Roy Oppenheim

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roy Oppenheim - no copyright.jpg

Roy Oppenheim (born September 1940 in Baden , Switzerland ) is a Swiss cultural journalist and former radio and television manager. Among other things, he was head of the culture department of Swiss television , director of Swiss Radio International , founded the 4th TV channel S Plus and was president of arttv.ch for many years . He moderated television programs, wrote numerous books and produced films.

Live and act

Roy Oppenheim spent his youth in Baden (Switzerland). After receiving his secondary education certificate at the Wettingen teacher training college , he studied art history , history and journalism in Zurich from 1960 to 1968 . He earned his studies as a freelance journalist for radio and television and thus came into contact with the electronic media for the first time. In the Swiss military, Oppenheim held the degree of colonel (press and radio communication). Roy Oppenheim is married and has one son.

From 1971 to 1997 he worked for SRG radio and television in various functions: as head of the culture department of Swiss television, department head of national program coordination SRG. 1972–1975 Oppenheim advised the Council of Europe on questions relating to the cultural role of television and cultural exchange. From 1972 to 1976 he was an expert at UNESCO Paris on matters of cultural cooperation in the field of television. During the Cold War , on behalf of the Council of Europe , he initiated television productions such as “Works of Art on the Test Stand” between television stations in the Eastern Bloc and Western countries. 1983–1986 he was in charge of national radio / television program coordination at SRG. In this function he introduced the interregional radio program “Notturno”. In 1989 he became director of Schweizer Radio International und Telefonrundspruch (until 1997). In 1990 he introduced a new strategy and broadcast the programs of Schweizer Radio International for the first time instead of shortwave via the Astra satellite.

Oppenheim became known through numerous television interviews with personalities from cultural life such as Yehudi Menuhin , Oskar Kokoschka , Audrey Hepburn , Marc Chagall , Leopold Lindtberg , Bernhard Luginbühl , Jean Tinguely . From 1991 to 1994 he built the 4th television chain as a director ( S Plus , Switzerland 4 ). At S Plus, he provided new TV providers with fixed broadcasting slots such as B. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Ringier , Curti Medien, Basler Zeitung and observer . Video journalists were also used for the first time in Switzerland at S Plus. He was then Director of Marketing and Communication at SRG General Management and from 1999 to 2007 Head of Communication at SUISA . In this function he initiated the Expo.02 project Klangturm on the Arteplage Biel . In 2001 he founded his own media company artup GmbH . 2001–2007 he headed the new Erwin Rehmann Sculpture Museum in Laufenburg .

Since the death of his mother Edith Oppenheim-Jonas in 2001 Oppenheim manages the rights of Swiss Cartoon -Figur Papa Moll .

Oppenheim is married and has one son.

Other functions and memberships (selection)

  • Member of the Swiss Solidarity Foundation Board (1984–1989)
  • Member of the board of the Verkehrshaus Luzern (1991 to 1998)
  • Founding member of the SUISA Foundation for Music (1989–2007)
  • Board member at Publisuisse (1992–1994)
  • Member of the Coordination Commission for Switzerland's Presence Abroad (KOKO) (1985–1999)
  • Member of the reform group Coordination Commission for the Presence of Switzerland Abroad, today Presence Switzerland (1997–1999)
  • Speaker and member of the PPL, the political and journalistic management of the Federal Council APF (1996–2000)
  • Board member of the Kunsthalle Bern (1996–2000)
  • Vice-President of the Swiss National Commission for UNESCO (1998-2004)
  • President of the Communication Group of CISAC (2002–2007), the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers - 232 member societies in 120 countries
  • Member of the Martin C. Stucki Foundation Cameroon Obang (2003–2018)
  • President of the Forum Helveticum (2002– until 2016)
  • Initiator of the Endingen-Lengnau Jewish Cultural Trail (2009)
  • Initiator of the Judeo-Christian mediation project "Double Door" (2014)
  • President arttv.ch - Swiss cultural television (2008 to 2017)

Publications (selection)

watch TV

  • Zoltan Kemeny . The life's work of the Hungarian-Swiss sculptor, SRF, 1967
  • Le Corbusier . Documentary, SRF and SSR, broadcast in 1967
  • Hans Erni. A portrait . 120-minute documentary. Book and design Roy Oppenheim. SRF 1967
  • Robert Walser , SRF, 1967
  • Lucerne, the sounding city. A documentary film about the history of the music festival weeks: From Toscanini to Karajan. 60 min. Book and design by Roy Oppenheim. SRF 1967
  • For God's sake do something brave. Huldrych Zwingli. Documentary 50th min. Book and design Roy Oppenheim. SRF 1968
  • Adventure painting . 13-part series on the essence of painting based on the book by René Berger, designed by Roy Oppenheim, SRF, 1971
  • Switzerland at War 1939–1945 , 12-part documentary film series by Werner Rings. Producer Roy Oppenheim, SRF 1973
  • In the footsteps of Till Eulenspiegel , as part of the ZDF / ORF / SRF series, scenes of world literature. Book and design by Roy Oppenheim, 1980
  • Biedermann and Bummelmeier - A walk through the world of the painter Carl Spitzweg . Script: Roy Oppenheim, director: Walter Klapper, SRF 1981
  • The discovery of the Alps . Swiss contribution to the international series “European Heritage”. Book and design Roy Oppenheim, SRF 1973
  • Signs of the future. 3-part documentary film series about the influence of civilization on cultural development. Book and design Roy Oppenheim. SRF 1975
  • “People don't have to stay what they are”. 150 years of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. 50 min. Book and design by Roy Oppenheim. Swiss television DRS. 1977
  • Wake up, Swiss people. Switzerland between frontism, betrayal and self-assertion 1914–1940 . Producer Roy Oppenheim, SRF 1979
  • In the footsteps of Till Eulenspiegel, as part of the ZDF / ORF / SRF series, scenes of world literature. Book and design Roy Oppenheim. 1980
  • Biedermann and Bummelmeier - A walk through the world of the painter Carl Spitzweg. Script: Roy Oppenheim, director: Walter Klapper. SRF 1981
  • Witnesses of the Century - co-production series ZDF, ORF, SRF. From 1979. Producer for Switzerland: Roy Oppenheim
  • Johannes Itten, Lindtberg, Leopold, Swiss theater and film director. Roy Oppenheim in conversation with Leopold Lindtberg. Schweizer Fernsehen DRS 1982. 43 min. In addition to the 43-minute TV show, a 186-minute long version of the conversation
  • The way to the present - Switzerland in the nineteenth century / Les Dernières nouvelles de notre passé / La svizzera nell'otto cento . 13-part television series, authors Georg Kreis u. a. Producer: Roy Oppenheim, SRG 1986

Movie

  • Auguste Rodin . I am a bridge between yesterday and tomorrow . Documentary, book and design by Roy Oppenheim, Production artup GmbH, 2003
  • Ludwig Hohl. A film in fragments. 1982. 1 h 18 min. Production: Roy Oppenheim. Screenplay: Alexander J.Seiler. Cinematography by Pio Corradi
  • Jurapark northwest . Documentary 50 min. Book and design Roy Oppenheim. Artup GmbH 2007
  • Winged brain. Neurosciences in cultural dialogue . 3 parts, book and design Roy Oppenheim, Production artup GmbH, 2011
  • Turo Pedretti . A great painter of the Engadine . Book and design Roy Oppenheim, Production artup GmbH, 2014
  • Alberto Giacometti - Searching for Traces. 75 unknown plasters put to the test . Book and design Roy Oppenheim, Production artup GmbH, 2016

