Thomas Kapielski

Thomas Alfred Franz Kapielski (born September 16, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German author, visual artist and musician.

Thomas Kapielski (2006)

Life

Thomas Kapielski was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1951 and lived there with his sister and parents during the first years of his life. After moving to Berlin-Neukölln , he attended the Fritz Karsen School in Berlin-Britz . After graduating from high school, he studied geography, philology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . In the late 1970s, Kapielski began extensive artistic activity. He wrote conceptual things, starting with objects, photographs, collages and paintings that took up the everyday, combined them with texts and emphasized the absurd and extraordinary of ordinary life.

From the beginning of the 1980s, Kapielski began to work as a musician, recording and performing mostly minimalist, avant-garde pieces that mixed everyday noises, noise and words - together with Frieder Butzmann , among others . During this time they were assigned to the Berlin Geniale Dilletanten scene . It was around this time that Kapielski began to take photos more often and in the years that followed he established an extraordinary type of slide show. The reliability of hooks, the smallest travel agencies in the world, cars with sore eyes and other experiences from the outside world became slide evening topics.

A first publication, Der bestwerliner Tunkfurm, appeared in 1984. In the next few years, Kapielski's literary activities - combined with slide shows, often together with Helmut Höge and Sabine Vogel - increased. Maas Verlag appeared Aqua botulus , in Karin Kramer Verlag The Ego and Its bankruptcy: loss of funds . However, he resisted all too great success through unpredictability. His work as a columnist for the taz ended with a scandal in 1988 after Kapielski described the noble disco jungle as "full of gas" in an article .

Kapielski published from the 1990s a. a. in the time , the FAZ , the Frankfurter Rundschau . Further books were published by Merve Verlag in Berlin , with which Kapielski had been friends for a long time: First, Before comes and After . Both books also made it into the SWR best list and were then republished by Two Thousand and One. The Valentin Museum in Munich also provided a retrospective and a catalog of Kapielski's visual work. In 1999 Thomas Kapielski was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt, but won no prize.

This was followed as volumes with records of social mannerism, world favor, mixed forest and local knowledge by Merve, Zweiausendeins, Suhrkamp and Urs Engeler Editor . These books offer an unusual mix of aphorisms, everyday stories, philosophy, art theory and the out-of-the-way. Yet they are not devoid of composition; for example, Kapielski has a time container. Small festive order presented a prose counterfactor by Ovids Fasti ('Festkalender') .

His socio-political commitment can be seen in the defense of the regulars' table as a place of free speech and the pub per se - world cultural heritage “Goldener Hahn” at Heinrichplatz chez Inge with Bernd Kramer. Kapielski is musically active with the Original Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra . In 2005 and 2006 he turned back to the visual arts: As a special form of art business criticism, he made fun of the mechanisms of value creation through art in several solo exhibitions (Berlin, Zurich) with oil paintings (“oil ham”). The related art theory can be read in his 2006 book Anblasen published by Merve .

From 1998 to 2004 he was a guest professor for performance at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .

He was the author of the journal Floppy myriapoda , published from 2006 to 2015 .

Works

Visual arts

Kapielski - black and white. Kapielski greets the rest of the world. Bierverlag, Berlin 1981.
After a break in sobriety. Catalog of works 1979 to 1996. Wiens Verlag, Berlin, 1996.
Vedute, lamps, animals. Art Book Cologne, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-940602-02-2 .
Secessionist radiator cladding, Göppingen Art Gallery.
De Dingsbums non est disputandum , Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst.
Saxon Quadruples , Marlene Frei Gallery, Zurich, 2011.

music

Pink rustles , 1982.
Good morning mom! (with Frieder Butzmann), 1986.
War Pur War (with Frieder Butzmann), 1987.
With the original Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra - Der Grindchor: Kuschelrotz , 1998.
With the original Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra - The Grindchor: Silent Days in Rüsselsheim , 2002.
With the Original Oberkreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra - Der Grindchor: Popelärmusik , 2007.

