. 28-40.
  64. ^ Research project "The legacy of the Hamburg tattoo artist Christian Warlich (1891–1964)" October 30, 2015 / Ole Wittmann
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personal data
SURNAME Kohrs, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tattoo artist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover