Christian Michelides

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Christian Michelides, 2006

Christian Michelides (born July 19, 1957 in Graz ) is an Austrian photographer and exhibition organizer , author and psychotherapist . Since 2000 he has headed the Lighthouse Vienna .

Live and act

In 1973 Christian Michelides started to work for the features section of the Südost-Tagespost . Later he was employed as an assistant director at the Vienna Burgtheater . After the external qualification examination , he studied in New York and Florence and wrote for the Italian theater yearbook Il Patalogo and the Italian daily newspaper Il manifesto . In the 1980s he worked in the newly founded magazine WIENER , in the advertising agencies GGK Vienna and McCann-Erickson Germany and in marketing for the watch brand Swatch in Biel .

In 1982 he founded the Molotov photo gallery with photographer Jorit Aust in Stiftgasse in Vienna. Between 1983 and 1985 he organized more than 20 exhibitions, exhibited Austrian photographers and brought works by international photographers to Vienna, including John Dugdale , Marcus Leatherdale , Robert Mapplethorpe , the Swiss photo artist Christian Vogt , the New York photographer Todd Watts and Joel-Peter Witkin . Among other things, in 1983 he organized the exhibition Wiener Blut '83 for the gallery in the GGK in Villa Vojcsik : a social comedy with godparents and children . In the same year he organized Photography '83, Austria's first photography art fair in the Wiener Stadthalle and published a catalog for it. In 1984 he presented photographs by Herlinde Koelbl in the Künstlerhaus Wien with the exhibition Male Nudes .

In the early 1990s he studied theater studies at the University of Vienna and wrote for the magazines FORVM , Falter , profil and other media. Michelides brought the Bauernbund -Membership of Thomas Bernhard to the public. In 1991 he drew attention to the disappearance of the Grillparzer Prize and was at the core of a group that strongly criticized the award of a newly founded prize with this name, which received some media attention from the Academy of Sciences . Michelides himself was confronted with clear criticism of the nature of his attacks, including from Ulrich Weinzierl . He exposed the National Socialist past of the writer Gertrud Fussenegger , confronted Rudolf Augstein with the publication of one of his short stories in the Völkischer Beobachter , researched and documented the Greater German ambitions of the FVS Foundation, which awards cultural prizes, and the proximity of its founder Alfred Toepfer to the Nazi regime and to Joseph Goebbels .

Michelides was chairman of the Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum (ÖLSF) from 1995 to 1997 and, as its representative, was one of the initiators and contributors of the symbolic international human rights tribunal in the Republican Club in Vienna. In 1996 he played a key role in organizing the first rainbow parade in Vienna. In 1998 he started his social work for homeless and HIV positive people. He founded Häfn Human ("Menschlicher Jail"), an organization that looks after inmates suffering from AIDS and addiction at the Stein prison . In 2000 he co-founded the Lighthouse Vienna residential project , which he is the director of.

From 1999 to 2002 he completed his training as a life and social counselor at the Vienna International Academy for Holistic Medicine. Since 2009 he has been leading a men's psychoanalytic group. In 2010 he graduated as a group analyst from the Austrian Working Group for Group Therapy and Group Dynamics (ÖAGG) and has since worked as a psychotherapist ( OPD- 2 certified) in private practice in Vienna. He is involved in professional politics and represents the ÖAGG in the Austrian Federal Association for Psychotherapy.

Publications (selection)

  • (Ed.) Wiener Blut '83. A social comedy with godparents and children. A display and hanging of works by Christian Michelides in the gallery in the GGK Vienna, Villa Vojcsik. March 24 to June 16, 1983, Michelides, Vienna 1983, ISBN 978-3-9503703-0-0 .
  • (Ed.) Marcus Leatherdale . With texts by Kathy Acker and Christian Michelides. Michelides, Vienna 1983.
  • (Ed.) Photography '83. For the first Austrian photography art fair in the Stadthalle Vienna, Michelides, Vienna 1983.
  • (Ed.) Lothar Rübelt : The secret of the moment. 36 selected Photographs and text by Lothar Rübelt. Exhibition catalog, Albertina , Michelides Verlags- u. Event GmbH, Vienna 1985.
  • (Ed.) Memorandum on the Alfred C. Toepfer foundations and their collaboration with the University of Vienna. (= Committee for the Rescue of the Grillparzer Prize , 20) Vienna 1991, 3rd edition.
  • The republic is guilty: homosexuality and criminal law in Austria. Part 2, The convictions since 1950. In: LAMBDA-Nachrichten , 1 (1996), p. 38 ff.

Web links

Commons : Christian Michelides  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hanna Molden (1984): Christian Michelides' company Molotov fights against mediocrity; in: Wochenpresse , Volume 39, p. 54.
  2. ↑ a b c d Georg Kreis (2005): Doubtful handling of "doubtful past". On the ongoing dispute over the Alfred Toepfer Foundation ; in: Prehistory to the Present - Selected Articles Volume 3, Part 2: National and International Issues ; Schwabe AG Verlag, Basel ( PDF p. 11 Fn14 )
  3. ↑ The Photographer's complete guide to exhibition & sales spaces , Photographic Arts Center, 1985, ISBN 9780913069066 , p. 26 ( Google Books Snipet ).
  4. ↑ Du (magazine) 1984, (Google Books Snipet), p. 80 .
  5. ^ Christian Michelides: Wiener Blut '83: a society comedy with godparents and children. A display and hanging of works by Christian Michelides . (Catalog for the exhibition), Gallery in the GGK Vienna, Villa Vojcsik, from March 24 to June 16, 1983.
  6. ↑ Anna Auer : The Vienna Gallery Die Brücke - Your International Path to the Fotografis Collection. Klinger, Passau 1999, ISBN 3-932949-03-X , pp. 207 f. ( P. 207/208, the complete book is available as a pdf )
  7. ↑ Christian Michelides (Ed.): Photography '83. For the first Austrian photography art fair in the town hall. Vienna 1983.
  8. ^ Christian Michelides and Marcus Oswald (eds.): Thomas Bernhard and the ÖVP. Documentation of a debate in Falter October and November 1990. / Committee to save the Grillparzer Prize. Vienna 1990.
  9. ↑ Literature Prize: Cradle of the White Race , Der Spiegel 3/1991, January 14, 1991
  10. ^ Sylvia Vogler, Christian Michelides (ed.): The scandal about the Grillparzer Prize. Press documentation, Vienna 1990.
  11. ↑ Friedrich Denk : The censorship of those born later. Weilheim i.OB 1996 (3rd ed.), Pp. 13-138, 164-188.
  12. ^ Rudolf Augstein: On our own behalf . In: Der Spiegel 52 (December 21, 1992), 75-76; online .
  13. ^ Hans Dieter Schäfer : Culture as Simulation: The Third Reich and Postmodernity . Chapter 4 in: Neil H. Donahue, Doris Kirchner (Ed.): Flight of Fantasy: New perspectives of inner emigration in German literature, 1933-1945. Berghahn Books, Oxford 2003, pp. 82–112, here p. 108. doi : 10.2307 / j.ctt1btc061.9 .
  14. ↑ Christian Michelides: The mirror breaks. In: FORVM . No. 468 , 1992, pp. 10-13.
  15. ↑ Michael Pinto-Duschinsky: The struggle for history. The case of Alfred C. Toepfer and National Socialism. In: Michael Fahlbusch , Ingo Haar (Hrsg.): Völkische Wissenschaften and political advice in the 20th century. Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-77046-2 .
  16. ^ Andreas Brunner : Rainbow Parade. How it all started (PDF, 5.23 MB) In: LAMBDA-Nachrichten . Issue 3/2005, p. 6 f. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
  17. ↑ Alexa Lutteri: HIV: How to Live. Austrians with the virus? News.at, April 28, 2018 (accessed August 5, 2018).
  18. ↑ Florian Klenk: Three corpses in the cellar . In: Falter . No. June 24 , 2001 ( online ( Memento of August 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).
  19. ↑ Werner Grotte: Visit to the "Lighthouse", Vienna's only residential community for homeless drug addicts with AIDS. Light in Vienna's "Black Hole" , Wiener Zeitung, February 13, 2009 (accessed on August 2, 2018).
  20. ↑ Christian Michelides: Psychotherapy, the help that the health insurance fund does not want to pay. In: Der Standard , July 1, 2012.
  21. ^ ÖAGG , delegation in the ÖBVP.
personal data
SURNAME Michelides, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer and exhibition organizer, author and psychotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz