Peter Bach (lawyer)

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Peter Bach (born May 10, 1946 in Siegen ) is a German lawyer and founder and managing partner of the law firm BLD Bach Langheid Dallmayr. He is the author and editor of legal specialist publications with a focus on liability and insurance law . Bach is also a cultural sponsor and founder of KunstSalon e. V., initiator and longstanding spokesman for the Cologne Cultural Council and member of the European Film Academy (EFA).

Career

From 1967 to 1972 Bach studied law at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Lausanne and the University of Bonn . After legal clerkship and obtaining his license to practice as a lawyer, he settled in Cologne in 1976 , where he specialized entirely in damage, liability and insurance law. In 1979, Bach received his doctorate on issues of private health insurance law and advanced to become a specialist in this segment. In 1977 Bach founded his own law firm, which developed with additional partners as BLD Bach Langheid & Dallmayr in Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and with international partnerships, especially in London, Paris and the USA. BLD became the market leader in the representation and legal advice of German and international insurance companies and financial service providers. Until his departure in 2011, Bach was a managing senior partner, then chairman of the advisory board until 2014.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, he was a lecturer in commercial law for the insurance department at Cologne University of Applied Sciences from 1981 to 1987 . Since the 1980s, Bach has also appeared as the editor and co-author of numerous specialist publications as well as extensive training and conference programs for the “Insurance Forum” conference series.

Bach is the father of three adult children and lives in Cologne.

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In addition to his professional activity, Bach was enthusiastic about the canon of the arts, especially film art, visual and performing arts. He consistently advocated a stronger social commitment of the citizens in cultural matters. In order to create an organizational framework for this and not leave funding, opportunities for impact and exchange between or with artists to public institutions alone, Bach founded the KunstSalon e. V. The non-profit association is a private funding institution for explicitly all kinds of art, supports artists and their projects and designs and realizes salon talks, exhibitions, festivals and premieres in the fields of visual arts , literature , theater , dance , film , music and urban design / architecture .

ArtSalon

As chairman of the KunstSalon , Bach initiated numerous projects and events. The center is the salon in an old factory building in the Raderberg district of Cologne with up to 550 permanent sponsoring members. A few more hundred paying members have joined the special film, drama and stage dance sections that will be added from 2000. The meeting and communication center is the monthly jour fixe , which usually introduces an artist or a personality from the cultural sector, but also sets cultural-political accents. In alternation with young sponsored artists, there were many well-known guests in the KunstSalon , such as Michael Ballhaus , Julian Schnabel , John Neumeier , Sasha Waltz , Markus Lüpertz , Navid Kermani , Maximilian Schell , Maria Schrader , Doris Dörrie , Andres Veiel and many more

Further events for which Bach gave the impetus are the annual festivals Music in the Houses of the City and Literature in the Houses of the City from 1995, which decouple concerts and readings from the institutional sector and additional stages through the targeted opening of private houses and unusual rooms create for artists.

From 2000 the KunstSalon also developed special member sections in the fields of film, drama and stage dance.

2017 Bach took the chair of the Art Salon from -Vorstands.

Movie

In 2001 Bach founded the filmsociety. Its aim is to promote a sustainable dialogue between filmmakers and those interested in film and to maintain film culture, in particular by strengthening the presence of arthouse films. Once a year, the filmsociety pays tribute to an outstanding film personality and her work in " Rendezvous with ..." , accompanied by film screenings and discussions. Those honored so far include a. Michael Ballhaus , Doris Dörrie , Dominik Graf , Josef Hader , Volker Schlöndorff , Margarete von Trotta and Wim Wenders . Together with friends, Bach had already developed the highest endowed private award of this kind with the German Screenplay Prize KunstSalon from 1995 to 2001 and thus enabled the winners to receive an annual scholarship at the School of The Arts at Columbia University in New York . All applicants for the price received in 1998 an opportunity in the market of the substances of the art salon to pitch their script substances before producers and editors. In 2001, together with the author and film director Arne Birkenstock , Bach carried out a study for the KunstSalon on behalf of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia to promote the field of scripts.

Bach became a member of the European Film Academy in 2001 . He also appeared as a co-producer, for example for the documentary films 12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires and Chandani and their elephant , which received the 2011 German Film Prize in the category of best children's and youth film.

dance

When the city of Cologne cut the budget for the city's three-division house by DM 3 million in 1993 by cutting the existing budget for the dance forum on the Cologne theaters, the dance company under Jochen Ulrich became a legally independent GmbH . When the small transitional grants promised for three years by the city of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia expired, the GmbH had to be liquidated. On the advisory board of this GmbH, Bach came into close contact with the stage dance division. Starting with the 7th International Dance Festival NRW presented in 1996 Bach by guest talks and presentations in the Art Salon contacts with numerous international top ensembles ago, including Rosas by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker , Het Nationale Ballet under Wayne Eagling , Rambert Dance Company under Christopher Bruce , Merce Cunningham Dance Company , LaLaLa Human Steps under Édouard Lock and Ultima Vez under Wim Vandekeybus .

From then on, Bach became one of the main supporters for the continued existence of modern dance on the stages of the city of Cologne . The Art Salon organized for years public hearings, events, protests and new concept development side by side with numerous representatives of the German and international dance scene as well as their professional and social environment.

When the KunstSalon founded its own section tanzsociety in 2001 , Hans van Manen and Anna Markard were among the first members of the board of trustees. Even Johann Kresnik was frequently present. In 2002, the KunstSalon , together with the Kunstsalon Foundation, set new funding impulses by participating in a dance production for the first time. In 2003, Bach conducted a small day workshop with Matthias Schmichern from Tanztheater Wuppertal , Jochen Sandig from Management Sasha Waltz , Martin Puttke from Aalto Ballett Essen and Daniela Kurz, ballet director in Nuremberg, to pave the way for a Cologne-based company with a management and financing plan To show residence company. The Imhoff Foundation in Cologne immediately publicly agreed to provide 400,000 EU annually for a period of four years. The Kunstsalon Foundation with its board member Andreas Schmitz contributed a further 50,000 EU annually. The cultural administration of the city of Cologne now had to move and agreed to a production grant from the current stage budget. The result was the engagement of Amanda Miller with her Pretty Ugly Dance Company from 2004-2008. Another year was realized with funds from the Köln Schauspiel under Karin Beier .

When some attempts by the Cologne Department of Culture to establish a residency company subsequently failed, the decision was made to adopt the concept of guest performances, which the tanzsociety also consistently accompanied. A decision by the Cologne administration to completely cut the funds for this concept for 2013/14 met with broad resistance, which was co-organized by Bach, which ultimately led to an adequate continuation of a high-quality international guest performance program on the stages of the city of Cologne. In addition to supporting numerous dance projects in Cologne and the region, the tanzsociety also gave rise to the KunstSalon Choreography Prize initiated in 2014, which enables the winners to realize their own production.

Cologne Cultural Council

With the establishment of the Cologne Cultural Council in 1998, Bach increased his cultural commitment and enriched Cologne with another institution that accompanies and critically questions the development of the cultural sector and its social significance for the city and provides new impulses. The 35 founding members were mainly representatives and boards of directors of development associations and initiatives in the cultural sector.

The Cologne Cultural Council sees itself as the mouthpiece and representation of interests of all citizens interested in culture and unites almost all of the city's cultural development associations with more than 50 associations and institutions with a membership of almost 20,000 people. He acts as a dialogue partner, advisor and reminder. From its founding until 2015, Bach was chairman and spokesman for the Cologne Cultural Council and initiated numerous projects during this time. This included supraregional cultural-political symposia on the most important issues of urban cultural development, the development of a Cologne cultural index and, finally, the long-term initiative work for a Cologne cultural development plan. Since 2010, the Cologne Cultural Council has been honoring outstanding achievements in the field of culture with the annual Cologne Culture Prize in the categories “Cultural Manager of the Year” and “Cultural Event of the Year”. Bach himself was honored for his extraordinary commitment at the award ceremony of the 6th Cologne Culture Prize in 2015. In his laudation, Navid Kermani described Bach as "a personality who fought, argued and campaigned for Cologne culture with tireless commitment and optimism". From the Rhineland Regional Bach was in 2016 "for services to the development and significance of the Rhineland" with the Rhineland Taler excellent.

Awards

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Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bach, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins