Valeri Scherstjanoi

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Valeri Scherstjanoi (Russian Валерий Михайлович Шерстяной; born September 3, 1950 in Sagiz , Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) is a phonetic poet, radio play author and creator of onon poetical notations (scribetic sheets). He writes his texts mainly in German. Valeri Scherstjanoi has been a German citizen since 1985.

Life

Scherstjanoi has been giving appearances and literary performances on the subject of "Russian Futurism" since 1968. He completed his German studies at the Cuban State University in Krasnodar . At the beginning of the 80s, after moving to the GDR , he gave readings and lectures in the gallery "above" in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) and in the student center "Moritzbastei" in Leipzig, as well as appearances with Carlfriedrich Claus at the Exhibition “Sails of Time - Salut Chlebnikow” in the Lindenau Museum Altenburg 1985 and the performance “Victory over the Sun” for the 100th birthday of Alexej Krutschonych with Carlfriedrich Claus, Rudolf Mayer and Wolfgang Heisig .

At international festivals, including in Berlin , Marseille , Brno , Québec , Prague , Geneva , Ghent , Stockholm , Graz , Salzburg , Vienna , Chicago , Bologna , Wroclaw , London , Madrid , Toulouse , Utrecht , Lucerne , Amsterdam , Rotterdam , Kaliningrad , Lyon , Maastricht , Luxembourg , Rome , Basel and Mantova , he gave sound concerts with his own poetry and lectures on the Russian avant-garde of the 1910s and 1920s.

He gave sound concerts with poems by Wladimir Mayakowski , Alexej Krutschonych, Velimir Chlebnikow , Daniil Charms , Kurt Schwitters , Raoul Hausmann and his own texts.

In the 1990s Scherstjanoi had appearances with Michael Lentz , with Jaap Blonk , among others as "The Vowel Triangle". From 1994 to 1996 he was artistic director of the international festival of sound poetry “Bobeobi” in the “Wabe” in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.

At the “Musica Viva” he was involved in reciting the “Symphony No. 3 - Jesus, Messiah, errette uns!” By Galina Ustwolskaja (1919–2006) with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Markus Stenz . In 2005 there was an appearance as speaker with the ensemble "L´Art pour L´Art" and actor as well as speaker and sound poet in Matthias Kaul's children's opera project "Oliver Twist" of the Hamburg State Opera.

In 2007 Scherstjanoi performed in Berlin with the “Kairos Quartet”. In 2008 he was a lecturer in the “Experimental Poetry” master class in the Swabian Art Summer at the Irsee Schwabenakademie. From 2009 to 2010 he was visiting professor in the winter and summer semesters at the German Literature Institute at the University of Leipzig .

From 1990 to 2000 he was a member of the Bielefeld Colloquium “New Poetry”. From 2005 to 2011 Scherstjanoi was a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig . In 2010 he was awarded the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize. From 2012 to 2013 he was again visiting professor in the winter semester at the German Literature Institute at Leipzig University .

In the 2012/2013 season Scherstjanoi was a guest at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, as a performer and sound poet for the production “DADA Berlin” directed by Rainald Grebe . From 2014 to 2015 he was again a visiting professor in the winter and summer semesters of the German Literature Institute at Leipzig University. In 2017 he worked as a guest lecturer in the summer semester at the German Literature Institute at Leipzig University. In June 2017 he had the Ernst Jandl Lecturer in Poetics at the University of Vienna.

Works

  • Valeri Scherstjanoi "Zaoum - Writings" experimental texts ed. from k. riha and sj schmidt siegen comprehensive university Siegen (1985)
  • Alexander Tufanow "ZU SA-UM Phonic Music and Functions of Consonant Phonemes" Translated from the Russian by Valeri Scherstjanoi Gertraud Scholz Verlag Obermichelbach (1989) ISBN 3-925599-10-X .
  • VALERIJ ŠERSŤANOJ “vizuálni texty” Gallery Stará radnice Dům uměni města Brna Foreword by Jiři Valoch (1990) ISBN 80-7009-021-9 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi "the Russian abc - writing table" Gertraud Scholz Verlag Obermichelbach (1990) ISBN 3-925599-17-7 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “Loud drawing, listening to pictures” Gertraud Scholz Verlag Obermichelbach (1991) ISBN 3-925599-25-8 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi "ars scribendi" kap + galerie art-contact Karlsruhe (1992)
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi (Ed.) “Tango with Cows” anthology of Russian sound poetry at the beginning of the 20th century edition selena Vienna (1998) ISBN 3-85266-081-5 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “louder shards. text drawings chronicle “Books on Demand Norderstedt (2008) ISBN 978-3-8370-5750-8 .
  • Alexej Krutschonych "Phonetik des Theater" [paperback] edited, with an afterword and translated from Russian by Valeri Scherstjanoi Verlag Reinecke & Voss Leipzig (2011) ISBN 978-3-9813470-5-0 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “Mein Futurismus” [paperback] with an afterword by Michael Lentz Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin (2011) ISBN 978-3-88221-618-9 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “Partitions scribentiques” anthologie 26 p., Avec une illustration par Jonathan Bragdon hochroth Paris (2013) ISBN 978-2-9543903-3-8 .

Contributions

  • Wordpicture. Visual poetry in the GDR , edited by Guillermo Deisler and Jörg Kowalski Halle 1990
  • "Decoding Recoding," Editor Toni Kleinlercher Triton Verlag Vienna (2000)
  • "Fümms böö wöö taä zää uu" Voices and sounds of sound poetry edited by Urs Engeler and Christian Scholz Urs Engeler Editor Basel / Weil am Rhein (2002)
  • "Yearbook of Poetry 2005" Edited by Christoph Buchwald and Michael Lentz CH Beck Munich (2004)
  • "Once Saturn came up In memory of Karl Amadeus Hartmann on his 100th birthday" new music and its environment Published by Bayerischer Rundfunk / musica viva Munich (2006)
  • "Ars Poetica" international poetry festival Bratislava (2006)
  • "Border Crossings" Poetry Visual Intercultural Edition ch Raum für Notes Editor Günter Vallaster Vienna (2006)
  • “DETI RA” № 12 (26) Journal of Literature and Art Moscow (2006) ISSN  1551-188X
  • "Sober Nights" in Akzente, magazine for literature, published by Michael Krüger Hanser Verlag Munich - issue 6 / December (2006)
  • "The most beautiful poems from 25 years" 25th yearbook of poetry edited by Christoph Buchwald S. Fischer Frankfurt / Main (2007)
  • “An alphabet of visual poetry” published by Günter Vallaster 20 years edition ch Vienna (2010) ISBN 978-3-901015-46-5 .
  • "In this country poems from the years 1990-2010" Ed. By Michael Lentz and Michael Opitz S. Fischer Frankfurt / Main (2010) ISBN 978-3-10-043929-1 .
  • "FREIBORD - Zeitschrift für Literatur und Kunst", No. 151 (1/2011) edited and published by Gerhard Jaschke in the Edition Freibord Wien (2011) ISBN 978-3-8305-1776-4 .
  • "With mother's voice" in Neue Rundschau S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main issue 2/2012 ISSN  0028-3347 ISBN 978-3-10-809089-0 .

Participation in exhibitions of visual and concrete poetry

  • "Ars scribendi" (solo exhibition) Kunsttempel Kassel April 1 to 30, 2000.
  • "Text and image in motion". Gasteig, Munich May 27 to June 16, 2000.
  • “100 instructions for action” - art walks on Karlsplatz, Vienna, permanent installation • 100 x art on Karlsplatz 2004.
  • “3 by 3” art temple Kassel With Jaap Blonk and Michael Lentz February 16, 2005 to March 6, 2005.
  • "Utopia" Hartmut Andryczuk, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Wolfgang Müller & Felix Martin Furtwängler Jena City Museum March 13th to May 22nd, 2005.
  • "Font. Character. Gesture. Carlfriedrich Claus in the context of Klee to Pollock “Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. July 24th to October 9th, 2005.
  • Doodle masterpieces. MdK. An art project for the 8th Kassel Museum Night in the Art Temple, Kassel August 31 to September 2, 2006.
  • "New prospects" German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) Eschborn Art from Eastern Europe. July 6th to September 8th, 2006.
  • "Galerie december" Berlin May 4th - June 26th 2007.
  • "Poeticum 07 Language Games" Art Temple Kassel 23 August - 23 September 2007.
  • “Top and unbroken” artist publications from the GDR. Bremen Weserburg Museum for modern art Study center for artist publications February 7th to May 17th, 2009.
  • “Subversive practices of art under conditions of political repression. 60s – 80s / South America / Europe “Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart May 30 to August 2, 2009.
  • “I love you” Literature Museum of Modern Art, Marbach am Neckar September 20 to January 29, 2012.

