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

Life

Born in

Leipzig Leipzig (, ; ; Upper Saxon: ; ) is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Saxony. The city has a population of 628,718 inhabitants as of 2023. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, eighth-largest city in Ge ...

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

music ensemble A musical ensemble, also known as a music group, musical group, or a band is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrume ...

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

outsider art Outsider art is Fine art, art made by Autodidacticism, self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the Convention (norm), conventions of the art worlds. The term ''ou ...

-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

Rainer Simon Rainer Simon (born 11 January 1941) is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1964 and 2000. His '' How to Marry a King'' (1969) and '' Six Make it Through the World'' (1972) are highly imaginative adaptations of f ...

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

premiere A premiere, also spelled première, (from , ) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work. History Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the ...

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

Semperoper The Semperoper () is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera) and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra). It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the Th ...

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

Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler was an ensemble of musicians founded in 1970 in Leipzig with a focus on contemporary classical music, which played several world premieres and toured internationally. The ensemble disbanded in 1993. History The ens ...

under the direction of

Friedrich Goldmann Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor. Life Born on 27 April 1941 in Siegmar-Schönau (today a part of Chemnitz), Goldmann's music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dresdner Kreuzchor. ...

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 The Stone Age was a broad prehistory, prehistoric period during which Rock (geology), stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years and ended b ...

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