Rainer Buland

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Rainer Buland
Rainer Buland

Rainer Buland (* 1962 in Linz ) is an Austrian cultural historian , game theorist, author and photographer . He is the director of the Institute for Game Research and Playing Arts at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg .

Life

Buland graduated from the private grammar school Borromäum and studied musicology and journalism in Salzburg and Vienna , where he received his doctorate in historical musicology in 1989 . He also completed the master’s course in "Spiritual Theology in the Interreligious Process". In 1989 he worked for a year in the library of what was then the Mozarteum University. From 1990 he built up the institute for game research founded by Günther Bauer and was appointed assistant professor there in 2000 with a research focus on game research and playing arts and in 2007 as head of the institute.

Since 1995 he has also been a frequent guest lecturer at the Burckhardthaus in Gelnhausen and a member of the advisory board for cultural education , where he helped develop the creative and creative game movement Playing Arts . From 2011 to 2016 he was the director of the Mozarteum Children's UNI “MozKi” and author of a column in the magazine for board game culture “freshly played”.

Since 2016 he has been the scientific director of the master’s course “Leading Groups in a Playful Way” at the Church of the University of Education Vienna / Krems and editor of the book series “Ludographie” and “Play Stories”.

He has also taught at the Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania , the University of Mainz , the Pedagogical Academy Linz and the Danube University Krems . Lecturing activities have taken him to Berlin , Vienna, Aarau , Luxembourg and Krakow, among others .

Publications (selection)

  • Rainer Buland, Bernadette Edtmaier, Georg Schweiger: The guest book of the 1934 World Chess Championship . Facsimile, research results, history and context. Lit Verlag Vienna, 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-50606-1
  • Rainer Buland, Bernadette Edtmaier (eds.): Günther G. Bauer, a "perpetual player". Actor, rector, game and Mozart researcher , Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag Vienna, 2014, ISBN 978-3-99012-136-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Mozarteum - people. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The roles of the game | Science.apa.at. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buland, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cultural historian, game theorist, author and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz