Christian Ide Hintze (December 26, 1953 – February 2012) was an Austrian poet and performance artist, who focused on the transition from literary to crossmedia forms.
Biography Christian Ide Hintze was born on December 26, 1953, in Vienna. Between 1972 and 1974, he worked as a Super-8 filmmaker and street singer in Scandinavia, England, France and Spain. Between 1974 and 1978, in addition to studying theater and communications at the University of Vienna, he worked as a distributor of megaphone, poster and leaflet texts in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Holland.comments on Christian Ide Hintze's poetic work His actions resulted in numerous charges of "obstructing pedestrian traffic" and "contamination of public buildings".Otto Grabner, Ilse Tasler: Vorspiel zu "Hölderlin" von Peter Weiss . Falter Nr. 26/27. Vienna, June 1977. In 1976 he was arrested and interrogated by the police in East Berlin.documentation: Christian Ide Hintze: Zettelalbum. Street diary. Schönemann Verlag. Kisslegg 1978. In 1978 he was expelled from the book fair in StuttgartThomas Borgmann: Der Dichter Christian "Ide" Hintze in Stuttgart . Stuttgarter Zeitung. Stuttgart, November 17, 1978. and convicted of criminal damage in Vienna (for pasting banners, posters and poems onto the Burgtheater).Peter Pisa: Gefördert, bestraft . Kurier. Vienna, June 5, 1978. In 1979 the Austrian filmmaker Alfred Kaiser published a film about his work in public spaces.Friederike Mayröcker: Fast ein Messias. Resultat eines Zwiegesprächs zwischen Ernst Jandl und Friederike Mayröcker über den Film "Zetteldämmerung" . Neues Forum. Vienna, March / April 1981.
In the 1980s Hintze undertook several 'pilgrimages' to the Greek island of Lesbos to celebrate his favourite poet, Sappho,references to Hintze's admiration for Sappho can be found throughout his oeuvre. In a review on "The golden flood" the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" says (Munich, November 17/18, 1987): "The concluding (eleven-page) invocation of Sappho and her "colourful throne of eternal Aphrodite" is magnificent." and created a series of multi-media poem cycles ("tetralogies"), using "gestures", "graphemes", "phonemes", "audio", and "video" as elements.I-Tetralogy The works oscillate between semantic and non-semantic structures and are multilingual.MedienKunstArchiv Düsseldorf, Titel: http://188.246.4.141/servlet/collectioning?col=14406&r=1000 V-IDE-ODIS-TANZ II. Künstler: Ide Hintze. Jahr: 1982/83. Länge: 61:09 min They have been presented at ateliers, festivals and public areas and have led to collaborations with Allen Ginsberg,in a dialogue with Hintze Ginsberg says (Boulder, Colorado, 1990): "One subject between us is this sense of messianic poetic revolution. We both have ideas about it. But I think your ideas and my ideas are different". Listen to Hintze: ampf, poetic revolution. CD, track 43. Henri Chopin,Hintze: Autoren als Revolutionäre, Mikrofone in der Brust. Dialogue with Henri Chopin. edition selene. Vienna 2002. Emil Siemeistervideo performance with Emil Siemeister Entire performance: Christian Ide Hintze and Emil Siemeister: mamama papapa. Dialogue writer – drawer. DVD. Modena / [a:o]. Vienna 2011. and Falco.Christian Ide Hintze: Falco Lyrics Complete. Residenz Verlag. Vienna 2009. "What Ide aims at is a poetry to be perceived not only with the brain, but also with the whole body; the sensorial poetry, capable of achieving the 'communication monopoly' he had long pined for."Denisa Mirena Piscu: Sound Poetry – three poets trying to escape the abusive domination of word: Henri Chopin, Sainkho Namtchylak, Christian Ide Hintze. Master thesis (lucrare de disertatie). University of Bucuresti. Bucuresti, Romania 2009
In 1984 Hintze built a poet's temple near the underground station of Karlsplatz in Vienna. The "LI-TE“, a closed-circuit installation in public space, consisted of 4 letter sculptures, a wooden trumpet cross and a hut where the author lived and worked for three weeks. The temple was sponsored by GRUNDIG-Austria and had 3 live cameras and 11 monitors equipped to run the 16 video loops.David N. Marinelli: Christian Ide Hintze: the man who makes poetry in public park. Danube Weekly. Vienna, September 18, 1984.
