Roberto Yáñez
Roberto Yáñez Betancourt y Honecker (born October 10, 1974 in East Berlin ) is a German - Chilean painter , poet and songwriter .
Life
Yáñez grew up as the son of Sonja Honecker, the daughter of Erich and Margot Honecker , and the Chilean dissident Leonardo Yáñez Betancourt in East Berlin and had two younger sisters, the older of whom died early. In East Berlin he attended the polytechnic high school " Reinhold Huhn " in Berlin-Mitte from 1981 to 1989 . In March 1990 he emigrated to Chile with his parents and settled in Santiago de Chile . In 1992 his parents separated.
After graduating from the German School Abroad in Santiago de Chile in 1993 , he worked as an artist. He lived in a hippie colony in the Atacama Desert , wrote poetry and painted. In 1994, he was treated in a clinic in Cuba against the consequences of his simultaneous drug use . In addition to his artistic activities, he kept afloat as a waiter, library assistant, street musician and translator, among other things. During this time he was supported by his grandmother Margot Honecker, in whose house he mostly lived.
In 1999 he published his first volume of poetry. Two further volumes of poetry followed in Chile by 2011. Yáñez is a member of the surrealist group Derrame . From 2000 to 2002 he lived in Cuba. He then took part in various surrealist events in Spain , Portugal and Chile with texts and images . He lives in Chile.
In 2013 he visited the reunified Germany for the first time on the occasion of an exhibition of his pictures entitled Metamorphoses: Roberto Yáñez in the Kornfeld gallery in Berlin .
Publications (selection)
- Poemas suchenrados en San Pedro de Atacama ( Poems found in San Pedro de Atacama ). 1999.
- Espejo ultrasombra (The deep shadow mirror ). Editoral Caligrafía Azul, Santiago de Chile 2001.
- El Objeto del Vértigo (Object of Magic). Brazo de Cervantes Ediciones, 2004.
- with Alois Gmeiner (Ed.): Object of magic. Poems . Verlag Ideen-Manufaktur ( BoD ), 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-7088-3 .
- Spring rain - poems and pictures (= Insel-Bücherei , Nr. 1384). Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-19384-5 .
- El reino inestable . Ediciones Derrame, Santiago de Chile 2015.
- with Thomas Grimm : I was the last citizen of the GDR. My life as the Honeckers' grandson . Insel Verlag , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-458-17748-7 . (Paperback: Insel Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-458-36465-8 .)
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2005: International surrealist exhibition “Derrame Cono Sur”, Fundación Eugenio Granell in Santiago de Compostela , Spain
- 2005: International surrealist exhibition “Phases” in Arthium Gallery, Santiago de Chile
- 2008: Participation in the International Surrealist Exhibition “Poetry and Painting” in Coimbra , Portugal
- 2009: Participation in the International Surrealist Exhibition “The Secret Door” in Santiago de Chile
- 2013: “Metamorphoses. Roberto Yáñez ”in the Kornfeld Gallery in Berlin
- 2019: “Roberto Yanez. The surrealistic situation of the object ”in Kunstraum Schwalbe in Frankfurt a. M.
documentary
- Thomas Grimm: Honecker's grandson Roberto. A return to Germany (2013, 90 minutes) - available online
literature
- Lothar Herzog : Honecker private. A bodyguard reports. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-36002143-4 .
- Bernd Brückner: At Honecker's side. The First Man's bodyguard. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-36001853-3 .
- Nils Ole Oermann : For West Coffee at Margot Honecker's . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-50425-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Roberto Yáñez in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roberto Yáñez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage of Roberto Yáñez
- Artwork by Roberto Yáñez at Gigarte (Spanish)
- Artwork by Roberto Yáñez at Artmajeur
- Roberto Yáñez at Ideenmanufaktur-Verlag
- Frederico Füllgraf The “last GDR citizen” in Chile - the skins of the soul of Honecker's grandson Roberto Yáñez , in Nachdenkseiten , March 3, 2019
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Yáñez and Thomas Grimm: I was the last citizen of the GDR
- ^ Entry on Roberto Yáñez on the Suhrkamp Verlag website
- ^ Bodyguard unpacks - Erich Honecker: This is how he treated women, families and cars , May 9, 2004, Focus Online
- ↑ Entry on www.zeitzeugen-tv.com . Archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; accessed on August 21, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Marian Blasberg: Honecker's grandson: “I'm only a rebel today”. Zeit Online , March 4, 2011, accessed May 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Roberto Yañez: Honecker's grandson wants to be perceived as an artist" , mz-web.de of November 13, 2013, accessed on May 9, 2016
- ↑ See the laudation by Jürgen Roth at the vernissage on April 12th, 2019 in: Junge Welt, June 22nd, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yáñez, Roberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yáñez Betancourt y Honecker, Roberto (full name); Yáñez Honecker, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Chilean painter, poet and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |