Karla Fohrbeck

Karla Fohrbeck (born October 6, 1942 in Aachen ) is a German cultural scientist , cultural journalist and cultural politician .

Life

Fohrbeck grew up in Bayreuth . Between 1962 and 1970 she studied comparative anthropology and religious studies (among others with Claude Lévi-Strauss), African studies, philosophy, sociology, politics and economics in Freiburg, Frankfurt, London and Paris. She did her PhD in Dr. rer. pole. with Thomas Luckmann and Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt am Main.

She was married to the Fluxus artist and aesthetics professor Bazon Brock and lives in Neudrossenfeld ( Kulmbach district ).

Career

In 1970/71 Fohrbeck worked for Spiegel-Verlag Hamburg at the Spiegel Institute for project studies. Between 1972 and 1979 she continued the institute as a freelance work group and mostly co-authorship with Andreas Johannes Wiesand as an institute for project studies in Hamburg. During this time she carried out numerous basic research for the development of the artists' social insurance fund for German cultural statistics, for the federal government's catalog of measures and the interest policy of art and cultural professions, which later resulted in the establishment of the German Cultural Council. In 1975/76 she was also visiting professor at the University of Hamburg for the sociology of culture and literature.

In 1979 Fohrbeck moved with the institute to Bonn. It was renamed the Center for Cultural Research. The institute launched project and research work for almost all federal ministries, prepared international comparative studies / best practice models, organized association hearings , prepared studies on the cultural industry as well as on private and public cultural funding and on cultural statistics, empirical studies in almost all cultural sectors for clients such as federal, state, municipal, international organizations, broadcasters, cultural industry, foundations, artists and cultural associations.

In 1989 Fohrbeck accepted a visiting professorship in Campinas ( Brazil ). From 1990 to 1996 she was school and cultural advisor (independent) in Nuremberg as the successor to Hermann Glaser . During this time, among other things, the ceilings for the large cultural departments and, in cooperation with building consultant Walter Anderle, the large building charade in the city center, as well as the theater reform, the reorganization of the municipal museums and the cultural development plan for film / new media.

Since 2007 Fohrbeck has been leading voluntary cultural development project work in her home region of Bayreuth-Kulmbach-Upper Franconia (including the Margravine Wilhelmine double anniversary, the Jean-Paul-Weg in Upper Franconia and Bayreuth, the reconstruction of the Jewish infrastructure in Bayreuth and the new Africa Center / building planning for the University of Bayreuth, cultural city plans for Jean Paul and Richard Wagner, temporarily project office / senior service in the agency KulturPartner von Clemens Lukas in Bayreuth).

Conversion Controversy

Fohrbeck caused a stir in September 1991 with the statement that she was inspired daily by “messages from the hereafter” and that she did her town hall work on behalf of the Almighty. Fohrbeck had given a speech as a supporter of the free church Immanuel congregation in Nuremberg , which a city magazine had recorded. In the speech she had said, among other things, that she wanted to make Nuremberg “a second Jerusalem” and claimed that God and Jesus gave her direct instructions. The parties of the city council then demanded their resignation, which Fohrbeck refused.

engagement

The numerous honorary positions in the last few decades included:

Member of the supervisory board of Inter Nationes and of the former Deutschlandfunk
Vice-President of the Cultural Political Society
cultural policy delegates at the Council of Europe (Club of Delphi / European Declaration of Culture), at the Unesco Cultural Decade and at the CSCE Conference in Budapest
together with AJ Wiesand in the 1970s and early 1980s structuring, building up, founding member and initial management of the German Cultural Council
Member of the industrial culture group in the culture group of the Federal Association of German Industry BDI
President of the European Foundation for Culture and Economy, Amsterdam (dissolved in 1989)
Founding member of the International Committee of Artists and the Free Academy Mannheim
1990–1996 member of the culture committee of the German Association of Cities
2008–2012 member of the working group culture and creative industries at the German Industry and Trade Day DIHT Berlin

Honors

1977: Culture Prize of the DGB (together with Andreas Johannes Wiesand).
2012: Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver (Bavarian State Parliament).
2018: Culture Prize of the Upper Franconian Foundation for diverse services to national and international cultural life.

Publications

Cultural policy / cultural finance / cultural industry

(empirical basis for a federal cultural policy. BMI series Culture and State, BMI = Federal Ministry of the Interior)

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Handbook of cultural awards and individual artist support 1945-1978. ZfKF, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1978
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Music-Statistics-Cultural Policy. ZfKF, DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1982
Handbook 'Artists in Need'. DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1983
Handbook of cultural awards and individual artist support 1979-1985. ZfKF, DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1985
Renaissance of the patrons? Diversity of interests in private cultural funding DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1989
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: From industrial society to cultural society? Beck Verlag, Munich 1989

Cultural professions

(empirical basis for a better legal situation, the structure of the artists' social insurance, the German Cultural Council and for individual professional associations / professional sectors)

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: The author report. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg, 1972

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: The artist report . Musicians / performers / realisers / visual artists / designers. Hanser Verlag, 1975

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand and Frank Woltereck: Employees or entrepreneurs? On the legal situation of the cultural professions. Schweitzer Verlag, 1976

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand and Dorothea Fohrbeck: Profession of architect. Hatje Verlag, 1984

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand and Trixi Trommer: Women in the culture and media business. Empirical inventory. Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn, 1987

Cultural sociology individual studies

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Libraries and library royalties. Duration. Loan. Development tendencies. Publishing house documentation Pullach, 1974
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Literature and the public in the Federal Republic of Germany. Hanser Verlag 1976 (also English and French edition)
Cultural public in Bremen (cultural development plan). Schmalfeldt-Verlag, Bremen, 1980 (Senate of the Hanseatic City of Bremen)
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: The WDR as a cultural and economic factor. Grote-Verlag, 1989
University as home? Student cultural work. Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bock Verlag, 1986
- Volume 1: From Humboldt to the BSK - University Cultural Landscape.
- Volume 2: From Kiel to Konstanz - cultural work from the student's perspective.

Comparative international cultural sociology / cultural policy

with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Situation sociale des artistes en RFA. ZfKF, Inter Nationes, 1980
Art funding in an international comparison (best practice models). DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1981 (BMI series Culture and State)
with Anton Regenberg and Olaf Schwencke: Politicization of Culture? Regionalism and Nationalism in Europe. Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft, Bonn, 1984
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand and Franz-Otto Hofecker: Successful library work in savings times. Bertelsmann Foundation, 1985
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Handbook of Cultural Affairs in Europe / Manuel Européen des Affaires Culturelles. ZfKF & CIRCLE, Nomos Verlag, 1985
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Kulturadministration / Arts Management - International selection biography. ZfKF, Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn, 1987
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Kulturfinanzierung / Sponsorship in the arts - International selection biography. ZfKF, Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn, 1988
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: Private Cultural Promotion in the Federal Republic of Germany. ZfKF, Inter Nationes, 1989

Comparative cultural anthropology

Knowledge and consciousness as elements of the constitution of "history" - using the example of primitive societies . Diss. 1970
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand and Renate Zahar: Heile Welt and Third World. Media and Political Education. Leske Verlag 1971
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand: We natives. Magic and enlightenment in a cultural comparison. Leske & Budrich Verlag, 1981; (under license from Leske-u.-Budrich-Verl., Leverkusen) under the title: 'We natives'. Civilized savages and exotic Europeans; Magic and enlightenment in a cultural comparison . Rowohlt Verlag, 1987
with Andreas Johannes Wiesand and Margarethe Schreinemakers: Third World and Media World. Development policy and the image of the Third World in the press, radio, television. Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, Bonn, 1983
with Huub Kuipers (ed.): Van Totem tot Lifestyle. Europese cultuur in ontwikkeling. Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Amsterdam, 1987

Culture philosophy / literature

Ed .: Aesthetics as mediation. Collected works by Bazon Brock 1957–1977. DuMont Verlag, Cologne, 1977

with Hanspeter Widrig: Death, Judgment and Eternal Life. The plan of salvation and the world in the Bible. Self-published, 1992 (exhibition catalog)

with Frank Piontek: Jean Paul in Bayreuth (cultural map). BMTG, Bayreuth, 2011

Jean Paul in & around Bayreuth. A literary walking guide to the Jean-Paul-Weg , BMTG, Bayreuth, 2012 (station texts with Frank Piontek)

Jean Paul in Upper Franconia. A literary hiking guide to the Jean-Paul-Weg. BMTG, Bayreuth, 2012 (history, maps and station texts on the entire route)

Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (cultural map). KMT / BMTG, Bayreuth, 2013

Markgrafenkirchen in the Bayreuth-Kulmbach region (tourist guide), 2015

Rotmainauenweg Bayreuth-Heinersreuth-Neudrossenfeld-Langenstadt (tourist guide ), 2016

Web links

Karla Fohrbeck in Munzinger's biography

Individual evidence

↑ Karla Fohrbeck. Der Spiegel, July 29, 1991
↑ Jesus from the cellar. Der Spiegel, September 4, 1991
^ The councilors: at a loss - will the cultural-political crisis in Nuremberg turn into a case by Karla Fohrbeck? Die Zeit, December 13, 1991
↑ The cultural advisor defends herself. Nürnberger Nachrichten, September 9, 1991
↑ Heidrun Piwernetz: Laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the prizes 2018 of the Oberfrankenstiftung - Culture Prize -. Oberfrankenstiftung, July 12, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fohrbeck, Karla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German cultural scientist, cultural journalist and cultural politician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen

[1] Karla Fohrbeck. Der Spiegel, July 29, 1991

[2] Jesus from the cellar. Der Spiegel, September 4, 1991

[3] The councilors: at a loss - will the cultural-political crisis in Nuremberg turn into a case by Karla Fohrbeck? Die Zeit, December 13, 1991

[4] The cultural advisor defends herself. Nürnberger Nachrichten, September 9, 1991

[5] Heidrun Piwernetz: Laudation on the occasion of the awarding of the prizes 2018 of the Oberfrankenstiftung - Culture Prize -. Oberfrankenstiftung, July 12, 2018, accessed on September 16, 2018 .