Peter Loidolt

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Peter Loidolt with Renate Loidolt

Peter Loidolt (born March 9, 1945 in Mariazell , Styria ) is an Austrian festival director. Together with his wife Renate Loidolt, he founded the Reichenau an der Rax cultural association and has been director of the Reichenau Festival since 1988 .

Life

Loidolt attended a grammar school in Vienna -Neubau, but did not graduate with the Matura , but completed a one-year apprenticeship in jewelry wholesale. As a result, he worked in business, including at three large shipping companies.

From 1988 onwards, Peter Loidolt and his wife, who was born in Reichenau and studied economics, set up the Reichenau Festival. The founding couple wanted to attract audiences who were aloof from the German-style director's theater , for example, cultivated by Burgtheater director Claus Peymann , for an actor's theater with a distinctly Austrian touch and local stars. Regietheater is a foreign word here and there is a clause in the director's contracts that grants the festival management the right to the "Final Cut". "We reserve the right to do this in order to be able to guarantee that something comes out that we can identify with."

Peter Loidolt also designed the stage sets for the theater productions, Renate Loidolt is the managing director of Festspiele Reichenau GmbH. In 2012, the festival reported an economic efficiency of 90 percent. The Loidolts have thus created one of the most economically successful cultural projects in Austria. The 4,800 members of the friends' association are given preference in the allocation of around 40,000 tickets per year (as of 2013).

The couple has two daughters.

Awards

Peter Loidolt was awarded the title of "Professor" by the Austrian Federal President and he is the holder of the Great Gold Medal for Services to the Province of Lower Austria .

Together with his wife, he received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art from Federal Minister Josef Ostermayer on September 23, 2014 for his services to the Reichenau Festival .

In 2019 he and his wife were awarded the Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Wagner (Hg): Lower Austria: a cultural history from 1861 to today . Volume 1: People and Areas , Vienna a. a.) 2004, p. 317
  2. ↑ The Falter, 2010
  3. ↑ Kleine Zeitung , January 11, 2012
  4. ^ Decoration of honor for Peter Loidolt on ORF from May 12, 2015, accessed on May 13, 2015.
  5. ^ Minister of Culture Ostermayer presented the Loidolt couple with the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art . Press release of the Federal Press Service. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  6. ^ Culture: Torberg Medal for Reichenau directors. In: noe. ORF.at . October 4, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde awards the Torberg Medal. October 2, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Loidolt, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian festival director
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariazell