Elmar Weingarten
Elmar Weingarten (born February 20, 1942 in Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia ) is a German sociologist and music manager . He taught at the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the Free University of Berlin .
Life
After experiencing flight and displacement as a toddler , Weingarten attended a Waldorf school and a mathematics and natural science high school in Nuremberg . After graduating from high school (1962) he studied economics , business administration and sociology at the University of Cologne . He completed his studies with a degree in economics .
In 1968 he went to the University of Düsseldorf as a research assistant to Caspar Kulenkampff . In 1970 he switched to Fritz Sack at the University of Regensburg . With a dissertation on schizophrenia -families with the sociologist Thomas Luckmann doctorate he in 1975 at the University of Konstanz for Dr. rer. soc. In the same year he began to work as an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin, as head of the patient-oriented intensive care research group at the Institute for Social Medicine .
He worked at the Sender Freies Berlin and was head of the music department of the Berliner Festspiele . As such, he brought Vladimir Horowitz in 1986 for the first concert in Berlin in 52 years. With previous experience with the Berliner Philharmoniker , he became director of the Radio Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre gGmbH in Berlin (1994). In 1995 he took over this position with the Philharmonic. From 2001 to 2005 he was the general manager of Ensemble Modern and its umbrella organization, the Deutsche Ensemble Akademie . From May 2006 to December 2007 he was curator of the Berliner Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Since August 2007 he has been director of the Tonhalle Society in Zurich . The contract was extended to 2014. Elmar Weingarten has been the managing director and chairman of the Artistic Committee of the Zurich Festival since 2011 .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (2000)
- Member of the board of directors of the Leipzig Bach Festival
- Chairman of the jury for the piano section at the ARD international music competition
- External member of the University Council of the University of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin (2004)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hochschule für Musik Berlin ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Elmar Weingarten , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 36/2008 of September 2, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
- ↑ Holger Heimann (Ex & Top)
- ^ Basler Zeitung (2010)
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| SURNAME | Weingarten, Elmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gleiwitz , Upper Silesia |