Essen Tattoo Weekend

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Tattoo Event Booking presents:

The time has finally come and Tattoo Event Booking is also organizing one of its popular Tattoo Weekends in Essen this year, on October 19 and 20 in the Weststadthalle in Essen! The popular Tattoo Weekend events are characterized above all by a colourful mix of different tattoo artists who can implement any customer request, which makes them particularly attractive for visitors. But tattoo artists also appreciate these conventions, where the tattoo-hungry public often barely allow them time for a coffee break and regularly keep the tattoo artists fully occupied. In addition to a wide range of tattoos in various styles, Tattoo Weekend Essen also offers stage shows and a tattoo museum with rare and curious exhibits from the history of tattoo art, which will provide both newcomers to the scene and tattoo professionals with interesting and unexpected insights into global tattoo culture. Tattoo contests, in which the most beautiful tattoos of the event will be chosen in various categories in the evening, round off the colorful event. The world-famous William Robinson's mobile tattoo museum "Tattoo History on the Move" will provide a unique opportunity to discover tattoos as mass phenomena and fashion accessories, prison markings and royal drawings, freak show fetishes and body art. Tattoos fascinate and frighten, tell stories and have a history that goes back thousands of years. British artist William Robinson tells this story with his unique collection in the mobile tattoo museum. He has brought together numerous exhibits from European and non-European tattoo culture; more than a thousand historical tattoo tools and machines, pattern books and drawings, lithographs, photographs and correspondence from great tattoo artists. The oldest stories are told by a faithful replica of the more than 35,000-year-old Lion Man - Neolithic Age with its 61 blue-black markings, which are considered to be the world's oldest reliable evidence of tattoos. A replica of the famous Lion Man is also part of the collection. With its notches, carvings and lines, the more than 35,000-year-old wooden sculpture suggests that the history of tattoos goes back even further. The exhibits from inside and outside Europe in the mobile tattoo museum show tattoo culture in all its contradictions: as a mark of princely descent, as a stigma of criminals and as experimental body art. William Robinson's collection makes it possible to experience tattoos as a filigree craft that is thousands of years old and as a profound art form that can fascinate everyone and dispel prejudices. The so-called Kupferstichkabinett, the studio of Hamburg tattoo legend Herbert Hoffmann. Always present is the faithful replica of the glacier mummy Ötzi from the Neolithic period with its 61 blue-black markings, the world's oldest reliable evidence of tattoos. We look forward to seeing you in the Weststadthalle Essen, moderated by and with Dirk Boris Rödel (see below for more information) We advise you to use the advance booking to avoid queuing at the cash desk and to get an appointment with the desired tattoo artist faster, thank you, we look forward to spending a healthy and colorful weekend with you in Essen.

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None other than former editor-in-chief Dirk-Boris Rödel guided us through the program at the Essen Tattoo Weekend and at the Tattooeventbooking events. His extraordinary expertise is another highlight that will not only interest tattooed people. A professional moderation that made the tattoo events stand out even more on every colorful weekend. Dirk-Boris Rödel was editor-in-chief of Tätowier Magazin, Germany's oldest trade magazine for tattoos, for almost twenty years and is therefore considered by many to be the tattoo expert par excellence. He has a particular love for Japanese tattoo art, which he researched extensively during his studies and a one-year research stay in Japan in the 1990s. His book "All about Japanese tattoos" is still the standard work on traditional Japanese tattoo art. As an expert on the subject of tattoos, Dirk-Boris Rödel is a frequent guest on television and radio programs, where he provides competent and entertaining information on all aspects of tattoo art. International tattoo conventions also appreciate the expertise of the tattoo expert, and Dirk-Boris Rödel is regularly invited to tattoo fairs in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Shanghai, China, to judge the tattoo contests. Dirk-Boris Rödel got his first tattoo at the age of 21 - so the 55-year-old, who now has tattoos from around 50 different tattoo artists, has been involved in the tattoo scene for over a quarter of a century and has been able to observe the change from the tattoos of subcultures such as rockers, punks and rockabillies to today's scene, in which tattoos have arrived in the middle of society. Since 1993, Dirk-Boris Rödel has regularly attended tattoo conventions in Germany and abroad and must have experienced several hundred tattoo fairs around the world during his time as editor-in-chief.

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