Peter Weiser

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Peter Weiser at the Vienna-Salzburg Mozart stand at the International Tourism Exchange (ITB) in Berlin 1990 (draft of the Mozart 1991 design shown on the screen: Angela Baldinger)

Peter Weiser (born January 28, 1926 in Mödling near Vienna; † March 7, 2012 in Vienna ) was a journalist, general secretary of the Wiener Konzerthaus and head of the Austrian Energy Agency. He was an active member of the Austrian PEN Club .

Life

Peter Weiser, son of the architect Armand Weiser (1887–1933) and his wife, the artisan Natalie Weiser, studied Romance studies and philosophy in Vienna and Geneva and began in 1948 to work as a journalist for the Catholic Viennese weekly newspaper Die Furche . From 1951 to 1955 he worked for the American occupation broadcaster in Vienna, "Rot-Weiß-Rot" , as a counterweight to the Austrian state radio, which was influenced by the Soviet occupying power . He met Ingeborg Bachmann in the script department of the broadcaster , who worked with him and Jörg Mauthe in 1952/1953 on the very successful weekly program Die Radiofamilie , until she moved to Rome in 1953 . (Weiser later wrote memories about the series.) Episode 10, Lumbago , broadcast June 21, 1952, and episode 41, Birthday Surprise - a child comes from Holland , broadcast March 15, 1953, were Weiser / Bachmann collaborations. In 1955, after the end of the occupation, he became chief dramaturge in Austrian radio. From 1956 to 1958, Weiser was also a consultant to the Austrian government commissioner for the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels .

After working for newspapers (cultural correspondent for the FAZ and theater critic of the Kurier ), Weiser was appointed general secretary of the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft in 1961 . In this position, which he held until 1977, he was responsible for the artistic program of the Vienna Konzerthaus and was particularly committed to the Mahler Renaissance and the greater integration of works from the Second Vienna School into the concert scene . His friendship with Leonard Bernstein came from this time . 1972 to 1975 the concert hall building was restored true to the original.

In 1977, Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky offered him to head the newly created Energy Utilization Agency (today: Austrian Energy Agency ), which was supposed to promote economy in energy consumption. Kreisky trusted the unconventional conservative to communicate his government's energy policy goals to the people. Weiser held this position until his retirement in 1991.

In 1979 and 1983 he translated works by Leonard Bernstein into German. He coordinated the Mozart year 1991 for the city of Vienna. As a contemporary witness, Weiser repeatedly dealt with the National Socialist period and the immediate post-war period in Austria, and in the 1990s he returned to his experiences with the “radio family”.

In 2005, Weiser and Herbert Krejci and Hannes Androsch proposed the exhibition Das neue Österreich , which took place on the anniversary of the State Treaty in 1955/2005 in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna. The three proponents had become active after the federal government Schüssel I and Schüssel II did not tackle an anniversary exhibition for reasons of cost. Weiser mentioned the successful exhibition when he was one of the speakers at the celebration of Androsch's 70th birthday in 2008.

Weiser has been a member of the Austrian PEN Club since the post-war period and was listed as an active member on its website until his death. The partial estate of Friedrich Torberg , which is kept in the Vienna Library in the City Hall , includes letters written by Weiser to Torberg from 1958 and 1959 on the subject of Hungary's membership in the PEN Weiser was also Vice President of the Jerusalem Foundation Austria and organized all of this for the culture department of the Vienna City Administration Theodor Herzl symposium organized for two years .

He was buried in the Heiligenstädter Friedhof in Vienna.

Awards and honors

Own works

  • Floriani family. A Viennese course of the year in 30 pictures. (Based on the “Radio Family” of the station “Rot-Weiß-Rot”.) With Jörg Mauthe . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1954, Buchgemeinschaft Donauland, Vienna 1955, 299 pp., Edition Atelier / Wiener Journal Zeitschriftenverlag, Vienna 1990, 261 pp.
  • A novel from Vienna , Verlag Deutsch, Vienna 1964, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1966, Buchgemeinschaft Donauland, Vienna 1967, 230 pp.
  • Gorilla, gorilla . Play for the Wiener Festwochen 1972.
  • Vienna, heavily cloudy , Molden, Vienna 1982, Brandstätter, Vienna 1984, 200 p. (Autobiography).
  • The Truth 38-45 . Edited by Franz Endler and Peter Weiser, four volumes, Jugend & Volk Edition, Vienna 1988.
  • Mozart Almanac 1991. With the complete program for the Mozart Year in Vienna ; Calendar: Gabriela Sonnleitner; Editor: Christa Veigl; published by the Vienna Tourist Association , Vienna 1990, 103 pp.
  • Mozart promenade. Mozart 1991 live in Vienna . Press and Information Service of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1991.
  • Family No. 1 . In: Peter Bochskanl: Jörg Mauthe : His life on 33 levels. Memories and visions . Edition Atelier / Wiener Journal Zeitschriftenverlag, Vienna 1994, 213 pp.
  • ... and many were there again. In: Heinz Kienzl (Ed.): A new spring will bloom in our homeland . Deuticke, Vienna 2002, 184 pp. (= Research and contributions to the history of Vienna , issue 38).
  • Obituary for Marcel Prawy in the magazine of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, May / June 2003 issue
  • The grace to laugh through tears . Essay on the 100th birthday of Friedrich Torberg . In: Wiener Zeitung daily , Vienna, September 16, 2008.

Translations

  • Leonard Bernstein : The unanswered Question . German: Music - the open question . Transfer from Peter Weiser. Molden, Vienna 1979, 432 pp.
  • Leonard Bernstein : Findings . German: findings. 50 years of observations . Translation by Peter Weiser, Knaus, Hamburg 1983, 293 pp.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingeborg Bachmann: The radio family . Edited and with an afterword by Joseph M. Veigh, Suhrkamp-Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 73 f., 247 f., 389 f.
  2. ↑ Brochure for the exhibition
  3. ↑ Speech of April 18, 2008 in the Liechtenstein Palace (Fürstengasse) | Liechtenstein Garden Palace (PDF; 31 kB)
  4. ↑ Electronic catalog, manuscript collection, Sigle ZPH 588, archive box 5/2  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 807 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.katalog.wienbibliothek.at  
  5. ↑ AAS 91 (1999), n.5, p. 483.
  6. ↑ gustav-mahler.org: The golden Mahler Medal (accessed October 29, 2014)
  7. ↑ Town hall correspondence of January 28, 2008
  8. ↑ Laudatory speech for the award ceremony on March 12, 2010, accessed on July 13, 2016
  9. ↑ Website of the Musikverein  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.musikverein.at  
  10. ↑ Entry on Friedrich Torberg in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
personal data
SURNAME Wise, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiser, Peter Christoph Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, director of the Wiener Konzerthaus and director of the Austrian energy agency
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2012
Place of death Vienna