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Obituaries

We would like to pay our last respects here to ZKM's companions and artists who left us far too early, and look back on their work.

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Award ceremony Giga Hertz Award 2010 and Walter Fink Award of the ZKM; Laudatio Walter Fink Award: Christine Fischer (Winner of the Fink Award Pipo Tafel and Daniel Berwanger together with Walter Fink)
2018-04-17
»A maker like few« – the ZKM mourns Walter Fink
The entrepreneur Walter Fink was not only co-founder of the Rheingau Music Festival, but also shaped the promotion of electroacoustic music at the ZKM. Fr...
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Manfred Reichert
2018-04-09
Trauer um Manfred Reichert – den Leiter der ersten Projektgruppe des ZKM
VON ZKM REDAKTIONManfred Reichert war Musikredakteur beim Südwestfunk und Begründer des Ensemble 13, eines losen Verbunds herausragender und experimenti...
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A man sits amid several turntables
2017-07-07
The sound cosmos of Pierre Henry – an obituary of the Grandseigneur of modern electronic music
From 2003 onwards, Pierre Henry was a regular guest at ZKM, performing his complex electro-acoustic compositions here – including th...
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A black and white image of a man who also takes a photo. In the background a car and another man running in the picture
2016-11-28
»He knew every celebrity between Hollywood and Cinecittà«
Film-maker and film critic Gideon Bachmann has died in Karlsruhe at the age of 89. His friend Edgar Reitz remembered his first encount...
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Lothar Späth
2016-03-18
Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Späth - Das ZKM trauert um einen Paten und Partner
VON ZKM REDAKTION»Der Blick von Lothar Späth war stets prospektiv und nicht retrospektiv, mit einem Wort: baden-württembergisch. Al...
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Portrait of Walter Giers
2016-04-05
50 sprechende Lautsprecher und 5 Lichttropfen – Walter Giers ist im Alter von 78 Jahren gestorben
VON ZKM REDAKTION1969 beginnt der Jazzmusiker und Ingenieur Walter Giers mit dem Bau von ersten zweckfreien Objekten aus elektronisch...
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