"The golden flood", a volume of written poetry that portraits the conditions of vagrancy, appeared in 1987,Christian Ide Hintze: Die goldene Flut (The golden flood). Gedichte (poems). Cologne 1987. . was translated into several languages and received comprehensive reviews in Germany, Switzerland, Cuba, Vietnam and Argentina. "His searches have something in common with the best "exteriorismo" of Nicaraguan poetry (Cardenal, Coronel Urtecho) or with the striking uninhibitedness of the American "beatnik" movement."Pedro de la Hoz: Ide Hintze, esperanzadora rebeldía . Granma. La Habana, 11 de Julio de 1996. "Pindar, Klopstock, Whitman, Rilke, Eliot, Ginsberg, Brinkmann. It is to this tradition that Hintze's book "The golden flood" belongs."Hannelore Schlaffer: Grüner Schnee im Feuer, Chr. I. Hintzes Gedichte . Stuttgarter Zeitung. Stuttgart, June 18, 1988.
In 1993 Hintze undertook, at the invitation of Miguel Barnet and the Cuban writers’ union UNEAC, a reading tour of Cuba.Pedro de la Hoz: Ide Hintze, revolution en la poesía . Granma. La Habana, 14 de Diciembre de 1993. In the same year he taught, as the first Western author, at the Institute of Literature Nguyên Du in Hanoi (Vietnam).Van Hoc: Christian Ide Hintze . Hanoi, Vietnam 1993. In 1995 he was the first German-language author who taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado (USA). In 1996, he was the co-initiator of the "escuela de poesía" in Medellín (Colombia)Escuela de Poesía de Medellín
His project "Writing in Water" was realized in 1998 in the spa Oberlaa, Vienna. Hintze wanted to find out whether the emergence of language and phenomena such as rhyme and refrain have something to do with the phylogenetic origin of man out of water.Writing in Water
In 2004 he took part in the Austrian pre-selection show of the Eurovision Song Contest and reached the third place. His contribution, the song "Link Love!", is a statement against racism and for mutual cultural understanding. The text consists of multilingual versions of "I love you".Link Love
In 2008 and 2009 he presented his concept of a "7fold poetics" at the Orivesi college of Art, the University of BarcelonaGlòria Bordons, Lis Costa: Poesia contemporània, tecnologies i educació. Publicacions i edicions Universitat de Barcelona. Book & DVD. Barcelona 2010. and at the Poetry Festival in Oslo. Hintze considers the genesis of poetry to comprise 3 stages (mythical: oral-performative poetry, historical: literary poetry, digital: multi-media poetry)Christian Ide Hintze: On Poetry. Orivesi College of Art. Orivesi, Finland, November 15, 2008 and introduces 7 categories of creation and communication: acoustic, visual, literary, performative, interactive, infrastructural and instructive.7fold poetics "Hintze's unusual theory holds that only after a long period of domination by writing, with the discovery of new media, audio and video tapes, and subsequently of digital technologies and the internet, did poetry return to its roots."Dragan Stojanovic: Cyber Sappho. Vecernje Novosti. Belgrade, Serbia, August 30, 2008. English translation
Christian Ide Hintze engages in language policy, propagates lower case writing,Christian Ide Hintze: lower case only. laptop manifesto. Vienna, June 2008. organizes cross-cultural events and has run, since 1992, the vienna poetry school.Anita Pani: Laboratory for a new generation. The School of Poetry in Vienna . Those who have taught there include Allen Ginsberg, Humberto Ak'abal, Nick Cave,Nick Cave, Falco and Allen Ginsberg at the Vienna Poetry School. Viva la Poesía. Book and CD edited by Christian Ide Hintze. Residenz Verlag. Vienna - Salzburg - Frankfurt 2002. H. C. Artmann, Anne Waldman, Blixa Bargeld, Falco, Wolfgang Bauer, Fernando Rendón, Henri Chopin, Ed Sanders, Ayu Utami and Inger Christensen.
Hintze's works have been presented at festivals and exhibitions in Hall in Tirol (1974), Esslingen (1976), Vienna (1981), Ljubljana (1983), Turino (1984),Torino Film Festival 1984 The Hague (1985),World Wide Video Festival. The Hague 1985 Tokyo (1986), Bern (1987), Buenos Aires (1993), Stockholm (1993), Medellín (1995/1996/2011),Festival internacional de Poesía de Medellín 1995 Rosario (1996), Berlin (1998), Barcelona (2000), Jakarta (2001), Milano (2007), Novi Sad (2008) and Oslo (2009).Oslo Poesiefestival 2009
Selected works
acoustic 30 Rufe (30 Callings). Poems with audio-samples, drumcomputer, solo- und multitrack-voice. CD.André Bucher: Lyrische Performances . Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zurich, January 14, 1993. German and phonetic language. extraplatte, Vienna 1992. EX 162C [ampf]. Notes, poems, sequences & songs. Asemantic acoustic poetry. CD. extraplatte, Vienna 2000. EX 462-2 link love!. Songs and videoclips. CD. 73 languages. Alphabet / Modena, Vienna 2004. LC 08340
visual Der Blick aus meinem Fenster (Looking out my window). Super-8-film. ORF "Lumier's children", Austria 1974 mmm, non-alphabetic letter signs. Video and 136 drawings. P-Tapes, Vienna 1983, and WTG, Vienna 2006 Act in A and AH. Poem for 1 spoken sound, 1 live-camera, 1 monitor & 3 symbols. Video, Vienna 1985 Lesson in looking. Insert-screen-poem. Video, 2 min., Vienna 1985
literary Zettelalbum. Street diary, leaflet poems, letters by passers-by. Book.Peter Henisch: Die Zeit auf kleinen Zetteln . Kurier. Vienna, February 3, 1979. German. 222 pages. Michael Schönemann Verlag, Kisslegg 1978. Die goldene Flut (The golden Flood).Paul Konrad Kurz: Lyrische Herzmission . Süddeutsche Zeitung. Munich, November 17/18, 1987. 129 poems. 200 pages. Book. German. Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1987. Autoren als Revolutionäre (Authors as revolutionaries). Dialogues with Henri Chopin, Mircea Dinescu, Gioconda Belli, Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, Ryszard Dreger, Anna Leska. Book. German. edition selene, Vienna 2002. Bruce Chatwin and Christian Ide Hintze Dream-Time / A Rainbow-Travel. Concertina style artists' book. Alinea-Presse, Berlin, Germany, 1993. 60 copies published in English, 100 in German. performative Kundgebung der Anwesenden (Manifestation of attendants). Instant street drama. Salzburg 1976 Gold im Ofen (Gold in the oven). Theatre play. produced by Wiener Festwochen / the Vienna Festival. Vienna 1981 nantzn.Julian Schutting: Rather transformations than performances Asemantic performance poetry. DVD. Asemantic phonetic language. Modena / [a:o], Vienna 2010. mamama papapa. Dialogue writer – drawer, video performance & drawings. With Emil Siemeister. Modena / [a:o]. Vienna 2010.
interactive Zettel. Leaflets, flyers, hand outs. Distributed by the author in the street, in front of cinemas, theatres, stadiums etc. Ca. 1,2 million copies. Austria, Germany, Holland, Switzerland 1974–78 Writing off the back of others. Chain-poem with passers-by. Vienna, Austria 1975 E1. Card game. Alphanumeric symbols. Vienna, Austria 1977 IPPOI. Interactive Internet Platform. English. Austrian cultural forum New York, New York & internet 1995 internet-icons. Emoticons. Interactive digital classroom. German. vienna poetry school, Vienna & Internet 1997
infrastructural L-LI-OBO. 4-monitor installation in a wooden box. 4 looped videos. Body-voice-audio-video-dialogues. English, French and phonetic language. With Henri Chopin. Vienna 1983 I-Tetralogy. Multimedia poetry. 1 box of playing cards, 1 audio tape, 2 video tapes. German and phonetic language. P-Tapes, Vienna 1984 LI-TE. Closed circuit 4-media installation in public space. German, French, English and phonetic language. Sponsored by Grundig Austria, Vienna 1984 ide7fold. Videoclip-based online platform. Inauguration: 2008. Work in progress
instructive