Jochen Boberg

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Jochen Boberg (born June 20, 1941 in Westphalia ) is a German art historian and cultural manager . From 1980 until his retirement in 2006 he headed the Museum Pedagogical Service Berlin (MD Berlin), which he also founded and built up. In this role he organized numerous cultural events.

Life

Boberg studied art history from 1962 at the LMU Munich . In 1973 he received his doctorate in art history. His minor subjects were archeology and philosophy. After completing his studies, Boberg first worked on setting up a museum education center at the Bavarian State Painting Collection and on editing the Lexicon of Christian Iconography . He then headed the Art Education Center at the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg for several years . He then became head of the museum department at the Senate of the State of Bremen , which he also rebuilt.

From 1980 until his retirement in 2006 he was again the founder and head of the Museum Education Service in Berlin, which was later renamed “Museumsdienste Berlin” (MD Berlin) and which was an office of the Berlin Senator for Culture. In this role, Boberg organized cultural events in Berlin; The Long Night of Museums , which has been held twice a year since 1997, also goes back to Boberg. The idea of ​​the “Long Night” for museums was adopted by several other cities. The Berliner Tagesspiegel described the museum education service as “Boberg's Art Education Institute”.

In addition to issuing publications and catalogs, Boberg has also published articles in magazines and has worked as a museum consultant nationally and internationally.

Publications

  • Edited by Jochen Boberg, Tilman Fichter , Eckhart Gillen with the participation of other authors :
    • Parade ground of modernity. Industrial culture in Berlin in the 19th century.
    • The Metropole. Industrial culture in Berlin in the 20th century. Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-30201-7 (series industrial culture of German cities and regions. Edited by Hermann Glaser ).
  • with Hermann Simon (ed.): Art in Auschwitz 1940–1945. Book accompanying the exhibition of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum, in the Cultural History Museum Osnabrück / Felix-Nussbaum-Haus and the Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych w Łodzi = Sztuka w Auschwitz 1940–1945. Published by the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum and by the Museum Education Service Berlin, Rasch, Bramsche 2005, ISBN 3-89946-051-0 (texts in German and Polish).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ today merged with other institutions to form the company "Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH", see website mdberlin.de
  2. ↑ see publications of the Museum Education Service in the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Boberg, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Westphalia