Rudolf Klaffenböck

Rudolf Klaffenböck (* 1952 in Passau ) is a photographer , cabaret artist , writer and documentary filmmaker .

Career

Klaffenböck studied graphic design at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich . He became known regionally in 1980 with the cabaret "Passauer Abende" together with Bruno Jonas , Elmar Raida and Sigi Zimmigart . Between 1981 and 1989 he also appeared with the solo cabaret programs Passauer Pfarrfamilienabend and Bayern-Express . At the same time he made short films such as Ash Tuesday about Franz Josef Strauss as a candidate for chancellor in the Passau Nibelungenhalle or Oberammergau , in which he played at the Passion Playwhen false Jesus appeared. In 1990 and 1993 Klaffenböck created two TV documentaries for ARD with Bonnopoly about the Federal Press Ball and Hurray, Long Live the War on Militaria .

From 1994 to 1996, Klaffenböck hiked 100 days over a total of 1300 km along the former Iron Curtain on the Austrian border with the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. He documented his experiences in image and sound recordings and processed them in the book GRENZiegen .

From 2002 to 2004 Klaffenböck documented the last years of the Nibelungenhalle up to its demolition. The pictures from a wide variety of events such as political Ash Wednesday , erotic fairs, the Christmas market or student celebrations were exhibited from December 2005 to March 2006 in the Museum of Modern Art .

In 2007, Klaffenböck was awarded the “Dr. Franz and Astrid Ritter Foundation for Fine Arts ”. At € 15,000, the prize is one of the most highly endowed art prizes in Germany.

Works

• Bavaria express . Stutz, Passau 1989, ISBN 3-88849-106-1 .
• BORDER GOING . Stutz, Passau 1997, ISBN 3-88849-019-7 .
• Stage and backstage . Festival European Weeks, Passau 2002, ISBN 3-9805575-3-7 .
• Nibelungenhalle, rooms of remembrance . Stutz, Passau 2005, ISBN 3-88849-998-4 .
• People in Europe, photographs . Verlagsgruppe Passau, Passau 2015, ISBN 978-3-940782-20-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen Passau - Exhibitions 2006 ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Culture Prize of the Dr. Franz and Astrid Ritter Foundation for Fine Arts, 2007 Prize Winners ( Memento from November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Website of Rudolf Klaffenböck
• Literature by and about Rudolf Klaffenböck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Klaffenböck in the Internet Movie Database (English)