Werner Vollert

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Werner Vollert (born March 27, 1960 in Schweinfurt ) is a German object and performance artist and entrepreneur.

In addition to studying art history, philosophy and journalism at the Free University of Berlin , Vollert increasingly concentrated on his own artistic work in the 1980s. He took part in numerous art exhibitions in Europe with self-constructed interactive machines. The machines called "Are you a professional smoker?", "Test your reaction!" Or " I always have the last word " address the symbiosis of man and machine. In 1986 he received the Karl Hofer Prize from the University of the Arts (now University of the Arts ) in Berlin. In 1991 he took part in the Ars Electronica in Linz with his machines , and in 1998 he was a juror at Ars Electronica for the computer music department .

In the 1990s Vollert was one of the protagonists of the Berlin techno scene . In April 1992 he opened the controversial hardcore techno club "Bunker" in the former Reichsbahnbunker Friedrichstrasse . On five dance floors , the club offered an extraordinarily extravagant program even for the techno metropolis of Berlin at the time. Until it was finally closed in 1996, the bunker was repeatedly the target of official requirements and police raids.

In 2001 Vollert founded the download portal Formblitz together with Karl-Hermann Leukert , editor-in-chief of the Berlin city magazine tip from 1995 to 2006 . In the following years Formblitz developed into what is today the largest internet provider of forms, templates and sample documents in the German-speaking area. In the meantime, Vollert has co-founded numerous companies and is known as a business angel in the Berlin internet scene .

Exhibitions

  • 1991 Out of Control , Ars Electronica, Linz

literature

  • Thomas Sakschewski: In spite of the homunculus. On the aesthetics of Werner Vollert's machines. In: Out of Control. Exhibition catalog of the Ars Electronica 1991
  • O. Henkel, K. Wolff: Berlin Underground - Techno and HipHop between myth and sell-out, Berlin 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive of the ars electronica 1991
  2. ↑ Archive of the Ars Electronica 1998  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.aec.at  
  3. ↑ The mirror
  4. ↑ Website www.formblitz.de
personal data
SURNAME Vollert, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinfurt