Kasseler KunstVereinsHeim - Program August - Stefan Kurt
Thursday, August 2, 2007, 8 p.m.
Stefan Kurt (D)
"Schallhalla"
Performance
Stefan Kurt, actor and artist, deals with sound collages and audible pictures. His performance is an audible picture situation - it is not art. The overlying frequencies which come about during his performance are connected and combined through the materials and the person to create poetic atmospheres. Some are simple, just like that! So: welcome to Soundsville.
Friday, August 3, 2007, 8 p.m.
Stefan Kurt (D)
"Bis zum Ellenbogen"
Film
The black-humour road movie comedy “Bis zum Ellenbogen”, which will be shown at the Kunstvereinsheim, features Stefan Kurt (who rose to fame in 1995 with his “Schattenmann”) and Jan Josef Liefers, known by many as the unconventional and self-willed pathologist in the German TV series “Tatort”. Liefers has also appeared in films such as “Rossini” (1997) and in the first film directed by actor Justus von Dohnányi (who appeared in the German film “Der Untergang” in 2004).
The young shipowner Achim (Jan Josef Liefers) falls victim to a cycling accident in the Swiss Alps caused by the unemployed Willi (Stefan Kurt). Instead of enjoying the first game of the World Soccer Championship in Munich, the shipowner and his unemployed partner find themselves in a hut in the mountains, where Sven (played by the director himself), a banker from Sylt, is spending his vacation. Sven is killed in a tragic accident. Achim, Willi and the dead Sven embark upon a long and mad journey which takes them from the mountains near Bern to Sylt, right through Germany, the country of soccer enthusiasts - with rigour mortis.
Stefan Kurt, born in Bern/Switzerland in 1959, attended the Conservatory of Music and Theatre in Bern. Since 1993 he has played in many films on TV and on the cinema screen and appeared on stage in the theatre. He was awarded the famous Adolf Grimme Prize for his leading role in “The Shadow Man” (“Der Schattenmann”). Stefan Kurt lives and works in Berlin.
Curator: Jürgen O. Olbrich
