Peter Dannenberg

Peter Dannenberg (born May 21, 1930 in Potsdam ; † March 9, 2015 in Kronshagen ) was a German music critic , music writer and artistic director .

Life

After studying in Kiel and Freiburg i. Bro. Dannenberg was the feature editor in Kiel. From 1969 then chief music editor and chief music critic of the world ; from 1974 in the same position at the Stuttgarter Zeitung . He was a permanent contributor to most of the German radio stations, the Opernwelt magazine and other periodicals. From 1977 to 1986 he worked under the directorship of Christoph von Dohnányi as chief dramaturge of the Hamburg State Opera and at the same time head of the experimental stage of the Opera Stabile with numerous world premieres in opera and concerts, among others by Wolfgang Rihm , Heinz Holliger , Manfred Trojahn , Wilhelm Killmayer , Aribert Reimann , Günter Bialas , Isang Yun , Rolf Liebermann or Udo Zimmermann . From 1987 to 1990 he was deputy director of the Frankfurt Opera , from 1990 to 1995 general director of the stages of the state capital Kiel and from 1995 to 2004 finally director of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra .

Since 1989, Dannenberg has been chairman of the Alexander Zemlinsky Fund at the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna for life. From 1990 to 1997 he was deputy chairman of the Schleswig-Holstein regional cultural association .

Dannenberg died after a long, serious illness on the night of March 10, 2015 at the age of 84 in Kronshagen, Schleswig-Holstein.

2000 Biermann-Ratjen Medal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for services to art and culture in Hamburg
2003 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class

The little Schumann book . Salzburg, 1979, and Hamburg, 1983.
Jugglers and prima donnas. From the ballroom to the city theater in old Kiel. Hamburg, undated
Heroes and Charges. Between the wars - thirty years of theater in Kiel. Hamburg, undated
Editor together with Max W. Busch: The Hamburg State Opera. 2 volumes. Volume I: 1678 to 1945 Bürgeroper-Stadt-Theater-Staatsoper. Volume II: 1945 to 1988. Post-war and present. Zurich, 1988/89.
Whenever evening comes. Three hundred years of theater in Kiel. Hamburg, 1983.
Extensive article in: Record what was left of everything . 100 years of Theater am Kleiner Kiel. Ed. V. Ole Hruschka. Kiel, 2007.
Contribution The beautiful, the terrible thing about the theater is its transience in: BEING OPEN - TO LISTEN. The conductor Christoph von Dohnányi . Edited by Klaus Schultz. Hamburg, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Dannenberg, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music critic, music writer and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 2015
Place of death	Kronshagen