Dirk Görtler
Pop Culture
Dirk Görtler studied design and illustration and has been an illustrator and designer since 1980. He works for publishing houses in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Between 1992 and 2000, through the co-editing of the cultural magazine "Chelsea Hotel, A Magazine for the Arts", an intensive collaboration with artists, writers and musicians, mainly from the USA, began. Intensive travel through the USA and Canada for decades broadened his own horizons in relation to the American space and culture. From these experiences followed the exploration of pop culture, not only American.Teaching [/F]
Cultural exchange
Since 1990 cultural exchange between the USA and Germany. Since 1993, Dirk Görtler has organized art excursions to New York, San Francisco or Chicago almost every year for the German-American Institute Freiburg and the Kunstverein Freiburg. Well connected with the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.F]Journalistic Activity (Excerpt)[/F]
- From 2018 teaching position in the Department of English and American Studies at Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg.
- Since 2011 Lectureship at the Popakademie, subject: History of Pop Culture.
- Additional lectureships in the Department of Business Informatics at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University and in the Department of Digital Media at Furtwangen University.
- Lectureship from 1987 to 2018 as lecturer for illustration at the Freiburg Graphic School, later hKDM, Freiburg.
- 2013, 2015 and 2017 Organization of the Illu-Festival for Illustration in Freiburg.
- Since 2012 member of the jury for the award of the "Graf Ludo" prize for the best game design.
- Since 1998 member of the board of the Kunstverein Freiburg.
- 1992 Planning and realization of the conference "Home Abroad, Abroad Home", an event with American writers in cooperation with the German-American Institute, Freiburg and the Cultural Office Freiburg.
Cultural exchange
Since 1990 cultural exchange between the USA and Germany. Since 1993, Dirk Görtler has organized art excursions to New York, San Francisco or Chicago almost every year for the German-American Institute Freiburg and the Kunstverein Freiburg. Well connected with the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.F]Journalistic Activity (Excerpt)[/F]
- 2014: Publisher of "ILLUbuch", illustrators from the border triangle
- Since 2003: Publisher of "Surcomixxxx"
- 1992 to 2000: Co-editor of the art and literature magazine "Chelsea Hotel, a Magazine for the Arts".
- 1992: Editor of the anthology "Mobil, avant-garde literature from the USA since 1945".