Wilfried Schaus-Sahm

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Wilfried Schaus-Sahm (* 1949 in Aachen ) is a German festival director, painter, graphic artist, photographer, poet and curator.

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Wilfried Schaus-Sahm was born in Aachen in 1949. He studied German, philosophy and art history in Aachen and Freiburg. In 1991 he founded the jazz music association Jam in Duisburg , which he directed until it was dissolved in 1996.

As a lyricist, Schaus-Sahm published the volume of poems “Beredt Sprachlos” together with graphic artist Helga Schoenemann.

In 1996, Schaus-Sahm moved to the city's cultural office, where he designed the international Traumzeit Festival in 1997 as the coordinator of Duisburger Akzente for the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) . The festival, located in the Duisburg-Nord landscape park , won international recognition under the artistic direction of Schaus-Sahm and with the participation of several editorial teams from Westdeutscher Rundfunk ( WDR 3 ). The festival's program lines included annual commissioned compositions, the “Music for Silent Films” series, a “Music Cultures” program block and a sound art exhibition.

In 2009, after disputes with the city of Duisburg about the programmatic direction of the festival, Schaus-Sahm resigned from his position as artistic director.

In several solo exhibitions, including in the Cubus art gallery and the Rheinhausen gallery of the Lehmbruck Museum , Schaus-Sahm showed works as a painter, graphic artist and photographer. Works are owned by collectors in Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain.

In 2011, based on an idea by Wilfried Schaus-Sahm, a commissioned composition by the French bass player Renaud Garcia-Fons for Lotte Reiniger's silent film classic The Adventures of Prince Achmed was premiered on the historical stage of the Bauhaus Dessau as part of the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau .

In 2012, Schaus-Sahm developed the concept of the “Mercator Matinéen”, for which he has also curated the program since then. The Duisburg Mercator Matinéen, which are now jointly organized by the Duisburg Cultural and City History Museum , the Mercator Society Duisburg and the Duisburg Civic Foundation, try to place Gerhard Mercator's groundbreaking cartographic achievements in the context of his time, a time of groundbreaking innovations in the fields of science, of art and philosophy.

In the same year, Schaus-Sahm and other music enthusiasts founded the “Marienthaler Festspiele eV” association. The cultural initiative in the Wesel district called the “Marienthal Festival”, a new festival on the Lower Rhine into being. The festival, for which Schaus-Sahm is responsible as artistic director, presents current music on an international level. In 2013 the “Marienthaler Festspiele” took place for the first time on the grounds of Diersfordt Castle near Wesel with renewed participation by the cultural broadcaster WDR 3 , where it was named “Sommerton. Festival Diersfordt ”are held annually at the end of August.

Schaus-Sahm is married with one son and lives in Duisburg.

Publications

  • Volker Beushausen: Where are we landed here ...? : 10 years of the Traumzeit Festival; 1997 - 2006; a photographic retrospective , Klartext-Verlag Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-543-X
  • Robert von Zahn: Jazz in Duisburg , in: Jazz in North Rhine-Westphalia since 1946 , Cologne, Emons 1999
  • Eloquently speechless: poems / by Wilfried Schaus-Sahm , Wilfried Schaus-Sahm, Cremer Gladbeck, 1989, ISBN 3-927488-00-3
  • Christiane Schlüter: Miracles are waiting behind the words , Jokers Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86800-462-5
  • “Passage closely set” - poems / by Wilfried Schaus-Sahm, Tolino Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7393-0465-6

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SURNAME Schaus-Sahm, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German festival director, painter, graphic artist, photographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen