Christian W. Staudinger

Christian W. Staudinger (born December 19, 1952 in Erfurt, East Germany) is a German artist who attended to art after his escape from the GDR and the trial of a civil life. He is dedicated to the visual arts (sculpture & painting), the performance & conceptual art, the poetry & political arts, is video artist and arranges installation art.

Staudinger has grown up as a son of the innkeeper Gerhard Staudinger (born April 20, 1923 in Erfurt, † February 3, 1988 in Waltershausen) and his wife Edeltraut (born January 30, 1927 in Wandersleben, † December 11, 2011 in Waltershausen) initially in near Erfurt and since 1956 in Waltershausen/Thuringia where parents operated the Bayerischer Hof in the Trade Organization Restaurants (in German: ). The Hotel Welcome in Schmira, still operated as an independent restaurant, the parents gave up in 1956, about the time when his brother Ulrich was born. Their license the parents now had to release and join the HO, otherwise they would not have been allowed to continue to operate their restaurant. The childhood was unburdened. The parents boasted, to have their children “not educated” and gave them what they could. Dispute, however, always was about politics. Mother and father out of the era of National Socialism had pulled teachings and were extremely critical and never loyal to the state of GDR. The flag was not hung out when it was required and the parents never went to the election. Both was a duty in GDR. At cracker-barrel people blasphemed and yet the so-called Stasibosses went in and out in his parent's restaurant because of the good food. Christian W. Staudinger however was thrilled with the idea of Communism, devoured the relevant literature and was an avid drummer of barrel- and, later, marching-drum in the in Waltershausen, guided by his teacher Otto Müller. The father of his father, Wilhelm Staudinger, was a German nationalist, operating the hotel Welcome in with his wife Paula. He in the era of National Socialism gave bread and milk to the forced laborers in an amount which was not allowed by the National Socialists. The village teacher betrayed him. He was arrested, tortured on the in Erfurt and died a few days later at the consequences. The father of his mother, Phillip Orth was worker at the and co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany in shortly after the First World War. To protect the family he sent his daughter in the era of National Socialism in the League of German Girls. He remained unmolested and died when Christian W. Staudinger was 16 years old. The brother of the mother's father, Sigmar Orth †, was a liaison officer between the police and the Stasi and contributed much to the excitement of the artist at the building of socialism and his interest in history.

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