Gerd Nachbauer

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Gerd Nachbauer (born July 16, 1951 in Hohenems ) is an Austrian cultural manager . He has been managing director since 1976 and artistic director of the Schubertiade in Vorarlberg since 1981 .

Life

In June 1972 the twenty-year-old Gerd Nachbauer founded the Mozart Community in Vorarlberg . At first he planned to perform annual concert cycles with works by Mozart in the knights' hall of the Hohenems palace ; initially an opening concert with Peter Schreier was scheduled, who was supposed to perform one of the main works of Franz Schubert's oeuvre, Die Schöne Müllerin .

In 1973 Nachbauer then organized his first Mozart concert with a selection from his ensemble works and already contacted the baritone Hermann Prey and his secretary Christian Lange. Together with both of them, after initial attempts ( winter trip in Bregenz) and further years of testing between 1974 and 1977, the concept of a chronological overall presentation of Schubert's work between 1978 and 1990 was planned.

In January 1975 Nachbauer founded the Schubertiade Ges. Mb H. together with Prey's secretary, but Lange left the company at the beginning of 1977. But in 1976 the first concerts officially known as the Schubertiade took place. Prey's commitment to participate in the following years was questionable because of his health problems over a longer period of time. Nachbauer, however, was able to win over the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm to participate in his second season (1977). Prey, on the other hand, announced at the end of one of his concerts in 1980 that he would resign from the artistic direction of the festival, but in 1981 he appeared again at the Schubertiade.

Since Prey left the festival management committee, Nachbauer has been the artistic director of the Schubertiade in addition to his administrative functions, for which he has regularly been able to win Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Nikolaus Harnoncourt since 1983 . Attempts to open up more halls for concerts in the city of Hohenems initially failed, so that Nachbauer also arranged a series of events in Feldkirch , including recitals in the Montforthaus from 1985 and in the Feldkirch State Conservatory from 1989. From 1991 onwards, all concerts took place in Feldkirch, as the Hohenems Palace was no longer sufficiently available for the Schubertiade.

In the following years Nachbauer expanded his sphere of activity to Schwarzenberg and Bezau (Landpartien) and even across the border to Bavaria ( Lindau ) and Baden-Württemberg ( Achberg Castle ).

In 2005 he succeeded in taking over the Hohenems gymnasium designed by the architect Hanns Kornberger , which he had set up as the Markus Sittikus Hall for concerts , now named after the Salzburg Archbishop Markus Sittikus von Hohenems from Hohenems .

Nachbauer has been working on Elisabeth Schwarzkopf's private archive (with numerous holdings on international music history since the 1940s and the manager of EMI , Walter Legge ) since 2007 .

Nachbauer founded a Franz Schubert Museum in Hohenems in 2009, having previously initiated a number of smaller and larger exhibitions that were inspired by Schubert's environment or other topics. The highlights of the concert season were also regularly accompanied by exhibitions, including works by the artists Robert Hammerstiel and Martha Griebler .

Nachbauer had developed the concept of an international Schubert exhibition in Austria (Vorarlberg), Liechtenstein and Germany under the title Schubert 200 for Schubert's 200th birthday (1997) . On this occasion, original Schubert manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library ( New York ) and numerous public and private European collections were presented at the Schubertiade .

Recognitions

literature

  • Manfred Papst: The magician behind the success. Gerd Nachbauer . In: NZZ , August 14, 2011, p. 57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Driven the art ORF film
  2. ^ Franz Schubert Museum Hohenems
  3. ↑ Ilija Dürhammer , Angela Heilmann, Gerrit Waidelich u. a .: Schubert 200 years - Lindau City Museum, Achberg Castle. Edition Braus, Heidelberg 1997, 270 pp.
personal data
SURNAME Replica, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenems