Kurt Conrad (museum director)

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Kurt Conrad (born December 27, 1919 in Salzburg; † May 1, 1994 in Salzburg) was a recognized house and settlement researcher as well as the founder and long-term director of the Salzburg Open Air Museum . In addition, he was an expert on the cultural history of the state of Salzburg.

Life

Kurt Conrad grew up in Salzburg in Oberalm, attended elementary school Hallein and graduated in 1938 at the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg . After serving in the war and being a prisoner of war, Conrad studied German, history and folklore in Graz, where he received his doctorate in 1950 with a dissertation on “Salzburg border antiquities”.

After working in the Almwirtschaftsreferat and in the State Fisheries Association, Kurt Conrad joined the cultural department of the Salzburg State Government in 1959. Here he was initially entrusted with the tasks of event management and soon switched to the nature conservation area of ​​the state government's office, where he soon held a managerial position. He campaigned with great commitment for the idea of ​​nature conservation and played a major role in the agreement of the federal states of Carinthia, Tyrol and Salzburg on the creation of the Hohe Tauern National Park .

From 1972 Conrad was curator for folklore at the Salzburg Museum Carolino-Augusteum

His plans for an open-air museum in Salzburg began early on. Not far from Großgmain, at the northern foot of the Untersberg, in the local landscape protection area, he found a very suitable 50 hectare, near-natural forest area. The founding contract for the museum was signed in 1978. A year later he was appointed director of the Salzburg Open-Air Museum, and on December 27, 1984, Dr. Rudolf Kirchschläger opened the museum on Conrad's birthday. The aim was and is to show rural residential and farm buildings including associated household items and tools from the 16th to the late 19th century. Kurt Conrad pursued three important tasks in the museum, one scientific, one folk education and one cultural-political. Conrad was director of the museum until 1988 .

Conrad made the subjects of nature conservation , landscape protection , folklore and cultural history the focus of his research . Conrad was one of the co-authors of the Austrian Folklore Atlas . From 1965 he was a lecturer in folklore at the Institute for Geography at the University of Salzburg , and from 1979 honorary professor for settlement geography. From 1982 until his death he was a board member of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies . Kurt Conrad studied folklore, history and German at the University of Graz from 1946 to 1950 . From 1972 he was curator for folklore at the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum . From 1979 he planned and worked on the construction of the Salzburg Open Air Museum in Großgmain , which opened in 1984 and was its museum director until 1988.

Publications

  • Guide through the Salzburg open-air museum. Botanical appendix by Walter Strobl, 4th exp. Edition, publisher: Directorate Salzburger Freilichtmuseum, Salzburg 1994, ISBN 3-85372-000-5 .
  • Catalog in collaboration with: Friederike Prodinger (Ed.): Burgen in Salzburg. On the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Hohensalzburg Fortress. Exhibition in the Castle Museum of the Hohensalzburg Fortress June 4 to October 30, 1977, Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg 1977.
  • The landscape as a reflection of popular culture. House research, homeland care, nature conservation, folklore in Salzburg. Selected essays and lectures by Kurt Conrad, Festschrift for Kurt Conrad on his 70th birthday, Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde (Ed.), Foreword by Oskar Moser, Salzburg 1990.
  • Folklore introduction to: Walter Kreindl: Our old farms. Verlag Welsermühl, Wels 1982, ISBN 3-85339-176-1 .
  • Friederike Prodinger (editor) and Kurt Conrad (collaborator): Castles in Salzburg, on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Hohensbg Fortress, June 4 - October 30, 1977, Verlag Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg, 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Conrad on Salzburgwiki
personal data
SURNAME Conrad, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian in-house researcher and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1994
Place of death Salzburg