Rengha Rodewill

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Rengha Rodewill

Rengha Rodewill (born October 11, 1948 in Hagen , Westphalia ) is a German photographer , author , painter , graphic artist and dancer .

life and work

Painting and object art

Rengha Rodewill grew up in Hagen, where she studied stage dance with Ingeburg Schubert-Neumann, a former prima ballerina at the Dresden State Opera , and painting with the art professor Will D. Nagel. Schubert-Neumann founded a ballet school for stage dance in Hagen in 1962, she was a ballet master and choreographer . Due to a dance accident, Rodewill was unable to continue her stage career and then allowed her energies to flow into the visual arts as a graphic artist and painter. After studying in Italy and Spain , Rodewill moved from Hagen to Berlin in 1978 , where she worked as a graphic designer. She opened her first studio in Zehlendorf and in 1998 in Potsdam-Babelsberg on Domstraße, mainly as a painter and object art .

The Babelsberg studio was located in a barrack on a plot of land with a country house , where the Bauscher gallery was located. The house was built by the Jewish furniture manufacturer Paul Wiener between 1923 and 1924 by the architect Jean Krämer , the address was Augustastrasse, today Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse . In the first weeks and months after the takeover of the Nazis especially the left Jews for fear of reprisals and persecution Germany . The Wiener family emigrated to England in 1933 . Konrad Adenauer stayed at the property from 1934 to 1935, where he was arrested by the Gestapo in connection with the Röhm Putsch in 1934 and released after two days without further explanation. The forest administration of the Potsdam district (GDR) was housed in the barracks and in the country house until the turn of 1989.

During her creative phase in Babelsberg , Rodewill developed dance painting with the Potsdam art historian Renate Bergerhoff , which was described as dancing around the canvas . Rodewill mainly worked on large-format works in the art direction of action painting , which is so called within abstract expressionism , where she danced around the canvas lying on the floor at breakneck speed and worked on it in an excessive painting process using drip painting technique. A trance-like state made it possible for her to completely surrender to the painting process and to release all emotions while working to exhaustion. Rodewill cannot be classified in the drawer of abstract expressionism. It is crucial for her painting that it is inextricably linked with music and dance .

Rodewill was in artistic correspondence with the painter Emil Schumacher from Hagen , a prominent representative of Informel . Schumacher named Rodewill in his letters Dear Hagen child . Rodewill's invitation in 1998 to her opening movement two, in the artist club Die Möwe, Palais am Festungsgraben in Berlin, Schumacher had to refuse for reasons of age. The opening speech for the exhibition was given by the actress Renate Heymer , married to the film director Gunter Friedrich . Emil Schumacher died in 1999 in his holiday home on Ibiza .

Rodewill's material collages and installations are time-sensitive. The artist created several large objects and installations. On the occasion of a tribute to the 100th birthday of Mascha Kaléko , Rodewill covered the female body of a figurine with more than 2,600 text quotes from the poet's books; she calls the work Glue a Life together . The body disappears completely behind its function. At the same time it serves as a picture base, as a carrier of signs, as a projection surface. The artist uses the corpus to give the work weight - to create space. Rodewill processes materials such as assembly foam and at the same time works with violent and macabre ciphers from Judaism , Holocaust and Nazi Germany . Stereotypical doll faces, Torah , gas mask and Hitler portrait , which are arranged side by side in a drastic sign language . The artist relies on striking contrasts. Rodewill's collages and figurines also reflect the artistic direction of Dadaism , with a typographical jump on the back of the sculpture, as loved by the Dadaists.

The American artist Edward Kienholz looked for objects at flea markets and junk shops and used these materials as an expression of contemporary unculture. As a result of Rodewill's installations and objects that are similar in material, this has often been compared to Kienholz. Rodewill's time-critical material  collage Dear-Love-Me-Tender.com is provocatively combined with set pieces from the world of computers and cyberspace , resulting in a bizarre object, including the collage Quo vadis? Germany  charged with meaningful symbols. Objects and installations are intended to challenge the viewer and encourage them to critically examine the topic.

Rodewill's works of art are privately owned and in collections .

After the Babelsberg studio was torn down, Rodewill moved her work center back to Berlin. From then on, she focused her artistic focus on photography , also working as an author and publicist .

Eva Strittmatter and Rengha Rodewill
Rengha Rodewill and Horst Bosetzky

Literature and photography

From 2000 until Strittmatter's death in 2011, Rodewill maintained an artistic exchange with Eva Strittmatter , of whom poems are also part of her first book publication, Zwischenpiel - Lyrik, Fotografie (2010). In May 2003 Strittmatter read her poems at an open air vernissage in Rengha Rodewill's studio garden. The reading was interrupted by a violent May thunderstorm and later referred to by Tom de Toys as the Thunder Poetry .

The book premiere interlude and exhibition of the photographs by Rodewill took place in October 2010 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin , curated by Andreas KW Meyer chief dramaturge, the opening speech was held by the artistic director Kirsten Harms . Eva Stepmatter's poems were read by the actress Barbara Schnitzler , daughter of Inge Keller and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler .

On February 8, 2011, Plöttner Verlag organized a commemorative event on the occasion of the 81st birthday in honor of the poet in the old trade exchange in Leipzig . Rengha Rodewill, who told about the book interlude and her connection to the poet, the journalist and author Irmtraud Gutschke and the actress Jutta Hoffmann , recited Eva Strittmatter's poems were invited . Michael Hametner from Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk MDR Figaro was the moderator .

Rengha Rodewill has worked with crime writer Horst Bosetzky (also -ky) for many years . In 2014 the book project ky's Berliner Jugend - memories in words and pictures was realized. The photographer followed in the footsteps of Bosetzky's childhood and youth in Berlin-Neukölln , Berlin-Schmöckwitz and Groß Pankow (Prignitz) . The writer described the post-war period in many of his works that shaped his life. Rodewill and Bosetzky presented their book together in cultural institutions and bookshops . Horst Bosetzky died on September 16, 2018 in Berlin.

Rengha Rodewill worked for a long time on the concept of a biography with the German-Jewish writer Angelika Schrobsdorff . Rodewill looked for stations that recorded the stages of Schrobsdorff's life that also took her to Bulgaria . As a child, Angelika Schrobsdorff left Berlin with her mother and half-sister in 1939 and went into exile in Sofia . Rodewill was close to the writer. The collaboration on the biography lasted until Schrobsdorff's death. Angelika Schrobsdorff dies on July 30, 2016 after a long illness in Berlin. The burial took place on August 8, 2016 at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee . With the participation of a large congregation of mourners were u. a. her ex-husband Claude Lanzmann from Paris and her niece Evelina Stanisheva from Burgas , Bulgaria.

After her death, Rodewill had access to the writer's literary estate . In March 2017 the publication Angelika Schrobsdorff - Life without a home appeared. Book presentation, reading and conversation with Rengha Rodewill took place in the Literature Forum of the Leipzig Book Fair 2017.

A picture lecture with a reading by Rodewill on June 14, 2017 in the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin, should once again illustrate Angelika Schrobsdorff's lifelong close connection and gratitude to Bulgaria.

Crossover

Exhibitions and readings

Rengha Rodewill and Rolf Kühn
(from left to right) Doris Wagner-Dix, Laila Salome Fischer , Brigitte Grothum, Jolyon Brettingham Smith , Rengha Rodewill
(from left to right) Madeleine Wehle, Gisela May, Rengha Rodewill, Beatrix Schmidt

Rodewill had exhibitions at home and abroad. She was also the initiator of numerous crossover projects . Well-known artists appeared free of charge at Rodewill's exhibitions and events, which she has organized for many years .

In April 2006 the charity event Benefizzz for Kids for sick children in Israel took place at the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts . The proceeds went to the association Keren Hayesod Vereinigte Israel Aktion eV. The actress Brigitte Grothum read from The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . Harald Pignatelli from Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg moderated the event.

The benefit event Save the date for charity in favor of the German Rheuma League took place in October 2008 in the Julius Stern Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts. Actress Barbara Schnitzler from the Deutsches Theater Berlin read from Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest , soloists from the Julius Stern Institute. From 1999 to 2009 the Julius Stern Institute was headed by Doris Wagner-Dix.

In October 2000 Rodewill exhibited her works at Gallery Ufer 55 in Berlin under the title Moments . With the jazz clarinetist Rolf Kühn , he is the older brother of the pianist Joachim Kühn , and his trio was given a live jazz concert for the vernissage .

At the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Rodewill showed objects and collages of material under the title B Attitudes , pictures from the cycle series in a square . The Potsdam author Antje Rávic Strubel read in November 2004 in Berlin, at the opening Magic Square Paintings I by Rodewill, from her books Tupolew 134 and Offene Blende .

On February 7, 2007, the dbb Beamtenbund Berlin invited under the motto: Rodewill meets Bosetzky for the opening of the Magic Square Paintings exhibition . On display were Rodewill's pictures that tell of the magic of the square . At the opening, the author Horst Bosetzky read from his family saga The most beautiful years between Wedding and Neukölln , published in 2006 .

Rodewill created a two-part art installation for the 100th birthday of the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko . The exhibition Hommage à Mascha Kaléko was in September 2007 in the Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin. Regine Reinhardt presented an art-historical classification of the work of Rengha Rodewill. The writer Jutta Rosenkranz accompanied the event with a reading from her biography about Mascha Kaléko.

In April 2008, crime writer Horst Bosetzky read from his successful novel Firewood for Potato Peel on the occasion of a check handover from Rodewill to the children's clinic Josephinchen at St. Joseph Hospital Berlin-Tempelhof . Acknowledgment was given by the City Councilor for Health and Social Affairs in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district , Sibyll-Anka Klotz . In September 2009, actress and Diseuse Gisela May had a reading from her book Times Change in the Children's Clinic of St. Joseph Hospital on the occasion of Rengha Rodewill's charity event Benefiz für Spatz . Moderator Madeleine Wehle from Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg hosted the event.

