Alois Schöpf

Alois Schöpf

Alois Schöpf (born October 5, 1950 in Lans near Innsbruck) is an Austrian writer , playwright, librettist, journalist , columnist and concert organizer. He is the founder and artistic director of the Innsbruck promenade concerts and was conductor of different band.

Life

Schöpf, the son of an innkeeper from Lans near Innsbruck, graduated from the Stella Matutina Jesuit high school in Feldkirch / Vorarlberg in 1969. He first went to Vienna and made his debut as a writer in 1973 with the novel "Ritter, Tod und Teufel", for which he received the prize of the Molden Roman Competition. From 1973 to 1976 Schöpf was editor of Austrian television and supervised programs such as “Lumière's Children”, “Planquadrat”, “A real Viennese does not go under” or “Stories from Austria”.

In 1976 Schöpf returned to Tyrol and has since lived as a freelance writer, journalist and organizer in Lans near Innsbruck, is married and has a grown son.

As a writer, Schöpf wrote numerous novels, non-fiction and children's books. He is one of Austria's leading essayists and, with “Wenn Dichter haben”, sharply criticized the corruption in the literary world. In his work “Kultiviert Dieben”, also published by Limbus, he analyzes the inability of politics to create human rights-compliant laws in the sense of a self-determined end of life against the resistance of religions, especially the Catholic Church.

As a journalist, Alois Schöpf has been writing weekly columns since 1984, first in the daily newspaper "Kurier", then on ORF radio and in the Tyrolean district newspapers. Since 1991 Schöpf has published a much-read column every Saturday in the “Tiroler Tageszeitung”. In addition, Schöpf also writes columns on the latest trends in tourism development for the tourism newspaper “Saison Tirol”. Schöpf contributed his extensive musical knowledge as a columnist in the international wind magazine “Clarino” under the title “Beim Schöpf gepackt”.

As a playwright, he wrote radio plays and plays, including the provincial classic "Heimatzauber". He also designed Austria's appearance at the World Exhibition 2000 in Hanover with 500 musicians and wrote the libretto for the opera “Die Sennenpuppe” by Ernst Ludwig Leitner and the libretto for “Hofer's Night”, an opera for the Tyrolean State Theater and the composer Florian Bramböck which deals with the Tyrolean national hero Andreas Hofer . Together with Ernst Ludwig Leitner, Schöpf then worked on the opera “The Wedding” on behalf of the Tyrolean Festival Erl, which was premiered by Gustav Kuhn in July 2010.

In 1994, Alois Schöpf founded the Innsbruck Promenade Concerts with some musicians with the support of the Innsbruck Tourist Office and the City of Innsbruck under Hilde Zach, which he heads as artistic director. The concert series is intended to follow the tradition of old Austrian military and wind music in a contemporary form, to make the works of high art known to a broad audience in evening serenades. The Innsbruck Promenade Concerts have become one of the most popular cultural events in summer in Tyrol and one of the most important events for wind music in Europe.

Schöpf directed the highest level orchestra “Stadtmusikkapelle Innsbruck-Saggen” for 14 years, after which he was conductor of the Postmusik Innsbruck and the Patsch band, a small village south of Innsbruck, for 3 years. He recorded 5 CDs with the three orchestras.

Awards

• 1973 Prize of the Molden Roman Competition for "Knight, Death and the Devil"
• 1976 Children's Book Prize of the City of Bologna for "The Wonderful Sunday Ride"
• 1976/77 People's Education Awards as an editor for “Planquadrat” and “Stories from Austria” - “Where's his laundry?”
• 1977 Prix Futura Berlin as editor of the series "Planquadrat"
• 1978 Art Prize of the City of Innsbruck for "Zemanek or a Career"
• 1977 Prix Futura Berlin as editor of the series "Planquadrat"
• 2007 Cross of Merit of the State of Tyrol
• 2016 Decoration of Honor for Art and Culture of the City of Innsbruck

