Das Beckwerk is a pseudonym for Claus Beck-Nielsen, who declared himself dead in 2001 and thereafter appeared as Das Beckwerk.

Prior to this, Claus Beck-Nielsen (born in 1963) was known as a playwright, actor, musician, and author. After completing his education at the Danish Writers’ School (Forfatterskolen) in Copenhagen in 1993, he was co-director, alongside Rolf Heim, of the theatre ‘20th Century Ghost’. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a theatre critic for the daily newspaper Politiken.

After Claus Beck-Nielsen’s end, ‘Das Beckwerk’ was founded in 2002 with the purpose of carrying on Beck-Nielsen’s life & work. Since then, the enterprise has produced ‘BeckWorks’ of all kinds: belles-lettres, one man shows, photographs, installations, political actions, concerts, video art, interactions, and more. This arrangement fits well with the fact that in 2003 the book “Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963-2001)“ was published, a biography that ends with the death of the author in 2001.