Christoph Stölzl

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Christoph Stölzl (2001)

Christoph Stölzl (born February 17, 1944 in Westheim , City of Neusäß ) is a German historian , museologist , publicist and politician ( CDU ). From 2000 to 2001 he was Berlin Senator for Science. Since July 1, 2010, Stölzl has been President of the Liszt School of Music Weimar .

Life

Education

Christoph Stölzl grew up in Munich and graduated from the Karls - und Ludwigsgymnasium in 1963 . He studied history, literature and sociology, first from 1963 to 1965 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and from 1965 to 1970 at the Saarland University . In 1970 he received his doctorate in history. He then received a research grant from the German Research Foundation until 1974 .

job

From 1974 to 1976 he was a research assistant at the Bavarian National Museum, from 1977 to 1980 research assistant at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1980 he became director of the Munich City Museum . He made a name for himself with unconventional exhibitions like The Oktoberfest - 175 Years of Bavarian National Rush .

In 1984 he became advisor to the State of Berlin at the Forum for History and Present project . In 1987 the Federal Government under Helmut Kohl appointed him General Director of the newly founded German Historical Museum in Berlin. There he also became a professor. He performed this task until 1999.

In 1994 he was one of the founding members of the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst association and was its chairman.

He then worked until 2000 as deputy editor-in-chief and features editor of the daily newspaper Die Welt . He has been a freelance journalist since 2002. In 2004 he alternated with Michael Naumann as a TV presenter for the program Im Palais in the RBB . In the 2001/2002 winter semester he took on a teaching position at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin , and since the 2004/2005 winter semester he has been an honorary professor at the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the Free University of Berlin . From March 2003 to March 2005, Stölzl was the curator for the application of the city of Braunschweig for European Capital of Culture in 2010.

From October 2006 to December 2007, Stölzl was managing director of Villa Grisebach Auctions GmbH (Berlin). He left to devote himself to other tasks. At the end of February 2010, the University Council of the Liszt School of Music Weimar elected him to succeed the outgoing Rector Rolf-Dieter Arens for six years . In 2015 Stölzl was re-elected for a second term at the Weimar Music Academy.

Politician

Stölzl was initially a member of the FDP . He committed himself to the "tradition of bourgeois freedom: rebellious, defiant, insistent on questioning all bondage, all immaturity". From June 1989 to September 1990 he was deputy state chairman of the Berlin FDP. In April 2000 he became Berlin Senator for Science, Research and Culture at the suggestion of the CDU ( Senate Diepgen V ; predecessor: Christa Thoben ). In the wake of the Berlin banking scandal , the SPD left the grand coalition; In a vote of no confidence (June 21, 2001), the Berlin House of Representatives voted out Diepgen and the CDU senators. In the new elections on October 21, 2001 , Stölzl was elected to the House of Representatives ( 15th electoral term ); until 2006 he was one of its two vice presidents. In 2001 he joined the CDU; From 2002 to 2003 he was regional chairman of the CDU Berlin and a member of the CDU federal executive committee .

He is a board member of various foundations, including the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation , the Foundation for Monument Protection Berlin , the history competition of the Federal President , the Ernst Freiberger Foundation , the Foundation Burned and exiled poet , the Foundation of St. Matthew and the International Forum for Culture and economy .

Christoph Stölzl on an election poster for the 2001 parliamentary elections

Awards

He has received numerous awards, including the Federal Cross of Merit First Class and the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art . He was also made Knight of the North Star Order of the Kingdom of Sweden in 2001 and Knight of the French Legion of Honor in 2003 .

Private

Stölzl has been married to Bettina Stölzl since 1967 and has four children, including their son Philipp Stölzl (* 1967), who works as a film and video director. Stölzl is the father of Sebastian Krämer .

Fonts

  • The Bach era in Bohemia. Oldenbourg, Munich [u. a.] 1971.
  • Kafka's evil Bohemia. On the social history of a Prague Jew. Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-921402-05-0 .
  • with Martha Dreesbach (Ed.): The Twenties in Munich. Catalog for the exhibition in the Munich City Museum. Writings of the Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich 1979.
  • with Michael Matthias Prechtl: Monument work. Bucher, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7658-0510-6 .
  • (Ed.): German Historical Museum. Ideas - controversies - perspectives. Propylaea, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-549-06682-1 .
  • (Ed.): The new guard on Unter den Linden. A German monument in the course of history. Koehler & Amelang, Berlin [a. a.] 1993, ISBN 3-7338-0178-4 .
  • with Heidemarie Anderlik (Hrsg.): German history in pictures. Koehler & Amelang, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7338-0215-2 .
  • (Ed.): People in the museum. A collection of stories and pictures. German Historical Museum, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86102-097-1 .
  • To Berlin and back. Forays into art, history and life. Bostelmann & Siebenhaar, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936962-01-4 .
  • At six in the morning at Haubentaucher & Co. Nimbus, Wädenswil, ISBN 978-3-907142-44-8 .

Web links

Commons : Christoph Stölzl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Thuringian Ministry of Culture of February 26, 2010 http://www.thueringen.de/de/tmbwk/aktuell/presse/45448/uindex.html
  2. ↑ Second term of office: Prof. Dr. Christoph Stölzl re-elected as President of the FRANZ LISZT Weimar University of Music. April 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Berlin Monument Protection Foundation. Accessed August 2020 .
  4. ^ Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft eV In: else-lasker-schueler-gesellschaft.de. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stölzl, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Westheim (City of Neusäß )