Bernd Kauffmann

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Bernd Kauffmann (born December 30, 1944 in Ahaus ) is a German cultural manager and lawyer . After more than ten years in managerial positions in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture and the establishment of the Lower Saxony Foundation as its first Secretary General, he was from 1992 to 2001 a. a. President of the Weimar Classic Foundation , director of the Weimar Art Festival and general representative of “Weimar 1999 - European Capital of Culture GmbH” in the city of Weimar . From June 2001 to December 2014 he was General Manager of the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation; since 2003 he has been the artistic director of the “Movimentos Festwochen” at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg.

biography

Bernd Kauffmann was born in 1944 as the fourth child of the doctor Clemens Kauffmann and his wife Edith, b. Tyrell, born. He received his school education at the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg and at the Canisius College in Berlin . While studying journalism and law in Berlin and Hamburg (graduation: I and II state examinations), Kauffmann worked as an assistant director and in the dramaturgy of the Thalia Theater Hamburg . In 1975, in addition to working as a lawyer in Hamburg, he was a research assistant in the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . In 1976 he took over the management of the press and public relations department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture . From 1978 to 1984 he headed the ministerial office of the ministers of education Werner Remmers and Georg-Berndt Oschatz .

In 1984 Bernd Kauffmann became head of department in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture and in 1987 founding general secretary of the Lower Saxony Foundation . He shaped the profile of the foundation through multi-day international conferences on the topics of "Spirit and Nature" (1988), "What Makes People Sick?" (1989) and "The Topicality of the Aesthetic" (1992) and founded the Theaterformen festival in 1990 . whose artistic direction he shared with theater director Peter Ries in 1990 and 1991 .

1992 Kauffmann was as president of the Weimar Classics Foundation of Weimar called. From 1996 to the beginning of 2000 he was on leave of absence from the President's office in order to plan and implement the program of the European Capital of Culture as general representative of “Weimar 1999 - European Capital of Culture GmbH” . On the occasion of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's 250th birthday, the aim was, among other things, to confront the glamor of the classic city with the "civilization rupture of the National Socialists in the Buchenwald concentration camp on the Ettersberg ". The true-to- detail copy of Goethe's garden house opened in March 1999 in the immediate vicinity of the original was intended to stimulate reflection on the “aura of the original” and its reproducibility in the expanding media society based on the question “How really is reality?”. In the event year 1999, the so-called "Bratwurstkrieg von Weimar" occurred due to Kauffmann's ban on the preparation of bratwurst at open-air venues of the organizing GmbH. From April 2000 to May 2001 he returned to the presidency. From 1993 to 2001 he was also director of the Weimar Art Festival . Kauffmann's work in Weimar was viewed both positively and critically by state and city politicians as well as the media. The artistic design of the central taxiway, which was planned in cooperation with the French sculptor Daniel Buren, failed due to the protest of the population, while the project "Timeline" between Buchenwald and Ettersburg Castle , based on an initiative by the architect Walther Grunwald , was well received. From 1996 to 2000 he was also chairman of the cultural council of the world exhibition Expo 2000 Hanover.

In 1999, Kauffmann founded the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Weimar together with the conductor Daniel Barenboim and the literary scholar Edward Said . In the following year he succeeded in ensuring the continuation of the project with the help of EU funds. A permanent bond with the city of Weimar did not succeed. The project will be continued in Berlin after stations in Chicago and Seville.

From June 2001 to December 2014, Bernd Kauffmann was the general representative of the Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation . From 2003 to 2007 he was also honorary chairman of the board of the Kleist Memorial and Research Center. V. ( Kleist Museum ) in Frankfurt (Oder) . Since 2003 he has been artistic director of the Movimentos Festival at Autostadt in Wolfsburg (from 2009 to 2016 together with Maria Schneider). In addition, Bernd Kauffmann has been a partner and consortium member of Moving Points GmbH, which u. a. is responsible for planning and realizing international cultural projects as well as advising companies and institutions from politics and business.

Awards

Publications

  • with Klaus Jörk and Rocque Lobo (eds.): What makes people sick? 18 Critical Analyzes. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1991, ISBN 3-7643-2583-6 .
  • with Wolfgang Welsch , Ivo Frenzel , Bernd Olaf Küppers and others (eds.): The actuality of the aesthetic. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7705-2896-4 .
  • with Gert Theile et al. (Ed.): Weimar Editions.
    • Norbert Bolz (Ed.): The Pathos of the Germans. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7705-3101-9 .
    • Hans-Georg Pott (Ed.): Love and Society. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7705-3245-7 .
    • Norbert Bolz (Ed.): World Citizenship and Globalization. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7705-3510-3 .
  • with others (ed.): Edition Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg.
  • with Basil Kerski (ed.): Anti-Semitism and cultures of remembrance in post-communist Europe. fiber Verlag, Osnabrück 2006, ISBN 3-938400-14-5 .
  • with Heinz Bude and Joachim Fischer (eds.): Bürgerlichkeit without bourgeoisie. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4627-5 .
  • with Basil Kerski and Tomasz Dabrowski (eds.): Europe, an unfinished adventure. German-Polish dialogues. Documentation. Berlin 2010, DNB 1009833820 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catholic Academy in Berlin : Theater, city, religion: Berlin as a stage . Event information, 2013, accessed on: October 11, 2017
  2. ↑ Hans-Peter Dürr (editor), Walther Ch. Zimmerli : Spirit and Nature: About the contradiction between scientific knowledge and philosophical world experience. 1991, Fischer Scherz, ISBN 9783502191711
  3. ↑ Jennifer Elfert: Theater festivals. History and criticism of a cultural organizational model. 2009, transcript Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8376-1314-8 , p. 285
  4. ^ A b Peter von Becker: The castle ghost goes . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 30, 2014; Retrieved on: October 11, 2017
  5. ↑ Festival Theaterformen : About us.Archive. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bernd Kauffmann: Editorial in: Weimar 1999 - European Capital of Culture. Program booklet. 1998, Weimar 1999 - European Capital of Culture GmbH (Ed.), P. 4ff
  7. ↑ Jochen Wiesigel: How Real is Reality? in Der Tagesspiegel , March 12, 1999; accessed on April 2, 2018
  8. ↑ Thomas Delekat: Only the smell is different. in Die Welt , March 12, 1999; accessed on April 2, 2019
  9. ↑ Thüringische Landeszeitung : Volkhardt Germer awarded the “Thuringian Bratwurst Prize 2016”. May 20, 2016; accessed on April 2, 2019
  10. ↑ Frank Quilitzsch: sausage war in Weimar. , May 20, 1999, Berliner Zeitung . 2nd April 2019
  11. ↑ Karla Augusta: The Thuringian Bratwurst. In: Weimar reading. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  12. ^ Michael H. Kater: Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present. 2014, Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300170566 , p. 348
  13. ^ Rolf Hosfeld: Festivals 2007/2008. 2007, Helmut Metz Verlag, ISBN 9783937742267 , p. 138f
  14. ↑ Der Spiegel : The Dandy's Mask. May 20, 1996, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Michael Plote: Bernd Kauffmann, the troublemaker. December 30, 2014, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Christina Tilmann: The incomprehensible simultaneity. January 23, 1999, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , Jens Schneider: If only it weren't for the classics and the concentration camp. February 28, 1998, Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Annette Seemann: Weimar: a cultural history. 2012, CH Beck, ISBN 9783406630309 , p. 378ff
  19. ↑ Reinhard Schau: The Belvedere Castle Music High School in Weimar: Past and present. 2010, Böhlau Verlag, ISBN 978-3412205560 , p. 255.
  20. ↑ Georg Diez: A very German matter. In: Der Spiegel , 40/2017, p. 120.
  21. ↑ Daniel Barenboim: Music Quicken Time. 2009, Verso Books, ISBN 978-1844674022 , p. 56.
  22. ^ BR-Klassik : Concert in the refugee camp and criticism of Trump. January 25, 2017, accessed April 2, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Thüringer Allgemeine : "I would never want to miss the time with all the successes and disasters". February 14, 2019, accessed April 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kauffmann, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahaus