Wolfgang Müller (artist)

Wolfgang Müller 2015

Wolfgang Müller 1995

Wolfgang Müller (born October 24, 1957 in Wolfsburg ) is a German artist, musician (including Die Tödliche Doris ) and author. Today he lives alternately in Berlin and Reykjavík .

biography

From 1980 to 1987 Müller studied graphics / visual communication / experimental film design at the Berlin University of the Arts . At the beginning of his studies he founded the post-punk and concept band Die Tödliche Doris with his fellow student Nikolaus Utermöhlen . In 1982 he published the book Geniale Dilletanten (following the Festival Genialer Dilletanten ) with contributions a. a. by Gudrun Gut , Matthias Roeingh (later known as Dr. Motte ), Tabea Blumenschein , Blixa Bargeld and Frieder Butzmann . The book became the manifesto of a young West Berlin artist and musician scene.

Müller's master class examination at the UdK in 1987 consisted of a show by the deadly Doris, which then broke up. Since then, Müller has been working as a solo artist and in projects with other artists. In 1989 he released the album "BAT" with the ultrasonic sounds of local bats made audible and showed painted bat oscillograms in the Martin Schmitz Gallery in Kassel. As an actor, he appeared in Heinz Emigholz's films “The Cynical Body” (D-1988–1991), Jörg Buttgereit Nekromantik 2 (D-1991), Grímur Hákonarson “Vardi goes Europe” (Iceland 2002) and “Sumarland” (Iceland 2010).

In 1992 the Deutsche Bank acquired 20 drawings from the 47-part series "Sympathetic Ink Drawings". These were made with ink made from cobalt (II) chloride , which gradually becomes invisible over time.

Since 1990 he has been dealing with Iceland and its culture. In 1998, after the closure of the state Goethe Institute in Reykjavík, he founded the world's first “private Goethe Institute” in the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík, an art campaign that he launched in 2002 after threats from the legal department of the Goethe Institute in Munich in Walther von Goethe Foundation (after Walther von Goethe ) had to rename. In 2002/2003 he taught as a visiting professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and published Goethe's first scientific work The attempt to explain the metamorphosis of plants from 1790 in Icelandic first translation in the series of writings of the Walther von Goethe Foundation . The translator is Jón Bjarni Atlason , the Icelandic lecturer at the University of Vienna .

In 2003 Wolfgang Müller, who also appears as a performer, actor and author, released the music CD "Mit Wittgenstein in Krisuvik". With the electro-pop musician Namosh he performed in Copenhagen, Vienna, Stuttgart and Switzerland in 2005 and released a cover version of the Tödliche Doris song “Schuld-Struktur” as a 12inch with him. In 2006, as his sixth radio play on Bayerischer Rundfunk, he produced the homage “The Dieter Roth Orchestra plays small clouds, typical shit and never heard music”. He (again) released the first LP of Die Tödliche Doris without sound, transformed into sign language as a DVD. On “Séance Vocibus Avium” in 2008 he reconstructed the songs of eleven extinct bird species based on scientific records. In 2010 he gave a seminar on perception training in the Passagenhaus Dalvazza / Küblis. In 2012 Müller published the philo- bestseller Subkultur Westberlin 1979 - 1989 . His BR2 radio play Intervallum - Hommage an die Pause , created in 2016, is a reference to the transmediale artist Valeska Gert , about whom he wrote two books and in 2010 the exhibition Pause. co-curated at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart .

Wolfgang Müller is the creator of the word elf commissioner and is considered an Icelandic and elf expert .

His brother Max Müller is the singer of the Berlin band Mutter .

In 2009, Wolfgang Müller was awarded the Karl Sczuka Prize in Donaueschingen for his audio work Séance Vocibus Avium .

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, the Berlin city magazine tip published an extensive concept interview.

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For a list of the works of Müller with the deadly Doris see here .

"Project Galerie Eisenbahnstrasse", Berlin 1987
"Autographs", Kassel 1990
"Bláigða-blámeisa", Reykjavík 1994
"Blue tit" (with Nan Goldin) Berlin 1995
"Ný Goethe-stofnun í", Reykjavík 1998
“Napoli durante la mia assenza”, Naples 2001
"Kalanchoe pinnata" Reykjavík 2002
"RUBBISH" Hamburg 2003
"T", Oslo 2005
"Handicap beautiful landscape", Frankfurt, 2007
“Soundless Music”, alt.gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 2008
"Séance Vocibus Avium", Dörrie + Priess, Berlin / Crystal Ball, Berlin, 2009
“The entirety as a fog sculpture”, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, 2009
“Kitchen Music”, Preteen Gallery, Herosillo, Mexico, 2009
“Of Money and Birds”, Kunsthaus Erfurt, 2009
"Séance Vocibus Avium", Kunstverein Aachen, 2009
"Lokomotion", Crystal Ball, Berlin, 2011
“Extra and Simultaneously”, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2011
“Similarity and Difference”, Galerie Holger Priess, Hamburg, 2012
"Plasmabrocken", Gallery K '- Center for Current Art, Bremen, 2013
"Realities", Mila Art Gallery, Berlin, 2013
"The hand of the woman who struck Kippenberger", Maifoto, Berlin, 2013
"Paintings", Katharina Raab Gallery, Berlin, 2015
“Starlings in Hjertoya sing Kurt Schwitters”, Goethe-Institut Prague, Czech Republic, 2016
“Starlings in Hjertoya sing Kurt Schwitters”, Gallery K '- Center for Current Art, Bremen, 2017

Discography

"BAT", LP, Berlin 1987
“House music - Starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters”, CD, 2000
“I've seen them!”, Maxi-CD, Berlin 2000
“The Elf is alive”, CD, 2001
"Island Hörspiele", CD, Berlin 2002
"With Wittgenstein in Krisuvik", CD / LP, Cologne 2003
"Sirens of the sinking West Berlin", CD Berlin 2004
"The Guilt Structure" (with Namosh ), 7 "inch, Berlin 2006
"The Dieter Roth Orchestra plays small clouds, typical shit and never heard music", CD, intermedium rec., Munich 2006
"Deaf Music - The Deadly Doris in Sign Language Design", DVD, Berlin 2006
"Séance Vocibus Avium", 7 "inch / CD, Gothenburg, 2008
"Learning Mohawk in 55 minutes / Séance Vocibus Avium", double CD, intermedium rec., Munich 2012
"Fanning - Panning" (with Christine Sun Kim), double 7 "inch, squoodge records, Berlin 2013
"Fragil - stable" (together with Max Müller), 7 "inch vinyl, for get happy!?, Berlin 2014
“The hyperinterpretation of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass by Bruno Hoffmann in West Berlin's Frontkino 1984”, 9 vinyl LPs, Berlin 2017
“Speech break”, LP, 2017

radio play

“Unheard” (with Holger Hiller), Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1994
"Thrýmlied - Iceland notes by Úlfur Hróðólfsson", Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1996
"The echo is the dwarf language", radio play in 4 parts, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1999
"The Dieter Roth Orchestra plays small clouds, typical shit and never heard music" (Ed. With Barbara Schäfer), Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 2006
“Séance Vocibus Avium”, Bayerischer Rundfunk, radio play and media art, Munich 2008
"Intervallum - a homage to the break", radio play Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 2016

bibliography

Comic Trips , the banal comic as part of artificial creativity. The speech bubble as a soap bubble (space!) Rosa Winkel Verlag, Berlin, 1980
Geniale Dilletanten , (Ed.), Merve Verlag Berlin 1982
The most beautiful interviews , Verlag Martin Schmitz 1988
Die Tödliche Doris Volume I , (Ed.), Verlag Martin Schmitz 1991
White Burgundy from Silence , Verlag Martin Schmitz 1994
Die Hormone des Mannes , (Ed.), Verlag Martin Schmitz 1995
The Schöneberger Elfenkarte (with Ogar Grafe), December cultural work, Berlin, Schöneberg 1996
BLUE TIT - the German-Icelandic blue tit book - Þýsk-íslensk blámeisabók , Verlag Martin Schmitz 1998
Die Tödliche Doris - Kunst , (Ed.), Verlag Martin Schmitz 1999
Huliðhjálmsteinn , Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2000
House music - starlings from Hjertøya sing Kurt Schwitters , Galerie Katzen 2000
The elf in the sleeping bag , Verbrecher Verlag 2001
The mermaids of Minsk , Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2001
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's “The attempt to explain the metamorphosis of plants” from 1790 in Icelandic first translation , (Ed.), Writings of the Walther von Goethe Foundation, Berlin – Reykjavík 2002
Die Tödliche Doris - Kino , (Author & Mithrsg.), Martin Schmitz Verlag 2003
The Nightingale of Reykjavík , SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2004 (series “Beautiful Reading”, No. 25)
Hieronymus Megiser: Neue Nord-Welt (1613), publisher & author, Verbrecher Verlag 2005
Wollita - from ball of wool to superstar , book & CD (co-author: Françoise Cactus), Martin Schmitz Verlag 2006
News from the elf front - The truth about Iceland , edition suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2007
Valeska Gert. Aesthetics of presences , Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2010
Perception training. A seminar with Wolfgang Müller. Edited by Peter Trachsel. di Hasena, Dalvazza / Küblis 2010
Cosmas. Satirical novel , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2011
Moving fragments. Source edition on Valeska Gert , (Ed., With An Paenhuysen), Hybriden-Verlag 2013
Subculture West Berlin 1979–1989. Freizeit , philo fine art, Hamburg 2013
Kavaliere , mimas atlas (ed.), Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin 2016
For the love of art . Essays , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2018
Chromosome XY. Men's art - men's art (published jointly with An Paenhuysen ), Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Litigation. Joke with Goethe. The mirror . April 9, 2001, accessed January 30, 2017 .
↑ Cosima Lutz: Under the curling iron of irony: Goethe Institutes close and Wolfgang Müller opens a "branch". The world . Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
↑ pause. Valeska Gert: Moving Fragments. State museums in Berlin . Retrieved November 19, 2017.
↑ Allow? Müller. Professor of Elves and Dwarves. The world . November 3, 2001, accessed January 30, 2017 .
↑ Concept interview - Interview with Wolfgang Müller - 60 dates for his 60th birthday. tip . October 23, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017 .
↑ Herbert Kapfer (Ed.): From broadcast game to media art. The history of the radio play in Bavarian radio. Complete directory 1949–1999 . Belleville, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-923646-97-6 , p. 391 .

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist, musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfsburg , Lower Saxony

[1] Litigation. Joke with Goethe. The mirror . April 9, 2001, accessed January 30, 2017 .

[2] Cosima Lutz: Under the curling iron of irony: Goethe Institutes close and Wolfgang Müller opens a "branch". The world . Retrieved January 30, 2017 .

[3] pause. Valeska Gert: Moving Fragments. State museums in Berlin . Retrieved November 19, 2017.

[4] Allow? Müller. Professor of Elves and Dwarves. The world . November 3, 2001, accessed January 30, 2017 .

[5] Concept interview - Interview with Wolfgang Müller - 60 dates for his 60th birthday. tip . October 23, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017 .

[6] Herbert Kapfer (Ed.): From broadcast game to media art. The history of the radio play in Bavarian radio. Complete directory 1949–1999 . Belleville, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-923646-97-6 , p. 391 .