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Die Tödliche Doris live auf Helgoland

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Bio

Wolfgang Mueller is one of the founding members of the Berlin based multimedia group of interventionists Die Toedliche Doris. During the years 1980-87, Die Toedliche Doris (The Deadly Doris) became legendary in the underground music and art scene in West Berlin and abroad. Die Toedliche Doris are still widely considered one of the most radical, intelligent and influential avantgarde groups of the last two decades. The members were Wolfgang Mueller, Nikolaus Utermoehlen and Chris Dreier in the very beginning, and though other artists such as Dagmar Dimitroff and Tabea Blumenschein joined the group for a while, Die Toedliche Doris was consolidated by Wolfgang Mueller, Nikolaus Utermoehlen and Kaethe Kruse. Their videos and performances were part of the Documenta 8, were shown in the MoMA in New York, in the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, in Tokyo and Kobe, and have shaped a new generation of experimental artists.

Hilda Magazine shows here a small selection of their films, including a short version of "Material fuer die Nachkriegszeit", followed by "Der Fotomatonreparateur", which are among the most important "Super 8" films of the group, whose oeuvre ranges from video to music and performance. Shown for the first time at the Paris Biennial in 1983, "The Photo Booth Technician" would become a cult piece, especially after the film inspired Jean Pierre Jeunet to create one of the characters in the movie "Amelie". It all began with the installation "Material fuer die Nachkriegszeit" (Material for the Post-war Era), in which Wolfgang Mueller and Nikolaus Utermoehlen collected torn photo booth strips in the years 1979 - 1981, rearranging and resetting the pieces together. They began, however, to find a peculiar amount of strips with the same man left in perfect shape, unlike the others, simply thrown away. When they discovered that this man was the technician who fixed the photo booths, the idea for the movie "The Photo Booth Technician" was born. Other works shown here include films "Eine Frau zur selben Zeit an einem anderen Ort", 9 minutes; "Wasserballet", 3 min; an excerpt of "Das Graupelbeerhuhn" and some of his music, made with Die Toedliche Doris and from his work as a solo artist, including music set to poems by Dieter Roth, and his projects with bat sounds.

Nelly Larguier

Daavid Mörtl

Wolfgang Müller

Catriona Shaw aka Miss le Bomb