Dieter Gorny

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Dieter Gorny (born August 26, 1953 in Soest ) is a German media manager , lobbyist and musician .

Life

Gorny first studied music ( double bass , piano and composition ) in Cologne , became a music teacher and played in several orchestras, such as the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra . In the 1980s he initiated the project rock funding in North Rhine-Westphalia, known as Rockbüro-NRW for short , in Wuppertal and has been teaching at the Cologne University of Music since 1988 . In 1989 he was given a teaching position at the music academy in Hamburg . Also in 1989 Gorny called Popkommins Leben, a content-oriented music fair, which took place for the first time in the Düsseldorf cultural center Zakk and was then held in Cologne. From 2004 it was held in Berlin .

In 1993 Gorny founded the music channel VIVA with other partners and became its managing director. In 2000 he became CEO of the newly founded VIVA Media AG and in 2005, after the takeover by the US media group Viacom, Executive Vice President of MTV Networks Europe . In January 2007 he left MTV.

Gorny has been a member of the Presidium of the German Music Council since 2000 and was Chairman of the Board of the Federal Association of the Music Industry from 2007 to 2017 . From 2007 to 2010 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen and since 2007 he has been chairman of the initiative music . In March 2015 he was appointed Commissioner for Creative and Digital Economy by the Federal Minister of Economics, Sigmar Gabriel .

Gorny has been Professor of Culture and Media Studies at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences since 2005 .

Gorny was one of four artistic directors of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture and was then CEO of the company founded as an institute of RUHR.2010 European Center for Creative Economy (ECCE), headquartered in Dortmund U . As artistic director of RUHR.2010 he was committed to organizing the Love Parade 2010 in Duisburg despite the lack of money .

Gorny is married with four children and lives in Essen . He is a member of the SPD .

Awards

literature

  • Order is half the mess. The making of VIVA . Econ-Verlag, 2001
  • together with Jürgen Stark: Popkultur 2002/2003 . Rowohlt, 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dieter Gorny leaves MTV horizont.net, January 30, 2007
  2. a b Gorny does not want to run again for BVMI chairmanship politik-kommunikation.de, September 20, 2017
  3. Gabriel makes lobbyist Dieter Gorny a consultant spiegel.de, March 26, 2015
  4. Love Parade cancellation would be loud Gorny a disgrace waz.de 23 January 2010 at
  5. Play me the song from the middle welt.de, November 14, 1998