Jörg Janzer

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Jörg Janzer in May 2017 in his studio in Berlin.

Jörg Janzer (* 1939 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German psychiatrist, writer, action artist and painter. He lives and works in Berlin .

Live and act

psychiatry

Jörg Janzer studied medicine in Freiburg, Heidelberg and Dakar from 1959 and obtained his doctorate in 1965. med. In 1976 he completed further training as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry. He was the initiator and first chairman of the "Saarland Society for Social Psychiatry" (see also German Society for Social Psychiatry ). After a brief activity at the Saarbrücken Psychiatric Clinic , he became the head physician at the Daun Specialist Clinic for addicts in the same year and head physician at the Münchwies Psychosomatic Clinic the following year . At the end of 1977 he gave up the medical profession.

Writing and art

From 1968 Janzer was represented with drawings and paintings in numerous solo and group exhibitions, for example in Basel, Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Paris and Berlin. He also wrote a number of "Romanoids", "Textoids", poems and essays.

In 1985 he published the novel Meat Meat - Rhizome from the interim estate of the poet and painter Alexander Mens , the latter an art figure created by him. In 1995 an article about speechlessness in the face of the war in Kosovo appeared in the almanac "Between the Times - Between the Worlds".

From 1985 he undertook a series of performances with text and music in Berlin, from 1992 also actions in public space.

Actions (selection)

  • 1992 Salman-Rushdie-Str. with André Beck: Renaming of 15 street sections in Berlin
  • 1993 "The Red Cross resigns"
  • 1994 "Before the illumination comes the illumination"
  • 1998 VEGAN ART / body art: "The Tao at the limit of the conceivable is the quantyle - attempt to justify a neurophysiology of ethics"
  • 1998 “Change the Culture” and “Proust in Tibet” on the occasion of the Berlin Biennale
  • 1999 Art theft performance “Stolen Air Pump” at Deutsche Bank, Unter den Linden
  • 2000 SCIENCES BRUT, with the Transition gallery and the Volker Sieben studio

literature

items

  • Phalluses as vectors - drawings and paintings by Jörg Janzer in the Zimmertheater in Tübinger Zeitung , July 22, 1971
  • Stepan Krass: The country needs new fools , radio report SWF 2, March 3, 1984
  • Rita Breit: Jörg Janzer's No Man's Land in Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 9, 1985
  • Rainer Stephan: The imported writers in Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 10, 1987
  • Andrea Köhler: Mens, the drill in Badische Zeitung , March 15, 1988
  • Heinz Mudrich: What many are missing: “The real life” in Saarbrücker Zeitung , May 26, 1990
  • Noel Rademacher: “Culture is a fleeting thing” in taz berlin, December 5, 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: My oral cavity is an art space , February 28, 2006, accessed May 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Jörg Janzer: Meat meat: Rhizomes from the interim estate of the poet and painter Alexander Mens . AQ-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-922441-51-9
  3. ↑ Between the times - between the worlds . Argon Verlag, edited by Ewa Boura and Inge Gellert, ISBN 3-87024-265-5
  4. ↑ NZZ.ch: “Snowdenmania” erupted in Berlin , October 2, 2014, accessed May 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Janzer, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau