Rhea Thönges-Stringaris

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Rhea Nike Thönges-Stringaris (* 1934 in Athens ) is a German-Greek art historian.

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Rhea Stringaris was born in Athens in 1934 as the daughter of the psychiatrist Michael Stringaris and his wife Nota Saliverou. In 1952 she graduated from high school in Athens and studied classical archeology and art history in Bonn and Munich from 1954 to 1959 . In 1960 she received her doctorate in Bonn under Ernst Langlotz with the work The Greek Totenmahl . In 1959 she married Ernst Thönges, and this marriage resulted in three daughters. From 1961 to 1974 Thönges-Stringaris worked at the State Art Collections in Kassel, and in 1972 joined the German movement Direct Democracy e. V. , and in the same year made friends with Joseph Beuys , with whom she subsequently worked.

In 1977, during documenta 6 in Kassel and the 100-day presence of the artist Beuys, in a conference room of the Free International University , in the direct vicinity of the honey pump at the workplace , with visitors about his expanded concept of art, the social Thönges-Stringaris was involved in discussing plastic and direct democracy . In the same year she founded the FIU branch in Kassel . In 1979 Thönges-Stringaris became a founding member of the Green Party . From 1981 to 1987 she was a member of the documenta supervisory board and worked on the Beuys 7000 Eichen campaign until 1987 . She worked at the FIU research company , a non-profit GmbH in Kassel, from 1989 to 1994. In 1999 she resigned from the Green Party because of the NATO bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo war . Since 2003 Thönges-Stringaris has been a member of the board of trustees of the “7000 Eichen” foundation and since 2006 a member of the board of trustees for more democracy .

Rhea Thönges-Stringaris lives in Kassel and Athens.

Publications (selection)

  • The Greek funeral meal . In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute. Athenian Department , Volume 80, 1965, pp. 1-99 (= dissertation)
  • Joseph Beuys. Work and ideas . In: Zygos , No. 29, 1974 (Athens)
  • Last room. Joseph Beuys: dernier espace avec introspecteur , Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7725-0864-2
  • Joseph Beuys. The Invisible Sculpture (ed.) Stuttgart 1989
  • Makarie and Montanus - or: There is much more water in the world . In: Joseph Beuys-Tagung Basel , Basel 1991, pp. 21–30
  • But the longer the event goes away…. To Joseph Beuys and Peter Handke . FIU, Wangen / Allgäu 2002, ISBN 978-3-928780-27-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Förderverein Museum Schloss Moyland eV (Ed.): Joseph Beuys Symposium, Kranenburg 1995 . Wiese Verlag, Basel 1996, ISBN 3-909164-54-4 , p. 363
personal data
SURNAME Thönges-Stringaris, Rhea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thönges-Strinaris, Rhea Nike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens