Bazon Brock

Bazon Brock is a German art theorist and critic, multimedia generalist and artist. He is considered a member of Fluxus. He was a professor of aesthetics at the Hochschule fr bildende Knste Hamburg, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Wuppertal.

Brock was born in Stolp, Pomerania, now in Poland. His father, a historian, was executed by the Soviets for collaborating with Hitler. The family fled to Denmark. After two years of internment, they settled in Itzehoe in 1947. Brock attended and graduated from the KaiserKarlGymnasium, a gymnasium with a focus on the humanities, Latin and Greek. The name Bazon is Greek for chatterer and was applied to him at school by his Latin teacher. From 1957 to 1964, he studied German studies, art history, philosophy and political science at the universities of Zurich, Hamburg and Frankfurt. He did not study art at a university. During this period, he published poems and Aktionslehrstcke , using Bazon as his pen name. In 1957, he trained as a dramaturge at the theater of Darmstadt and in 1960, began working at the Lucerne Municipal Theatre.

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