Michael Geißler (video artist)

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Michael Geißler (* 1942 in Berlin ; † December 2003 in Berlin) was one of the first German video artists .

Life

After completing a business apprenticeship, he began to study commercial advertising at the Academy for Graphics, Printing and Advertising in Berlin. His one-year study at the dffb in 1967/68 in the subject of camera and directing was ended by forced de-registration after the Springer house was occupied. From 1975 he was the technical director of the video forum at the Berlin International Film Festival. He received a teaching position for alternative media work at the Institute for Journalism at the Free University of Berlin . From the mid-1980s he was employed at the Werkbund Archive, Museum for Everyday Culture, where he supervised the video installations. In total, he was involved in around 370 video productions that are now stored in the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

Geißler founded the video artist group VAM Future Kids in 1969 . He got involved in social projects such as alternative children's shops and was part of the group of roaming hash rebels . In May 2008, a volume of his stories and tales, Acid, Mao and I Ching, will be published posthumously . Memories of a Berlin hash rebel . Michael Geißler was represented with two works as a participant in Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 in the video department .

Filmography

  • 1969: Education to be a subject (documentary, WDR)
  • 1970: Paradise now - The End of the Living Theater (Documentation, WDR)
  • 1971: The way of Hans Monn (Documentation, Kintopp and NDR)
  • 1973: Berlin Video 1 - We have to become the white Indians of Europe (1st video feature film on German TV, NDR)

book

  • Miriam Spies (Ed.), Michael Geißler: Acid, Mao and I Ching. Memories of a Berlin hash rebel . Gonzo, Mainz 2008

Literature and Sources

  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X

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personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 2003
Place of death Berlin