Kurt Lettner

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Kurt Lettner (2013)

Kurt Lettner (born September 7, 1937 in Bad Kreuzen ) is a retired Austrian pedagogue (main school director), local politician , local researcher and folklorist .

Life

From 1974 to 1996 he acted as Vice Mayor of the market town of Mauthausen .

From 1968 he was jointly and from 1969 jointly responsible for the Mauthausen church choir. In 1973 he founded the Mauthausen Singing Circle and headed it as choirmaster until 1996. The memorial concert 50 Years of the Liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp Mauthausen and Lettner's accompanying essay, which he published on recordings jointly by the Mauthausen Singing Circle and the Mauthausen parish youth choir under the direction of Alfred Hochedlinger , achieved supraregional reception .

In his spare time he worked as a local researcher , cultural journalist, especially for the daily newspaper Neues Volksblatt and for Radio Maria Austria , consultant in adult education, board member and exhibition curator in the local Heimathaus.

After his professional activity as a secondary school teacher, which he practiced for 40 years, he completed doctoral studies in art history (doctorate 2007) and ethnology (doctorate 2011) in the retirement pension .

In addition to his academic work, he published the results of his research as a local researcher in the journal Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , wrote articles on several regional homeland books and is a speaker at the Catholic Educational Center on folk medicine and superstition and at the Academy of Folk Culture in Upper Austria on the subject of mariological representations active in folk art . In 2005 he was responsible for the scientific part of the permanent exhibition Folk Medicine and Superstition in the Großdöllnerhof open-air museum in the Rechberg Nature Park . Kurt Lettner works for the Austrian Commission for UNESCO as an expert for inclusion in the register of intangible cultural heritage in Austria .

Lettner has been widowed since 1991 and has a son and a daughter.

In 1985 he became a consultant for popular education and homeland care of the Upper Austrian provincial government, is the holder of the Silver Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria and since 1988 the Mauthausen Ring of Honor.

Publications

  • A school runner reflects contemporary history. The influence of the National Socialists on the school system between 1938 and 1945. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter. Year 47, Linz, 1993, S 208 to 216, online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum and in: Mühlviertler Rundschau, No. 1 to 3, Linz, 1993 "Runner" of the Mauthausen secondary school
  • Music between life and death., Music in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps from 1939 to 1945. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter. Year 54, Linz, 2000, S 55 to 72, OCLC 48151271 , online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  • Hans Gerstmayr - Stahlschneider between Art Nouveau and Naturalism , in: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter, year 62, Linz, 2008, issue 3/4

Scientific work

Audio documents

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Memento: Memorial concert 50 years of liberation from Mauthausen concentration camp , PG Records, Linz, 1995
  2. ^ Kurt Lettner: Music between life and death. Music in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub-camps from 1939 to 1945. In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter , year 54, Linz, 2000, S 55 to 72, OCLC 48151271 , online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum
  3. ↑ Guido Fackler: Concentration camp pictures as iconic memories and historical documents . In: Helge Gerndt, Michaela Haibl (eds.): The everyday picture: Perspektiven einer Volkskundlichen Bildwissenschaft , Waxmann, 2005, p. 253, ISBN 3830915535
  4. ↑ Eckhard John, Heidy Zimmermann: Jüdische Musik ?: Fremdbilder, Eigenbilder , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2004, p. 391, ISBN 3412168033
  5. ↑ Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 16, Pergamon, 2002, p. 176, ISBN 019851641X
  6. ↑ Blue hour on the Traunsee , in Neues Volksblatt
  7. ↑ Risked and won , in: Neues Volksblatt from July 19, 2011 ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 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.bruckneruni.at
  8. ↑ a b Life pictures: Music between life and death, On the music in the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1938 to 1945 , radio report on Radio Maria Austria , broadcast on July 7, 2013, approx. 2 hours
  9. ↑ Christina Tropper: Senior student with ambition , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of May 4, 2012
  10. ↑ Folk medicine and superstition. Exhibition in the Döllnerhof open-air museum in the Rechenberg Nature Park . Excerpts from the concept by Kurt Lettner. Retrieved December 28, 2013
  11. ↑ Austrian Commission for UNESCO: Application for inclusion of a tradition in the Austrian register of intangible cultural heritage ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nationalagentur.unesco.at archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : List of experts on the areas of intangible cultural heritage in alphabetical order, 2013, p. 9, accessed on December 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lettner, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian educator, politician, local researcher, choir director
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad crosses