Klaus Peter Dencker












Klaus Peter Dencker

Born 1941 in Lübeck/Germany. Studies in german and japanese literature. Dr. phil. 1970; Professor of Media-Theory and Media-Practise at the University of Trier 1985 – 2001; 1985 till 2002 also Executive Director at the Ministry of Culture Hamburg.

Filmmaker (more the 100 films for the German Television), Visual Poet (since 1970 international exhibitions and publications). Dencker did the first TV-film (ARD/HR) and the first german anthology (Textbilder - Visuelle Poesie international. DuMont,Köln) about Visual Poetry in 1972and the very first international overview: Optische Poesie – von den prähistorischen Schriftzeichen bis zu den digitalen Experimenten der Gegenwart (Optical Poetry. From early pictorial inscriptions to present-day digital experiments). De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2011.

Publications a. o.: Textbilder-Visuelle Poesie international. DuMont Dokumente Köln 1972; Deutsche Unsinnspoesie. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1978; Visuelle Poesie. Queisser Verlag, Dillingen 1984; K(l)eine Poetik. (Eine Auswahl zum Sechzigsten von Klaus Peter Dencker). Edition Fundamental, Köln 2001; Renshi 2000 – 02. (Ein Kettengedicht deutscher und japanischer Visueller Poesie, verfasst und herausgegeben von Klaus Peter Dencker zusammen mit Yasuo Fujitomi, Motoyuki Ito, Hiroo Kamimura, Shutaro Mukai, und Shohachiro Takahashi. Hybriden Verlag, Berlin 2002; LW-Sequenz. Eter de Panji-Edition, St. Petersburg (=Visual World Poetry 2003); Antinomy (Peace/War). Zusammen mit Hiroshi Tanabu. Tokyo (=Tanabu-Edition Nr. 27), 2003; Poetische Sprachspiele. Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 2003; VERS T EHEN. Squares and Sequences. Redfoxpress, Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo/Ireland 2007; AMBIGUITY & MORE. Sequences. Redfoxpress, Dugort/Achill Island, County Mayo/Ireland 2010; EPITAPH TO... Redfoxpress, Dugort/Achill Island, County Mayo/Ireland 2010; THIS IS VISUAL POETRY. Chapbook. Kingston/PA 2010; ABCDARUM together witht J. M. Calleja. Redfoxpress, Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo/Ireland 2013; NEBENARBEIT. Mein System. Redfoxpress, Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo/Ireland 2015.

Monograph: Visual Poetry 1: 1965 – 2005. Weitra/ A 2005; Visual Poetry 2: Works till 2015. Weitra /A 2015.

Dencker-collections are (beside works in many international museums around the world) at the Art-Library of Berlin (from 1965 till 2002); at the University-Library of Hamburg (from 2002 on) and at the ZKM of Karlsruhe (all TV-  and film-works, scripts, treatments a. s. o.).

1972 (Kulturpreis Erlangen)

1982 (Förderpreis zum Kunstpreis Berlin)




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