Christoph Kurzeder

Christoph Kurzeder (2017)

Christoph Kurzeder (born May 11, 1965 in Steinhöring , district of Ebersberg ) is a German theologian, folklorist and museum director.

Life and works

School career and studies

School education in Ebersberg and in Grafing grammar school up to high school graduation
Studied theology and German and comparative folklore at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
Assistant at the chair for pastoral theology in Munich
Assistant at the Chair for German and Comparative Folklore - European Ethnology in Munich
Doctorate in 2004 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the topic “When things were sacred. Lived piety in the Baroque era "
Freelance work for the Glentleiten Open Air Museum
Work for the art department of the Archbishop's Ordinariate in Munich

Diocesan Museum Freising

The museum, closed in 2013 and in need of renovation

Freising Luke picture, a precious picture in the Diocesan Museum

On January 1st, 2012 Christoph Kurzeder became director of the Diocesan Museum Freising .

The museum had to be closed in 2013 because the fire protection in the former boys' seminar was inadequate and therefore modernization and architectural redesign became inevitable (press release of July 9, 2013). The architectural competition was decided in favor of a Berlin office at the end of 2016. The renovation work on the museum should last from July 2018 to mid-2021 (as of June 2018).

Exhibitions

Beuerberg Monastery

He designed and implemented the Museum of the Bürgersaalkirche in Munich until 2008 .
Among other things, he conceived and realized the exhibitions “Via Claudia - Stations of a Street” and “Thunderstorm - Exorcism and Conjuration” in the Glentleiten Open Air Museum. A weather blessing of the 18th century ”and a pilgrimage exhibition in the Markt Bruckmühl gallery.
He designed two exhibitions in the former Beuerberg Monastery. The Diocesan Museum Freising has been documenting the hidden and quiet world of the monasteries for several years, following the criteria and rules of monastery life - seclusion, order, work, garden, food, living, care and nursing, death and remembrance.

Publications

Via Claudia - stations of a street. Edited with Hans-Dirk Joosten, Großweil 2000.
When things were sacred. 1st edition Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005.
Soul child: adored, spoiled, explained. The baby Jesus in women's convents. Edited by the Board of Trustees of the Diözesanmuseum Freising and Christoph Kurzeder, Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2013.
Alpenglow and date palms. 1st edition published by Diözesanmuseum Freising, Freising 2013.
With body and soul: Munich Rococo from Asam to Günther. Edited by Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Christoph Kurzeder. Sieveking, Munich 2014.
Buon Natale: Choreographies of the Neapolitan Christmas. By Diözesanmuseum Freising and Nina Gockerel. Sieveking, Munich 2015.
Exam. About life in the monastery. Edited with Thomas Dashuber. Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-944874-08-1 .
Turbulent times. The sculptor Erasmus Grasser (around 1450–1518). Edited with Renate Eikelmann (exhibition catalog Bayerisches Nationalmuseum / Diözesanmuseum Freising), Hirmer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-7774-3057-7 .

Awards

Laureate of the Johann Michael Sailer Prize 2006: “Sacred things - significant signs. Material sacramentals between theology and everyday life ”.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Kurzeder - Collection of images, videos and audio files

www.dimu-freising.de
Works by and about Christoph Kurzeder in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Farewell to Hahn and Neuanfang Kurbeder , retrieved from the archive on September 24, 2017.
↑ Sabine Reithmaier: Immaculate conception in a stress-free space: The theologian and folklorist Christoph Kurzeder has headed the Diocesan Museum Freising, one of the largest of its kind in the world, since January 1st. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 26, 2012, p. R 12.
↑ Decision in the architecture competition accessed on September 24, 2017.
↑ Petra Schnirch: For 215 million euros: Archdiocese redesigned Domberg. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .
^ Enclosure - Monastery of longing. Retrieved September 24, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Kurzeder, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and folklorist, museum director
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steinhöring , Ebersberg district

[1] Farewell to Hahn and Neuanfang Kurbeder , retrieved from the archive on September 24, 2017.

[2] Sabine Reithmaier: Immaculate conception in a stress-free space: The theologian and folklorist Christoph Kurzeder has headed the Diocesan Museum Freising, one of the largest of its kind in the world, since January 1st. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 26, 2012, p. R 12.

[3] Decision in the architecture competition accessed on September 24, 2017.

[4] Petra Schnirch: For 215 million euros: Archdiocese redesigned Domberg. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .

[5] Enclosure - Monastery of longing. Retrieved September 24, 2017.