Elliot Tiber

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Elliot Tiber in Bologna (June 2009)

Elliot Tiber (born April 15, 1935 in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn , New York , † August 3, 2016 in Boca Raton , Florida ; born Elliot Teichberg ) was an American painter, comedian and author. His memoirs, which he published as a book under the title "Taking Woodstock" with co-author Tom Monte, were filmed by Ang Lee under the same title . In "Taking Woodstock", Tiber describes his role in bringing about the Woodstock Festival .

biography

Tiber grew up in New York, where he graduated from college. Tiber's parents moved to White Lake, Bethel , in 1955 . There they ran an inn called "El Monaco Motel". Tiber worked as a painter and decorator in Manhattan , and on weekends he helped his parents at Bethel.

In New York he lived out his homosexuality , which his family knew nothing about. In “Taking Woodstock” he describes how he was involved in the Stonewall riots on Christopher Street in late June 1969 .

In Bethel, Tiber became president of the local chamber of commerce. One of his projects in this function was a music and arts festival on the grounds of the El Monaco Motel, for which he had issued the authorization himself.

When Tiber heard in July 1969 that the town of Wallkill - an hour's drive south of Woodstock - had refused to organize the planned Woodstock Festival in their area, Tiber got in touch with Michael Lang , one of the festival organizers, and offered him that El Monaco site. Bethel, for its part, is about an hour's drive west of Wallkill.

It turned out that the site was too small, so the Tiber put the organizers in touch with his neighbor, the farmer Max Yasgur. The festival then took place on its lands in August 1969. However, the two main organizers of the Woodstock Festival, Michael Lang and Artie Kornfeld, contradict this representation of Tiber . They claim to have found Yasgur without Tiber's intervention.

According to the Tiber, the El Monaco Motel was the headquarters of the Woodstock organizers and, during the festival, a kind of emergency room for festival participants whose drug trips got out of control or who were injured.

After the festival, Tiber sold El Monaco. He later lived in Belgium with his friend, the director André Ernotte, until his death in 1999 . In 1976 Ernotte made a French-language film based on Tiber's book Rue Haute (English High Street ). The film was Belgium's contribution to the 1977 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not make it into the final selection.

In 2009, his experiences at the Woodstock Festival were filmed in the film Taking Woodstock ; Tiber was played by the actor Demetri Martin .

Most recently, Tiber lived in Manhattan.

Books by Elliot Tiber

  • 1976: Rue Haute (High Street)
  • 1994: Knock on Woodstock: The Uproarious, Uncensored Story of the Woodstock Festival, the Gay Man Who Made It Happen, and How He Earned His Ticket to Freedom
  • 2007: Taking Woodstock (with Tom Monte)
  • 2010: Palm Trees On the Hudson

Web links

Commons : Elliot Tiber  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hillel Italie: Elliot Tiber dies; artist, screenplay writer, Woodstock enabler was 81 . Newsday , August 3, 2016, accessed August 4, 2016.
  2. ^ A b A. Sebastian Fortino: Taking Stock of A Great Gay Life: the Man Behind Woodstock, Elliot Tiber . South Florida Gay News, August 17, 2010, accessed August 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Martin Schwickert: Freedom! The maker: Elliot Tiber on the 1969 festival . Der Tagesspiegel , September 3, 2009, accessed on August 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d Elliot Tiber - Another Woodstock Hero . Woodstock - Preservation Archives, 1997, accessed August 4, 2016.
  5. ^ Gudula Moritz: Laconic hippie anthem - Ang Lee's comedy "Taking Woodstock" . Film review on 3sat.de , August 7, 2009, accessed on August 4, 2016.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Marc Pitzke: The man who made Woodstock possible . Spiegel Online , August 14, 2009, accessed August 4, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Tiber, Elliot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teichberg, Elliot (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, comedian, and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bensonhurst , Brooklyn , New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 2016
Place of death Boca Raton , Florida , United States