Hannes Pasqualini works in Bolzano as illustrator and communication designer.
He has drawn comic albums such as Xnovo (based on Roberto Mascia’s texts) and Round and Round (based on Andrea Campanella’s texts) and produced short stories for reviews and anthologies such as “Inguine Mah!gazine”, “Resistenze”, “Futuro Anteriore”, “Libro Piccolo di Bugie”, “Monstars”, “ZeroTolleranza”, “Mono”.
He is co-founder of the group Monipodio and has invented the “Fumetti Parassiti” (Parasitic Comics).
In 2009 won the competition “Blog&Nuvole” (Cologni Foundation, Triennale di Milano) together with the writer Cubber.
Gietz has been created in collaboration with the writer Andrea Campanella (born in La spezia, 1965), who began during the ‘80s as mail artist and drummer in a new wave band called New Deal. In the middle of ’90 published Il grande floyd, a cyber-porn story edited by Blue/Derive Approdi.
In 1996 another story “Tutto occhi” appeared in the collection “Molte più cose”, published by Castelvecchi Editore. In 2000 has been co-founder of the Cut-Up Editions and of the portal www.cut-up.net. He began working as screenwriter (L’ultimo treno della notte, Elephant, Dum Dum Girls e Round and Round, dedicated to the boxer Bruno Visintin’s career).
In 2004 he published the collection “Immune” (Cut-Up editions).
In june 2009 was published his first novel Gli eroi sono finiti (Frilli Editori) and Immune 2.0 (Cut-Up Editions). He collaborates for Tunuè, for Mono #5 e #7 with two illustrated plates respectively by Roberto Meli e Hannes Pasqualini.
The story told by Gietz starts in La Spezia at the end of 1944. Air raid are bombing the town. Nicola Bertini is a twenty-years-old young man playing the trumpet in the Puccini band. Partisans and Americans parade. Music shifts from “Oh bella ciao” to “when the saints go marchin’ in” sung by coloured soldier. One of these sees Nico playing and let him go on board of their mean, so he is engaged to set up a little orchestra playing Italian and American music. Nico will become a jazz trumpet player, and thanks to his passion he will cross his path with some of the best Italian and American jazz-players (Piero Umiliani, Piero Piccioni, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington).
Original plates, storyboards and sketches which brought to the birth of this work are exhibited at Camera a Sud.