Primavera Driessen Gruber

Primavera Driessen Gruber (* 1951 in The Hague ) is a Dutch-Austrian lawyer , cultural manager , exiled music researcher and publicist .

Life

In 1973, Driessen Gruber passed Dutch studies at the University of Leiden with the candidate examination and then completed a law degree at the University of Vienna , where she received her doctorate in 1987. From 1989 to 1990 she studied cultural management at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Foundation and management of the Orpheus Trust association

In 1996 she founded the Orpheus Trust - Association for the Research and Publication of Distributed and Forgotten Art , of which she was the managing director and artistic director until it was dissolved in 2006 . The main concern of Orpheus Trust was the research and documentation of the life and work of the musicians who were expelled from Austria or who perished in the concentration camp and who had Austria or the former Danube monarchy as their home, the performance of the forgotten music in its own events and co-productions as well as information transfer and information exchange between science, Concert business, education and media. The association, whose work was recognized, recently had around 550 members. During her work at Orpheus Trust she wrote numerous essays for the forthcoming work Austrian Biographical Handbook of the Nazi Persecuted Musicians , which will be the successor to the standard work Orpheus in Exile published by Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit and Wilhelm Svoboda in 1995 - The Expulsion of Austrian Music Should appear 1938–1945 . In August 2006, the association had to cease its activities due to a lack of public funding.

Other notable activities

From 1989 to 1992 she took over the management of the Klangforum Wien . Since 2007 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the orpheus.news association , an association that provides information and coordinates activities related to music persecuted by National Socialism . She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Society for Exile Research and is also involved there in the women's working group. She is also a member of the board of the Theodor Kramer Society . She is also active in the International Joseph Roth Society, which in turn is a member of the Working Group of Literary Societies and Memorials (ALG).

Publications (selection)

• Spring came back to Vienna. Documentation Center for Modern Austrian Literature , Vienna 1998. ISBN 978-3-900-46752-4
• Elena Fitzthum and Primavera Driessen Gruber: Give them music. Music therapy in exile using Vally Weigl as an example. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2003. ISBN 978-3-706-90191-8
• Michel Cullin and Primavera Driessen Gruber (eds.): Douce France? Music Exile in France / Musiciens en Exil en France 1933–1945 . Böhlau 2008. ISBN 978-3-205-77773-1 [published in further editions]
• Article on Going East. Going South Austrian exile in Asia and Africa. CLIO Association for History & Educational Work, Graz 2014. ISBN 978-3-902-54234-2
• with Evelyn Adunka ; Fritz Hausjell ; Irene Nawrocka; Simon Usaty (Ed.): Exile Research: Austria. Services, deficits & perspectives. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-854-76449-6
• Contribution to Peter Bild; Irene Messinger: A Cherry Dress. Annotated memoirs by the exiled stage and life artist Anita Bild. Lower Saxony V&R unipress, Göttingen 2018. ISBN 978-3-847-10797-2

Awards

• 1999: Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (IKG) for the “Lost Neighborhood” initiative (together with Käthe Kratz , Hans Litsauer, Werner Rotter, Karin Schön, Georg Schönfeld)
• 2001: Karl Renner Prize for Orpheus Trust, Dr. Karl Renner Foundation
• 2005: Premio Nazionale di Divulgazione Scientifica "Silvio Sammarco Springer" for Orpheus Trust, Associazione Italiana del Libro

Web links

• Literature by and about Primavera Driessen Gruber in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The board of directors. Orpheus Trust; accessed on February 17, 2018.
2. ^ Association. Orpheus Trust; accessed on February 17, 2018.
3. ↑ Publications. Orpheus Trust; accessed on February 17, 2018.
4. ↑ Heinz Rögl: Interview with the artistic and scientific director of the Orpheus Trust, Primavera Gruber. music austria, October 23, 2006.
5. ↑ The board of directors. orpheus.news; accessed on February 17, 2018.
6. ↑ About us. Austrian Society for Exile Research; accessed on February 17, 2018.
7. ^ Theodor Kramer Society - Board of Directors. Theodor Kramer Society; accessed on February 17, 2018.
8. ^ International Joseph Roth Society. Literaturhaus Vienna ; accessed on February 17, 2018.
9. ↑ Israelitische Kultusgemeinde honors the initiative "Lost Neighborhood" and Dr. Hubert Steiner with the Friedrich Torberg Medal. Press release, Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, OTS.at, May 20, 1999.
10. ↑ Orpheus Trust - Primavera Gruber wants to give up. Lack of money endangers the existence of the association. In: Illustrierte Neue Welt , December 2005 / January 2006.
11. ^ Antonella Pagano: Curriculum vitae culturale. , P. 10.