Robert Jungbluth

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Robert Jungbluth (born January 5, 1928 in Vienna ; † January 3, 2009 there ) was an Austrian theater manager.

Life

Jungbluth completed a teacher training and was already working as an extra and small actor at the Burgtheater . At the City School Council for Vienna in 1948 he was appointed head of the school community department of the Viennese vocational schools. From 1955 he was in charge of the events of the Vienna Festival Weeks , which were then organized by the City of Vienna's Cultural Office under City Councilor Hans Mandl ( SPÖ ) ; In 1960, Egon Hilbert made him his personal assistant as director. When Hilbert's directorship came to an end, Jungbluth became, together with actor and director Rolf Kutschera, as artistic director in 1965 on the decision of the City Councilor for Finance Felix Slavik (SPÖ), managing director of the city's own Theater an der Wien , and in 1969 director of the city's own Wiener Stadthalle .

From 1971 to 1988, appointed by Minister of Education Leopold Gratz ( SPÖ ) and confirmed by his successors, he headed the Austrian Federal Theater Association, which was founded according to his ideas and is subordinate to the ministry, as Secretary General, an umbrella organization of the four federal theaters Vienna State Opera , Vienna Volksoper , Burgtheater and Akademietheater . Jungbluth redesigned the federal theaters organizationally and economically by replacing the cameralistics common in state administration with budget planning and implementation systems common in private companies.

Among other things, he brought Herbert von Karajan , who had resigned in resentment in 1964 after a conflict with the federal theater administration, back to the State Opera in 1977, commissioned the construction of the new ballet school of the Federal Theater Association in the building called “Hanuschhof” next to the State Opera and reformed the decoration and costume workshops. The three-shift operation for the technical staff was the result of his initiative. The card distribution was converted to EDP .

Jungbluth was also the founder of guest performances by the Austrian federal theaters in Japan: in 1979 he led the Volksoper to Japan for the first guest performance before the Vienna State Opera. That was a world sensation back then. The Volksoper was the first opera house to appear in Japan after La Scala in Milan. Thanks to Prof. Robert Jungbluth, operetta was performed for the first time in Japan , wrote director Robert Meyer in his obituary on the website of the Vienna Volksoper in 2009.

Resigned in December 1988, he became managing director of the Theater in der Josefstadt together with the actor and director Otto Schenk , from 1997 with Helmuth Lohner . In 1999 he retired.

There were no obstacles in Jungbluth's life plan. If any were to be found, they were moved out of the way; if necessary, with brute force. As a rule, however, by means of finely woven political networks and irresistible eloquence , wrote Wilhelm Sinkovicz about the alpha animal in the " Presse " on January 5, 2009.

Honors

Jungbluth received the "Great Silver Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria" in 1981 and the " Great Gold Decoration of Honor of the Republic of Austria " in 1998 . In 1986 he was awarded the "Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the City of Vienna" by the City of Vienna and in 1998 the City of Vienna's Ring of Honor. He was an honorary member of the State Opera , the Volksoper and the Burgtheater, which also plays the Akademietheater.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Jungbluth is dead: Farewell to the general
  2. ↑ Volksoper director Robert Meyer on the death of Prof. Robert Jungbluth ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ Lucian O. Meysels: Die Welt der Lotte Tobisch , Edition va bene, Klosterneuburg 2002, ISBN 3-85167-120-1 , p. 174
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Jungbluth, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2009
Place of death Vienna