Hans Peter Kuhn is a sound artist and composer. He was born in Kiel (Germany) he lives and works in Berlin. He started his artistic career as early as the age of 6 when he performed in the theatre class of his school. Being 14 years old he initiated his first Rock'n' Roll band and in 1975 he started his professionell career at the Schaubuehne am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin (now Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz). There he worked as a sound engineer on the productions of Peter Stein, Klaus-Michael Grueber, Luc Bondy and others (e.g. Shakespeare's Memory , "As You Like It", "Winterreise", "Die Wupper"). In his last season at the Schaubuehne he got together with Robert Wilson and they created "Death, Destruction and Detoit" as their first collaboration which was to be followed by about 30 other productions in the next years. These coproductions include not only theatre pieces but also videos and installations. After Kuhn left the Schaubuehne in 1979 he concentrated more and more on his own artistic work and created since then a huge body of work. He mainly created sound- and light installations, radioplays, composed film music (most recent "Der Letzte Kurier" by Adolf Winkelmann, WDR), and music and environments for theatre and - since 1989 - also for dance. In 1985 he founded - in collaboration with others - Berlin's first private radio station which later became RADIO 100 where he had a weekly show on new music called "Die Audionauten" (The Audionauts) which was run in the final years by Niko Tenten. This program became popular not only in the former West-Berlin but also in the "GDR" where people enjoyed to hear new music, which was not available in their country. The most prestigious award was the "Golden Lion" of the Venice Biennale 1993 that was given to Robert Wilson and Kuhn for the installation "Memory/Loss". In 1996 Kuhn was a guest professor at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany. Accessed 19.10.06 from http://www.hpkuhn-art.de/hpk.html