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Ata Tak ist die Gruppe von Musikern und Künstlern um Moritz Reichelt geb. 1955, Frank Fenstermacher, Kurt Dahlke und Che Seibert. Fank Fenstermachjer und Moritz Reichelt lebten 1976 in einer WG in Düsseldorf man kannte sich aus Internatstagen in Meinertzhagen, Sauerland. Kurz nach der Entstehung des Punk in London zog man nach Wuppertal, da Che Seibert dort eine Zivistelle antreten musste. Dort gründeten sie eine Galerie die sie Art Attac, atta takka dann ata tak nannten. Hier wurde zuerst Copyart im Rahmen der Punkbewegung hergestellt und präsentiert ( Etienne Szabo, Ulli Maier, Klaus Tesching etc.) Im Zusammentreffen mit Milan Kunc entstand der Peinliche Realismus- und neben der Galerie die Musikgruppe Der Plan ,1980(?). Norbert Wehner wurde 1981(?) Büroleiter- Das Büro -für die Produktion von Musik der Neuen Deutschen Welle.
Unter denen die auf Ata Tak/Das Büro ihr Debut feierten gehören neben Der Plan : DAF, Pyrolator, Wirtschaftswunder, Holger Hiller, Andreas Dorau, Element Of Crime, Lost Gringos, Picky Picnic, Die Tödliche Doris, Minus Delta T und viele andere.
Der Hang zu "intelligenter Gebrauchsmusik", gekoppelt mit dem Sinn für Eigenständiges, Neues, sogar Skurriles, sind typische Merkmale von Ata Tak. Dabei respektiert Ata Tak die guten Traditionen und weigert sich, dogmatisch oder modisch zu sein. Musik braucht nicht so zu klingen, als hätte man sie schon gehört, um Freunde zu finden.
Über Norbert Wehner und >Das Büro< kam Katharina Fritsch in die Szene. Norbert Wehner editierte ihre erste käufliche Arbeit: Werbeblatt. Frank Fenstermacher wurde dann zum männlichen Modell für Plastiken von Katja Fritsch.
Biographie Moritz Reichelt
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Moritz "R" Reichelt was born October, 8th, 1955 in
Halle/Saale, East-Germany, but grew up in Celle, West-Germany.
He debuts in the world of art in 1968, when he is 12 years old. The first ever public showing of one of his works happens to take place on the "Documenta III". The reknown international art show in Kassel selects his painting of a steam-locomotive for the children's painting section.
In 1972 he gets his first exhibition in his former school, where he has been kicked out only 2 years earlier for rebellious and antiauthoritarian behaviours. The family moves to Munich, where Moritz visits an art-school for two years. He returns to Duesseldorf in 1977 just in time to encounter a new cultural phenomenon: punk. For more than a year he and two friends run a Punk/New Wave gallery in Wuppertal, a suburb of Duesseldorf. The "Galerie Art Attack" becomes a melting point for a new art scene, where painters, musicians and multi-media artists mix the cultural cocktail for the next decade.
In those days Moritz Reichelt starts his musical ambitions: Out of a few minor music projects the band Der Plan evolves in 1979 and gains international reputation within the next 13 years. Although painting is Moritz R's first and foremost profession, he would be known much better for being in Der Plan at times. What followed were creative years of acting out both the life of a painter and the life of a musician. After the foundation of the independent label Ata Tak in Duesseldorf in 1980, producing music and designing record covers becomes another field of activity for him. A long-term collaboration between him and German pop musician Andreas Dorau starts, when Dorau's song "Fred vom Jupiter" becomes a top ten charts hit in Germany. Moritz both did the cover art direction and was involved in the mixing of this success-piece.
Besides painting, making music and designing record covers, Moritz R does set designs for several films and TV productions. For more than 6 years he is doing illustrations for the German magazine "Tempo" under the pseudonym of Marie-Claire de St.Rocaille.
In 1984 Moritz Reichelt moves to Hamburg, the harbour-town in Northern Germany. Although he stays there for 10 years all that remains left is an unappeasable desire for a warm climate in sunny Southern regions. Consequently he moved Munich, Bavaria, the most Southern big German city. In 1993 Moritz Reichelt writes his first book, a history of the band Der Plan and the punk years in Duesseldorf. In 1998 the second book, "Popkatalog", is published, featuring 235 images of his best artworks. The books can be ordered in the bookshop of this museum.
At the end of the year 2002 Moritz R takes the opportunity and moves to Berlin, where he is living happily since. After 12 years in oblivion he starts his old band Der Plan again. A new album is released in spring 2004 on Marina Recordings.
