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Rhea Nike Thönges-Stringaris (* 1934 in Athens) is a German-Greek art historian.

Live and Work
Rhea Stringaris was born in Athens in 1934, as the daughter of the psychiatrist Michael Stringaris and his wife Nota Saliverou. She graduated from high school in Athens in 1952 and studied classical archaeology and art history in Bonn and Munich from 1954 to 1959. In 1960, she received her doctorate in Bonn under Ernst Langlotz with a thesis entitled "Das Griechische Totenmahl" (The Greek Banquet for the Dead). In 1959 she married Ernst Thönges, and their marriage produced three daughters. From 1961 to 1974, Thönges-Stringaris worked at the State Art Collections in Kassel, joined the German movement Direkte Demokratie e. V. in 1972, and in the same year became friends with Joseph Beuys, with whom she subsequently worked.

During the documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 and the 100-day presence of the artist Beuys, who discussed his extended concept of art, social sculpture and direct democracy with visitors in a conference room at the Free International University, in the immediate vicinity of the installation "Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz" (Honey Pump at the Workplace), Thönges-Stringaris participated. In the same year, she founded the FIU branch in Kassel.[1] In 1979, Thönges-Stringaris became a founding member of the party "Die Grünen". From 1981 to 1987 she was a member of the documenta supervisory board and worked on the Beuys action 7000 Oaks until 1987. She was involved in the FIU research company, a non-profit limited company in Kassel, from 1989 to 1994. In 1999, she left the Green Party because of the NATO bombing of Serbia in the Kosovo war. Since 2003, Thönges-Stringaris has been a member of the board of trustees of the foundation 7000 Oaks Oaks and since 2006 a member of the board of trustees of Mehr Demokratie.

Rhea Thönges-Stringaris lives in Kassel and Athens.

Publications (selection)

 * Das Griechische Totenmahl. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilung, Band 80, 1965, S. 1–99 (= Dissertation)
 * Joseph Beuys. Work and ideas. In: Zygos, Nr. 29, 1974 (Athen)
 * Letzter Raum. Joseph Beuys: dernier espace avec introspecteur, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7725-0864-2
 * Joseph Beuys. Die unsichtbare Skulptur (hrsg.) Stuttgart 1989
 * Makarie und Montanus – oder: Es gibt viel mehr Wasser in der Welt. In: Joseph Beuys-Tagung Basel, Basel 1991, S. 21–30
 * Je länger aber das Ereignis sich entfernt … . Zu Joseph Beuys und Peter Handke. FIU, Wangen/Allgäu 2002, ISBN 978-3-928780-27-8


 * Dr. Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, FIU Kassel
 * Dr. Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, FIU Kassel