Hermann J. Hendrich
Year of birth, place
1934
Austria
Year of death, place
2020
Role at the ZKM
- Artist of the Collection
Biography
| 1952–1961 | Studied engineering at the Vienna University of Technology |
| 1955–1960 | Worked at Studio – Association for Modern Jazz, Vienna |
| 1959 | Rehearsal director and stage manager for the Vienna-based group’s “Literary Cabaret II” |
| 1961 | “konkretes Theater,” in collaboration with K. Kinzl, Theater Experiment in Vienna IX. |
| 1967 | Co-founder of werkstatt breitenbrunn, Burgenland (with Wil Frenken and Fria Elfen) |
| 1969 | Organization and Technical Aspects of the Exhibition “Multi Media I,” Galerie Junge Generation, Vienna |
| 1971 | Publication of »werkstatt aspekt 3 – die medien als instrumente zur erhaltung des status quo« |
| Mitbegründer der Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Literaturproduzenten | |
| 1971–1976 | Co-founder of the Association of Austrian Literary Producers (Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Literaturproduzenten) |
| 1972–1984 | Photography, video camera, film camera and special effects, film sound, production and production management of short films and feature films for VALIE EXPORT |
| 1973 | Founding of the Alternative Media Group |
| 1982 | Co-founder of the Austria Filmmakers Cooperative |
| 1984–1994 | Volunteer work at the WUK (Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus), Vienna |
| 1992–2007 | Teaching assignments and lectures at TU Wien and the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UAdY), Mérida, Mexico |
| 1994 | Co-founder of the BLUE DANUBE Art Association |
| 2002 | Co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Maya Research in Graz |
Publications | |
| 1972 | »werkstatt aspekt 3: die medien als instrumente zur erhaltung des status quo«, journal of the Verein werkstatt, an association for the promotion of modern art, Vienna. |
| 1973–1976 | Contributor to the “edition literurproduzenten” series published by Jugend & Volk, Vienna. |
| 2007 | »raum, anschaulich. Zur Phänomenologie des architektonischen Raumes«, [-de’A-] Publishing, Gumpoldskirchen. |
| 2010 | »Anna Margaretha Hohmann-Vogrin, 1946 – 2009, Forschung und Lehre«, Graz University of Technology Press, 2010. |
| 2015 | »Theres Moser: Flügelschlag«, Academic Publishers, Graz. |
Awards | |
| 1978 | City of Vienna Award for the manuscript »die reise nach de panne« |
Hermann J. Hendrich's archive has been housed at the ZKM since 2015.