Philipp Adlung

Philipp Adlung (born October 8, 1966 in Barmstedt ) is a German musicologist , lawyer and music manager .

Life

Adlung grew up in Schleswig-Holstein and studied law and music at the University of Hamburg . In 1993 and 1997 he passed the state law examinations, and in 1995 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Mozart . From 1997 to 2006 he was the program manager for science, art and culture at the ZEIT Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius , and from 2001 to 2006 he was also managing director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum . In 2001 he was a Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States , Washington, DC. From 1998 to 2006 he also taught at the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg and from 2004 to 2007 headed the music and music department "Octogonale" literature festival in Hamburg.

On January 1, 2007 he became director of the Handel House in Halle , which he converted into a foundation under civil law in the same year . It started work on January 1, 2008. On April 14, 2009, on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, the Handel House reopened after eight months of renovation work with a newly designed permanent exhibition entitled “Handel - the European” and a special exhibition with Handel manuscripts from the British Library in London .

On July 1, 2009, Adlung moved to the Beethoven-Haus Bonn as director . He also campaigned for comprehensive reforms there, but failed because of the board of directors of the Beethoven-Haus association under the conductor Kurt Masur . The mutual cooperation ended on December 14, 2010. Officially it was said: "The reason is the different assessment of the situation of the house and the necessary measures for the future development of the organization."

Adlung then worked as a consultant for cultural institutions and as a lawyer specializing in music and labor law. In 2012 he developed a concept for a “ Hamburg composers' quarter ” for the Carl Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg . It is a series of music museums in the historic buildings on Peterstraße (Hamburg-Neustadt). They are intended to commemorate important composers born or active in the Hanseatic city, including Georg Philipp Telemann , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his sister Fanny Hensel and Gustav Mahler . The "Hamburg Composers Quarter" was implemented between 2013 and 2018 and officially opened on May 28, 2018.

Since 2014 Adlung has been working in the Thuringian state government as head of division in the culture and art department. He is responsible for state-funded theaters and orchestras, the independent theater scene and music. In addition, the legal supervision of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia .

Philipp Adlung is married and has two sons.

Honorary positions

• Neue Bachgesellschaft eV, Leipzig, member of the board and board of directors
• Johann Sebastian Bach Foundation, Leipzig, member of the board
• Composers Quarter Hamburg eV, member of the advisory board

Publications

• Mozart's opera seria " Mitridate, re di Ponto " , Eisenach 1996, ISBN 3-88979-071-2
• Mozart-Milan-Gasparini , in: Krieger / Spinder (Ed.), Music as a life program. Festschrift for Constantin Floros , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-631-35406-1
• Digging for one's own identity, in OSTEUROPA , 53rd vol / issue 2–3, pp. 193–200, Berlin 2003
• The Prussia Collection . The holdings in the Museum of History and Art Kaliningrad , Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-89757-307-5
• Mozart and the Bach , in: Mozart and the Age of Enlightenment , essay volume. Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1689-0
• Between tradition, convention and individuality: Mozart's first opera for Milan , in: Program booklet for Mozart's Mitridate , Wiener Festwochen 2009
• George Frideric Handel . A European from Halle, with Helmut R. Schulze , Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810330-4-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bonner Generalanzeiger, August 16, 2008 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "How a Reformer Was Overthrown", March 11, 2011
3. ↑ Bonner Generalanzeiger, December 15, 2010 ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ^ DIE WELT, "Composers' Mile in the Heart of Hamburg", May 2, 2012
5. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, "Hamburg's Mile for Composers on Peterstrasse", May 10, 2012