An Artist Talks with Oliver Pfeiffer, 13.01.2011., Tacheles,

Oliver Pfeiffer is a very talented musician. He has been playing for many years now in Berlin.He first studied in New York and lived there for 8 years. He had great Jazz teachers and plays moslty bass although he does play other instruments.

In Berlin he played with groups and composed and arranged his own music.

He sometimes needed to cut away from the artist scene and go and work for the fishing industry on a fishing boat.

Oliver see himself more as a craftsman more than a artist, and does not like all the fuss around the artist scene, "he is just doing his job" he says very simply.

Nevertheless he likes complexity and is fascinated by Philisophy. He has studied them all, from the Roman empire to contemporary thinkers, who feed his vision of Todays world.

He believes that Philosophy influences strongly the political and economical system.

He writes poems and short stories and also comics, he has admiration for French and Belge comics, and has had several publications.
We hope to have soon some readings of his texts in the next Forums organized for the Werkshau? See you there!