Peter Dusek

Peter Dusek (2013)

Peter Dusek (born May 20, 1945 in Waidhofen an der Thaya ) is an Austrian honorary professor for contemporary history and archival science at the University of Vienna and an opera expert.

Live and act

education

Peter Dusek went to elementary and middle school in Vienna and completed the Matura in Bundesrealgymnasium 3 in June 1963. He then entered the course at the Alma Mater Rudolphina University with a focus on German, history, philosophy and psychology with a focus on teaching as well as general linguistics and computer science. In 1968 he completed his doctorate at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna . The topic of the dissertation was “The initiation of the Franconian kings in the 9th and 10th centuries.” In 1967 and 1968 he was a research assistant at the Historical Institute of the University of Vienna under the direction of Heinrich Lutz . He then took part in the course of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research for a scientific archivist training until 1970. From 1970 to 1972 he was a volunteer and later an employee in the chronicle editorship of the newspaper " Die Presse ".

ORF career

From February 1972, Peter Dusek was an editor at ORF , initially on shortwave abroad, and since 1974 as a collaborator on ORF's educational programs, such as the magazine der Wissenschaft, Rampenlicht, Schulfunk, Schulfernsehen, Opernwerkstatt, Ex libris. He also became the curator of the documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance. In 1982 Peter Dusek started building up the ORF's historical archive. At the same time, the big ORF TV series “ Austria II ” was created. The historical archive was also integrated into the editorial design of the series “Zeitzeugen”, “Feindbilder” and “Advertising then and now”. From 1988 to 2008 Peter Dusek was the main department head of the ORF television archive. In this role he took over international reform projects, as President and Vice-President of the international archives association FIAT in the years 1994-2006.

Scientific career

From 1975 onwards, Peter Dusek was a regular designer of historical radio programs on the radio station Ö1 on the recent Austrian past. The programs included "War and Business", "From Patriarchy to Partnership", "Rethinking - New Beginning!", "Political Propaganda in the 19th and 20th Centuries", as well as "Everyday Fascism". The demand for the manuscript for the 16-part series “Everyday Fascism” was so great that a text edition was published by the Lower Austrian press office in St. Pölten . This also resulted in the prototype of the series “Media Case for Austrian Contemporary History I-IV” (1980 to 1985), which the Austrian Ministry of Education made available to all schools in Austria.

From 1979 Peter Dusek was lecturer for media didactics at the University of Klagenfurt (Institute for History), University of Salzburg (Institute for History and Journalism) and University of Vienna (Institute for Contemporary History and later also Institute for Historical Research), including teaching assignments at the Institute for Theater Studies and the Institute for Historical Research (Audiovisual Source Studies) at the University of Vienna. Since 2002 he has been the coordinator of the "Media Archives" focus at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna. Most recently he held a research seminar together with Oliver Rathkolb on the subject of “Opera houses as a contribution to national identity”. Since October 2009 Peter Dusek has been honorary professor Vienna for contemporary history and archival studies at the University of Vienna.

Opera specialist

Since the mid-1970s, opera has been increasingly reflected in his journalistic work, initially as a private hobby of Peter Dusek. He wrote reviews in the German opera magazine "Orpheus", later in "Der neue Merker", designed articles in the Ö1 program "Rampenlicht" and produced publications for the association "Friends of the Vienna State Opera". From 1981 to 1994 he was Vice President and until 2007 President of the “Friends of the Vienna State Opera”.

He published numerous books, articles in program brochures, organized the video workshop 14 times at the Bregenz Festival , which was also broadcast on 3Sat . From 1979 Peter Dusek regularly invited to the opera workshop, where he interviewed 150 world stars of the opera. The list ranges from Luciano Pavarotti to Joan Sutherland; from Leontyne Price to Franco Corelli ; from Leonie Rysanek to Birgit Nilsson and Christa Ludwig . The first guest was Edita Gruberová and the most recent guests were Anna Netrebko , Rolando Villazón , Christian Thielemann and Elīna Garanča . In 2013 a biography of Elina Garanca, recorded by Peter Dusek and Ida Metzger, was published ( The shoes are really important ).

other activities

Academy of life

From 2000 to 2007 Peter Dusek was Chairman of the Siemens “Academy of Life” series of events. In his role, Peter Dusek interviewed star guests such as Fritz Molden , Anton Zeilinger , Donna Leon , Helmut Schmidt , Edita Gruberová , Hugo Portisch , Carl Djerassi , Richard Dreyfuss , Thomas Muster , Robert Dornhelm , Reinhold Messner , Tobias Moretti , Karlheinz Böhm , Herbert Grönemeyer , Vivienne Westwood , Franz Olah , Andrea Jonasson or Sir Peter Ustinov .

ORF consultant

From 2008 to 2010 Peter Dusek was ORF consultant with the task of opening the archives digitally, primarily for educational institutions.

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra

Since 2012 Peter Dusek has been tasked with setting up a VIP club for the Friends of the Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO). The long-term goal is to aim for additional concert activities and the holding of a summer university.

"Golden Archives" project

Since 2007 Peter Dusek has been working on the “Golden Archives” project together with Sven Saekert. Among other things, it is about the didactic use of the rediscovered parliamentary reports from the early days of television. The focus is on integrating the reports from the House in Vienna and networking with the reports from the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels. So far, 12,000 hours of film material have been roughly indexed as part of the project. In addition, there are already two DVD editions as best-of portraits about Bruno Kreisky and Josef Klaus .

family

Dusek has been married to Gerda, b. Pirkner. Together they have a daughter and through these two granddaughters.

Publications (selection)

• Peter Dusek, Anton Pelinka, Erika Weinzierl (eds.): Contemporary history in outline. Vienna / Munich 1988.
• Everyday fascism in Austria. St. Pölten 1979.
• Media case on Austrian contemporary history I – IV. Vienna 1980–1985.
• Elektra - revenge without redemption. Munich 1982.
• Opera live. Vienna 1987.
• Contemporary witnesses; 1987. Vienna 1987.
• Backstage talks I. Vienna 1993.
• Backstage talks II. Vienna 1995.
• Leonie Rysanek - 40 years of opera history. Hamburg 1990.

Awards

• Promotion Prize of the City of Vienna
• 1979: Austrian State Prize for Science Journalism
• Adolf Schärf Prize
• Silver Medal of the City of Vienna
• 2003: Gold Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna
• 2003: Professor title, awarded by the Ministry of Education
• 2006: Erasmus EuroMedia medal
• 2008: Gottlob Frick Medal

Web links

Commons : Peter Dusek  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Award of the title honorary professor to Dr. Peter Dusek. (No longer available online.) Orf.at, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 15, 2012 (German). 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.  
2. ↑ GND - The shoes / Elīna Garanča are really important. Recorded by Ida Metzger and Peter Dusek . Retrieved July 16, 2015.
3. ↑ Gold for Peter Dusek. wien.gv.at, accessed on March 15, 2012 (German). 
4. ↑ Erasmus Medal. ots.at, accessed on March 15, 2012 (German). 
5. ↑ Medalist. (No longer available online.) Gottlob-frick-gesellschaft.de, archived from the original on February 13, 2012 ; accessed on March 15, 2012 (German). 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.