Konrad Balder Schäuffelen

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Konrad Balder Schäuffelen (born June 16, 1929 in Ulm ; † October 19, 2012 ) was a German psychiatrist , author of Concrete and Visual Poetry and translator .

Life

Schäuffelen studied medicine and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich, Paris and Frankfurt am Main (from 1949 to 1956 and from 1958 to 1962). The topic of his dissertation was cerebral decompensation symptoms during treatment with phenothiazines and Tofranil (Diss. Frankfurt 1959). He stayed several times for long periods in Rome, Prague and the Middle East. From 1966 to 1970 Schäuffelen worked as a psychiatrist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich. After his subsequent training as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst , he worked in his own practice and as a freelance writer and translator in Munich.

The focus of his literary work in the 1950s was the production of experimental and visual poetry. Since the beginning of the 1960s, Schäuffelen has primarily produced language and book objects as well as audio-visual installations . In 1979 he was awarded the Schwabing Art Prize in the sculpture / sculpture category.

In 2006 he was invited by the cultural association SCHLOSS GOLDEGG / State of Salzburg to respond with an exhibition or an installation to the magnificent Renaissance knight's hall of the palace. He decided to put the court jester frescoed there at the center of his exhibition project entitled "The Fool's Hat". "Der Narrenhut" was shown in a modified form in 2007 in Munich in the Artothek and in Ulm in the Künstlerhaus.

One of his last artistic appearances was in 2009 in the Munich Night of Experimental Music: In "Until Falling", the title of the impressive short performance, he set 16 mechanical children's tops in motion with three assistants ...

Works

  • out with the language , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1969
  • language is a body for true , exhibition catalog Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich 1976
  • Against stands sentences , Erlangen, Munich: Renner-Verlag 1979, ISBN 978-3-921499-34-4 .
  • Inventories , Cologne 1995
  • Swallow wisdom , Cologne 1996
  • Minimal dialogues , Cologne 1998
  • Out of sight out of mind. Objects, installations, dialogues, protocols , exhibition catalog, Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, Berlin 1999
  • Thank you for the talk. New minimal dialogues , Vienna 2004
  • The fool's hat , exhibition catalog, self-published by Kulturverein Schloss Goldegg, Goldegg 2006

Translations from Czech

Exhibitions

In addition to numerous solo exhibitions, Schäuffelen was also represented at the

  • 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
  • 1969: Mostra di poesia concreta , Venice (organized by the Venice Biennale )
  • 1986: Wunderkammer (curated by Adalgisa Lugli), Venice Biennale

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
personal data
SURNAME Schäuffelen, Konrad Balder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH 19th October 2012