Johannes Finke
Johannes Finke (born November 17, 1974 in Marbach am Neckar ) is a German author , publisher and musician .
Life
Finke is the founder of the loudspeaker publisher , which existed from 1996 to 2007. In 1999 Finke's most successful book to date was published, the volume of poems Sex with Monika Kruse or Imagine it's pop and nobody goes there! . He wrote u. a. for media such as intro , Spex , Amica and Vanity Fair , the German intro for the project Battleship Potemkin the Pet Shop Boys and the play & Agents actors 1 with Shia LaBeouf and Stefan Konarske in the lead roles (2005). In 2008 he was editor-in-chief of the German Face magazine and from 2009 to 2012 co-publisher and editor-in-chief of Blank magazine.
His songs were released on the former label Pavlek Records , in 2004 the EP your wohnzimmer & my leben , in 2007 the album Nothing, nothing will never change . The single from this album, Where are you? , was filmed under Hagen Decker's direction, who also directed the 2012 video for To the End of the World . Finke releases under the name “The Camping Group”, together with the Stuttgart musician Daniel Vujanic, on the Belgian label Off Records.
In 2017 Finke wrote the screenplay for Antimarteria and directed the music video Tier for the Berlin band Violence.
Finke is the founder of the communication platform Down By Berlin and co-operator of the Bravo Bar , which opened in 2011 in Berlin's Torstrasse .
Together with Anna Müller, he has been running Herzstückverlag since April 2019.
Books
- Hopper machine , Neuweiler 1997
- In love with the blind , Agenbach 1998
- Sex with Monika Kruse or imagine it's pop and nobody goes! , Agenbach 1999
- Chance 2000. The documentation by Johannes Finke and Matthias Wulff , Agenbach 1999
- Hardcore angels and other poems , Braunschweig 2001
- The loudspeaker , Volume 5/1: Lyrikland , Agenbach 2003
- Ego theme park , Stuttgart 2004
- It has to be love , together with Julia Schramm, Berlin, 2018
Book contributions
- German Fashion Design 1946 - 2012 , Fern Verlag 2011
- Roles , Hannibal Verlag 2004
- The new saints - new reports from the media heaven , Alibri Verlag 2000
- Berlin by night , Suhrkamp, 2013
- Easy Does it , Easy Does It, Berlin, 2015
- Useless rabble - stories from the King Size , Berlin, 2017
- Proust is my life, but I am very bored: cause and effect, Stuttgart, 2018
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Finke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Johannes Finke
- Website Down By Berlin
- Blog Das Biest Berlin
- Tumblr Bravo Bar
- Finke on soundcloud
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Finke, Johannes |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, publisher and musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Marbach am Neckar |