Asteris Koutoulas
| Asteris Koutoulas | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Asterinos Koutoulas |
| Born | 5 April 1960 |
| Origin | Greek, living in Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Personal manager, filmmaker, event management, author |
| Years active | since 1978 |
| Associated acts | Mikis Theodorakis, Maria Farantouri, Gert Hof, George Dalaras |
| Website | http://www.asteris-koutoulas.de |
Asteris Koutoulas (sometimes spelt Asteris Kutulas) (Greek: Αστέρης Κούτουλας) was born in Oradea on 5 April 1960. He is a Berlin-based Greek-German event and music producer, publicist, translator, filmmaker and author. Asteris Koutoulas was the manager of Mikis Theodorakis and the event producer of Gert Hof. Koutulas rose to prominence as a director when his documentary fiction film "Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film" won the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Documentary Film Award in 2014.
Born to Greek immigrants in Romania in 1960, Asteris Koutoulas and his family moved to East Germany in 1968. He graduated from Dresden’s Kreuzschule and went on to study German language and the history of philosophy at Leipzig University (1979–1984).
Since 1981, he has translated numerous works of notable Greek authors into German, a. o. poetry, essays and prose by Constantine P. Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Yiannis Ritsos and Odysseas Elytis, but also the autobiography and writings on music by composer Mikis Theodorakis. Furthermore, Asteris Koutoulas has published a range of his own essays and interviews as well as translations of works by other authors in several German and Greek literary magazines and newspapers. Until the latter’s death in 1990, he enjoyed a great friendship and collaboration with the poet Yiannis Ritsos.
Between 1987 and 1989, Asteris Koutoulas produced “Bizarre Städte” (Bizarre Cities), a self-published “unofficial” literary series popular with many East German authors, painters and musicians (Heiner Müller, A. R. Penck etc.) who contributed to the range, followed by the magazine “Sondeur” (1990–91) after the Fall of the Wall.
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