Roland Stelter
Roland Stelter (* 1953 in Berlin ) is a German author , visual artist and designer .
education
Stelter grew up in the Berlin district of Wedding as the son of a factory tailor and the owner of a small grocery store. He attended the Diesterweg-Gymnasium , where he received his first artistic and design training from Horst Henschel and studied sociology at the Free University of Berlin with a degree in sociology from Urs Jaeggi . In the 1980s he studied life drawing with Peter Müller at the Berlin University of the Arts . Stelter also worked as a newsboy, packer, gardener, house painter and as an unskilled worker in the metal and construction industries. As early as the 1970s, he worked as a manager for cultural exchange and as a scientific tutor at the Free University of Wolfgang Fritz Haug .
Cultural activities
In the 1980s, Stelter worked as a cultural journalist for Berlin newspapers such as Berliner Extra-Dienst , Die Neue and Die Tageszeitung and was managing director and editor of the cultural magazine omnibus , which was run by major West Berlin cultural institutions such as the Berlin Academy of the Arts , University of the Arts , Deutsche Oper Berlin , Berliner Schaubühne , Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek . Since the 1990s he has worked as a designer, content manager and copywriter for advertising agencies . In the late 1990s he was head of PR for the largest German urban developer at the time, Bornstedter Feld .
In the early 1990s Stelter in'd Berlin-Mitte , the gallery Augustus co-founded, in which artists such as Kerstin Grimm , Melanie Manchot , Martin Parr , Eva Rubinstein , Ransome Stanley , Emilio Vedova have issued and others. Stelter has also initiated and organized many cultural-political projects; he also worked as a writer, journalist, painter, sculptor and photographer. In 1983 he was a co-founder of the Active Museum Fascism and Resistance and, under Gerhard Schoenberner, together with Heinz Schilling, its deputy chairman. He helped initiate the major project 1933-1983 , which for the first time allowed all democratic political directions in what was then West Berlin to cooperate on this topic of critical memory of the Nazi era . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he created the major project Upheaval - Chaos and Hope in 1993 with the support of the Berlin Senate , the Treuhandanstalt and others. After 2000, the experiences of the new Europe inspired his international exhibition project Mein Europa .
reception
June Carolyn Erlick wrote about the project Upheaval - Chaos and Hope in the New York ARTnews magazine in October 1993:
- " (...), the innovative exhibition" Upheaval - Chaos and Hope "also underlined Berlin's provocative role as a stage for art, reminding visitors of the county's Communist and Nazi past. It set out to expose layers of Germany's recent history with a three-building show (...). "
Ulrich Roloff-Momin , Senator for Cultural Affairs of the State of Berlin, wrote in the greeting to the book catalog Umbruch - Chaos und Hope 1993:
- “ It is not enough to wait for better times. If you want more than the incorporation of East Berlin by West Berlin, you have to move. With the means of art and the exhibition, the project Upheaval - Chaos and Hope provides an opportunity to reflect on a piece of German present and history in a place that couldn't be more Berlin (...) . "
Karen E. Till wrote about Stelter's activities in the Active Museum of Fascism and Resistance :
- " At a public hearing sponsored by the Academy of Arts about the future of the Martin Gropius Bau in 1983, Roland Stelter recalled standing in front of the rubble of the former Gestapo building after the war as a child. Only later did he find out what had actually happened in that building. He stated that, one cannot so easily, when one speaks about a Museum of German History, move away [from the reality of] where this Gropius-Bau stands: namely, right next to the prison cells where witnesses were persecuted during this time, many of whom are still living. "
Work as a visual artist
Roland Stelter has primarily worked as a writer, painter, sculptor and photographer since the 1990s. His paintings, drawings and sculptures are strongly influenced by abstract post-war modernism . At the beginning of the 1990s, Stelter met Emilio Vedova . He has exhibited in group exhibitions with Vedova at the Augustus Gallery in Berlin and at the Yavneh Art Workshop Gallery in Israel. Stelter's photographic work is also strictly based on classical compositional principles. It works largely with natural light and does not have any effects.
Numerous exhibitions of Stelter's artistic work have taken place at home and abroad. He was awarded a prize for his large-scale sculpture Fragment des Regens , which he created together with Lutz Dölle . In 1999, in cooperation with a biotechnology company, he created an exhibition on the subject of genetic engineering with paintings, large photos and a video installation . His photo-text exhibition Ms. Zhuk and her granddaughter was shown at the Berlin Topography of Terror Memorial - Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor from autumn 2010 to summer 2011 . With the exhibition he reported on the life of Ms. Zhuk, a Ukrainian forced laborer , concentration camp inmate and later persecuted by the KGB, and her granddaughter. In the park of the American Academy in Berlin and in the center of Osnabrück there are large sculptures by Stelter.
Following his wish to show political commitment as an artist, in 2014 he organized the photo exhibition “Memories of Europe” in the “Chernigov M. Galagan Art Museum” in Ukraine.
In 2015, the Lord Mayor of Potsdam, the Minister for Science, Research and Culture of Brandenburg, the Ambassador of Armenia in Germany, the representative of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg and the publicist Rolf Hosfeld Roland Stelter's marble sculpture civil courage in honor of Johannes Lepsius inaugurated in the garden of the Lepsiusvilla in Potsdam. The marble sculpture “symbolizes the exemplary civil society commitment against genocide and war crimes, as exemplified by Johannes Lepsius” (Jann Jakobs, Lord Mayor of Potsdam). It is located in the former military town No. 7, the former headquarters of the KGB in East Germany, on the present site of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg amid the UNESCO - World Heritage Site between former KGB prison, new garden with Cecilienhof , where the Potsdam Agreement was adopted in 1945, the Belvedere of Sanssouci Palace and the Villa Henkel .
reception
In the artery magazine in June 1994 about the paintings and stone sculptures by Roland Stelter it said:
- “ His works are influenced by that American spirit of Abstract Expressionism, that purposeful classical-aesthetic language in connection with that highly subjective psychological expression. At the same time, Stelter's works express a peculiar everyday presence. "
Peter Herbstreuth wrote in the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel on July 4, 1994:
- “ Roland Stelter (...) works marble blocks and bluestone and brings both into fragile balance. Constructive expressionisms are guided by the ideal that the stone figures may lose their weight and float for the eyes . "
Tom Bullman in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on the large sculpture Fragment des Regens 1999: " The content-related connection of ancient and modern, the clash of nature and high-tech as well as the consideration of the historical conditions of the location can be experienced by dealing with the sculpture ."
In the broadcast Galerie Rundgang für Radio Kultur by SFB and ORB, Simone Reber said about the photo exhibition Myth. Moscow in the Galerie Blickensdorf Berlin on April 24, 2001:
- “ The most beautiful pictures of a hotel room with a wine-red velvet cover over the bed and an Art Nouveau lamp, as if time had stood still. Roland Stelter makes hand prints in which the colors are very soft, very flattering, very close to the painting . "
Klaus Jörg Schönmetzler , cultural advisor for the district of Rosenheim, in his speech on the Christmas exhibition of the Galerie des Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau eV , 2008:
- “ I am very inclined to speak of murderous aesthetics with him. Because what he does are pictures that almost always tell something different from what they initially show . "
Julia Brodauf on "Mrs. Zhuk and her granddaughter" in the magazine Junge Kunst :
- “ The result was a series of quiet portraits (...) of women, landscapes and cities. Summery, light-flooded pictures that seem almost casual, from which the past and current suffering only speaks at second and third glance. (...) Roland Stelter has chosen a visual language that is documentary, but not journalistic. (...) The work is part of his overall work in the various artistic media (...), which was and is largely abstract over long stretches. He largely leaves psychological elements such as strong facial expressions or gestures in the background, relies on a stringently elaborated composition and relies on a lyrical interpretation of the semi-hidden . "
Bogdan Gulyay in the Ukrainian internet newspaper "Gorod.cn.ua - Portal Tschernigova (Portal Çernigova)" on August 10, 2014 about the open air vernissage for the exhibition "Memories of Europe" by Roland Stelter of the Art Museum Tschernigow M. Galagan in Ukraine :
- “An exhibition by the well-known photographer from Germany here in Chernigov on the» Green Stage «! - I thought as I crossed Red Square on my bike. How did he even get here in this Ukrainian place forgotten by the gods? I was even more amazed when a few minutes later I looked at the landscapes, interiors and people from Germany, France, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (...). "
Jann Jakobs , Lord Mayor of Potsdam, said in his speech at the inauguration of the sculpture moral courage on April 28, 2015:
- “The marble stele“ Civil Courage ”by Roland Stelter symbolizes the civil society commitment against genocide and war crimes exemplified by Johannes Lepsius. (...) The artistic processing of the Carrara marble (...) does not serve as an image carrier for this stele, as is so often the case, but the materiality itself is used here as a design element. It serves to symbolize the idea of »moral courage«, without whose courageous realization by the individual a free life cannot exist. "
Sabine Kunst, Minister for Science, Research and Culture, on the unveiling of the sculpture “Civil Courage” on April 28, 2015: “Civil courage begins with each individual (...) The expulsions and massacres are favored by the tolerance and looking away of the German government at the time been. "
Literary work
Stelter has also written political-philosophical and cultural-political articles and essays as well as short stories; In 2005 he published his debut novel Leons Bruder in Rotbuch Verlag , which deals with the time of upheaval after the end of the Cold War . For several years he has been working on a second novel that deals with the experiences of the upheaval in the 1990s in a more future-oriented way. He has appeared several times at the Berlin International Literature Festival , such as his reading from his novel Leon's Brother or in 2010 with his participation in the 24-hour worldwide live online reading Authors for Peace on September 21, the one by the United Nations World Day of Peace proclaimed in 2002 .
reception
Tanja Hellwig writes in her article Sex and Politics in the Cold War on the novel Leon's Brother in the Südkurier :
- “ A fast-paced chronicle that addresses the process of writing just as much as it makes the synapses between the private and the political glow. "
At Hanno Depner it means:
- “Leon's brother. Roman einer Zeitenwende (2005) tells the life story of an artist who travels restlessly between America, Germany, France and Russia and creates a complex historical panorama of the second half of the twentieth century. "
Work as a designer and university lecturer
In addition to his work as an author, visual artist and designer, Stelter has been teaching photography, design and professional writing as an adjunct professor at Webster University in Vienna and in Amsterdam / Leiden since 2010 . With his son Julian Stelter, he ran the agency and the international citizens' forum forum bmp - communication design art in international partnership (2010–2016). In a nature reserve in north-east Germany, in cooperation with his son Benjamin Stelter, he renovated a listed building ensemble from the 18th and 19th centuries and designed it for modern living and working purposes.
Stelter lived for a while in the United States, France, and Russia. He has two grown sons from his first marriage. Today he lives in Berlin.
Works (selection)
Sculptures in public space
- 1999 - fragment of rain (Osnabrück)
- 2001 - Heldenstadt (Park of the American Academy in Berlin )
- 2015 - Civil courage (Lepsius House, Potsdam, in the former military town No. 7, the former headquarters of the KGB in the GDR, in the middle of the Unesco World Heritage Site Berlin-Brandenburg)
Exhibitions
- Commerzbank, Berlin: Acquisition of paintings for a branch in Berlin-Mitte, 1991.
- Galerie Augustus Berlin: exhibition of paintings, sculptures and drawings, 1992.
- Yavneh Art Workshop Gallery, Israel: Participation in an exhibition in which u. a. Richard Long, Emilio Vedova, Tom Wesselmann, 1993.
- Galerie Augustus Berlin: Participation in a group exhibition with paintings, sculptures and drawings, 1995.
- Galerie im Samambaia, Paris: Exhibition "Dessins Paris-Berlin", 1996.
- Métissage Festival, Paris: Exhibition of bronze sculptures, 1996.
- Goethe-Institut Paris: Website portrait of the artist Roland Stelter, 1998.
- Exhibition hall “co.don AG”, Brandenburg: Art installation BEING on the subject of “Human Identity and Biotechnology” with large photos, paintings, texts and a video installation, sponsored by Deutsche Bank AG, opened by Prime Minister Manfred Stolpe , 1999.
- Kunsthalle Dominikaner Kloster, Osnabrück in collaboration with Galerie Blickensdorff, Berlin: Exhibition with photos, paintings and sculptures, 1999.
- Exhibition hall St. Marienkirche, Frankfurt / Oder: Participation in the exhibition "BauArt - Art in Public Space of the State of Brandenburg", 1999.
- Galerie Blickensdorff Berlin: Myth Moscow , 2001.
- International Photo Festival “About Visions”, Nizhny Novgorod: Exhibition participation at the invitation of the city, funded by the city and the Goethe-Institut Moscow, 2002.
- Galerie OGI - Lisa Plawinskaja, Moscow: Exhibition "Mythos.Stadt.Europa", 2002.
- History workshop Minsk: Photo exhibition and lecture on Mein Europa , with the support of the Goethe Institute Minsk and Moscow and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Belarus as part of Kulturmomente , 2007.
- Hartmannsberg Castle , Rosenheim: Exhibition of the photo-text artwork Human dignity is inviolable as part of the exhibition of contemporary art on the German Basic Law, 2008.
- Galerie des Kunst und Kultur zu Hohenaschau eV , Aschau / Chiemgau: Photo exhibition between La Sarthe and Volga as part of the annual Christmas exhibition , 2009.
- Serendipity Gallery, Kunsthaus Acud Berlin: Works from 20 years 1991-2011, 2011.
- Topography of Terror, Documentation Center Nazi Forced Labor, Berlin: Ms. Zhuk and her granddaughter, 2010/11.
- The May Gallery, Webster University St. Louis, USA: Participation in the Photography Faculty Show, 2012.
- Chernigov M. Galagan Art Museum, Ukraine: Photo exhibition Memories of Europe, 2014.
Publications
- Articles on cultural policy and short literary stories in the newspapers Berliner Extradienst , Die Neue and Die Tageszeitung . 1973-1988.
- Various articles in the Berlin cultural magazine omnibus . Ed .: Academy of the Arts Berlin, University of the Arts, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin Schaubühne, Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek et al. 1973-1988.
- Topography of Terror, co-author of the brochure of the Active Museum Fascism and Resistance in Berlin eV Berlin 1984.
- Anja Dau and Roland Stelter (eds.): Change - Chaos and Hope . With texts by Günther de Bruyn and others. Berlin 1993.
- Essay Ransome Stanley's work , in: Ransome Stanley (exhibition catalog), Munich 1998.
- Essay Felix Müller is an artist . In: Felix Müller . Gallery Völcker and friends. Berlin 2000.
- BEING. Essay and Poem , in: BEING . codon + ART. Berlin 1998.
- Leon's brother. Novel of a turning point . Hamburg, Rotbuch Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-434-53134-3 .
- My Europe. Short stories . Work in Progress 1999–2007 (e-book)
- Kolyma - A Place of Lost Time . In: Sarah Schoenfeld: Gallery Art Agents. Berlin 2008.
- Essay A style emerges - Felix Müller , in: Felix Müller. Works // 2002-2006. Berlin 2006.
- Essay Art is not a comic - all art is abstract , in: Ransome Stanley. Fig. 2002-2007 . Munich 2007.
- Online publication. MY EUROPE. 11 countries - Photos Literature Sculptures of cities and landscapes from East and West at the beginning of the 21st century . www.roland-stelter.de. 2007.
- Essay One Europe of two Europe - Germany and Belarus in the view of the artist and writer Roland Stelter [trans. from Russian] in: Minsk History Workshop (ed.). Catalog for the photo exhibition with a lecture text by Roland Stelter. Minsk 2007.
Web links
- Roland Stelter's website
- BMP
- Literature by and about Roland Stelter in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ June Carolyn Erlick: Review of the Umbruch - Chaos und Hope project in her article Knocking Down the Invisible Wall , in New York ARTnews magazine, October 1993
- ↑ Ulrich Roloff-Momin, Senator for Cultural Affairs of the State of Berlin, in the “Greetings” to the book catalog “Change - Chaos and Hope”. Berlin 1993
- ^ Karen E. Till. The New Berlin. Memory, Politics, Place . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2005
- ↑ Cf. u. a. sabel Fannrich-Lautenschläger. "Through life with wounds", in "Potsdamer Latest News". April 29, 2015, and in Focus Online. - April 28, 2015 at 4:45 p.m. »Stele for Armenia warning Johannes Lepsius unveiled«
- ^ Paintings and stone sculptures by Roland Stelter , in: artery in June 1994
- ↑ Peter Herbstreuth in: Der Tagesspiegel from July 4, 1994
- ↑ Tom Bullman in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung on the large sculpture Fragment des Regens , on May 8, 1999
- ^ Simone Reber: »Gallery tour« for radio culture from SFB and ORB for the photo exhibition »Myth. Moscow «by Roland Stelter in the Blickensdorf gallery in Berlin on April 24, 2001
- ^ Roland Stelter: Press comments on the work
- ↑ Young Art , No. 86 in June 2011
- ↑ Bogdan Gulyay: Discussion of the exhibition opening of the "Art Museum Tschernigow M. Galagan, Ukraine" of Roland Stelter's exhibition "Memories of Europe" as part of the article "On the green stage". Ukrainian Internet newspaper "Gorod.cn.ua - Chernigova Portal (Çernigova Portal)". August 10, 2014. http://www.gorod.cn.ua/news/gorod-i-region/57171-na-zelenii-sceni-foto-z-nimechchini-pid-salo-v-shokoladi-z-balalaikoyu .html # ad-image-3 .
- ↑ Jann Jakobs, Lord Mayor of Potsdam in his speech at the inauguration of the sculpture »Civil Courage« by Roland Stelter on April 28, 2015, press release of the City of Potsdam of April 28, 2015, published on the official website of the City of Potsdam in April / May 2015. www.potsdam. de
- ^ Sabine Kunst, Minister for Science, Research and Culture. Focus Online. http://www.focus.de/regional/potsdam/geschichte-stele-fuer-armeninen-mahner-johannes-lepsius - April 28, 2015 at 4:45 p.m. »Stele for Armenia warning Johannes Lepsius revealed«
- ↑ Tanja Hellwig: Sex and Politics in the Cold War , Südkurier, June 28, 2005
- ↑ Hanno Depner: Review of Leon's brother. Novel of a turning point . In: Catalog of the 5th International Literature Festival, Berlin 2005
- ^ Biographical information at the Berlin Literature Festival
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stelter, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist, author and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |