Christian Heindl

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Christian Heindl (born April 3, 1964 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musicologist and journalist .

education

After graduating from the Bernoulligymnasium in Vienna, Heindl studied musicology , theater studies and Scandinavian studies at the University of Vienna (PhD in 1998 with a dissertation on " Iván Eröd . Life - Works - Analyzes").

career path

Since 1987 he has been working as a freelance culture journalist and editor in print media and radio, and subsequently also on the Internet for the ÖMZ , Wiener Zeitung , Opernwelt , nmz , the mica and the Pressburger Zeitung, among others . In total, he wrote more than 1500 publications: reviews, reports, portraits, interviews, work descriptions, programs, CD booklets, scientific articles as well as encyclopedias for Grove , MGG , KDG , Austrian Biographical Lexicon . In 2002 he was the editor of the Festschrift for the 100th birthday of Jenő Takács . From 1989-2010 he was a program designer and presenter in the music department of ORF / radio (series: “Pasticcio”, “Opera Concert”, “From the World of Opera”, “Studio New Music”, “Zeit-Ton”, “Everything about music” ”,“ From the concert hall ”, 1991–1993 editor of the Ö1 series“ Musikland Österreich ”) and co-designer of programs at Radio Stephansdom .

From 1991 Heindl organized and moderated composer portraits at the Kunstverein Wien - Alte Schmiede, with numerous Austrian composers of the younger generation being presented in this way for the first time in portrait concerts. He also designed presentations by foreign composers, such as a major Slovakia focus in 1991 and the “Northern Lights 96” festival with music from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Important individual representations were, for example, the British Roxanna Panufnik and the French Eric Tanguy. A further focus in all areas of work from the early 1990s onwards was the commitment to the rediscovery and in some cases the first discovery of composers such as Hans Gál , Joseph Horovitz , Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Ernst Toch who were driven out by National Socialism .

In 1996, together with Wolfgang Seier, he founded the Mittersill composers' forum "einklang", which takes place every year around the anniversary of Anton Webern's death on September 15, and which he directed with him and Hannes Raffaseder until 2003. During this time around 40 composers from twelve nations as well as artists such as Christian Muthspiel , Wolfgang Muthspiel , Benjamin Schmid , Ensemble die reihe, Christina Zurbrügg and many others were invited; the collaboration ended due to differing views on the future direction of the project.

Heindl was able to initiate the transfer of privately owned manuscript archives to public collections (Austrian National Library, Vienna Library, Province of Lower Austria) on several occasions. 1999–2007 he worked as a manager in the advertising, information and archive departments of the Vienna music publisher Doblinger. He co-designed the publisher's website, developed the customer newspaper into a contemporary music magazine and was often responsible for personally looking after the publisher's composers. In 2001 he worked with Zsigmond Kokits and Walter Weidringer as curator of the exhibition "125 Years of Doblinger" in the oratory of the Austrian National Library. In addition to moderating and giving lectures at home and abroad, Heindl regularly takes part in international musicological symposia on the music of the 19th – 21st centuries. Century part: Johann Strauss -Congress Vienna 1999, Karl Schiske -Symposion Vienna 1999, "The Austrian Symphony in the 20th Century" Vienna 2000, Jenő Takács -Symposion Oberschützen 2007, "Stifled Voices: Music, Oppression and Exile in the 20th Century" London 2008, “Austrian-Czech musical relations since 1918” Vienna 2010 (organized jointly with Lukas Haselböck ), “Trends in New Music” Brno 2011, “Exilmusik” Schwerin 2012. His other professional activities include jury memberships (Austrian state scholarship, Vorarlberg state scholarship for Composition, composition competitions, grants), project curatorship for the mica , dramaturgical advice for the Stuttgart State Orchestra, the Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw and others; In 2014 he was one of the scientific collaborators of the television documentary "Spirits That Divide - Richard Strauss and Kurt Weill" (3sat).

voluntary work

Writing work (selection)

Libretti

  • September Pope. Short opera (1990; music: Edwin Baumgartner , world premiere Vienna 1992)
  • Rip van Winkle. Folk opera in three acts based on a novella by Washington Irving (1990)
  • A child murders. Opera (fragment, 1991/92)
  • The last people. Short opera in five scenes (1992)
  • Gelke's death. Opera (1992)
  • Orpheus. Chamber Opera (Fragment, 1993)
  • The cows from Schleiwitz. Grotesque Opera (fragment, 1994)
  • Murder on Godolphin Street. Chamber opera in one act (2000; music: Kurt Rapf )
  • Wallenberg. Opera (in progress, from 2001)
  • The green mother. Music-dramatic sequence of scenes based on the report "The soul of the papaya" by Varda Hasselmann (2009-2013; music: Roman Pawollek )

Poetry

  • Ants. (2009)
  • Viennese songs. 12 poems (2011–2013), from them: Die Ausländer (music: Šimon Voseček , world premiere Budapest 2013)
  • Five lyrical episodes. 5 poems (2014), from it: Sensual Intermezzo (music: Helmut Schmidinger , world premiere Vienna 2014)

Awards and grants

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Heindl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna