Christian Ide Hintze
Christian Ide Hintze (December 26, 1953, Vienna - February 2012) was an Austrian poet and performance artist, who focused on the transition from literary to cross-media forms. Biography Between 1972 and 1974 Christian Ide Hintze worked as a Super-8 filmmaker and street singer in Scandinavia, England, France and Spain, between 1974 and 1978 – in addition to studying theater and communications at the University of Vienna – as a distributor of megaphone, poster and leaflet texts in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Holland. His actions resulted in numerous charges of "obstructing pedestrian traffic" and "contamination of public buildings". In 1976 he was arrested and interrogated by the police in East Berlin. In 1978 he was expelled from the book fair in Stuttgart and convicted of criminal damage in Vienna (for pasting banners, posters and poems onto the Burgtheater). In 1979 the Austrian filmmaker Alfred Kaiser published a film about his work in public spaces. In the 1980s ...
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