Works

Books

• "Knight, Death and the Devil", Molden, Vienna 1973
• "The wonderful Sunday trip", Annette Betz, children's book 1976
• “Deutscher Sagenschatz”, Ueberreuter, Vienna 1977
• “Zemanek or a career”, narrative, Benziger, Zurich 1979
• "Alpensagen", Ueberreuter, Vienna 1984
• “The Women's and Head Clinic in Innsbruck”, documentation, Innsbruck 1985
• "Fernsehspiele", Roman, EditionS, Vienna 1986
• "Jew's Harps", Edition Löwenzahn, collection of columns, Innsbruck 1985
• “Heimatzauber”, Roman, Haymon, Innsbruck 1989
• “100 years of the Fritz construction company”, company portrait, 1990
• "Apropos", collection of columns, Edition Tirol, Innsbruck 2001
• "From the sense of mediocrity", essay, Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2006
• “Heimatzauber”, novel, revised new edition, Limbus Verlag, Hohenems 2007
• "Die Sennenpuppe", libretto, Limbus Verlag, Hohenems 2008
• "Platzkonzert", essay, Limbus Verlag, Hohenems 2009
• "The successful concert", event management for music associations, Buchloe 2011
• "Happy through walking", On the healing power of mountain hiking, Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2012
• "When poets take", About the Vorlass-Kartell, essay, Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2014
• "Platzkonzert", paperback edition Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2015
• "Die Kultiviert", On the right to euthanasia and the nonsense of a natural death ", essay, Limbus Verlag, Innsbruck 2015

Radio play, theater, film

• "Public - legal", Radio Bremen
• “Heimatzauber”, radio play version, ORF, Innsbruck 1990
• “Heimatzauber”, theater version, Innsbruck 1990 cellar theater, performances also in Mayrhofen and Brixen / South Tyrol
• Screenplay for “The Mountain as a Soul Landscape”, ORF 1981
• Script for the EXPO 2000 Hanover appearance of Tyrol with 500 musicians
• Script for the repetition of the EXPO show in Innsbruck 2001
• Screenplay for "Tirol, Harmony of Opposites" on behalf of Tirol Werbung 2001

Script collaboration and film texts too

• "Planquadrat", ORF 1974
• “Lumières Children”, ORF 1975–77
• “A real Viennese does not go under”, ORF 1975/76
• "Planquadrat", ORF 1974
• “The strangers are coming”, ORF 1976
• “The winner”, ZDF 1976

Journalistic

• A weekly, columnist column since 1984 in Tirol Kurier - then ORF Tirol
• Oberländer Rundschau
• City Gazette and District Gazette Innsbruck
• In the Tyrolean daily newspaper since 1991
• Essays for the magazines "Luftballon", "Gegenwart", "Standard", "Industriemagazin", "Clarino", "M- Musik zum Reading"
• 1992 to 2000 editor-in-chief of the tourism newspaper "Saison"
• since 2000 columns in the tourism magazine "Saison"
• Columns in the lifestyle magazine "+ Alps"
• 2010–2014 column in "Clarino, wind music international"

Musical

• CD "Tiroler Platzkonzert", TSS Verlag (Stadtmusikkapelle Innsbruck-Saggen)
• CD "Tiroler Festtag", TSS Verlag (Stadtmusikkapelle Innsbruck-Saggen)
• CD "Tyrolean Promenade Concert", TSS Verlag (Stadtmusikkapelle Innsbruck Saggen)
• CD "Greetings from Patscherkofel", TSS Verlag (Patsch Band)
• CD "Innsbruck Promenade Concert" TSS Verlag (Postmusik Innsbruck)
• Schedule for “Galician Night” for wind orchestra and speaker, Treibhaus Innsbruck, recording ORF Tirol
• Schedule for “Melange with Kaisersemmel” for wind orchestra and speaker
• Helmut Wlasak, Postmusik Innsbruck, recording ORF Tirol
• Sequence book for “Von Dichtern und Bauern” for wind orchestra and speaker, Esther Kuhn, Postmusik Innsbruck, Congress Alpbach and Kurhaus Meran

literature

• Bernd Stracke (Ed.): Tyrol personally. Innsbruck 1986.
• Michael Voldrich: Ideology-critical study on the "Jew's harp", "Tirol Kurier" / University of Innsbruck, term paper 1986.
• Helmuth Schönauer: Vinegar and Oil. Materials on contemporary Tyrolean literature, Innsbruck 1988 ISBN 3-900862-06-0 .
• Helmuth Schönauer: Snot and Water. Materials on contemporary Tyrolean literature 1988–1999, Innsbruck 1999 ISBN 3-7066-2195-9 .

Web links

• Official website
• Innsbruck promenade concerts
• Literature by and about Alois Schöpf in the catalog of the German National Library