Hartmut Geerken

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Hartmut Geerken
Born (1939-01-15) 15 January 1939 (age 82)
Stuttgart, Germany
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, filmmaker
Websitewww.hartmutgeerken.de

Hartmut Geerken (born 15 January 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a German musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.

Life[]

Geerken studied orientalism, philosophy, German studies and comparative religion in Tübingen and Istanbul, and produced a dissertation on Hellmut Ritter. He gave German language courses in Turkey for the first Turkish guest workers planning to go to Germany. As an employee at the Goethe Institute, he lived in Cairo from 1966–1972, in Kabul from 1972–1979, and in Athens from 1979–1983. Since then he has lived in Herrsching am Ammersee.

Achievements[]

Geerken is as artist and arts organizer. As a percussionist, he has collaborated with a variety of free jazz musicians such as Sun Ra, John Tchicai, Sainkho Namtchylak. As a poet, he is a practitioner of concrete poetry and organizes events such as the annual Bielefeld New Poetry Colloquium. As an actor, he appeared in six films by Herbert Achternbusch and appeared in two of Achternbusch's plays at the Munich Kammerspiele. From 1991–1992, he held the Chair of Poetics at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen.

Geerken was also dedicated to the memory of the German literati . When he was on the trail of the estate of , Geerken investigated an uninhabited house in southern France, where he instead found parts of the estate of Ruest, who had died in 1943. Ruest was, along with , editor of the Stirnerite journal Der Einzige, which was published in a small edition from 1919–1925. From the funds of the estate, Geerken found it was possible to reprint a complete set of Der Einzige, which was published in 1980.

In 1979, while living in Afghanistan, Geerken made a study of the ethnomycology of the areas of the country which he visited, co-authoring two papers on the topic. In the second paper, he describes his discovery of a tradition involving the recreational use of the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria among the Parachi-speaking people of the . In the short paper, Geerken's Shutuli informants describe to him how they find solace from the tedium of the long and bitter winters of the Hindu Kush in the bizarre visions caused by the mushroom, one man believing himself transformed into a tree.[1]

Awards[]

Munich Literature Year (1984), Schubart Literary Prize (1986), Karl Sczuka Prize for Works of Radio Art: "südwärts, südwärts" (BR 1989) and "hexenring" (BR 1994).

Major works[]

  • Book publications include "murmel gedichte" (1965), "verschiebungen" (1972), "sprünge nach rosa hin" (1981), "poststempel jerusalem" (1993), "kant" (1998), "ogygia: vom ende des südens" (2004), "phos" (2005), "forschungen etc.'" (2006), "klafti" (2007), "kyrill" (2007), "soyd" (2008), "moos" (2008).
  • Co-editor of the series "Frühe Texte der Moderne". Editor of the works of Salomo Friedlaender, of various articles from expressionists, dadaists, and anarchists from the first half of the 20th Century, and the German biographer of Sun Ra on "Omniverse Sun Ra", with Chris Trent (1994).
  • Compositions, installations, albums, films, and radio plays.

References[]

  1. ^ Gholam Mochtar, Said; Geerken, Hartmut; Werner, Peter G. "Erowid Psychoactive Amanitas Vault : The hallucinogens muscarine and ibotenic acid in the middle Hindu Kush". The Vaults of Erowid. p. 1997. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

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