Ulrich Gabriel

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Ulrich Gabriel (GAUL) at the "Spring Songs " event in Spielboden (2019)
Event in Rohrbach in Dornbirn (2019)

Ulrich Gabriel (born December 30, 1947 in Dornbirn ) is an Austrian artist. He created the stage name GAUL from the first two letters of his first and last name .

Life

After studying German and music education (piano, clarinet, singing), Gabriel worked as an AHS teacher from 1975. In the same year he also founded the Jeunesse musicale in Vorarlberg, which he directed until 1990. From 1975 to 1985 he was an author for the cabaret Wühlmäuse , from 1979 he also performed his own cabaret programs. From 1976 to 1980 Gabriel worked as a music critic for ORF Vorarlberg and the Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung . In 1980 he co-founded the Spielboden cultural center in Dornbirn , which he subsequently headed as chairman until 1986 and then again from 1998 to 2005 as managing director. In 1984 he founded the publishing house unartproduktion .

His column Neues vom Zanzenberg , which is occasionally illustrated by himself, has been published every Sunday in Wann & Wo magazine since 2002 .

politics

Ulrich Gabriel was the top candidate of the Greens in Vorarlberg in the National Council elections in 1986 and was subsequently also politically active in the federal executive committee of the Greens until 1990. During this time he was also responsible for the design of the green concern broadcasts on ORF for two years . B. for the sensational show Who builds the highways, eats small children .

Projects

  • 1989–1993 Festival of the Child - children's musicals for the Bregenz Festival .
  • 1989–1993 KultUrsprge - cultural project of the state of Vorarlberg
  • 1990 performance yellow point
  • 1995–1997 Graffiti, Sounds & Video -European project for young people
  • 1995 Management and conception of the MitArbeit campaign on the subject of unemployment and the future of work

Publications

  • 1980 Music cassette: as git Lüt
  • 1984 Single Lawn Mower & Saume Flower
  • 1986 Music cassette / book: Vorallemberg - songs and texts in dialect.
  • from 1986 nine children's music cassettes in the series of Gaul's children's songs
  • since 1987: CD The car rolls / Being a stranger is a joke / Alleluia In conclusion, Amen / The right to be lazy
  • 1998 Grüogeal - Eros meets dialect

Awards

  • 1989 Promotion Prize of the City of Feldkirch Culture Prize for Cabaret
  • 1996 Composition Prize of the Singers Association
  • 1997 Honorary gift for art and science from the state of Vorarlberg

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Commons : Ulrich Gabriel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn