Klaus Bernbacher

Klaus Bernbacher (born January 25, 1931 in Hanover ) is a German conductor and, as a politician, was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven party (AfB).

biography

Family, education and work

Bernbacher was the son of a violinist as a chamber musician at the Hanover Opera House . He is thereby connected to music early through piano lessons and concert visits. He experienced the great conductors of his youth such as Furtwängler , Karajan , Knappertsbusch , Krauss and Richard Strauss at rehearsals and performances. He studied music at the Hanover Music Academy ; His goal was to become Kapellmeister. He named the establishment of the Jeunesses Musicales in Germany since 1951 and the creation and development of the Schloss Weikersheim Music Center as important tasks in which he was able to participate during his studies. In 1958 he and Klaus Hashagen founded a studio for new music . The Days of New Music Hanover (1958 to 1998) in connection with the NDR , the Hanover Music Academy, the Hanover State Opera and Radio Bremen emerged from it.

In 1962 he became a conductor at Radio Bremen and in 1969 he became head of the Radio Bremen department. He was a promoter of new music.
With U. a. of the North West German Philharmonic and the Bremen Philharmonic , he has directed around 600 radio productions and concerts in around 40 years. He also worked part-time as an honorary professor for the University of the Arts in Bremen .

Bernbacher had been married to his childhood friend of the Green politician Christa Bernbacher († 2013) since 1957 ; both had four children, two of whom they adopted. Both lived in Bremen- Schwachhausen since 1970 .

politics

Bernbacher was a member of the SPD from the 1950s to 1994 , shaped by Kurt Schumacher . In 1995 he joined the voter association Work for Bremen and Bremerhaven. This community of voters became a pool of dissatisfied former SPD members from the right wing of the party, but also of many committed citizens who had not previously belonged to any party. Under the leadership of Sparkasse director a. D. Friedrich Rebers won the AfB straight away for the 14th electoral period 10.7% of the vote and 12 members of parliament.

From 1995 to 1999 there were two “Bernbachers” in parliament: you, who, as the Greens, would have liked to enter into a coalition with the SPD, and he, who fought to remove the SPD from power and wanted to form a coalition with the CDU. The AfB was in the opposition from 1995 to 1999. He helped ensure that culture was included in the constitution as a national goal. In the 1999 general election, the AfB was only able to achieve 2.4% of the votes without its sick lead candidate Rebers; she received no mandate in the citizenry.

Further memberships

• Member of the Bremen Broadcasting Council for twelve years .
• Collaboration with Peter Schulze on the citizens' initiative to preserve the Radio Bremen broadcasting hall, which is famous for its acoustics .
• Member of the Bremen State Music Council .
• Chairman of the Musicon Bremen support group , which is committed to building a concert hall on the Bürgerweide according to plans by Daniel Libeskind .

Works

• Klaus Bernbacher, Detlef Müller-Hennig (Hrsg.): Documentation 20 years concert of the German Music Council . Bonn 2000.

literature

• Norbert Korfmacher: Directory of members of the Bremen citizenship 1946 to 1996 (= local politics. Volume 1). LIT, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3212-0 .
• nmz: Fighters for Fundamental Rights and the Concert Hall , February 2011 edition.