Kim Ry Andersen

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Kim Ry Andersen (born February 15, 1946 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish music manager and politician. From 1994 to 2012 he was managing director and deputy director of the Dresden Music Festival .

family

Kim Ry Andersen grew up in Copenhagen, Århus and San Francisco . He is the only child of Monna Ry Andersen, concert and opera singer, first radio and television singer in Denmark, and Sigurd Ry Andersen, director of the pathology and ophthalmology department at Rigshospitalet (Imperial Hospital Copenhagen).

The family came from Århus, Denmark, where Andersen was baptized in Århus Cathedral and where his paternal grandfather, Christian Dithlev Andreas Andersen, founded Århus Privatbank, Denmark's first private bank, as bank director and was chairman of the board of the Jutland Telefon Companies. As a close friend of the King of Denmark, he donated the equestrian statue of King Christian X on the cathedral square of Århus in the seventh line of the Danish-Schleswig-Holstein royal family . The maternal grandfather, Johan Hjalmar Sjoréen, created the first department store in Denmark in Århus, and from nowhere - as a foundling or orphan - he built his own large shipyard for ocean-going ship and industrial paintings in Århus. The ancestors came from Sweden and Schleswig-Holstein, once old Danish nobility, the mansions such as Eskjær hovedgård, Herningsholm, Gammel Estrup and Voergaard Castle , that belonged to the ancestor Anders Pedersen in the 14th century, knight Jakob Andersen in the 16th century and later was bought back by the family, Duke Poul Einar Rützebeck. The brother of Kim Ry Andersen's father was Thorkil Ry Andersen, known in Denmark as an artist and architect .

Ry Andersen has been with the soprano, company and opera director Valerie Ry Andersen , born in 1993 . Hennecke, married. Before that he was divorced from the dancer and choreographer Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter .

education

As a child, Kim Ry Andersen received musical training in singing and piano from his mother, who was also a singing teacher and pianist. At the age of twelve he appeared with her as a page in the opera Figaros Hochzeit in the Drottningholm Palace Theater in Sweden and sang in 1965 at the Bayreuth Festival of Young Artists . His mother's concert and opera engagements took him to Rome, Paris, Madrid and the devastated Germany.

From 1952 to 1957 he attended the Classenske Legatskole Copenhagen. In May 1957 he emigrated with his family to the USA because his father received a grand legacy research grant from Lederle Laboratories New York, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies at the time, which promoted further training in ophthalmic pathology and a future in science Research promised. The family was intended to stay in California. In San Francisco, Kim Ry Andersen was a student at the well-known Marina Junior High School from 1957 to 1958, where he received daily violin lessons and accompanied his mother to opera and concerts - including at the Opera San Francisco .

In 1958 he went back to Denmark. His father received an offer from the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Copenhagen to set up a research laboratory for ophthalmic pathology and to lead it as director; his mother had engagements as a soprano at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen . Kim Ry Andersen attended the Skt. Joergens Gymnasium in Copenhagen from 1958 to 1964, where he graduated as the best of school with a high school diploma with a large Latinum and the languages ​​and English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian. At the same time he studied the baritone opera with the singing teacher Eskil Rask Nielsen at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen .

Following his father's request, he then studied general medicine at the Faculty of Health and Medicine at the University of Copenhagen from 1964 and passed the Physikum with the best marks. In 1965 he decided to study law and business administration at the University of Copenhagen, was a trainee lawyer at the Bang Bendz law firm, specializing in copyright, especially cultural and media rights, and graduated in 1970 with the highest state examination in law and a degree in law and business administration from what qualified him for higher service.

Work in Danish ministries

In 1970 the then 24-year-old received a call to the Danish Ministry of Justice as a speaker under Knud Thestrup . After six months in the prison department, he was recommended to the Danish Ministry of Education.

From December 1970 to 1975 he was a councilor and senior councilor of the Department for Museums and Libraries in the Danish Ministry of Education . In this area he was responsible for the drafting of laws and changes to the law as well as the allocation of finances and grants to the then around 270 libraries of all municipalities in Denmark and the more than 100 state and state-sponsored museums in Denmark.

In addition, he was personal advisor to the Danish ministers of education Nathalie Lind and Niels Matthiasen. After the re-election, the latter sent him to the Royal Theater in Copenhagen to represent the Ministry of Culture - with an unlimited right of return .

Culture and theater

From 1975 to 1990 Andersen was the acting theater secretary and general secretary and personal assistant to the general manager, deputy manager at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen and at the same time economics director, lawyer and HR manager. He worked there first with the artistic director Henning Rohde, later with the artistic directors Henrik Bering-Liisberg and Boel Jørgensen.

Andersen brought the Royal Theater from a severe financial crisis into a golden age. He specifically hired young, important artists who became known in Europe and who later achieved world fame. In the concert area he brought in, for example, Pierre Boulez , Donald C. Runnicles , Woldemar Nelsson , Wolfgang Rennert , Peter Eötvös , Kurt Masur . He commissioned composers like Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and collaborated with new composers like Michael Tippett . In music theater he worked with Götz Friedrich after his escape from the GDR and brought Harry Kupfer , who made three foreign productions exclusively in Copenhagen ( Parsifal , Prince Igor , Boris Godunow ). It made possible the first foreign guest appearances of Peter Schreier and Theo Adam from the GDR. He also brought in Kurt Horres , Hans Neugebauer , and Nikolaus Lehnhoff . In the acting field he hired Per Olov Enquist . In the ballet field, he produced new products with Rudolf Nurejew , Birgit Cullberg , Glen Tedley, Paul Taylor , Murray Louis, Alvin Ailey , Flemming Ryberg, Bruce Marks , John Cranko , Robert North, Flemming Flindt and John Neumeier . Well-known stage designers, singers, actors and dancers such as Frank Andersen, Peter Schaufuss , Ib Andersen, Anna Lærkesen, Jürgen Rose and Birgitte Price continue to join . Including longtime friend Bjørn Wiinblad . With Henning Kronstam and Kirsten Ralov as Artistic Directors, he founded the first Bournonville Festival in Copenhagen in 1979.

At the same time, he found innovative productions that triggered a process of renewal at the Royal Theater and catapulted the house internationally into the top tier of world culture. The world wants to see what happens in Copenhagen, asks for guest performances / collaborations. The Royal Ballet dances in the top league, including for Grace Kelly in Monaco. Under his direction, the Royal Theater was brought over the financial effects of the economic crisis in Denmark through rationalizations without artistic restrictions, and was set up internationally for the first time, which went down in Danish theater history - through large new productions, collaborations and international guest performances. With the royal ballet, the royal chapel and the Staatsschauspiel he made over 174 foreign tours throughout Europe, in 1986 also to the GDR ( Berlin State Opera and Dresden Music Festival ) as well as to Japan, China, Singapore and the USA .

In addition, from 1978 to 1983 he was Managing Director and Artistic Administrator of the Royal Copenhagen Opera Academy , and from 1984 to 1992 he was appointed Managing Director of the Danish Stage Association and Managing Director of the Association of Danish Artistic Directors.

At the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen, he introduced five annual opera productions by the Academy Theater and was the first to ensure that students were involved in the ensemble of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. He made his first stage contracts with young students who later made careers around the world, such as Michael Schønwandt , Eva Johansson, Tina Kiberg, Stig Fo Andersen and Marianne Rørholm . Since then, the opera academy has produced singers every year who are employed at the first opera houses in Europe.

Immediately after the end of the GDR, the managing director of the Swiss Theater Association , Hannes Strasser, administrative director of the Zurich Opera House , recommended him to the Halle Opera House and the Staatskapelle Halle , where he became administrative director and deputy director from 1991 under the direction of Klaus Froboese and at the same time hospitable playing opera productions of Handel Festival Halle and everyday opera productions in the Goethe Theater Bad Lauchstädt and the Handel Festival Orchestra Hall managed business leader, he used against the downsizing and merging with other orchestras vehemently.

There, Andersen introduced the Deutsche Mark, stabilized the finances, modernized the operating routes, organized new sales and marketing structures, promoted and maintained the artistic staff, took care of national appearances of the Handel Festival Orchestra and cooperations, to give the company a national brand again and saved the opera house from closings several times in terms of cultural policy. It enables numerous opera and concert guest performances. When there was no money for ballet decorations for the ballet, he hired the Danish artist Björn Wiinblad for the ballet production Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky and had it painted on silk free of charge in Copenhagen: 1 main curtain, 6 brochures, 42 costumes. In addition, it enables young, up-and-coming singers such as Axel Köhler , Clemens Bieber , Thomas Quasthoff , Martina Rüping, Ulrike Helzel and Dorothea Röschmann to be involved . The dancers Sabrina Sadowska and Inka Atassi later appoint him as one of the first to be a member of the board of trustees of the foundation she founded TANZ - Transition Center Germany .

Dresden Music Festival

In 1994 he followed the call of administrative director and deputy director with artistic powers at the Dresden Music Festival , where he was executive and deputy full-time all year round.

He took over the music festival, which not only featured concerts but also stage performances (opera, drama, ballet / dance) and open-air events ( Semperoper , Staatsschauspiel , Frauenkirche , Kreuzkirche , Zwinger , Palais Großer Garten ), with a deficit of 1, 5 million DM , which he soon dismantled, introduced the euro as currency, looked for new administrative and financing routes, and was executive responsible for the processing of grants and management of the three auditing committees of the state capital Dresden, the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art and - until 2008 - the Federal Ministry of the Interior in connection with the state and federal government's cultural funding. He stabilized the budget, found the first sponsors, took care of composer commissions, such as for Siegfried Matthus and Wilfried Maria Danner , looked for worldwide cooperation with opera houses, embassies and international institutions and engaged all major orchestras and all well-known conductors in the world for over 2000 own events, most recently the New York Philharmonic.

Daniele Gatti made his first appearance as a conductor in Germany and the Dresden debuts of Claudio Abbado , Daniel Barenboim , Gustavo Dudamel , Christoph von Dohnányi , Christoph Eschenbach , Thomas Hengelbrock , Kristjan Järvi , Paavo Järvi , Lorin Maazel , Riccardo Muti , James Gaffigan , Valery Gergiev , Daniel Harding , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Seiji Ozawa , Sir. Antonio Pappano , sir. Simon Rattle , Leif Segerstam , Sir Georg Solti and others. In addition, at the right time world-famous instrumentalists such as Martha Argerich , Hélène Grimaud , Anne-Sophie Mutter , Gidon Kremer , Olivier Latry , Emmanuel Pahud , Murray Perahia , and singers such as Cecilia Bartoli , Teresa Berganza , Edita Gruberova , Vesselina Kasarova , Anne Sofie von Otter , Anna Netrebko , Thomas Hampson , Ian Bostridge , Jonas Kaufmann , Andreas Scholl , as well as Paco Peña , Chick Corea , Bobby McFerrin , Ute Lemper , Ibrahim Ferrer with the Buena Vista Social Club , - also productions with Günter Grass , Donna Leon , John Malkovich .

He initiated the Dresden directors' conference, founded the first classical ticket sales center in the Dresden Kulturpalast, initiated the first opera and concert performances in the Zwinger, the first concert performances in the Frauenkirche Dresden (lower church), the singing competition Competitione di Opera together with Franz Müller-Heuser , with Nicolas Hayek the first Glashütte Original MusikFestspielPreis (SAECULUM), the Wagner-Festspiel-Hör-Wiese at the Richard Wagner-Museum in Graupa, the Silbermann-Organ-Reisen in Saxony, the regional and international marketing of the Dresden Music Festival, and was with the Handel Opera Serse , the first initiator for the world's first setting of an opera on the Internet, also as PAY-TV. He worked artistically and in a managerial manner together with the directors Michael Hampe , Hartmut Haenchen , Jan Vogler .

Andersen made a significant contribution to the fact that the Dresden Music Festival established itself as the most important classical music festival in the new federal states and the second most important in Germany, despite drastic cost-cutting measures. Playing his ideas in factories and the Glashütte Original MusikFestspielPreis continued after he left. Kim Ry Andersen retired in 2012 after having achieved a Germany-wide income record that had not yet been reached again, which subsequently resulted in a tourism award for the Dresden Music Festival.

As chairman of the board of the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory eV, Kim Ry Andersen called for a new school structure in an initial concept and, through numerous discussions with political leaders, successfully brought the idea of ​​returning the conservatory to the sponsorship of the state capital of Dresden on the way to a resolution in the Dresden city council . This new school concept was finally developed by the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory with the participation of the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the State Capital Dresden, decided by the sponsoring association and was implemented on January 1, 2018.

Other offices

  • 2014: Legal advisor in stage matters for the state capital Dresden
  • 2006: Legal advisor for the state capital Dresden (800 years city festival Dresden)
  • 1990–1992: Legal advisor to the Royal Copenhagen Theater and Royal Chapel
  • 1990–1992: Specialist in cultural management Copenhagen MERCURI-URVAL Management - Company
  • 1984–1992: Legal and artistic advisor in the Association of Danish Theater Directors
Honorary positions
  • 2012–2014: Chairman of the board of the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory Dresden (5900 students / 2012; 6000/2013; 6100/2014)
  • Since 2008: Member of the board of trustees of the TANZ - TRANSITION Center Germany foundation under the management of John Neumeier , chief choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet and ballet director Hamburg State Opera
  • Since 1971: Member of the Society of Friends of Bayreuth
  • 1970–1990: Member of several ministerial committees in Denmark

Publications

  • Opinion on the revision of the museum laws. ( Betaenking NR. 727 afgivet af Udvalget Vedr rende Revision Af Museumslovene) Ed: Statens Trykningskontor, Copenhagen 1975, ISBN 87-503-1672-9 . ( Betaenking PDF)
  • Preliminary investigation of the technical and administrative function of the Royal Theater - The Royal Theater, rationalization options. ("Indledende undersøgelse af de tekniske og administrative function på Det Kongelige Teater. Det Kongelige Teater, rationalisering muligheder") Directorate for statens indkb Ed: Det danske Kulturministerium, Copenhagen 1977.
  • The Royal Theater. A future than the theater of the whole country. ("Det Kgl. Teater: En Fremtid Som Hele Landets Teater") State special edition, Ed: Det danske culture ministry (Directoratet for statens indkb), Copenhagen 1979, ISBN 87-503-2945-6 . ( Det Kgl. Teater PDF)
  • The Royal Theater. Human Resources Manual - Contractual Basis Guidelines and Organizations. ("Det Kongelige Teater. Personal Manual - Retningslinjer for aftalen og organisationer") Reprint, redigeret af Royal Theater Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1991.
  • The stage director's copyright position in Denmark. ("Sceneinstruktørens ophavsretlige stilling Advokater") Juristen series: Saertyk Ed: Danmarks Juristforbund, genoptryk, redigeret af dansk Bar Association, Copenhagen 1970, pp. 288-293.
  • Christiane Zentgraf (ed.): Music theater in citizen-friendly democracies - using Denmark as an example. In: On the situation of music theaters in Europe. Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater Volume 4, Research Institute for Music Theater University of Bayreuth, Thurnau 1979, pp. 44–47.
  • Adventure Germany / Culture-Job Requirements. Goethe Institute Copenhagen, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kim Ry Andersen on stiftung-tanz.com
  2. ↑ Monna Ry Andersen
  3. ↑ Sigurd Ry Andersen on denstoredanske.dk, accessed on October 10, 2013.
  4. ↑ Sigurd Ry Andersen
  5. ↑ Chr. DA Andersen on denstoredanske.dk, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Image on eskjaer-hovedgaard.dk, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  7. ↑ Herningsholm / ejerhistorie on danskeherregaarde.dk, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  8. ↑ Gammel Estrup Herregårdsmuseet on gammelestrup.dk, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  9. ↑ voergaard-slot on saebylexikon, accessed on January 6, 2020.
  10. ^ Voergaardslot , accessed August 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ Torkil Ry Andersen
  12. ↑ Thorkil Ry Andersen Danish Artists Archive , accessed April 9, 2016.
  13. ↑ Kirsten Hermansen (1930–) at kvinfo.dk, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  14. ↑ Kim Ry Andersen fylder 70 år mandag
  15. ↑ Henrik Bering Liisberg on denstoredanske.dk, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  16. ↑ Hans Neugebauer died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. August 3, 1994.
  17. ↑ Glen Tetley
  18. ↑ Frank Andersen ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ahk.nl
  19. ^ Ib Andersen and the Seasons of a Dancer. In: The New York Times. November 15, 1987.
  20. ↑ Anna Lærkesen.
  21. ^ Birgitte Price Danish Film Institute, accessed March 19, 2016.
  22. ^ The Company
  23. ↑ Marianne Rorholm on naxos.com, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  24. ↑ From the SBV's history book on theaterschweiz.ch
  25. ^ Xerxes, Handel Opera
  26. ↑ Farewell Mr. Andersen , accessed on February 11, 2016.
  27. ↑ Germany's most popular classical music festival is being saved to pieces
  28. ↑ The Lord of Numbers . In: Dresdner Latest News . May 29, 2012 ( dnn-online.de ).
  29. ↑ "Dresden Music Festival expect record results" . In: Saxon newspaper . May 18, 2012 ( sz-online.de ).
  30. ↑ How a Dane shaped Dresden's music festival In: Dresdner Latest News. 15th February 2016.
  31. ^ Bülow Palais hands over charity campaign to Heinrich Schütz Conservatory, press release of October 1, 2013.
  32. ↑ HSKD newletter 1 2013 PDF.
  33. ↑ We need a lot of wind to sail. Retrieved June 26, 2014.
  34. ↑ Kraftwerk Mitte We are here Heinrich-Schütz Conservatory , accessed on April 16, 2018.
  35. ↑ Heinrich Schütz Conservatory Dresden becomes self-operated , focus from 6 December 2017.
  36. ↑ "musikinsachsen" , under Older Entries, Read more, accessed on August 20, 2014.
  37. ↑ stiftung-tanz Stiftung Tanz, accessed on January 3, 2020.
  38. ↑ For a career afterwards on stiftung-tanz.com, accessed on May 24, 2013.
  39. ↑ Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater at fimt.uni-bayreuth.de, accessed on May 24, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Andersen, Kim Ry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish music manager and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen