Christoph Müller (publisher)

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Christoph Müller (born August 9, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German publisher , art collector and patron . From 1969 to 2004 he was the editor-in-chief of the south-west German daily Schwäbisches Tagblatt , which was founded in 1945, following his father’s successor for 35 years .

Life

Christoph Müller comes from a publishing family; his father Ernst Müller (1900–1976) was co-editor from 1946 and until 1969 editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Schwäbisches Tagblatt in Tübingen .

Christoph Müller grew up in Stuttgart. In 1961 he became a volunteer and then a local editor at the (West) Berliner Tagesspiegel . His special area of ​​expertise was - and still is today - reviews in the Ulmer Südwest Presse about theater and the visual arts.

In 1969 - back in Tübingen - he succeeded his father as editor-in-chief and co-owner of the Schwäbisches Tagblatt . He expanded the editorial team and made the daily newspaper into a well-known, unconventional local and regional newspaper in the Neckar-Alb region . The tendency towards left-wing liberal to left-wing influence that he sponsored was unusual for a Baden-Württemberg newspaper with a regional and state-related predominantly conservative environment (including the press environment). The Tagblatt was / is colloquially referred to as "Neckar- Prawda " in colloquial terms with an associative reference to the Neckar flowing through Tübingen and the most famous Soviet daily newspaper - ironically provocative by supporters and disparaging by opponents .

In 2004 he sold his shares in the newspaper and moved to Berlin. In addition, Müller lives in Sassnitz on Rügen , where he has his main residence.

Müller's life partner was the stage and costume designer and director Axel Manthey (1945–1995) until his death .

On January 14, 2019, Christoph Müller was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig at her New Year's reception in Neubrandenburg for his services to the art and cultural landscape. On October 22nd, 2019, he received the Uhland plaque from the mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, for his 35 years as "Tagblatt" boss. In September 2019, Müller was awarded the Maecenas Award 2019, which he received on November 18, 2019 during a ceremony at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. The Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes eV - AsKI honored the donation of its art collections to museums in Berlin, Cologne, Schwerin and Güstrow, among others.

Collection and donations

Over the years, Christoph Müller has built up an important collection of paintings and graphic works.

He made these publicly available through various donations:

  • In the summer of 2007, he donated 240 drawings by Dutch and Flemish masters of the 17th and 18th centuries as well as 130 graphic sheets and graphic series from the 16th and 17th centuries to the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
  • In 2013 he donated his extensive collection of Dutch paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries to the State Museum Schwerin . The 155 Flemish and Dutch paintings are probably the largest donation of old master paintings that a German museum received after the Second World War . There were also six landscape drawings by Nicolaas Wicart .
  • At the beginning of April 2016, he donated 375 works (152 paintings, 172 drawings and 50 graphics) of Danish art from the 19th and 20th centuries to the State Museum Schwerin, which is making the works available on permanent loan to the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald .

Max J. Friedländer Prize

2014 Christoph Müller donated in memory of the art historian Max J. Friedlander to Max J. Friedlander Award . It is initially awarded five times every two years and is endowed with 15,000 euros. The Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin awarded it to the writer Simon Elson for the first time on June 5, 2014, Friedländer's birthday.

literature

Festschrift

  • Eckart Frahm (ed.): The seven senses of the journalist: Christoph Müller for the 60th. Schwäbisches Tagblatt publishing house, Tübingen 1998.

Catalogs

  • Holm Bevers, Ulf Sölter (Hrsg.): Dutch drawings and prints from the Christoph Müller Collection in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett: critical inventory. [is accompanied by the exhibition Invented Reality. Dutch drawings and prints from the Christoph Müller collection in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kulturforum, Potsdamer Platz, June 27 - October 19, 2008] G - + - H-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-940939 -05-0 .
  • Dirk Blübaum , Gero Seelig (ed.): Cosmos of the Dutch: the Christoph Müller collection. Inventory catalog State Museum Schwerin; on the occasion of the handover of the donation and the exhibition of the Christoph Müller Collection in the State Museum Schwerin from October 11, 2013 to February 16, 2014 and in the Augustinermuseum in Freiburg from November 29, 2014 to April 12, 2015, Imhof, Petersberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86568-958-0 .
  • Angelika Wesenberg (Ed.): Copenhagen School of Painting: Pictures and Studies from the National Gallery and the Christoph Müller Collection. Nicolai, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-89479-949-6 .
  • Pommersches Landesmuseum (Ed.): The Danes! Donation by Christoph Müller. Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-058930-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the biography of Ernst Müller , University Archives Tübingen
  2. ↑ cf. also Philipp Maußhardt : The spirit that came from the provinces ( The daily newspaper of 23 August 2004: Commentary on the cultural and historical development of the Schwäbisches Tagblatt) with an answer from Christoph Müller
  3. ↑ Ten questions for Christoph Müller: Kiosk job for Caterina Valente , Schweriner Volkszeitung from March 20, 2016, accessed on April 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Schwesig awards three orders of merit. NDR .de, January 14, 2019
  5. ↑ Schwesig invites you to the New Year's reception in Neubrandenburg. In: Nordkurier , January 14, 2019
  6. ↑ art-in.de of September 20, 2019: Christoph Müller receives the Maecenas award , accessed on September 21, 2019
  7. ↑ Made up reality. Dutch drawings and prints from the Christoph Müller Collection in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett.
  8. ^ The Christoph Müller donation ( memento of April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 4, 2016
  9. ^ Danish romanticism soon in Greifswald ( memento from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), report from NDR from April 4, 2016, accessed on April 4, 2016
  10. ↑ Award of the Max J. Friedländer Prize 2014 ( Memento from September 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), notification from June 5, 2014, accessed on April 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, art collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart