Peter Iden

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Peter Iden, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main

Peter Iden (born September 11, 1938 in Meseritz , Grenzmark Province of Posen-West Prussia ) is a German theater and art critic .

life and work

Iden's family fled from the Red Army to the British occupation zone and settled in Lauenburg on the Elbe . Iden grew up there and attended the humanistic branch of the Johanneum grammar school in Lüneburg . From 1955 he spent two years with a host family in California . After moving to Frankfurt, where his grandfather owned a construction company, and graduating from the Frankfurt Helmholtz School in 1958 , Peter Iden studied philosophy, history and theater studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He heard lectures from Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer , but he was particularly impressed by the neo-Kantian Wolfgang Cramer . He continued his studies at the University of Vienna because Richard Hönigswald's archive there found his interest. In Vienna, Iden was friends with the then avant-garde artists Arnulf Rainer and Markus Prachensky .

Iden has been writing journalistic articles since 1961, inspired by the then cultural director Erich Lissner , primarily for the Frankfurter Rundschau . Around the same time, Iden met the theater director Erwin Piscator in Frankfurt , became his assistant and traveled with him through Germany for two years. Inspired by Piscator, he and the theater publisher Karlheinz Braun organized the “Experimenta” from 1966 to 1971 in the Theater am Turm , which is considered one of the first international festivals for experimental theater in Germany. In 1972 Iden was part of the organizing committee of Documenta 5 curated by Harald Szeemann . Under the same title Experimenta , he led a similar event with Braun at the Documenta in 1972. In the same year he became a member of the PEN Center Germany .

From 1978 to 1987 he was involved with Heinrich Klotz and Hilmar Hoffmann in founding and building up the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main and was its founding director. By acquiring part of the collection of the Darmstadt entrepreneur Karl Ströher , he secured a valuable foundation for the museum in 1981 with 87 pictures, sculptures, objects and environments from American Pop Art, Minimal Art and some important European artists. From 1982 Iden was professor for theater and art theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main and head of the drama department.

Iden became known as a cultural journalist as a theater and art critic for the Frankfurter Rundschau, for which he wrote more than 3,000 articles over the years. He was a senior editor and from 1993 to 2000 the features editor (editorial abbreviation “PI”) of the Frankfurter Rundschau.

In 2009, Iden was the spokesperson for the curators who organized the highly regarded exhibition “Sixty Years. Sixty Works - Art from the Federal Republic of Germany ”in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.

Iden is the author and publisher of numerous publications on contemporary theater and art; in 1995 he was awarded the Goethe plaque from the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and in 2006 the Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main .

He lives in Frankfurt am Main and on Lake Garda .

Fonts

  • Society - what is it? Scenes from contemporary life , Athenaeum, Königstein, 1985 ISBN 978-3-7610-8376-5 .
  • Every picture is a reality itself , in: Peter Iden, Rolf Lauter : Pictures for Frankfurt. Inventory catalog of the Museum of Modern Art. Munich 1985, pp. 11-22. ISBN 978-3-7913-0702-2
  • About happiness to be an artist. Interviews , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Leipzig 2009 ISBN 978-3-86678-174-0
  • Roland Spahr (ed.): Peter Iden: The burned butterfly. Paths of the theater into reality , European Publishing House (EVA), Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-434-50630-0 (collection of articles 1963 to 2005).
  • Peter Iden: The Power of Images - Texts on Contemporary Art 1962–2019 , Wienand, Cologne, 2019 ISBN 978-3-86832-535-5 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Peter Iden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Thomas: supporting leg, free leg. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. September 11, 2013, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Iden - 1 book - Perlentaucher. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Jonas Englert: PETER IDEN | ZOON POLITIKON. An autobiographical film portrait. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ The TAT is dead - a look back. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  5. ^ Café Germany. In conversation with PETER IDEN. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ Sven Hanuschek: History of the Federal German PEN Center from 1951 to 1990 . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-091065-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).
  7. ^ Peter Iden, Rolf Lauter : Hans Hollein , Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main: Publication for the topping-out ceremony on July 13, 1988 / Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main. Notes on the occasion of the roofing ceremony on July 13th 1988 , Frankfurt am Main 1988, OCLC 815880967. [1]
  8. ^ Foundation for Art and Culture eV: 60 years - 60 works. Retrieved on May 25, 2020 (German).
  9. ↑ Sixty years. Sixty works. Art from the Federal Republic of Germany from '49 to '09 | Calendar | Monopol - magazine for art and life. Retrieved May 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Peter Iden: The power of images. Texts on contemporary art 1962–2019 , Ingrid Mössinger / Anja Richter (eds.), Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2019. ISBN 978-3-86832-535-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Iden, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and art critic, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Meseritz , Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia