Robert Linke (born in 1958) is a German artist and composer.

Life

Born in

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, Linke has been living in Berlin, Saxony and Bohemia since 1983. He works alone or in

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s with experimental texts, drawings, music and films and organizes events. Linke is also active as an author. Two parts of his play ''Die Arbeitslosen aus dem Cafe Schliemann'' were published in the Berlin literary magazine ''Sklaven'' in 1995 (issue 18) and 1997 (issues 38/39). In the literary magazine ''Floppy Myriapoda'' texts by him were published in 2012 (issue 19) and 2014 (issues 24/25). Since 2010 Linke also participates as

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-drawer in exhibitions at the , Münster. Since 2011 he has been a member of the board of directors of the ''Weltfluchthilfe ae.V.'', Berlin. In 1989, Linke composed the music for

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's film '. In 1991 his ''Tannhäuser-Requiem'' was

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d at the ''Kleine Szene'', the studio stage of the Dresden

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, and one week later it was also performed at the . There is a recording of the

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under the direction of

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performing Linke's composition ''Fortpflanzung / Notgezücht. Musik Christian Heckel''.Deutschlandfunk programme of 6 July 2007
retrieved 21 July 2020 Since 1992 Linke has been living with an ensemble of artists from social services. The ensemble documents and represents the culture of the unemployed with their utopias of a modern society in the projects Opera for the unemployed, , Medea-Psyche, the indoors orchestra, Stone Age laboratory and Initiative of Intelligent Forms of Life.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Linke, Robert 20th-century German classical composers German composers 1958 births Living people Musicians from Leipzig 20th-century German artists