Publications

various

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Artist Rengha Rodewill in search of harmony , Hagen Buch 2009, pp. 125–128, ardenkuverlag, Hagen ISBN 978-3-932070-87-7 .
  2. ↑ a b c d short vita. Website Rengha Rodewill.
  3. ↑ Westfälische Rundschau. Generations of dance enthusiasts valued this woman. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ WAZ. Mourning for Ingeburg Schubert-Neumann. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ Ten years of atelier in Babelsberg. Press release on openPR, May 14, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  6. ^ Potsdam Latest News. New place for art. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  7. ^ Galerie Bauscher website. Accessed January 30, 2020.
  8. ↑ Brandenburg Monument Preservation. 1993 issue 1. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  9. ^ Political Education Forum Brandenburg. Konrad Adenauer Foundation . Accessed January 30, 2020.
  10. ↑ Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (BLHA). Rep. 514 VVB Forestry Potsdam; 1957-1975. Accessed January 30, 2020.
  11. ↑ Culture server. Rengha Rodewill. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  12. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost. Interlude in the scenery. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  13. ^ Potsdam Latest News. New place for art. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ Culture server. Rengha Rodewill. Accessed August 21, 2020.
  15. ↑ Hagen Buch 2009. Impulses for city, home and cultural history. Accessed August 21, 2020.
  16. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m events. Website agency Wort und Kunst.
  17. ↑ The daily mirror. The seagull makes wind. Accessed August 21, 2020.
  18. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost. Painter Emil Schumacher dead. Accessed August 24, 2020.
  19. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum . Rengha Rodewill and Mascha Kaléko (homage for the poet's 100th birthday). In: YouTube. Retrieved August 24, 2020
  20. ↑ Onomatopeya de lo Indecible . Objeto artístico con Mascha Kaléko como tema, de la artista berlinesa Rengha Rodewill. Retrieved August 24, 2020
  21. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum . Rengha Rodewill and Mascha Kaléko (homage for the poet's 100th birthday). In: YouTube. Retrieved August 24, 2020
  22. ↑ Dear-Love-Me-Tender.com 2 . Rengha Rodewill Time-critical large object. In: YouTube. Retrieved August 24, 2020
  23. ^ Potsdam Latest News. New place for art. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  24. ↑ How to apply. Rengha Rodewill - Exhibition in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Potsdam. In: YouTube, August 24, 2020.
  25. ^ Potsdam Latest News. New place for art. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  26. ↑ Thunder Poetry. Polemic satire for Eva Strittmatter instead of Eva Erb. In: Poemie, May 18, 2003.
  27. ↑ Deutsche Oper Berlin. Rengha Rodewill and Eva Strittmatter. In: YouTube May 24, 2015.
  28. ↑ Eva Strittmatter Evening. Conversation with Rengha Rodewill and Jonas Plöttner, Alte Handelsbörse (Leipzig). In: vimeo, February 2011.
  29. ↑ Eva Strittmatter Evening. Introduction by Michael Hametner, Alte Handelsbörse (Leipzig), In: vimeo, February 2011.
  30. ↑ Berlin Week. Horst Bosetzky's memories. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  31. ^ Facet magazine Neukölln. With 200 pages against a certain historical autism. Retrieved July 23, 2020.
  32. ^ Voice Republic. Angelika Schrobsdorff - Life without a home. Reading and discussion with Rengha Rodewill. Literature Forum, Leipzig Book Fair 2017. Accessed on 23 August 2020.
  33. ↑ What's going on today? Berlin. Picture presentation and reading: Angelika Schrobsdorff. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  34. ↑ Benefizzz for kids. Charity event: Rengha Rodewill and Berlin artist for Israel's children. In: openPR, February 14, 2006.
  35. ^ Rengha Rodewill - Save the date for charity. In: openPR, September 30, 2008.
  36. ↑ How to apply. Rengha Rodewill - Exhibition in the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Potsdam. In: YouTube, November 30, 2017.
  37. ↑ Rodewill meets Bosetzky-ky. In: openPR, January 30, 2007. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  38. ^ Georg Kolbe Museum . Rengha Rodewill and Mascha Kaléko (homage for the poet's 100th birthday). In: YouTube, May 24, 2015.
  39. ↑ Reading by Jutta Rosenkranz . Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin. In: YouTube. Retrieved August 25, 2020
  40. ↑ Josephinchen Children's Clinic at St. Joseph Hospital. Rengha Rodewill's check handover to the children's clinic. In: openPR, April 15, 2008.
  41. ^ Benefit for Spatz eV With Rengha Rodewill, Gisela May u. a. In: Gateo online newspaper, August 11, 2009.
  42. ↑ The New Jungle. Otherworld. These awful longings OR to be united indefinitely. In: WDR 3, November 16, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
  43. ↑ Leporello culture magazine. Leporello has been the same for ten years - and yet different every time. Issue 2/12. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Rodewill, Rengha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, author, painter, graphic artist and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen , Westphalia