Michael Rome

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Michael Rom (born July 7, 1957 in Wittenberge , † April 29, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German poet . He belonged to the artist and literary scene based in Dresden in the early 1980s . From 1980 he was also the singer of the GDR punk band Zwitschermaschine .

After completing an apprenticeship as a maintenance mechanic and serving in the army , Rome worked at Moritzburg Castle and the Radeburg Local History Museum from 1978 . While working on an art exhibition in the Radeburg local history museum, Rome met the art students Cornelia Schleime and Ralf Kerbach , who were studying at the Dresden University of Fine Arts , in the early 1980s . The collaboration also resulted in a music project with Ralf Kerbach (guitar) and Rom as the second vocalist, who supported the singer Cornelia Schleime. Matthias Zeidler (bass) and Wolfgang Grossmann (drums) joined them later. Initially operating under the band names Ende and Schwarz / Weiß , they called themselves Fourth Root from Twitter Machine , which was recently shortened to Twitter Machine . In addition, Rome was one of the founders of the experimental theater SUM with Volker Palma and Christine Schlegel . In 1980/81, Rome took part in the academy anthology initiated by Franz Fühmann for the Academy of the Arts in the GDR , but remained unpublished , a collection of 30 authors who could not appear in the GDR. In 1982 Michael Rom applied for an exit visa and in February 1984 moved to the Federal Republic, first to Frankfurt / M. and in the late 1980s to West Berlin, where he worked as a writer. According to Sächsischer Zeitung , Rome was shot and killed in a robbery on a hotel in Berlin in 1991. His estate was rediscovered - long lost - and published in a book in 2018 by his former band colleague Wolfgang Grossmann.

Works

By Michael Rome published articles in art books and the unofficial magazines LIANE (East Berlin) and AND (Dresden), in KULTUhR , horse latitudes , language in the age of technology and in anthologies, u. a. in:

Furthermore catalog texts u. a. to exhibitions by Ohui Cha, Ralf Kerbach, Christine Schlegel.

literature

  • Bells, videos, audio cassettes. Summer festival of experimental music in the Munich Technical University. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 10, 1987
  • Grammar of a landscape. Literature from the GDR in the 80s . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931836-03-7
  • Christine Schlegel: My friend - the Rom. In Christine Schlegel: Skinless - Welded surveillance. Collages - drawings - memories. With contributions by Matthias Flügge, Hannelore Offner and Christoph Tannert, Gerhard Wolf Janus press Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-928942-70-0
  • Wolfgang Grossmann (ed.): Does not want to go to the big-eared elephants. poems, lyrical pictures, pieces and . Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2018, 192 pages, ISBN 978-3-940-38493-5 , review

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Salzbrenner: Everywhere detours, astray, jumps. Sächsische Zeitung, April 21, 2018, accessed on February 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rome, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1991
Place of death Berlin