Clemens Birnbaum

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Clemens Birnbaum (born April 9, 1963 in Hanau ) is a German musicologist and cultural manager.

Life

Birnbaum studied musicology in Cologne and Berlin and worked as a journalist during his studies. From 1993 to 1996 he worked as a music dramaturge at the Stadttheater Gießen . He then worked as a project manager for the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin .

Between 1997 and 2000 he worked as a freelance dramaturge and author a. a. for the Dresden Music Festival , the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, the Ludwigsburg Palace Festival , the Berlin Bach Festival and the Potsdam Theater. He then moved to the Dresden Music Festival as chief dramaturge and deputy director, in whose program concept he was significantly involved for 2001 and 2002.

In 2002 he became managing director and later director of the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, where he was responsible for the content of the years from 2003 to 2010. He introduced a program focus that changes every year. In addition, an artist-in-residence (including Christine Schäfer , Salome Kammer , HK Gruber , Nils Landgren and Helmut Oehring ) gave the respective year an independent profile. In addition, during his time in Dessau, Birnbaum was director of the Kurt Weill Center in the Feininger Masters' House , which was included in the Federal Government's Blue Book as a cultural memorial of national importance.

On August 1, 2009, Birnbaum was appointed director of the Handel House Foundation and artistic director of the Halle (Saale) Handel Festival . On the occasion of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's 300th birthday, a new permanent exhibition on the music city of Halle was opened in June 2010 as part of the Handel Festival in the partially renovated Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House in Halle (Saale). The exhibition had to be closed again until the building was completely finished. In June 2012, the exhibition was opened permanently with two newly designed rooms on the subject of "House music in Halle" (including a historic plank room).

Together with the Israeli musician Yair Dalal and the conductor and violinist Werner Ehrhardt , Birnbaum developed the concept of the interreligious project "Israel in Egypt - From Slavery to Freedom", which premiered at the 2011 Handel Festival. a. in Jerusalem (Israel Festival) and at Bayer Kultur in Leverkusen.

In 2007 and 2008, Birnbaum was a member of the jury for grants in the field of music at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop. He is also currently a member of the board of the Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik eV and the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gesellschaft eV

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  1. ↑ music today (May 31, 2012)
  2. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (May 30, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Birnbaum, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau