Wasja Gotze
Wasja Götze (* 1941 in Altmügeln near Oschatz in Saxony) is a German painter , poet , graphic artist and songwriter .
Life
After studying at the Halle University of Industrial Design, Giebichenstein Castle in Halle (Saale), Götze worked as a set designer , first for the Volksbühne Berlin , then for the Deutsche Theater Ostberlin and the Landestheater Halle . In 1976 the first solo exhibition followed in Halle / Saale in the Marktschlößchen gallery , which was prematurely canceled due to government pressure. After signing the protest note against Biermann's expatriation in 1976, further solo exhibitions and concerts as a singer-songwriter, some of which were prohibited by state organs, he was expatriated from the GDR in 1982threatened, which he circumvents. Later, in the summer of 1989, he wrote to his friend Kurt Bartsch who had left the country: “Anyone who escapes the GDR now is crazy! Hopelessness? Not the track! We know that we will be there when this absurd society will do its last absurd pirouette and land on ass and mouth at the same time. " In the 1980s he had increasingly withdrawn from countercultural life. "Although Wasja Götze suspected that he was being watched by the State Security Service, he never missed an opportunity to strengthen the pressure to reform among his professional colleagues, and also among people around him, for which he was an outstanding representative in Halle (Saale)." He is the father of the painter Moritz Götze .
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Götze is considered to be one of the most original figures of the GDR counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. He painted, wrote poetry, composed, made music and acted against communist narrow-mindedness imposed by the state. The Petersberg Rally, an artistically inspired bicycle rally, which for decades has been a subversive expression of national pressure for unity, goes back to his initiative. In his pictures he worked early on, alongside Willy Wolff and Hans Ticha as one of the few artists in the GDR, with stylistic elements of Western Pop Art . He often combines these with set pieces of real socialist phenomena and personal experiences and was therefore a thorn in the side of state organs. In total, he was monitored by 15 unofficial employees of the MfS , who sometimes got into trouble with their regular “rolling tours” with his friend Matthias Griebel in the forests of the GDR. Since the 1980s, works by him have only been created at irregular intervals. Several exhibitions followed in the 1990s; in autumn 2008 the publication of a children's book illustrated by him.
literature
- "Wasja Götze INMITTEN AM RANDE" (exhibition catalog, Halle / S. 2016), 260 pages incl. DVD and LP, ISBN 978-3-945377-46-8
- "Wasja Götze or Moritz Götze" (exhibition catalog, 1998), ISBN 3-931509-76-1
- "Das Hupon" (children's book, 2008), ISBN 978-3-939468-30-1
- "Forum Art and Research, Avantgarde '95" (exhibition catalog, 1995), ISBN 3-89336-152-9
- Wolfgang Hütt: Funded. Supervised. Reform pressure from visual artists of the GDR. The example of Halle , Stekovics, Wettin, 2004, ISBN 3-89923-073-6
- Irene Böhme (ed.): Kurt Bartsch / Wasja Götze "In all the wonderful chaos". Letters from 1982 to 1989. Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle / Saale, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-881-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Wasja Götze in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from: Horch und Guck, Heft 11. 1/1994. (Page 5)
- ^ Wolfgang Hütt: Eulenspiegeleien between Burg Giebichenstein and Petersberg , in: Wolfgang Hütt: Sponsored. Supervised. Reform pressure from visual artists of the GDR. The example of Halle , Stekovics, Wettin, 2004, pp. 159–167.
- ↑ cf. Paul Kaiser, Claudia Petzold: Boheme and dictatorship in the GDR. Berlin 1997, p. 238ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Idol, Wasja |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, poet, graphic artist and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altmügeln near Oschatz in Saxony |