Reinhard Pfeiffer (artist)

Reinhard Pfeiffer (born October 4, 1954 in Saalfeld ) is a German artist , metal sculptor and author .

In 1964 Pfeiffer's family moved to East Berlin , where he did an apprenticeship and then earned a living in various professions. Among other things, he worked for the sculptor Achim Kühn , where he found access to artistic activities. Pfeiffer has been working as a freelance metal sculptor in Berlin since 1981 and has had several exhibitions in Germany and abroad. From 1991 to 1996 he organized “pirate art auctions” in the Berlin area.

Pfeiffer has also been a writer since 1989. After initially limiting himself to non-fiction , he has also published poetry since 1998 and detective novels since 2003 . He is particularly known for his encyclopedias on GDR comis and utopian GDR literature. In 2006 he published a non-fiction book about the Indian movement in the GDR.

Pfeiffer is married and has two children.

Publications (selection)

• Metal design. Exhibition by the TIP gallery from January 23 to April 14, 1985, Theater im Palast . TiP-Galerie, Theater im Palast, Berlin (East) 1985. (Exhibition catalog)
• Digedag universe . Book publisher Junge Welt, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7302-1001-7 .
• From Hannes Hegen to Erich Schmitt. Lexicon of cartoonists, press and comic artists of the GDR . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-162-1 .
• Letter towers. Selected poems . Frieling, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8280-0616-7 .
• with: Franziska Pfeiffer: Scarecrows. A cult book . Edition Aragon, Moers 1998, ISBN 3-8953-5453-8 .
• Science fiction lexicon of the GDR . Edition Aragon, Moers 1998, ISBN 3-89535-457-0 .
• Comic lexicon of the GDR . Edition Aragon, Moers 1999, ISBN 3-89535-456-2 .
• Hammer - Circle - Tomahawk. The hobby Indians of the GDR . Edition Druidenstein, Oberloquitz 2006.
• The utopian worlds of the GDR . Self-published, Berlin 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Pfeiffer in the catalog of the German National Library