TOBIAS KRUSE
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.
JOHANNES KERSTHOLD
(*1965, Trier) is a pianist, composer and producer. He studied piano at the University of the Arts, Berlin, and has performed in Germany and abroad in various formations. He won the contest MUSICA VITALE (1996) with the German-Chinese group OMEN, and the JAZZ AWARD Berlin in 2004 with the Hattie St. John Quartet, and again in 2005 with the Griese/Kappe Quartet. He has participated in productions with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the RIAS Big Band, as well as for the public broadcasters ZDF, SWR and WDR. He was the keyboarder in the Konstantin Wecker musical SCHWEIJK, musical director of FALCO MEETS AMADEUS, and first keyboarder for CATS. In 2003 he founded his own label ANJOKE.
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.
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.
MILA TESHAIEVA
(*1974, Kiev/Ucraine) 2010–2012 Master of Arts in Photography at the Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Art in Halle. 2013 Kehrer Verlag published her book PROMISING WATERS, followed in 2014-2015 by the eponymous solo exhibition in the Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA, in the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee/USA, and in the museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr. In 2015 and 2016, the catalogues of the exhibitions FACES AND STORIES OF ENTREPRENEURS and INSELWESEN were published. She has been a member of OSTKREUZ since 2016. In 2017 INSELWESEN was shown in the museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, and INSELALLTAG in the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin. For the series INSELWESEN she used the old technique of light painting, where her only source of light was a flashlight. In this way she has created Baroque-like, mystical portraits. In 2018/2019 the MIT Museum in Boston, USA, devoted a major show to her work under the title IMAGINED COMMUNITIES.
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.
SUSE WÄCHTER
(*1969, Sangerhausen) is a puppeteer and director. Since studying at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, she has worked towards the renewal of puppet animation in theatre. She brings her self-made figures to life on major theatre stages, including Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Schaubühne and the Volksbühne in Berlin, the Bavarian State Opera and the Residenztheater in Munich, Schauspiel Köln, Schauspielhaus Zürich, and the Salzburg Festival.
She began making puppets as a child, meanwhile having created more than 100 of them. Some are life-sized, and Suse Wächter needs her entire strength to manipulate them, sometimes assisted by actors, musicians or dancers. The figures range from Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx and Bertolt Brecht to Cate Blanchett. What fascinates her about puppetry? “[…] the magic, […] the chance to fill people with wonder” (quotes from Prenzlauerberg Nachrichten).”