Don Juan Archive Vienna
The Don Juan Archive Vienna is a private Austrian research institution , founded by Hans Ernst Weidinger , which is dedicated to the history of the Don Juan material up to Da Pontes and Mozart's Don Giovanni , as well as the reception of this opera. It has existed since 1987 and has been open to the public since 2007.
Foundation, sponsor
The archive is part of the Hollitzer group of companies , to which the Hollitzer publishing house also belongs. All publications in the archive, the research reports and the summaries of the symposia are published by this publisher. The founder of the archive is the theater historian Hans Ernst Weidinger , who in 2002 published parts of his research results in the form of a 16-volume dissertation entitled Il Dissoluto Punito. Studies on the external and internal genesis of Lorenzo da Pontes and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni presented.
The founding director of the archive was the theater scholar Michael Hüttler (until 2011). Since then, the archive has been headed by Matthias J. Pernerstorfer .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias J. Pernerstorfer: “The Don Juan Archive Vienna. A Private Research Institute for Opera and Theater History ", in: Les convergences entre passé et futur dans les collections des arts du spectacle. Société internationale des bibliothèques et musées des arts du spectacle (28th Congrès: Munich, 26-30 juillet 2010) / Connecting Points: Performing Arts Collections Uniting Past and Future. International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (28th Congress: Munich, 26-30 July 2010), ed. by Helen Baer, Claudia Blank, Kristy Davis, Andrea Hauer and Nicole Leclercq. Brussels: Peter Lang 2014, 325–332.