Scriptings



Scriptings

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Achim Lengerer*Scriptings’ solo as well as cooperative artistic practice addresses the political effects and functions of speech and text. In addition to films, cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, the forms of this practice-in-conversations-with-others include performative lectures and events.

Additionally, Lengerer has founded various collaborative projects, including the freitagsküche in Frankfurt am Main. In 2006, together with Dani Gal, he created the project voiceoverhead, which deals with archived spoken language in the form of audio performances, exhibitions, and screenings.

Achim Lengerer studied at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, CZ; the Städelschule – Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main, DE; and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK. He completed a postgraduate programme in artistic research at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL, and received a doctorate from Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, with a thesis on the performative format of the ‘Leseprobe’ (read-through) as an artistic model for spaces of social negotiation. He is currently head of the studio-practice and art research courses at the IKFK – Institute for Art History – Film Studies – Art Education at the University of Bremen, Germany.

Since 2009, Achim Lengerer has operated the mobile exhibition space and publishing house Scriptings, which acts as a discursive platform where various experimental ways of dealing with speech and writing are presented in collaboration with other artists, filmmakers, and authors. In addition to its films, audio pieces and performances, Scriptings also exists as a multilingual publication entitled “Political Scenarios”.

In 2017, Achim Lengerer took part in documenta 14 with the 21-hour radio work ‘different time, different place, different pitch’ (with Dani Gal), produced by Deutschlandfunk and SAVVY Contemporary.


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Kamerunerstr. 47 / 13351 Berlin / Germany
Tel. 0049 (0)30 63961810
Mobile: 0049 (0)152 5541 7858
E-mail: info@scriptings.net Near metro U6 Seestrasse or U8 Osloer Strasse
+ tramlines 13 and 50


Achim Lengerer*Scriptings solo as well as cooperative artistic practice addresses the political effects and functions of speech and text. In addition to films, cinematic soundtracks, installations and publications, the forms of this practice-in-conversations-with-others include performative lectures and events.

The website is currently being redesigned; content will be updated by the end of November 2026.

Tonspuren zur Linken/Soundtracks on the Radical Left Achim Lengerer’s ongoing film research concerns a blank spot in the public discourse in Germany: namely, the important role played by politically active migrants on the left in the labour struggles in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. At a time when German industries first fell into decline and trade unions went into retreat, migrant workers from Turkey and Southern Europe were heavily involved in political actions on the radical left, for example in the so-called “wild strikes” of 1973 (especially at the Ford strike in Cologne). These activists made an indelible mark on the political landscape, in the leftwing and conservative press. Moreover, there are filmic documents, such as the short documentary This Strike Was Not Planned by Thomas Giefer, Yüksel Uğurlu und Karl Baumgarten, 1982. Currently, Lengerer is working towards the finalization of a series of short films in collaboration with local activists, which is co-produced by the Temporary Gallery and the Academy of the Arts of the Word, Cologne. All images: private archives, Berlin/Cologne With special thanks to Mitat Özdemir, Peter Bach und Joachim Römer
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