literature

The bestwerliner Tunkfurm. Vogelsang, Berlin 1984, ISBN 978-3-923594-02-3 .
Simpleton = default brush. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin [1987].
Aqua Botulus. Maas, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-929010-20-6 .
Sorry 'light'. EVS, Berlin 1993.
The only one and his oath of revelation. Loss of funds. Karin Kramer : Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-87956-211-4 .
Before that comes. Evidence of God IX-XIII. Merve , Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-88396-143-9
After that it was. Proofs of God I-VIII. Merve, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-88396-147-7 .
Social mannerism. Merve, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-88396-170-5 .
World favor. Merve, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-88396-202-3 .
Blow on. Texts on art. Merve, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-88396-218-4 .
Hungarian goulash / fötlen pörkölt. Translated into Hungarian by Christine Rácz. SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937737-78-2 .
BfA. Otto Nerst asks Thomas Kapielski. In: Shift! Work reports for the end times. Edited by Johannes Ullmaier. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-12508-3 , pp. 259-290.
Mixed forest. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12597-7 .
Local knowledge. A little geosophy. Urs Engeler, Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-938767-62-7 .
Time container: Small fixed order. Merve, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-88396-270-2 .
All proofs of God. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-86150-904-2 .
New secessionist radiator cladding. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-12680-6 .
The thicker, the more jewish! Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-12694-3 .
To shine. A- and Sophorisms , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-12738-4 .
Compost III, Tumult , Dresden 2015
Excrement mortar. Novel of a squadronor , Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-12759-9

Mixed media

Protruding tubes , 2002, Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-86150-458-8 . Audiobook and multimedia - CD-ROM .

exhibition

Thomas Kapielski: Nutzkunst and Thomas Kapielski with role models & descendants. Robert Filliou , Thomas Haemmerli , Felix Jungo , Jürgen Klauke , Dieter Meier , Dieter Roth , Tomas Schmit , Benedikt Stäubli , André Thomkins , in the Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei , Zurich 2018.
De dingsbums non est disputandum , in the Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst , July 1st to September 4th 2011.

Awards

1999 Sprengel Prize for Fine Art from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation
1999 Ben Witter Prize
2002 March ivy “For an author whom we would have liked to have published in MÄRZ.” Barbara Kalender & Jörg Schröder, Berlin
2010 Prize of the Literature Houses
2011 Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor
2016 Sondermann Prize for comic art
2012 Ox Ribbon Order, Husum

Radio feature

Thomas Kapielski worked in the radio feature Bruno S. - “When I became a person, I had to die” from the author duo Krausedoku as speaker and contemporary witness.

Web links

Wikiquote: Thomas Kapielski - Quotes

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Höge: Antifa in the features section. Return of a difficult term. In: the daily newspaper, February 11, 2010.
↑ See Thomas Kapielski & Friends: The Only One and His Oath of Revelation. Loss of funds. Karin Kramer, Berlin 1994, p. 52 ff.
↑ Thomas Kapielski: Greetings from Berlin. When negotiating, stomachs and dogs growl. In: Die Zeit, March 23, 2000.
↑ With all the strength of the nostrils , by Jens Uthoff, taz April 30, 2012
↑ Thomas Kapielski. Utility art. Interview with Kapielski. Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
↑ Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke: Bruno S. - “When I became a person, I had to die”, co-production: SWR / RBB, in: SWR website, June 9, 2013 .
↑ Bruno S. - "When I became human, I had to die". Feature by Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke, script, broadcast on July 8, 2014, production 2013 ( memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF: 242 KB].

personal data
SURNAME	Kapielski, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kapielski, Thomas Alfred Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author, visual artist, musician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Charlottenburg

[1] Helmut Höge: Antifa in the features section. Return of a difficult term. In: the daily newspaper, February 11, 2010.

[2] See Thomas Kapielski & Friends: The Only One and His Oath of Revelation. Loss of funds. Karin Kramer, Berlin 1994, p. 52 ff.

[3] Thomas Kapielski: Greetings from Berlin. When negotiating, stomachs and dogs growl. In: Die Zeit, March 23, 2000.

[4] With all the strength of the nostrils , by Jens Uthoff, taz April 30, 2012

[5] Thomas Kapielski. Utility art. Interview with Kapielski. Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, accessed on October 19, 2018 .

[6] Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke: Bruno S. - “When I became a person, I had to die”, co-production: SWR / RBB, in: SWR website, June 9, 2013 .

[7] Bruno S. - "When I became human, I had to die". Feature by Annett Krause and Matthias Hilke, script, broadcast on July 8, 2014, production 2013 ( memento from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF: 242 KB].