Stephan Geene

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Stephan Geene (* 1961 ) is a German director , translator , author and lecturer.

Life

Geene founded the artist group minimal club in Munich in 1983 together with Sabeth Buchmann . The group created numerous plays and video installations and was invited to the 1985 Munich Theater Festival and repeatedly to the Styrian Autumn (1997 and 1991), for which Geene wrote the texts.

In 1989 he moved to Berlin and worked there as an artist and curator, among others at Kunst-Werke Berlin (1993), the Shedhalle Zurich and the Kunstverein Munich. In 1996 he was a founding member of b books .

After several short films, including with Judith Hopf, he completed his first feature film in 2007, After Effect , with Sabine Timoteo , Lars Eidinger and Laura Tonke , among others , which premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival . 2014 his second feature film was in vain under the "Forum expanded" premiered at the Berlinale.

In 2017 his play willful, Shayne premiered at Donaufestival Krems, with and about Ricky Shayne .

He has been working as a translator since the 1990s, most recently the writings of Jacque Derrida , Paul B. Preciado , Jacques Rancière and Maurizio Lazzarato .

Between 2006 and 2009 Geene was an advising researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht for film, avant-garde, and biopolitics. Since then he has been teaching the theory and history of television at the Beuth University in Berlin.

In 1998 his book money aided ich-design was published . In 2003, René Pollesch made the book the textual basis of his play Soylent Green is human flesh .

Fonts

Filmography (selection)

  • 2003: BEI MIR ZU DIR (tv low dark), with Judith Hopf
  • 2007: After Effect
  • 2014: Free
  • 2019: SHAYNE (6 part mini-series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. minimal club at museum modern art stiftung ludwig wien (mumok.at)
  2. A. Schmidt-Burkhardt (2014) The Art of Diagrams transcript-Verlag p. 147
  3. Isabelle Graw (1999) Texts on Art Volume 9, page 2016
  4. Stephan Geene on House of World Cultures hkw.de
  5. ^ Film: "In vain": Kreuzberg quicksand Der Tagesspiegel from July 11, 2014
  6. a b free Berlinale.de film data sheet s. a. last section: about the author
  7. ^ K. Riesselmann: A completely strange film. TAZ of July 2, 2008
  8. wantonly, Shane Donaufestival Krems on b-books.de
  9. Lecture at the Beuth University of Technology
  10. Interview with René Pollesch , Welt am Sonntag January 5, 2003
  11. Review by Bettina Klix on arthist.net