Peter Langer (cultural manager)

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Peter Langer (born April 27, 1950 in Heidelberg ) is a lecturer in cultural management, cultural history and European studies, director of the European Danube Academy and general coordinator of the Council of Danube Cities and Regions .

Life

Langer studied history , political science and German at the University of Heidelberg . He was the founder and director of various cultural centers and festivals and is a lecturer in cultural management, cultural history and European studies of the Danube region (including in Berlin, Ludwigsburg, Budapest, Vienna, Ruse and Ulm). Through various study trips since the early 1990s, he became an expert on the political and cultural scene in the Danube countries. From 1998 to 2010 Langer was artistic director of the International Danube Festival Ulm / Neu-Ulm , which goes back to his initiative. He built the donau.büro.ulm a project and development agency for the political, cultural and scientific cooperation with South-East Europe, and led it until 2010. In 2008 he was one of the founding group of the European Danube Academy in Ulm , in the line he is still active today.

Langer was significantly involved in the preparation and implementation of the Danube Conferences in 2006, 2008 and 2010 in the Baden-Württemberg state representation to the EU in Brussels, which gave important impulses for the development of the European Union's strategy for the Danube region . Langer is spokesman and general coordinator of the Council of Danube Cities and Regions, founded in Budapest on June 11, 2009, which makes a significant contribution to the implementation of the EU strategy for the Danube region. In 2010, Erhard Busek appointed him his deputy at SECI (Southeast European Cooperative Initiative) in Vienna. As part of the implementation of the EU Danube Region Strategy, he works on the steering committees for culture and tourism, competitiveness and building institutional capacities. Langer represents the council of the Danube cities and regions in the ARGE Donauländer , is a member of the board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) in Vienna and participant in the mixed government commissions Baden-Württemberg with Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. In addition, Langer was a member of the Ulm City Council for 13 years. Langer is married and has four children.

Career history

Between 1977 and 1983 he completed his legal clerkship and school service in Stuttgart, Aalen and Ulm. He was secretary of the local leadership of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW) and ran for this in 1975 in the local elections in Wiesloch, which is why he had to leave school. From 1985 to 1991 Langer was head of department at the Ulm Adult Education Center and during this time co-founder of the cultural festival “The Ulmer Tent ” and worked on setting up the youth art school “kontiki”. For ten years from 1989 to 1999 he was the founder and director of the socio-cultural center “ROXY - Culture in Ulm”, sat on the spokesman's council of LAKS Baden-Württemberg and was a member of the cultural and political society. From 1994 to 2000 he was teaching at the HdK Berlin and at the Institute for Cultural Management Ludwigsburg. Since 1998 he has worked as a freelance project and consultant and was artistic director of the International Danube Festival in Ulm / Neu-Ulm . Since 2004 he has been teaching at the Academy of Performing Arts (adk) Ulm and the University of Ulm (ZAWiW) and has been the representative of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the working group (ARGE) Danube countries since 2005. In 2008 he became head of the European Danube Academy, Ulm and has been spokesman for the Council of Danube Cities and Regions since 2009.

honors and awards

Langer's services to cooperation in the European Danube region were recognized in 2008 when he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit . In January 2009 he received the Hungarian state prize “Pro Cultura Hungarica”. On November 9th, 2009 the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek awarded him the European Citizens' Prize in Berlin.

Publications

• History, present and future of the Danube region. In: Contributions to general academic further education at Ulm University. Volume 11: The European Union. Central aspects of their development and perspectives in the focus of constitutional law, educational, cultural, economic and environmental policy. Othmar Marti u. a., 2006.
• Edition Der Strom (Ed.): Gregor Mirwa: Berblingers Gang. Ulm 2010.
• with Erhard Busek (Hrsg.): György Konrád: Danube - lessons about a European river. Ulm 2013.
• (Mithrsg.): The Danube - the main street of Europe. Review of the European Danube Academy. Ulm 2010.
• The new Danube region. In: Rotary Magazine. 4, 2010.
• Danube cultural brand. In: Danube + New Dimensions, New Synergies. Museumsquartier, Vienna 2011.
• City - Country - River - Europe. Südwest Presse, Ulm 2011.
• Cultural identity in the Danube region. In: Journal for International Educational Research and Developmental Education. Issue 3. Nuremberg 2012.
• The new European Danube region emerges from the cooperation between cities and regions. donauakademie.eu, 2012.
• Europe on the Danube. In: Senate - magazine for a global eco-social market economy. Edition 2013/3, Vienna 2013.
• with Ulrich Klemm: Competence development and governance in Southeast Europe. In: magazine adult education.at. Issue 18, Vienna 2013.
• with Joachim Uhlmann (Ed.): Art and Culture: Bridge Builders on the Danube - Contributions to the Cultural Dialogue in the Danube Region. With contributions by Peter.Friedrich, Ilma Rakusa, Reinhard Johler , Peter Langer, Màrton Méhes u. a. Ulm, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Langer receives the Federal Cross of Merit ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2016 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. at ulm.de, accessed on July 31, 2015