Peter Baumgardt

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Peter Baumgardt (* 1958 in Lübeck ) is a German theater actor , director , director and cultural manager .

education

After graduating from high school at the Katharineum high school in Lübeck , he studied German, history and political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , acting in Wiesbaden (with Hildegard von Puttkamer), Munich (with Stsch. Wolfgang Büttner) and directing in Graz ( College of Performing Arts).

Engagements

Theater / festivals

Peter Baumgardt gained his first stage experience as an actor at the Zimmertheater Heidelberg under Gillis van Rappard and at the Theater am Platanenhain Darmstadt. From 1980 to 1992 he was a member of the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, until 1986/87 as assistant director and evening director, from 1987/88 as senior director and personal assistant to State Director Hellmuth Matiasek. In 1988 Baumgardt was voted “Director of the Year”. From the Gärtnerplatztheater he made the leap as Germany's youngest artistic director to a three-part theater, the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg , which he directed from 1992 to 1997.

In 2006 Peter Baumgardt took over as artistic director of the Kempten City Theater. In 2009 Peter Baumgardt put his service contract in Kempten (Allgäu) up for discussion. On April 6, 2010, the board of the festival association "European Weeks Passau" appointed Peter Baumgardt as artistic director of the Festival European Weeks Passau ; In 2012 he succeeded Pankraz Freiherr von Freyberg . At the end of the 64th season in August 2016, he ended his work in Passau.

Cultural management

Peter Baumgardt became known to an international audience primarily through the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. There, he succeeded August Everding as the artistic director of the German Pavilion. The cultural program with over 700 events in five months attracted 1.5 million visitors. Peter Baumgardt created an attractive stage for young artists in particular. He succeeded in uniting all artistic branches from theater and music to media and installation art under one overall idea (“Werkstatt Deutschland”). He initiated over 100 world premieres, such as the chamber operas “TagNachtTraumstaub” by Annette Schlünz and “Liberation from Paradise” by Jörg Widmann , the first book of piano songs of the 21st century, “Lied: Strahl” with compositions by Isabel Mundry , Moritz Eggert and Steffen Schleiermacher , Johannes Kalitzke , Aribert Reimann , Mauricio Kagel , Helmut Oehring u. a .; Furthermore, the project “Welcome home - Artists see Germany” by and with Roger Willemsen , which was an attempt to give artists an ideal home in a discourse about Germany; also the performance "The first hour after the last" by Arie Zinger with the world premiere of eight theatrical episodes, u. a. by Thomas Brussig , Christoph Hein and Herta Müller .

Peter Baumgardt also received a lot of media attention for the project “We build European Capital of Culture” when he was artistic director and managing director of the European City of Görlitz-Zgorzelec's application for the event “European Capital of Culture 2010” from 2003 to 2006. The Görlitz project was based on the central idea of ​​German-Polish reconciliation and created a new cultural climate with a large number of artistic events in public space on both sides of the Neisse river. In Anita Pasikowska, for example, Baumgardt found a young Warsaw artist who, with her installations in empty shops, drew attention to free spaces that could be designed. Pasikowska created an illusion of life in orphaned, empty shops, the facades of which were silent witnesses to a former hustle and bustle. Peter Baumgardt also organized the large light and sound installation "Prometheus" on the lower market in Görlitz, a kind of sound event designed by the composer Johannes S. Sistermanns . The Görlitz program was one of the most interesting of the 18 applicant cities in Germany. Together with Essen, Görlitz made it to the finals in Brussels in 2006.

Director

Peter Baumgardt also has extensive experience as a theater director: he staged “Die Zauberflöte”, “Cosí fan tutte”, “My Fair Lady”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Martha”, “Hello Dolly!”, “West Side Story”, and more. , "Il matrimonio segreto", "Miss Julie", "The unstoppable rise and fall of Croesus", "Salome", "The magic violin", "Wozzeck", "Boccaccio", "Anatevka", "The merry widow", " You are my mother ”,“ Tonight: Lola Blau ”,“ Gypsy ”,“ In the White Horse ”,“ Cavalleria Rusticana ”and“ The Bartered Bride ”. He was not only active at his houses, but also invited to guest productions, for example at the Stadttheater Bern, the Städtische Bühnen Regensburg, the Musiktheater Görlitz, the Stadttheater Hildesheim, Theater der Stadt Koblenz, the Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich as well as at the Bregenz Festival.

Teaching

From 1987 to 1992 Peter Baumgardt was a lecturer at the University of Music in Munich , from 1998 to 2002 at the State University of Music in Karlsruhe and in 2000 and 2001 visiting professor at the University of Music and Theater Munich.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Workshop Germany, 1999
  • ZeitRaumHellerau, 2002
  • No man's land becomes the heart of Europe, 2005
  • Living Cultural Unity - Living Cultural Diversity, 2006

literature

  • Wolfgang Oberressl: The new Swabians. In: special edition: schwaben 2008
  • Wolfgang Oberressl: A fireworks man of culture, who shouldn't savor his luck in Swabia. edition: schwaben 2/2010
  • Klaus-Peter Mayr: Fulfilling wishes. In: Allgäuer Zeitung of January 21, 2009
  • Edith Rabenstein: cultural manager, director and jack of all trades. In: Passauer Neue Presse from March 19, 2010
  • Gerhard Müller: On a Different Star - Friday 2000-51; Balance sheet of the German Pavilion cultural program on October 29, 2000; Forgotten cradle of modernity - Friday 2002-46
  • Roger Willemsen : The German. In: The Germans are always the other Henschel Verlag, 2001.
  • Michael Guggenheimer: candidacy. In: Görlitz, Layer by Layer Lusatia Verlag, 2004.
  • Programs of the municipal theaters of Augsburg, 1992–97.
  • Programs of the theater in Kempten, 2007-10.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b programs, municipal theaters Augsburg
  2. ^ Programs of the theater in Kempten
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Oberressl: The new (e) n Swabia. In: special edition: schwaben 2008
  4. ↑ Artistic director and festival go their separate ways ( Memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). BR, dated June 13, 2016
  5. ↑ Müller: On another star
  6. ^ Rabenstein: cultural manager, director and jack of all trades
  7. ^ Willemsen: The German
  8. ^ Guggenheimer: candidacy.
  9. ^ Michael Guggenheimer: Candidacy
  10. ↑ a b Programs of the Theater in Kempten, 2007-10, programs of the Festival European Weeks Passau, 2012-14
personal data
SURNAME Baumgardt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater actor, director, director and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck