Oliver Augst

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Before the performance of “City of 1000 Fires” in Frankfurt

Oliver Augst (born June 3, 1962 in Andernach am Rhein) is a German composer , singer , producer and radio play author .

Live and act

Augst studied visual communication with a focus on stage at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and popular music / performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg . In 1994 he received a DAAD scholarship for fine art in Vienna, and in 1995 a scholarship for composition at the Akademie Schloss Solitude , chosen by Wolfgang Rihm .

His music, theater and radio play productions, u. a. in collaboration with Rüdiger Carl , Christoph Korn (Trio Blank ), Marcel Daemgen (Band Arbeit and Electronic Music Theater ), the turntablist and guitarist Alexandre Bellenger (concerts including 2017 at the Sonic Protest Festival and 2019 at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme Paris), Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring (from Stereo Total ), the media artist Stefan Beck, the US illustrator and poet Raymond Pettibon , Blixa Bargeld and most recently with the Swedish performance artist and drummer Sven-Åke Johansson (concerts ao 2017 in Berghain , Ultrasound Festival Berlin or 2020 in the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen) have been presented internationally since 1991. 2019 collaboration with the visual artist Michael Riedel (sound installation for the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig ). His radio play Kippenberger Hören was presented in 2009 at the MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna , 2015 in the Museum Folkwang Essen , 2016 in the Kunstforum Wien , and in 2019 in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (moderated by Max Dax ).

For the Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara Oliver Augst took over (with Christoph Korn) 2002, directed the hr -Hörfunk production One Million Years (consisting of 32 CDs) and continued to work the same as a live installation at the Documenta 11 in Kassel Fridericianum to . 2019/2020 presentation as a sound installation as part of the exhibition Museum in the Museum for Modern Art MMK, Frankfurt.

Together with Raymond Pettibon, he realized the musical The Whole World Is Watching (with Schorsch Kamerun , Keiji Haino and Marcel Daemgen) in 2007 as part of the MaerzMusik festival at the Berliner Festspiele . In November 2019 Augst (alongside Kim Gordon , Stella Schnabel , Frances Stark, Marcel Dzama , Hans Weigand and many others) participated in the performance Whoever Shows: Strike Uyp Th 'Band! by Raymond Pettibon at the New Museum , New York, as part of the Performa 19 Biennale. The radio play What we know is secret , realized together with Pettibon, will be presented in 2020 in the Victoria Hall in Geneva as part of ArtGenève.

Oliver Augst is also active as a curator , for example for the pol Festival neue Musik (1999–2003), the Audio Art Series (2005–2007) at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and 2009–2011 for the What Is Music? in the room for culture of the Gallileo-Art-Tower of the Commerzbank in Frankfurt. The World Through Your Ears , concerts and workshops at the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt followed in 2012 .

From 2011 to 2014 Augst was musical director of the series of events Utopie Station at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . He lives and works in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and in Paris .

honors and awards

  • 2019 nomination for Phonurgia Nova Awards Paris for the internet radio play Volksliedmaschine 2.0
  • 2018 nomination for the radio play award of the war blind for the radio play Otium
  • 2018 youth theater award " Karfunkel " of the city of Frankfurt am Main a. a. for the listening theater series On Air
  • 2017 nomination for the Prix ​​Europa , category "Radio Fiction", for the radio play Otium
  • 2015 nomination for the German Record Critics ' Award , category "Grenzgang", for the CD Best of
  • 2011 TAZ audio book of the year, CD / radio play Kippenberger Hören by Oliver Augst and Rüdiger Carl
  • 2008 The German Academy of Performing Arts awards Kippenberger Hören as radio play of the month for July
  • 2008 Nomination for the Prix ​​Italia , category "Radio Composition", for the radio play The Whole World Is Watching
  • 1999 Hessian Film Prize for the TV music film Winter Say by Hardt / Rippl with the music by Augst / Daemgen / Korn

Works

Sound carrier (selection)

  • What we know is secret LP (Augst / Pettibon), Brigade Commerz 2020
  • Lou Reed in Offenbach LP (Augst / Cactus / Göring ), unbreakmyheart 2020
  • Winterreise CD (Augst & Daemgen), Deutschlandfunk 2020
  • You're the Top (ski) Vinyl Single (Augst / Pettibon), Brigade Commerz, Audio Arts Archives 2019
  • Blank meets Pettibon (The Berlin Concert) Picture Vinyl (Augst / Carl / Korn / Pettibon), Brigade Commerz 2016
  • Wooden Heart Vinyl Single (Augst / Pettibon), Brigade Commerz, Audio Arts Archives 2015
  • Best Of CD (Augst & Daemgen), Kuckuck Schallplatten 2015
  • Your song CD (Augst & Daemgen), Kuckuck Schallplatten 2013
  • Burma Shave Electrics Picture Vinyl (Augst / Pettibon), Brigade Commerz, Audio Arts Archives 2013
  • It's all over in ten seconds CD (Augst & Daemgen), Kuckuck Schallplatten 2012
  • Kippenberger listen to CD (Augst / Carl / Johansson ), rbb / DLR / Whatness 2011
  • Above - Matthias Beltz remixed CD (Augst / Carl), Mille Plateaux / hr2 2011
  • Work Fassbinder Raben CD (work), Deutschlandfunk / CCn'C / DA-Music 2010
  • Youth CD (work), textXTND / DeutschlandRadio 2007
  • Blank plays Duden DVD (Augst / Carl / Korn), A-Musik / revolver Verlag 2006
  • Long live the people of the revolution LP (Augst / Korn), hr2 / possibly / A-Musik 2005
  • Marx CD (work), Grob / DeutschlandRadio 2004
  • Post Blank CD (Augst / Carl / Korn), Grob 2004
  • Duden LP (blank), possibly / A-Musik 2004
  • Blank Meets Pettibon CD (Augst / Carl / Korn / Pettibon), Grob 2003
  • On Kawara, one million years 32 CDs (Augst / Korn), hr2 / der Hörverlag 2002
  • To the German moon CD (work), EFA 2001
  • Blank CD (Augst / Carl / Korn), FMP 2000
  • Brecht / Eisler CD (work), EFA 1998
  • Shuffle - Music for Compact Disc CD (Friendship), Frog Records / EFA 1993

Radio plays (selection)

Live performance on October 19, 20 and 21, 2013 in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm , Frankfurt, on January 23, 2014 in the Alte Feuerwache in Mannheim , in February 2014 in the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen and on September 1, 2018 in the Wilhelm Hack Ludwigshafen Museum .
The radio play has been presented as a permanent sound installation in the Museum Eslohe since October 2014 .
  • Kippenberger Hören (Augst / Carl), RBB / DLR 2008
  • The whole world is watching (Augst / Pettibon), 2008
  • Shopping systems 3.0 (Augst / Beck), ORF Kunstradio 2005
  • Long live the people of the revolution (Augst / Korn), hr 2004
  • On Kawara, one million years (Augst / Korn), hr 2002
  • Folksong machine (Augst / Korn), HR 2002
  • Eisler prospectus (Augst / Korn), HR 2000
  • Talk radio Osnabrück (Augst / Beck), European Media Art Festival 1996
  • Vienna radio show (Augst / Beck), ORF Kunstradio 1994

Theater (selection)

literature

  • Astrid Ihle, Bastian Zimmermann (Eds.) From Goldap: Rüdiger Carl in conversation with Oliver Augst . Weissbooks, Frankfurt am Main 2014; ISBN 978-3863370794

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solitude Academy
  2. ↑ Blixa Bargeld Biography ( Memento from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau CD review
personal data
SURNAME Augst, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, composer, producer and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Then after