Radio plays

  • "Polyphonia" Directed by Bernhard Jugel BR 2 (1991)
  • "Lautland" Directed by Bernhard Jugel BR 2 (1994)
  • "Matrjoschka" Directed by Bernhard Jugel BR 2 (1996)
  • "Operative Personal Control" "Futurist" Director Eberhard Class SDR 2 (1996)
  • "Azbuka - The Russian Alphabet" as a radio play, directed by Eberhard Class SDR 2 (1996)
  • "Solitude - A Speech Opera" Directed by Eberhard Class SDR 2 (1997)
  • "A day in the life of V. Scherstjanoi" Direction Eberhard Klasse Original broadcast SWR 2 (1998)
  • "Tango with Cows" Directed by Bernhard Jugel BR 2 (1999)
  • “Makrophon” composition Ulrich Bassenge . Realization Ulrich Bassenge and Bernhard Jugel BR 2 (2000)
  • "Home! A Russian visits his homeland "Directed by Eberhard Klasse SWR 2 (2000)
  • "The Impossible Creation My Encounter with Carlfriedrich Claus" Directed by Eberhard Class SWR 2 (2001)
  • "Babuschka Biruta - Frauenschicksal in Russland" Direction Eberhard Klasse SWR 2 (2001)
  • "Vienna, a sound poem!" With Lucas Cejpek ORF kunstradio (2003)
  • "Heimkehrreime" Directed by Bernhard Jugel BR 2 (2004)
  • "Berlin, a sound poem" With Andreas Hagelüken WDR 3 (2005)
  • "Kamata bumba zwo" With Hartmut Geerken ORF kunstradio (2009)
  • "Hiddensea" by Michael Lentz - Director: Michael Lentz BR (2013)

Artist books

  • "Monologues". Scherstjanoi on the scriptural basics. Uwe Warnke Verlag. Berlin. (1992)
  • "Slide lies". Uwe Warnke Verlag. Berlin. (1992)
  • "Skribentische Ornamärze". Scribbling with a score by Sebastian Gruner. ENTWERTER / OR 14th special edition. Berlin. (1995)
  • "The Fall of Atlantis". With Hartmut Andryczuk. Based on the poem of the same name by Velimir Chlebnikov. Hybriden-Verlag Berlin. (2006)
  • "Letters from the Future". With Hartmut Andryczuk. With texts and drawings on Friedrich Nietzsche, Wladimir Majakowski, Lautréamont, Danill Charms, Samuel Beckett and Carlfriedrich Claus. Hybriden-Verlag Berlin. (2008)
  • "Hell Room Love" by Vladimir Mayakovsky. With Michael Lentz and Hartmut Andryczuk. Artist book with DVD. Hybriden-Verlag Berlin. (2008)

Discography

  • "Lautland" Gertraud Scholz Verlag Obermichelbach (1998)
  • "Lautkonzert" edition schielein eurasburg (2001)
  • "Mingstimmen" CD supplement (with Wolfram Winkel) mimas atlas published by Hybriden-Verlag Berlin (2004)
  • "Ode ade ddr" Hybriden-Verlag (2005)
  • "Berlin, a sound poem" With Andreas Hagelüken Hybriden-Verlag Berlin CD (2006)
  • "LUOAR NNAMSUAH" Valeri Scherstjanoi reads Raoul Hausmann Hybriden - Verlag Berlin CD (2006)
  • With Wolfram Spyra and Hartmut Andryczuk as "Pathetic Patients" in Lucerne Hybriden - Verlag CD in a metal box (2006)
  • "Writing, articulating, lamenting" A film by Ida Thonsgaard DVD Berlin (2007)
  • Mara Genschel & Valeri Scherstjanoi "Vom Nachtalpenweg" CD supplement (with Mara Genschel) mimas atlas in the Hybriden-Verlag Berlin (2009)
  • "Nachtmahr - Lichtmahr" Film: Valeri Scherstjanoi Film of the film: Hartmut Andryczuk Hybriden-Verlag Berlin (2009)
  • Alexej Krutschonych "Phonetik des Theaters", performed by Valeri Scherstjanoi, published in the series Elektronikengel Hybriden-Verlag Berlin (2010)
  • "Anatomie der Lute" booklet with CD, published in the series Elektronikengel Hybriden-Verlag Berlin (2011)
  • “Loud inhalations” audio CD - selected studio recordings January-December 2010 & video DVD - live performance at NK, Berlin, November 26th, 2010 edition Tochnit Aleph Berlin (2011)
  • "Tumult of the voice, please!" - selected studio recordings performed and recorded January-October 2011 edition Tochnit Aleph Berlin (2011)

Posts in

  • “Eyes, Views, Words, Recall, Encounters with Carlfriedrich Claus” (Valeri Scherstjanoi All-Nights of Art, My Encounter with Carlfriedrich Claus, pp. 54–58) Gerhard Wolf Janus press Berlin (1999)
  • "Homo Sonorus" An International Anthology Of Sound Poetry The National Center for Contemporary Art. Kaliningrad Branch (Valeri Scherstjanoi On the Neologists of Russian Futrurist Poetry pp. 63–69) Kaliningrad (2001)
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “Carlfriedrich Claus and the Russian Futurists” In: “Script. Character. Gesture. Carlfriedrich Claus in the context of Klee to Pollock "Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz July 24 to October 9, 2005 Wienand Verlag (2005)
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “Obsessed with art. To Robert Rehfeldt “In: Robert Rehfeldt Art in Kontakt Verlag Lutz Wohlrab Berlin (2009)
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “DADA is… no Russian futurism” pp. 11–13 In: DU Magazin Die Zeitschrift der Kultur Issue no: 831 96 years of DADA - anniversary edition November (2012) ISBN 978-3-905931-26-6 .
  • Valeri Scherstjanoi “Caravan in Russian”, in: Gä weida Dada - 100 years of Dada and Munich , edited by Andreas Trojan, p. 19. Munich (2016) ISBN 978-3-930654-40-6

Literature about Valeri Scherstjanoi in anthologies

  • Renate Lachmann: A Neo-Abecedarius. Comments on "the Russian abc - writing table" by Valeri Scherstjanoi. In: characters between plain text and arabesque. Rodopi Konstanz 1995, pp. 25-34.
  • Erika Greber: Speaking in tongues as spelling in scripts. Valeri Scherstjanois multilingual and multialphabetic drawing sheets. In: Renate Hansen-Kokoruš (Ed.): Mundus narratus Festschrift for Dagmar Burkhart on his 65th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2004, pp. 417–432.
  • Friedrich W. Block: Everything and nothing at the same time. The ars scribendi of the sound poet Valeri Scherstjanoi. In: Paragrana. International Journal of Historical Anthropology. Supplement 1/2005, Akademie Verlag Freie Universität Berlin, pp. 15–28.
  • Annette Gilbert: Movement at a standstill. Explorations of the scriptural with Carlfriedrich Claus, Elizaveta Mnatsakanjan, Valeri Scherstjanoi and Cy Twombly. Aisthesis Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89528-571-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gratis-in-berlin.de/tipp/2001440/Alice-Salomon-Poetik-Preis-2010-%E2%80%93-Verleihung-an-Valeri-Scherstjanoi.htm
personal data
SURNAME Scherstjanoi, Valeri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian sound poet, radio play writer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Sagiz , Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union