Audiobook
»Frei Otto – Finding Form
Jens Harzer speaks Frei Otto«
Posted on March 23, 2015
»Frei Otto – Finding Form
Jens Harzer speaks Frei Otto«
4 CDs with a total length of 263 minutes
Script and production: Gert Pfafferodt
Music: Mark-André Dalbavie »Charlotte Salomon«
© 2014 by Gerard Billaudot Editeur
Design: stauss processform
Publication date: May 5, 2015
Price: 25,00 Euro (D)
ISBN 978-3-9814774-3-6
Order: info@cherbuliez.com
Special thanks to the sponsor SL Rasch GmbH
www.sl-rasch.de
Frei Otto receives the Pritzker Prize posthumously:
On March 9th of this year, a few weeks before his 90th birthday, Frei Otto passed away. Shortly before his death he had learned that he was awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize. On May 15th, Frei Otto’s life and timeless work will be honoured with the prize giving Ceremony in Miami. The Praemium Imperiale and the Aga Khan Award count among the numerous other distinctions he has received for his art of construction.
The audiobook »Frei Otto - Finding Form - Jens Harzer speaks Frei Otto« will be published in May 2015:
As a homage to this great architect and friend of mankind the audiobook “Finding Form” with 4 CDs will be published by Cherbuliez Productions in May 2015. Frei Otto speaks about his life during war and captivity, about his quest and the research work he undertook in unison with a large group of scientists from many different disciplines, and about his construction and his buildings. The actor Jens Harzer lends him his voice and speaks his texts.
The audiobook originates from long talks with Gert Pfafferodt. It draws the listener into the history of a creative personage, his life-long development and evolvement.
Frei Otto – Architect, Visionary, Utopian:
The general public sees in Frei Otto the architect, engineer and visionary, the utopian, ecologist and pioneer. He considers himself a formsearcher and formfinder, a natural scientist. Maybe it was Frei Otto’s giftedness for interdisciplinary thinking which was his pre-eminent genius. The work for which his name stands all over the world is “light” architecture, minimal construction. His highly aesthetic buildings set the benchmark for an ecologically responsible form finding process and shape the architecture of the 20th century. His constructions confirm the cognitions of Nature. They transform the architectural thinking of the 21st century.
Jens Harzer:
Actor at the Thalia Theater Hamburg. He was trained at the Otto-Falckenberg-School in Munich and belonged to the company of Dieter Dorn, Münchner Kammerspiele and Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel. He performed as a guest in Berlin at the Schaubühne and Deutsches Theater, in Hamburg at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, in Vienna at the Burgtheater and at Salzburg Festival. He worked with Herbert Achtern- busch, Dieter Dorn, Peter Zadek, Jan Bosse, Martin Kusej, Andrea Breth, Luc Bondy, Jürgen Gosch, Dimiter Gotscheff, Luk Perceval, Johan Simons.
Film:
Cooperations with Michael Verhoeven, Hans-Christian Schmid and Bülent Akinci.
Awards:
Awards: Twice Actor of the Year (2008 and 2011),
Kunstpreis Berlin (1996), Kurt-Meisel-Preis (2003),
Silver George: Best Actor Filmfestival Moskau (2006).
