Konrad Hempel

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Konrad Hermann Hempel (born December 13, 1973 in East Berlin ) is a German composer, musician, visual artist, performance artist and author.

Life

Hempel studied history, musicology and philosophy and later visual communication at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . He was a master student with Alexander Jordan and Barbara Junge . 

As a guitarist and singer, he founded the band Yellowback with Sebastian Schulz and Christian Rau in 1994. In 1998 he founded the open stage "Department Hearing and Seeing", a performative art and satire show. He is a member of the performance and multimedia collective "Schwindel".

From 2005 to 2008 and again since 2009 he is a permanent member of the band ALP (guitar, vocals), which mainly deals with the dubbing of silent films. With his bands Yellowback and ALP he made guest appearances in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic and the USA. ALP played at the closing event of the Berlin & Beyond Festival 2016 in San Francisco and has been invited by the Goethe-Institut several times .

Hempel works for theater and film. Among other things, he worked at the Residenztheater Munich , the Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Hanover Theater .

His visual art includes installations, sound spaces as well as video and painting works. His work is characterized by text, experimental music and film elements. He presented u. a. at the Academy of Arts , the House of World Cultures in Berlin and the Museu Monjo in Barcelona.

In 2014, together with the filmmaker, video artist and physicist Claudia Lehmann, he founded the Institute for Experimental Affairs, which launches cross-border formats and projects between science and art. In 2015 they made two contributions to the Save The World II festival in Bonn.

Others

Hempel is one of the founding members of the Independent Youth Center Pankow (JUP), where he was a member of the board for many years. He teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts . Hempel is the grandson of the architect Hermann Henselmann and the cousin of the actress Anne-Sophie Briest .

Discography (selection)

  • Crossunder Music (Yellowback) 1999
  • WYBH (Yellowback) 2003
  • Noiseworks 15 (sampler contribution / Yellowback) 2004
  • El Arte Nunca Muere (ALP) 2006
  • Silver (ALP) 2008
  • Blue (Yellowback) 2009
  • Lights (ALP) 2010
  • Orange (Yellowback) 2010
  • Red (Yellowback) 2011
  • Who's Afraid of Red, Green, Yellow and Blue (Yellowback) 2014

Publications (selection) 

  • Contribution to The Digital Turn - Design In The Era Of Interactive Technologies (Eds .: Carola Zwick, Zane Berzina and Barbara Junge et al.) ISBN 978-3-906027-02-9

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personal data
SURNAME Hempel, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hempel, Konrad Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, composer, musician, visual artist and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin