Tex Rubinowitz

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Tex Rubinowitz (2014)

Tex Rubinowitz (born December 5, 1961 in Hanover ; actually Dirk Wesenberg ) is a German draftsman , painter , cartoonist , travel journalist and writer . He has lived in Vienna since 1984 .

Life

Tex Rubinowitz spent most of his childhood and school days in Lüneburg . After dropping out of school in 1978, he worked in various professions, including as a dairy worker and as a file carrier for the Lüneburg district government. In 1982 he did his military service with Marinefliegergeschwader 2 in Tarp . During this time he was trained as a parachute packer. In 1984 he moved to Vienna, where he began studying art with Professor Oswald Oberhuber . However, he broke this off after a week and began to draw for the moth . Rubinowitz published the American Hospital Newspaper fanzine at the end of the 1980s , which appeared at the same time as the much better-known Berlin fanzine Ich und mein Staubsauger . There was a lively transfer of authors between the two publications (e.g. Max Goldt ). Through a recommendation from Robert Gernhardt , Rubinowitz came to Haffmans Verlag in Zurich, where he a. a. edited two issues of the periodical Der Rabe and collaborated on other issues . He placed the authors Mauri Antero Numminen and Joachim Lottmann with the publisher . As an actor he worked a. a. with Kurt Palm and Hermes Phettberg and played a supporting role in the 1995 American film Before Sunrise , which he wrote himself. With Gerhard Potuznik he founded the band Mäuse . Both also run the Angelika Köhlermann music label . Rubinowitz is a co-founder of the Polite Paparazzi Internet forum .

As a cartoonist he published or published regularly in Falter , Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Der Standard , Titanic , Kurier , Spiegel Online . As a travel journalist, he publishes regularly in Falter and in the travel magazine, which is also published in Vienna . Rubinowitz is also a regular contributor to the collective weblog Riesenmaschine . For the Viennese company Trześniewski he drew the cartoons for the “unspeakably good” advertising campaign. Rubinowitz is also a co-author of the newly launched ORF television program Willkommen Österreich , which has been broadcast since May 2007, where he also appeared weekly until 2008 as Frank Baumann, the man in the closet . Since 2015 he has been reviewing new releases of popular music on Spiegel Online in the Abgehört section .

Since 2010 he has been curator of the exhibition series In the drawing room at the Christine König gallery in Vienna. Since 2011 he has been writing art glosses for the newsletter of the art platform Lower Austria Contemporary at irregular intervals .

In 2014 he was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for his text We were never here .

On January 30, 2015, his article Der Mozart among the texts on the phenomenon of Vossian Antonomasia appeared in the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He had taken many of his examples without citing the source from the feature blog Der Umblätterer , which in turn had collected such examples without identifying the source over several years. In addition, he had taken over a definition of antonomasia verbatim and without labeling from Wikipedia. In the discussion that followed, Rubinowitz promised to donate half of his fee to the Wikimedia Foundation .

On August 18, 2015, two of the operators of the blog Die Umblätterer stated in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that Rubinowitz had taken over many excerpts from Wikipedia articles almost word for word in his work Irma . Since these takeovers, in contrast to other sources, are not shown in the “quite small list of sources”, it is plagiarism .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

  • Notification of Viennese , Basta and News (with Ostermayer / Phettberg ), ErotiKreativ des WUK , Vienna 1992
  • Twistory; The story of the twist. New gallery at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 1999
  • And for people who can't read at all, the cigarette is crossed out. Caricatura, Kassel 1999; Palais Palffy, Vienna 2000
  • There are free radishes at the university. Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2004
  • I could tear a ribbon of Rilke's poetry out of sheer strength. Hauptmann & Kampa Gallery, Zurich 2007
  • BEND IT An exhibition on the role of music in the work of Gilbert & George. Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2011
  • Aspic makes asbestos dull. Truk Chekhtarow Gallery, Munich 2011
  • Failed the DNA test , Kunst Verein Baden, Baden 2012
  • Summer should wait , Kultur-Point Spittelau, Vienna 2013
  • You screwed it up , Saturday Shop, Vienna 2014
  • We won't have a cold again until autumn , Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach 2015
  • The Nul-Pointers - Contribution to the Song Contest, Leopold Museum, Vienna 2015

Group exhibitions:

  • Me Tarzan - you Felix Austria? Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2001
  • Zünd Ab. Kunstverein ArtHAUS, Ahaus 2003
  • Lump, wuschel and cones. Wien Museum, Vienna 2004/05
  • Keen eye. Christine König Galerie, Vienna 2006
  • (un) serious games. Kulturverein Schloss Goldegg, Goldegg 2010

Publications

  • The Invasion of the Green Lint ; Falter, Vienna 1986
  • Wiping noises came from the toilet ; Vorw .: Max Goldt. Falter, Vienna 1992
  • On a black bower ; Falter, Vienna 1993
  • Lost in the institution. Notes by volunteer Schubal (with Erich Möchel); Deuticke Verlag, Vienna 1993
  • Great Tits Sexual Fantasies. Lists that explain the world (with Jörg Metes); Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1997
  • And for people who can't read at all, the cigarette is crossed out. Approx. 213 jokes and 3 short stories on 160 pages ; Haffmans, Zurich 1999
  • Twistory - The history of the twist ; Verlag Neue Galerie, Graz 1999
  • Der Rabe, No. 58, Der Erste-Mal-Rabe (Ed. With Heiko Arntz); Haffmans, Zurich 2000
  • The Raven, No. 60, The Punk and Beards Raven (Ed. With Max Goldt); Haffmans, Zurich 2000.
  • How Franz Beckenbauer once came too close to me. Polite paparazzi and their strange encounters with celebrities (ed. With Christian Ankowitsch); Eichborn, Frankfurt 2004
  • There are free radishes at the university. 158 drawings and 1 epilogue ; Falter, Vienna 2005
  • The dusty animal. Over Vienna and under Vienna ; Falter, Vienna 2006
  • Stop it, honey (Jochen Malmsheimer, illustrated by Tex Rubinowitz); Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006
  • Was Mozart's Bird a Genius? (Kurt Palm, illustrated by Tex Rubinowitz); Residence, Vienna 2007
  • Supatopcheckerbunny & Hilfscheckerbunny: What we thought about different topics! ( Ulrike Sterblich and Stese Wagner , illustrated by Tex Rubinowitz and Rattelschneck); Fischer, Frankfurt 2008
  • Ramses Müller ; Roman, Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8218-6104-3
  • The brake whisperer. News on the go ; Falter, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85439-419-8
  • Rum cucumbers. Traveling without a plan, but with a goal ; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25775-9
  • The seven plurals of rhubarb ; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-61568-9
  • Irma ; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-05799-2
  • The flies ; Rowohlt, E-Book, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-644-05441-7
  • Can't we talk about something else? My parents and I ( Roz Chast , lettering by Tex Rubinowitz); Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-00944-1
  • Don't leave me alone with her ; Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-498-09355-6
  • A love letter to New York ( Roz Chast , lettering by Tex Rubinowitz); Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-498-00945-8

Discography

Albums with mice :

  • John Lennon entering a New York bar , Gig Records, 1994
  • Teen Riot Günther Strackture , Morbid, 1996
  • Made in Japan , Morbid, 1997
  • The Gospel of Judas , Vienna Wildstyle, 2013

Web links

Commons : Tex Rubinowitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We were never here for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize .
  2. ↑ Bachmann Prize for Tex Rubinowitz at kaernten.orf.at.
  3. ↑ The sources were hidden in the HTML source text.
  4. ↑ Is Tex Rubinowitz the "Guttenberg des Feuilletons"? , in: Die Presse , February 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ Compare the article and the discussion in the flipper , February 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Frank Fischer and Josef Wälzholz: "Wikipedia author" Rubinowitz: Plagiarism, disguised as research Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Published and accessed on August 18, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rubinowitz, Tex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wesenberg, Dirk (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, painter, cartoonist, author and travel journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Germany