TONI KRAHL
TONI KRAHL
(*1949, Berlin) is a musician. “Love me do”, the Beatles’ first single, inspired Toni Krahl to his music career. “It touched my heart and soul and still has an influence on me,” he said in an interview in 2019. Since 1975 he has been singer, guitarist and songwriter for the band City. With the song AM FENSTER, which appeared in 1977 on the band’s eponymous LP, City produced one of the greatest hits of GDR rock music. Although it is actually a love song – poetry by the lyricist Hildegard Maria Rauchfuss set to music – the song has a political dimension as well. It carries the idea of longing for freedom when Krahl sings at the end: “I fly through the world”.
TOBIAS KRUSE
(*1979, Waren an der Müritz)studied graphic design from 1996–2000, worked as graphic artist from 2000–2004. 2005–2009 further studies at the Ostkreuz School of Photography with Ute Mahler, masterclass with Arno Fischer, Berlin. In 2008 he won the NEW YORK PHOTO AWARD in the category Student Editorial Series; 2010 the main prize at F/STOP, the International Photography Festival in Leipzig. From 2009 to 2011 he was head of photography at the Dummy magazine. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2011. 2019 exhibition and publication of MATERIAL in the Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin, published by Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld; 2019/2020 recommended scholarship candidate; exhibition of DEPONIE in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and in the Photography Forum Frankfurt; 2020 publication of FREUNDSCHAFT (Friendship), together with Jörg Brüggemann, also published in Kerber Verlag.