Manfred Wittelsberger

Manfred Wittelsberger (born February 19, 1963 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German television director, musicologist and organ expert.

Life

Since 1979 he has been training as a part-time church musician in the Limburg diocese and from 1985 to 1998 he worked as an organist and choir director in the parish "Christkönig" in Westerburg in the Westerwald. He completed a degree in musicology, journalism and general and comparative literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and received his doctorate in 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he was the music project supervisor at "Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz eV", an initiative of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, from 1994 to 1996 cultural advisor for the city of Bingen am Rhein am Rhein and from 1996 to 1998 he worked as a project manager as part of the preparations for the anniversary year "900 years Hildegard von Bingen" . Wittelsberg has been an organ expert on behalf of the diocese of Mainz since 1995. Parallel to all activities, he has been doing freelance work for ZDF since 1987, initially as an editorial and director assistant and from 1995 as a director for ZDF, 3sat, BR, MDR and SWR in the areas of classical, jazz, theater, talk, magazine, News, church services, cabaret and cooking. He published publications in the field of organ building and broadcasts of worship services on ZDF. Manfred Wittelsberger lives in Mainz.

Publications (selection)

• The organ builder families Engers and Schlaad in Waldlaubersheim near Bingen , Munich, Musikverl. Katzbichler, 1994 ISBN 3-87397-513-0 .
• Article Eimsheim, Gau-Odernheim, Mainz-Gonsenheim (St. Johannes Evangelist), Ober-Olm, Ockenheim, Vendersheim , in: Achim Seip: Old and new organs in the Diocese of Mainz (New Yearbook for the Diocese of Mainz), Mainz 2003. ISBN 3-8053-2838-9 .
• Organ building in Waldlaubersheim, the Engers and Schlaad organ building families / The Johann Michael Stumm organ (1742) in the Martinskirche in Waldlaubersheim (Kleine Waldlaubersheimer series 3), 2005.
• Fascinated by the task of showing the invisible, ZDF television services from the director's point of view , in: Charlotte Magin / Helmut Schwier (eds.): Pulpit, cross and camera concrete (articles on liturgy and spirituality), Leipzig 2008, p. 55 -76. ISBN 978-3-374-02646-3 .
• Church organs in Mainz - an inventory , in: Alfred Reichling (Ed.): Acta Organologica, Vol. 31, Festschrift Friedrich Wilhelm Riedel on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Kassel 2009, pp. 15–86. ISBN 978-3-87537-323-3 .
• The organs of St. Stephan , in: Stefan Schmitz (Hrsg.): St. Stephan in Mainz - Crown of the City (A Congregation in Transition), Mainz 2013, pp. 90–99. ISBN 978-3-9813999-4-3 .
• A sonic gem in the country - the Johann Ignaz Seuffert organ in Alsheim / Rheinhessen , in: MUSICA SACRA 1/2019, Regensburg 2019, pp. 40–42.
• Sounding sculpture in heavenly blue - the Klais organ in St. Stephan Mainz , in: MUSICA SACRA 3/2019, Regensburg 2019, p. 158/159.
• Feeling the closeness of the invisible - liturgy, music, space and television images in dialogue, in: MUSICA SACRA 6/2019, Regensburg 2019, pp. 314–316.

• Sir Simon Rattle conducts Carmina Burana , New Year's Eve concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker 2004, DVD video, EuroArts - 2053678
• Frauenkirche Dresden, consecration service October 30, 2005 , DVD video, POLAR film, ISBN 3-937163-87-5 .

Web links

• Wittelsberger in the Imdb
• Dr. Manfred Wittelsberger reports on his work as a director at ZDF Gottesdiensten Video

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.bistummainz.de/bistum/bistum/ordinariat/dezernate/dezernat_Z/pressestelle/mbn/mbn_2005/mbn_050720.html
2. ↑ Director of the Berggottesdienst ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 102 kB) 
3. ↑ http://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/de/archive/fernseharchiv/musik
4. ↑ http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3329769