Reinhard Bock aka boKens aka Ken Bos (photo: RoBo., 2020)

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Stages of my life - CLICK on pics to see more!

Born in January 1945 in Meissen/Sachsen, Germany (my pregnant mum was evacuated to Meissen due to heavy bombing of Berlin and the progress of the war front towards Berlin in winter 1944/1945).
I returned to Berlin in 1953, grew up in Berlin and lived here since then.

In early 1962 I got my first guitar, a blonde archtop FRAMUS Hobby model 5/50, and my school mate Michael Zeitner and I formed a skiffle group. In summer I went to  » England for an English language holiday camp. Back in Berlin we jammed as often as possible in our  » skiffle group.
I finished grammar school in 1964.

•  1963/1964 - 1966 Singer and rhythm guitarist with Berlin based beat band  » THE TORIES

•  1964 - 1970 Study of classics, history, politics and geography at Free University Berlin

•  1971 Finishing studies with First State Exam.

•  1972 - 1975 coop life in  » fabrikneu with ANGELIK RIEMER, CLAUDIA SKODA, JENNY CAPITAIN, JÜRGEN SKODA and KLAUS KRÜGER in Berlin-Kreuzberg doing a whole lot of super8 filming in the  » streets of Kreuzberg or  » the backyard of fabrikneu or a fashion show using the Kippenberger catwalk in the  » media hall. .

•  1974 Celebrating the  » marriage to ANGELIK RIEMER

•  1975 Birth of son  » CHRISTIAN EMIL AUGUST.

•  1974 - 2007 Working as grammar school teacher, organizing student internet exchanges between Los Angeles (USA) and Tokyo (Japan) from 1994-2007 including multinational multimedia web competitions (and doing a lot of film, photo and writing work as an artist - if time left ).

•  2014 Angelik passed away.

•  2017 Marriage with HENRIETTE ROTHER.

My art work is a river - fed by multiple wells.
This river can partly be streamed to you through this website in the following sections:

•  1970 - 1982 super8 short  » films
•  1972 - 1984 and from 2014 until today  » Polaroid SX70 photography

•  since 1978  » songs and compositions (boKens), series of novels, short stories, non-fiction and  » photo books (Reinhard Bock and Ken Bos)

•  since 1981 analogue  » video films and clips

•  since 1996 digital picture work (Reinhard Bock, rbockberlin).

Since 2007 I can explore whatever I want to in the artistic fields.

Reinhard Bock aka boKens lives and works as free lance new media artist in Berlin.

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Info on my exhibitions and installations  » HERE
or start  » HERE floating through my RIVER OF ART

or go to the website of THE TORIES  » HERE.

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