Michael Küppers-Adebisi

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Michael Küppers-Adebisi (artist name: Sun Leegba Love a.ka Black Hyperion ), (* 1965 in Krefeld ) is an Afro-German poet , multimedia artist, and culture and event manager.

Life

Michael Küppers-Adebisi studied literature and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf from 1988 to 1995 and in 1989 postmodern literature (under Fredric Jameson ) and African-American literature (under Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ) at Duke University , USA. From 1993 to 1996 he studied poetry and performance at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Nan Hoover and Nam June Paik . In 1996 he was the first Afro-German poet to represent the Federal Republic as “literary ambassador” at the Goethe-Institut New York at the Deutsch Nuorican Poetry Festival . He has been a certified multimedia and interactive video producer since 1996. He worked as the head of a multimedia agency, as a “Director for Interactive Internet TV”, as a “Conceptioner” and as a public relations manager. In 2002 he completed his training as an interactive video producer . From 2002 to 2004 he organized three international media congresses , which were held under the title Black Media Congress Berlin in cooperation with the Goethe Institute Berlin, the Heinrich Böll Foundation Berlin and the House of World Cultures Berlin.

In 2004 he initiated the “First Black German International Literature Prize” with the May Ayim Award in Berlin under the patronage of UNESCO . In 2005 he received the ADLER Entrepreneurship and Youth Award from the African Youth Foundation (AYF) in the Best NGO category and was honored with the Bremen Peace Prize 2006. In 2006, Black Heritage magazine honored him as one of the 50 most important Afro-Germans .

Works

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  • approx. 50 productions in the field of "Spoken Word / Multi-Media-Performance"
  • Online community "cyberNomads"

Publications / stage

  • (2004). African diaspora in Germany , Federal Agency for Civic Education - cyberNomads editorial team
  • Michael Küppers-Adebisi, Peggy Piesche (2004). May Ayim Award 2004 , book and multimedia CD, Berlin: Orlanda Verlag / cyberNomads / ISBN 3-936937-21-4 .
  • The Black Book - Berlin - Cologne

Black present tense in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present Editor cyberNomads Michael Küppers-Adebisi with ADB Koeln IKO-Verlag ISBN 3-88939-745-X .

  • Feature, various:

Black Germania 1st Black German International Literature Prize - BRD Interviews / comments in: Deutsche Welle, Deutschlandfunk, Radio MultiKulti

  • 2002 The Abduction / Interactive Film DVD 30 min - Berlin

Concept / project management / DVD authoring www.L4.de

  • Performance in: Liebe & Verstand - Berlin

Music-Video Sisters Keepers www.Brotherskeepers.de

  • 2001 Feature texts and interviews - Berlin

in: Deutschlandfunk contemporary poetry

  • 2000 Process-Zion / Hope Principle - Krefeld

Concept catalog published by Michael Küppers_Adebisi

  • 1997 Time and Space / Poem - Möhnesee

in: Views of Our Ancestors / Exhibition Catalog Editor Stephen Lawson

  • 1997 The Reichstag - Kafka in the Mix - Berlin-Duesseldorf

in: Jew's Harp / Magazine for Art & Literature in: Doodle / Magazine for Performing Arts

  • 1996 Beings 2 Come Radio Fritz Potsdam

in: The Blue Hour with M. Algarin & B. Holeman

  • 1996 Great - Members of Mayday - Berlin-Cologne

VIVA / MTV music video performance

  • 1995 Lost Tribes of Africa / Anthology - Berlin-Duesseldorf

Editor Michael Küppers-Adebisi

  • 1995 Feature texts and interviews Cologne

in: WDR artist of the month

  • 2004 Black Germania - Presentation of the May Ayim Award

Concept / direction / project management cooperation with House of World Cultures and UNESCO

  • 2002 SpokenWord - Martin Gropius Bau -Berlin

Concept / direction / project management

  • 2000 ProcessZion - Krefeld

Exhibition / Multimedia - Literature Performance Installation Cooperation with Charles Wilp and Deutsche Bahn AG

  • 1999 Interactive Exhibition - Africa Festival - Wuerzburg

Installation and performance

  • 1997 German-Nuyorican Poetry Festival - Goethe-Institut - New York

Contemporary German poets with: Bastian Boettcher, Zehra Cirak, Elke Erb, Durs Gruenbein, Thomas Kling, Michael Küppers, Yoko Tawada

  • 1995 The Valley of the Crying Stones - Passionskirche - Berlin

Memorial for May Ayim - reading and singing

  • The Cross in the Window - The Nuyorican Poetry Café - New York

Literary performance

  • Lost Tribes of Africa I - Art Academy - Duesseldorf

Multimedia performance, poetry / samples / projection / dance

  • 1994 Die Mensch Lyrikmaschine - Art Academy - Duesseldorf

Multimedia performance / slide show / installation

  • In Memoriam Malclom X - The Factory - Hamburg

Performance and reading

  • 1992 Modern Slaves - Tonhalle - Duesseldorf

Performance and New Music commissioned by Musikfabrik NRW & S. Stockhausen

  • Return to the Native art ship Gerjera-Dokumenta IX- Kassel

Literature - performance, dance and photography

Awards / distinctions

  • 2011 House of World Cultures - Audience Award Short Film Multi-Media Competition Berlin
  • 2006 honorable mention at the Bremen Peace Prize
  • 2005 ADLER Entrepreneurship Award from the African Youth Foundation - in the Best NGO category
  • 2004 May Ayim Award / Award by UNESCO Germany as a German project to commemorate the slave trade and its abolition Germany

literature

  • Michael Küppers, Ani Ekpenyong, Angela A. Kadalie (eds.): May-Ayim-Award. First international black German literature prize 2004. Orlanda Frauenverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936937-21-4 .
  • Michael Küppers, AntiDiskriminierungsBüro (ADB) Cologne from the public against violence e. V./cyberNomads (cbN) (Ed.): Professional culture®evolution inna germany. In: TheBlackBook, Germany's moults. Berlin / Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-88939-745-X , ( bpb.de )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Küppers Adebisi. (No longer available online.) Westfaelisches-landestheater.de, archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 9, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / westfaelisches-landestheater.de
personal data
SURNAME Küppers-Adebisi, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sun Leegba Love, Black Hyperion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afro-German poet and multimedia artist, as well as culture and event manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld