Peter Syr

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Peter Syr (born August 26, 1945 in Haag in Upper Bavaria ) is a German exhibition maker , cultural manager and graphic designer.

Life

After training as a precision mechanic and working as an aircraft mechanic, he dealt intensively with the medium of film. In 1970 he co-founded the International Forum of Film Avant-garde in Munich. After various positions as a freelance camera assistant and cameraman, he joined the Filmmuseum of the Munich City Museum in 1974 and became Enno Patalas's assistant . From 1979 he was the first in the cultural department of the city of Munich staff of Heiner Zametzer build the socio-cultural neighborhood work (this development and organization of the district weeks , the Singats as well as disco mobile , the latter together with Thomas Gottschalk ). In 1982 Peter Syr became head of the exhibition organization under Christoph Stölzl in the Munich City Museum . From 1986 he was responsible for the conception, development and management of the cultural work for foreigners in the cultural department of the city of Munich.

From 1991 Syr worked as a freelance exhibition maker, cultural manager and graphic designer. He designed exhibitions in various cities. B. with works by Käthe Kollwitz , Tomi Ungerer and Michael Mathias Prechtl . Examples of projects in the context of cultural management are: Production and direction of the central celebration and memorial event Living in Peace - 50 Years of the End of the War in Munich with the Mayor at the time Christian Ude as moderator on Marienplatz in 1995 or the organizational management of the New Year's Eve 2000 , the event in Munich for the millennium for around 500,000 visitors.

In 2005 Peter Syr temporarily moved to Sweden and took on several cultural projects in Småland , e. B. Conception, organization and design of the bilingual exhibition Life in Småland - People in Kråkshult 1900 - 1930 . Syr has been working on a new concept for the exhibitions in the Bad Tölz City Museum since 2009. Following the city council's decision to redesign the city museum in Tölz (67 room units), Syr began implementing it with volunteers in 2010. In May 2011 the first phase of the redesign was officially opened; the work will continue over the next few years.

Exhibitions (selection)

Munich City Museum

Gottfried Helnwein (1983), The Isar - A Curriculum Vitae (1983), The Last Journey - Dying, Death and Mourning Manners in Upper Bavaria (1984), Federico Fellini's Drawings (1984), Trümmerzeit - Munich 1945 (1984), The Oktoberfest - 175 Years Bavarian National Rush (1985), Das Aktfoto (1985), Topor, Tod und Teufel 1985, Tomi Ungerer - Images of War (1985) - a total of approx. 90 exhibitions.

Culture Department of the City of Munich

Exile Turkey (1988), The Right to Be Alien (1989).

self-employed

Munich AFI projects (Brussels); Käthe Kollwitz , Tomi Ungerer - children's books , Michael Mathias Prechtl , concept, design and implementation of the Mobile Gallery of the City of Munich; Exhibition of the cultural department for the opening of the New Fair in Munich; large-format exhibition in Munich main station For 50 marks an Italian - history of guest workers in Munich ; Exhibition concepts with young people for the Bavarian Political Seminar together with Wunibald Heigl: Total right - stories of seduction, peasant catchers, criminals, stupidity and what can be done about it ; sgraffiti - 12 posters against the right ; Stage design and staging of the M-Class presentation for Mercedes-Benz - Munich, stage design for the Magic Flute (Heidenheim Opera Festival) together with Irina Schicketanz. Many other projects in graphic design, exhibitions and stage design. Living in Småland - people in Kråkshult 1900 - 1930 (Sweden 2007) and The Michel, the pranks and us (Sweden 2008);

Cultural Management (selection)

Planning and organization of cultural and special events, mainly in Munich :.

• Celebration and memorial event Living in peace - 50 years of the end of the war in Munich
• Commemoration event and exhibition 60 Years of November Pogroms , 1998
• 100th birthday of Carl Orff
• AnderART foreign culture festivals 1996–2000, 2002.
• Yes to the Jewish Center - No to right-wing extremism and violence

Publications

• Fritz Lang. With contributions by Frieda Grafe, Enno Patalas, Hans Helmut Prinzler, photos by Peter Syr. Munich, Hanser, 1976
• Karl Valentin's films. All 29 films, 12 fragments. 342 images, texts, filmography. With a contribution from Herbert Achternbusch. Ed. V. Michael Schulte u. Peter Syr. Munich, Piper, 1978 and dtv, 1982
• Eisenstein October by Hans-Joachim Schlegel, photos by Peter Syr, Hanser, 1975

Awards

• tz rose from tz Munich for organization of Narrow Film Day (1976)
• tz rose from tz Munich for film reconstructions Nibelungen , Metropolis (1977)
• AZ star of the Munich evening newspaper for the exhibition Trümmerzeit (1984)
• People of the year from Smålands Tidning (Sweden) for exhibitions, festivals and community development (2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A museum for the whole city. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 12, 2011, accessed September 2, 2018 . 
2. ↑ LWL - LWL-Industriemuseum - LWL-Industriemuseum. Retrieved January 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ http://www.kjr-m.de/publikationen/pdf/k3_2002/k3_09_2002.pdf