Janko Hanushevsky

Janko Hanushevsky (* 21st April 1978 in Linz ) is an Austrian e- bass player and radio author / - director .

Live and act

Hanushevsky grew up in Upper Austria. From 1997 to 2002 he studied jazz bass at the Vienna Conservatory . Important teachers were also the Austrian double bass player and composer Peter Herbert and the Icelandic electric bass player Skúli Sverrisson . As an electric bass player, Janko Hanushevsky's focus is on contemporary jazz music and freely improvised music. Since 2002 he has been working intensively with "extended techniques" on the electric bass and has developed a broad vocabulary on the prepared electric bass. Sound research trips took him to India, Southeast Asia and Greenland.

Since 2002 he has been producing electro-acoustic music, radio art, features and radio plays as well as film and theater music for Deutschlandradio Kultur, Deutschlandfunk , WDR , the Finnish radio Yleisradio , ZDF / arte , Hebbel am Ufer Theater in Duo Merzouga with computer musician Eva Pöpplein Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt , Münchner Volkstheater , Schauspielhaus Graz .

The duo has released several CDs that have received international reviews, including on the Gruenrekorder label . Pieces appeared on international compilations, including “WIRE Tapper”, “Noise of Cologne”, and “MUSIC! The Berlin Phonogram Archive 1911-2011 ".

Her radio work, for which Janko Hanushevsky writes manuscripts and directs with Eva Pöpplein, has received numerous national and international awards and nominations (including Prix Marulić, n-ost Reportage Prize, German Academy of Performing Arts / Radio Play of the Month ) and by numerous ARD broadcasters broadcast (including BR, HR, NDR, MDR, RBB, WDR, DKultur and DLF). In 2015 Hanushevsky lived for a month in the Brecht House in Denmark as “Writer in Residence”. After working in Vienna and Berlin, Janko Hanushevsky has lived in Cologne since 2008.

Honourings and prices

• 15th Prix ​​Marulić 2011 for Milomaki (DLF 2010)
• 16th Prix Marulic 2012 for Carpathian Blues (DLF 2011)
• n-ost Reportage Award (nomination) for Carpathian Blues (DLF 2011)
• Radio play of the month February 2015 for Ob the pomegranate trees are in bloom (DLF 2015)
• Radio play of the month December 2016 for In darkness let me dwell - Lieder aus der Finsternis (DLF / HR 2016)
• 21st Prix ​​Marulić 2017 for In darkness let me dwell - songs from the darkness (DLF / HR 2017)

Radio productions

• Journey into the interstate - the poet brothers Klaus and Martin Merz by Janko Hanushevsky. Feature. DLF / RBB 2017.
• In darkness let me dwell - songs from the darkness radio play by Merzouga. Based on field recordings from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Antarctica. DLF / HR 2016, radio play of the month .
• My India - cartography of a place of longing for Merzouga. Feature with Wolfgang and Peter Herbert . WDR 2016.
• De Rerum Natura / Dance of the Elements by Merzouga. Based on the ancient natural philosophical didactic poem De rerum natura by Lucretius . Yleisradio Finland 2015.
• Whether the pomegranate trees are in bloom by Gerhard Meier . Radio play. With Ueli Jäggi . Director: Janko Hanushevsky. Composition: Merzouga. DLF 2015 / radio play of the month
• The Ear of the World in Meier's Garden - An Approach to the Writer Gerhard Meier by Janko Hanushevsky. DLF 2015
• Inside Qivittoq from Merzouga. Feature. DLF / NDR / RBB 2013
• Music Matters - An Allegro Vivo with Sophie Hunger and Peter Herbert von Janko Hanushevsky. Feature. DLF 2013
• Rootless from Merzouga. Sound art. DKultur 2012
• Thunder Arch Whisper Dome of Merzouga. Feature. DLF 2012
• Carpathian Blues by Janko Hanushevsky. Feature. DLF 2011
• Milomaki - About forgetting and disappearing . Feature. DLF 2010
• Mekong Morning Glory from Merzouga. Sound art. DKultur 2009 / Gruenrekorder CD 2011
• Marie T.'s flip book by Marie T. Martin. Director: Janko Hanushevsky. Composition: Merzouga. DLF 2009
• Good morning, Rickshaw from Merzouga. Sound art. DKultur 2007

Web links

• Merzouga - music & radiophonic art
• Green recorder - Merzouga
• Merzouga & Peter Herbert, Salon Goldschlag, March 17, 2012 on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radio play of the month: In darkness let me dwell - songs from the darkness. In: deutschlandfunk.de. March 4, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2017 . 
2. ↑ 2nd Prix Marulic 2017: In darkness let me dwell - songs from the darkness ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2017 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.