Villa Massimo
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Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German
art institute in Rome
, established in 1910 and located in the Villa
Massimo.
The fellowship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo represents one of the most important awards offered to German artists for study abroad. The award offers residency for one year at the Villa Massimo to ten artists in the middle of their careers, who have excelled in Germany and abroad, including architects, composers, writers and figurative artists.
The founder of this institution was the patron and entrepreneur Eduard Arnhold, who in 1910 acquired the beautiful and extensive property of 36,000 m², previously the suburban villa of the aristocratic Massimo family. Arnhold commissioned the building of the main structure, a large villa which would be appropriate for official events, and ten modern studios with adjacent private residential spaces. He later donated the villa, and its luxurious furnishings, to the Prussia
n state. Today, the Villa Massimo is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry for Cultural Affairs and Media, of the Chancellery of the Federal Republic of Germany. Following an extensive three-year restoration, the Academy started in 2003 a renewed commitment to nurture culture in Rome and in Italy.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
art institute in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, established in 1910 and located in the Villa
Villa
A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity,...
Massimo.
The fellowship at the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo represents one of the most important awards offered to German artists for study abroad. The award offers residency for one year at the Villa Massimo to ten artists in the middle of their careers, who have excelled in Germany and abroad, including architects, composers, writers and figurative artists.
The founder of this institution was the patron and entrepreneur Eduard Arnhold, who in 1910 acquired the beautiful and extensive property of 36,000 m², previously the suburban villa of the aristocratic Massimo family. Arnhold commissioned the building of the main structure, a large villa which would be appropriate for official events, and ten modern studios with adjacent private residential spaces. He later donated the villa, and its luxurious furnishings, to the Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...
n state. Today, the Villa Massimo is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Ministry for Cultural Affairs and Media, of the Chancellery of the Federal Republic of Germany. Following an extensive three-year restoration, the Academy started in 2003 a renewed commitment to nurture culture in Rome and in Italy.
Artists
- 1929 Walter Bernstein (artist)
- 1931 Hermann BlumenthalHermann BlumenthalHermann Blumenthal was a German sculptor. He was a participating artist in the documenta 1.- Awards :* 1929: Preis der Stadt Köln anlässlich einer Ausstellung des Deutschen Künstlerbundes...
- 1932 Felix NussbaumFelix NussbaumFelix Nussbaum was a German-Jewish surrealist painter. Nussbaum’s artwork gives a rare glimpse into the essence of one individual among the victims of the Holocaust.- Early life and education :...
, Arno BrekerArno BrekerArno Breker was a German sculptor, best known for his public works in Nazi Germany, which were endorsed by the authorities as the antithesis of degenerate art.... - 1933 Carlo MenseCarlo MenseCarlo Mense was a German artist, associated at various times with Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity.Mense was born in Rheine. He studied with Peter Janssen at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1906 to 1908, and then with Lovis Corinth at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1909...
- 1957 Fritz KoenigFritz KoenigFritz Koenig, born June 20, 1924, in Würzburg, Germany, is a sculptor best known outside his native country for "The Sphere," which once stood in the plaza between the two World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan but which now stands, its damage deliberately left unrepaired, in Battery Park as...
- 1976 Anselm KieferAnselm KieferAnselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
- 1979 Rolf-Gunter Dienst
- 1980 Hans Peter Reuter
- 1982 Stefan SzczesnyStefan SzczesnyStefan Szczesny is a German painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.He is best known for co-founding the Junge Wilde movement by, among other things, organizing the exhibition "Rundschau Deutschland" in 1981...
- 1989 Manfred StumpfManfred StumpfManfred Stumpf is a German draftsman, sculptor, and digital artist. He started to study 1976 with Thomas Bayrle at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, since 1978 with Hans Haake at the Cooper Union in New York, and since 1979 with Bazon Brock at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria...
- 1991 Eberhard BossletEberhard BossletEberhard Bosslet is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation and painting, both indoors and outdoors, since 1979...
- 1997 Matthias LeupoldMatthias LeupoldMatthias Leupold is a German photographer who lives and works in Berlin.- Life and work :Matthias Leupold completed his photographic education at the D.E.F.A. studio for feature films in Potsdam-Babelsberg. in the early eighties, he started staging photographs in order to express his interest in...
- 2003 Thomas DemandThomas DemandThomas Demand, in full Thomas Cyrill Demand, is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg.-Education:...
- 2005 Sandra HastenteufelSandra HastenteufelSandra Hastenteufel is a contemporary German artist who works with photography, film, sculpture and painting.-Life:She studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart....
, Johannes KahrsJohannes Kahrs (artist)Johannes Kahrs is an artist based in Berlin.He completed his studies at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1994.... - 2007 Matthias WeischerMatthias WeischerMatthias Weischer is a painter living in Leipzig. Weischer is considered to be part of the New Leipzig School.- Life :...
- 2009 Jochen LempertJochen LempertJochen Lempert is a German photographer whose work is about the world of nature and animals.Lempert first studied as a biologist before turning to photography in the early 1990s...
- 2010 Christian JankowskiChristian JankowskiChristian Jankowski is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography.He has created a number of television interventions...
- 2011 Via Lewandowsky, Maria Sewcz, Julia SchmidtJulia SchmidtJulia Schmidt Julia Schmidt Julia Schmidt (born 1976 in Wolfen (Germany) is a German painter, living in Hamburg.She graduated from Glasgow School of Art and from Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Schmidt exhibited at Union Gallery, and Casey Kaplan.-Awards:...
Architects
- 1932 Carl Ludwig FranckCarl Ludwig FranckCarl Ludwig Franck , the youngest son of the German painter Philipp Franck, was an architect who practiced in the United Kingdom from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was a member of the architectural practice Tecton from the late 1930s to its dissolution in 1948...
- 1933 Hans PoelzigHans PoelzigHans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.-Life:Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to the countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman...
- 2011 Andrea Hartmann, Matthias Graf von Ballestrem
Composers
- 1957 and 1964 Bernd Alois ZimmermannBernd Alois ZimmermannBernd Alois Zimmermann was a post-WWII West German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten which is regarded as one of the most important operas of the 20th century...
- 1958 Wilhelm KillmayerWilhelm KillmayerWilhelm Killmayer is a German composer of classical music and an academic.-Professional career:Wilhelm Killmayer studied conducting and composition from 1945 to 1951 in Munich at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s Musikseminar...
- 1959 Hans OtteHans OtteHans Otte born Hans Günther Franz Otte in Plauen, Germany was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings, and art videos. From 1959 to 1984 he served as music director for Radio Bremen...
- 1959 and 1963 Giselher KlebeGiselher KlebeGiselher Wolfgang Klebe was a German composer. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, 8 symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano works, and sacred music.-Biography:...
- 1960 Jürg BaurJürg BaurJürg Baur was a German composer of classical music.-Education:Baur was born in Düsseldorf, where he achieved early recognition as a composer at the age of 18, when his First String Quartet was premiered at the Düsseldorf Hindenburg Secondary School by the then-famous Prisca Quartet...
, Alfred Koerppen - 1962 Heinrich KonietznyHeinrich KonietznyHeinrich Josef Konietzny was a German musician, professor and composer.-Life:...
- 1964 Hans ZenderHans ZenderJohannes Wolfgang Zender is a German conductor and composer.-Life:From 1956 to 1959 Zender studied piano, conducting, and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.From 1959 to 1963 he was Kapellmeister of the Municipal Theatres in Freiburg im...
, Aribert ReimannAribert ReimannAribert Reimann is a German opera composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of King Lear was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who sang the title role.... - 1965 and 1977 Friedrich Voss
- 1965/66 Heinz Werner ZimmermannHeinz Werner ZimmermannHeinz Werner Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner as well as at the Institut for Protestant Church Music there...
, Wilhelm KillmayerWilhelm KillmayerWilhelm Killmayer is a German composer of classical music and an academic.-Professional career:Wilhelm Killmayer studied conducting and composition from 1945 to 1951 in Munich at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s Musikseminar... - 1966/67 and 1977 Erhard Grosskopf
- 1967/68 Friedhelm DöhlFriedhelm DöhlFriedhelm Döhl is a German composer and professor of music.Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen...
- 1968 Wolfgang RihmWolfgang RihmWolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...
, Jürg BaurJürg BaurJürg Baur was a German composer of classical music.-Education:Baur was born in Düsseldorf, where he achieved early recognition as a composer at the age of 18, when his First String Quartet was premiered at the Düsseldorf Hindenburg Secondary School by the then-famous Prisca Quartet... - 1968/69 Hans ZenderHans ZenderJohannes Wolfgang Zender is a German conductor and composer.-Life:From 1956 to 1959 Zender studied piano, conducting, and composition at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.From 1959 to 1963 he was Kapellmeister of the Municipal Theatres in Freiburg im...
- 1972/73 Hans-Joachim HesposHans-Joachim HesposHans-Joachim Hespos is a German composer of avant-garde music.Since für Cello solo , he has composed in all genres, including many pieces for unaccompanied solo instruments and theatre works...
- 1976 Anton Plate
- 1976/77 George DreyfusGeorge DreyfusGeorge Dreyfus AM is an Australian contemporary classical, film and television composer.-Life:The Dreyfus family moved in 1935 to Berlin to enable a better education for their two sons...
- 1977 and 1978/79 Manfred TrojahnManfred Trojahn-Professional career:Manfred Trojahn was born in Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of the city of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with...
- 1978, 1981/82 and 1984 Wilfried Hiller
- 1978/79 Ulrich LeyendeckerUlrich LeyendeckerUlrich Leyendecker is a German composer of classical music. His output consists mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music.-Life:...
, Wolfgang von SchweinitzWolfgang von SchweinitzWolfgang von Schweinitz is a German composer of classical music.Schweinitz studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, from 1971 to 1973 with Gernot Klussmann and from 1973 to 1975 with György Ligeti. He continued his studies at the Stanford University with John Chowning... - 1979 Theo Brandmüller
- 1979/80 and 1982 Detlef Müller-Siemens
- 1979/80 Wolfgang RihmWolfgang RihmWolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...
, Peter Michael HamelPeter Michael HamelPeter Michael Hamel is a German composer. His works have been associated with the Minimalist style of composition, and in the late 1970s with the New Simplicity movement.... - 1981/82 and 1983 Hans-Jürgen von BoseHans-Jürgen von BoseHans-Jürgen von Bose is a German Composer.-Life:After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory...
- 1982/83 Renate BirnsteinRenate BirnsteinRenate Maria Birnstein is a German composer, violinist and pianist. She was born in Hamburg, and studied at the Hochschule fur Musik with Diether de la Motte and Gyorgy Ligeti, receiving her diploma in composition and piano in 1973....
- 1983 Peter KiesewetterPeter KiesewetterPeter Kiesewetter is a modern classical composer, born in Marktheidenfeld, Germany to Silesian parents.- External links :* *...
- 1983/84 Reinhard FebelReinhard FebelReinhard Febel is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum.-Career:...
- 1984/85 York HöllerYork HöllerYork Höller is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.-Biography:Between 1963 and 1970 Höller studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohrand Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral...
- 1985/86 Harald WeissHarald WeissHarald Weiss is a German composer, director, screenwriter, and free-lance artist.Weiss's compositions are influenced by minimalism, as well as jazz and rock musics...
- 1986/87 Michael DenhoffMichael DenhoffMichael Denhoff is a German composer and cellist.-Life:Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, where his teachers included Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze , Siegfried Palm and Erling Blöndal Bengtsson and the Amadeus Quartet...
, Walter ZimmermannWalter ZimmermannWalter Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann studied composition in Germany with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, the theory of musical intelligence at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht , and computer music at Colgate University in New York.Zimmerman's works are infused by a personal... - 1987/88 Max BeckschäferMax BeckschäferMax Beckschäfer is a German organist, composer and academic.- Professional career :Beckschäfer took classes at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich in organ, piano, violin and choral conducting. He studied church music at the Musikhochschule München and continued studying composition with...
, Susanne Erding-SwiridoffSusanne Erding-Swiridoff-Biography:Susanne Erding was born in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. She studied composition and music education with Milko Kelemen at the State Academy of Music in Stuttgart. In 1977 she graduated in British and American studies and drama theory from the University of Stuttgart, and in 1981 in... - 1991 Claus KühnlClaus KühnlClaus Kühnl is a German composer and teacher. He lives in Frankfurt am Main.- Life :Kühnl is the eldest child of Gudrun Kühnl from Lower Franconia and Wilhelm Kühnl who comes from the Sudetenland.His musical training began in 1973, first as an external student during his last years of high school...
- 1992/93 Detlev GlanertDetlev GlanertDetlev Glanert is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies.-Biography:Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960...
, Jan Müller-WielandJan Müller-WielandJan Müller-Wieland is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas.-Professional career:... - 1993 Adriana HölszkyAdriana HölszkyAdriana Hölszky is an Romanian-born German music educator, composer and pianist who has been living in Germany since 1976.-Biography:...
- 1994 Steffen SchleiermacherSteffen SchleiermacherSteffen Schleiermacher is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.After studying at the Leipzig Music School with Siegfried Thiele, he continued working there as a music theory and ear training assistant...
- 1995 Helmut OehringHelmut OehringHelmut Oehring is a German composer. He studied with Friedrich Goldmann and Georg Katzer at the Akademie der Künste. He was guest of the Villa Massimo....
- 1995/96 André WernerAndré WernerAndré Werner is a German composer of classical music.André Werner studied classical guitar and oboe at the Musikhochschule Bremen from 1980 to 1986, composition from 1986 to 1992 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Frank Michael Beyer...
, Fredrik Zeller - 1996/97 Moritz EggertMoritz EggertMoritz Eggert is a German composer and pianist.- Life :Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt , at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München...
- 1997/98 Carola BauckholtCarola BauckholtCarola Bauckholt is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, Germany, She worked at the theater at the Marienplatz in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1978-84....
- 1998/99 Claus-Steffen MahnkopfClaus-Steffen Mahnkopf-Life:Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber und Emanuel Nunes and music theory at the music academy in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and...
- 1999 Annette SchlünzAnnette Schlünz-Biography:Annette Schlünz was born in Dessau, Germany. She studied music at the Dresden Music School from 1983 to 1987 with Udo Zimmermann and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1988 to 1991 with Paul-Heinz Dittrich...
- 2003 Johannes Kalitzke
- 2004 Carsten Hennig
- 2005 Rudi SpringRudi SpringRudi Spring is a German composer of classical music, pianist and academic. He is known for vocal compositions on texts by poets and his own, and for chamber music such as his three Chamber Symphonies.- Professional career :...
- 2006 Oliver SchnellerOliver SchnellerOliver Martin Schneller is a German composer and saxophonist.-Life:Schneller grew up in Ireland, Sudan, Belgium and the Philippines...
- 2007 Dieter Dolezel
- 2008 Arnulf HerrmannArnulf HerrmannArnulf Herrmann is a German composer.After studying piano with Gernot Sieber at the Richard Strauss Conservatorium Munich he enrolled at the Musikhochschule Dresden, where he studied composition with Wilfried Krätzschmar and piano with Arkadi Zenzipér...
, Stephan Winkler - 2009 Charlotte Seither, Márton IllésMárton IllésMárton Illés , is a Hungarian composer and pianist.Illés received musical training in piano, composition and percussion in Győr from 1981 to 1994. In 1993 he spent one academical term at the conservatory of Zurich wit pianist Hadassa Schwimmer. He studied the piano with László Gyimesi at the...
- 2010 Philipp MaintzPhilipp Maintz-Professional career:Maintz studied composition with Michael Reudenbach and Robert HP Platz, and electronic music with Karlheinz Essl. He studied further at the CRFMW of the University of Liège and the IRCAM . He received the Ernst von Siemens Composer' Prize in 2005...
, Anno Schreier - 2011 Sven-Ingo Koch, Marc SabatMarc SabatMarc Sabat is a Canadian composer based in Berlin since 1999.-Works:He has made installations, video works and concert music pieces using acoustic instruments and, in some recent pieces, computer-generated electronics, drawing inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of small...
Writers
- 1959 Hans Magnus EnzensbergerHans Magnus EnzensbergerHans Magnus Enzensberger , is a German author, poet, translator, and editor. He has also written under the pseudonym Andreas Thalmayr. He lives in Munich.- Life :...
- 1961 Heinrich BöllHeinrich BöllHeinrich Theodor Böll was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.- Biography :...
- 1962 Uwe JohnsonUwe JohnsonUwe Johnson was a German writer, editor, and scholar.- Life :Johnson was born in Kammin in Pomerania . His father was a Swedish-descent peasant from Mecklenburg and his mother was from Pommern...
- 1964 Peter RühmkorfPeter RühmkorfPeter Rühmkorf was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature....
- 1972/73 Rolf Dieter BrinkmannRolf Dieter BrinkmannRolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...
, Nicolas BornNicolas BornNicolas Born was a German writer.Nicolas Born was - together with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann - one of the most important and most innovative German poets of his generation... - 1993 Volker BraunVolker BraunVolker Braun is a German writer. His works include Provokation für mich -- a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 and published in 1965, a play, Die Kipper , and Das ungezwungne Leben Kasts .-Life:Volker Braun, who worked in...
- 2005 Julia FranckJulia FranckJulia Franck is a German writer.In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin and spent some time in the United States, Mexico and Guatemala...
, Feridun ZaimoğluFeridun ZaimogluFeridun Zaimoğlu is a German author and visual artist of Turkish origin.Zaimoğlu has developed since 1995 to have become one of the important poets of contemporary German language... - 2006 Terézia MoraTerézia MoraTerézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary but moved to Germany after the political changes in Hungary in 1990. She studied Hungarian studies and drama at the Humboldt University in Berlin and trained as a screenwriter at the Deutsche...
- 2007 Ingo SchulzeIngo SchulzeIngo Schulze is a German writer born in Dresden in former East Germany. He studied classical philology at the University of Jena for five years, and, until the German reunification, was an assistant director at the State Theatre in Altenburg 45 km south of Leipzig for two years...
- 2008 Navid KermaniNavid KermaniNavid Kermani , a German writer and an expert in Islamic studies, was born in Siegen, Germany as fourth son of Iranian parents. He is a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg...
- 2009 Durs GrünbeinDurs GrünbeinDurs Grünbein is a German poet, living in Berlin since 1985.Grünbein is hailed as the most significant and successful poet to emerge from the former East Germany, and his work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won in 1995...
- 2010 Marcel BeyerMarcel BeyerMarcel Beyer is a German writer.-Life:Marcel Beyer grew up in Kiel and Neuss. From 1987 to 1991 he studied German language and literature, English studies and Literary studies at the University of Siegen; in 1992 he obtained a Magister degree with a work on Friederike Mayröcker. Since 1987 he has...
- 2011 Lutz Seiler, Jan Wagner