Books

  • The discovery of the Alps . Roy Oppenheim. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld, 1974, ISBN 3-7193-0484-1 .
  • Paul Racle . A biography . Roy Oppenheim. 1982. Verlag Treffpunkt Kunst, Zurich.
  • Erwin Rehmann. Roy Oppenheim. Edited by Marcel Joray. Neuchâtel: Editions du Griffon, 1987. The sculpture of the 20th century, volume 3
  • Roy Oppenheim. The War of Images: Culture in the Age of Electronic Media. Contributions to communication and media policy, Volume 12. Publisher: Aarau u. a .: Sauerländer, 1990, ISBN 3-7941-3241-6 .
  • Edeltraud Abel , Verlag Treffpunkt Kunst, Zurich, 1990
  • Roy Oppenheim. Wunder Block : Jürg Da Vaz, the inventor of the American baroque. Benteli Publishing House. 1998, ISBN 3-7165-1129-3 .
  • Passion for journalism: Oskar Reck - A life for the word. Roy Oppenheim (Ed.): Stämpfli, Bern 2003, ISBN 3-7272-3240-4 (book + 2 CD-ROM).
  • Silvio Mattioli, Roy Oppenheim, Abbot Daniel Schönbächler, Katharina Mattioli: Silvio Mattioli - With Fire and Flame - Sculptural Creation 1949-2004. Monograph. Huber Verlag, Frauenfeld 2004, ISBN 3-7193-1348-4 .
  • Roy Oppenheim, Ulrich Bollmann: The voice that goes through concrete . Baden-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-85545-135-7 .
  • Alberto Giacometti. Bergell - Rome - Paris. A life in the echo of the mountains. Publisher: Museum Ciäsa Granda, Stampa, Roy Oppenheim. Museum Rehmann. Laufenburg. 2006, ISBN 978-3-033-00884-7 .
  • Switchbacks and other tricks. The life of Edith Oppenheim-Jonas. Inventor of Papa Moll , ed .: Roy Oppenheim, Joan Fuchs-Oppenheim, here and now publishing house, 2008, ISBN 978-3-03919-079-9 .
  • Alex Sadkowsky: Bio-Photo-Cultography . Ed. Roy Oppenheim. Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85881-295-7 .
  • Turo Pedretti, a great painter of the Engadine, main author: Roy Oppenheim; with essays by Stephan Kunz, and Dora Lardelli. Till Schaap Ed., Bern 2014 with DVD film, produced by artup GmbH 2015, ISBN 978-3-03828-019-4 .
  • Appassionato. Heinz Aeschlimann. Artist, entrepreneur, visionary, Till Schaap Edition, 2015, ISBN 978-3-03828-004-0 .
  • Qin Feng. A great Chinese artist (Chinese, English, German), Art-St-Urban 2015.
  • Catalog of works by Walter Jonas, electronic. Roy and Rachela Oppenheim. 2016. http://walterjonas.ch/db/Web_Walter_Jonaslist.php
  • Karina Wisniewska: Silence between notes by Karina Wisniewska, Guido Magnaguagno, Roy Oppenheim. 144 pages 2017. Till Schaap Edition (publisher) ISBN 978-3-03878-008-3 .

literature

  • Successful ways of successful people . Roy Oppenheim. P. 262 ff. Verlag Martin + Schaub GmbH, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-1942-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German literary studies. Hansjürgen Blinn. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982 - page 352. Swiss radio and television company (SRG), DRS television (Zurich): - Culture department: Roy Oppenheim
  2. ↑ Elizabeth K. Mix: Television and art (=  Oxford Art Online ). Oxford University Press, June 2, 2011, doi : 10.1093 / gao / 9781884446054.article.t2093940 .
  3. ↑ « Les Pratiques courantes en matière de coproduction et d'échanges de programs culturels de television en Europe en vue des coproductions futures . Meeting of Specialists on the European Cultural Television Program Exchange, Paris, May 21, 1973. », Author: Roy Oppenheim. French, English.https: //unesdoc.unesco.org/ark: / 48223 / pf0000004269_fre.
  4. ↑ World Radio TV Handbook, Volume 45, p. 107. Swiss Radio and Television Company (SRG); Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision (SSR); LP: Dir: Swiss Radio International and Telediffusion: Roy Oppenheim.
  5. ^ Show, information, culture: Swiss television: from the pioneering days into the modern media age. Hanspeter Danuser, Hans Peter Treichler. Verlag Sauerländer, 1993, p. 191. January 11, 1993: Roy Oppenheim, Director of Schweizer Radio International, is elected director of the fourth broadcasting network “S plus” by the SRG Central Council Committee.
  6. ^ Roy Oppenheim becomes program director of SPlus. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  7. ^ The World Radio and TV Handbook, 1999. David G. Bobbett - 1998 SBC - Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. The SBC's Television. Communication & Marketing: Roy Oppenheim.
  8. ↑ Martin Wüthrich takes over the management of communication at SUISA , on suisa.ch
  9. ^ About the role of Roy Oppenheim at Expo.02. René Lüchinger. Expo.02: overwhelmed Switzerland? The state exhibition between business, politics and culture. Balance sheet, 2002, ISBN 3-909167-86-1 , pp. 140 ff.
  10. ↑ Erwin Rehmann
  11. ↑ New structure and new mission statement for the APF. In: admin.ch. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .
  12. ^ Election of Roy Oppenheim as Vice President of the Swiss National Commission for UNESCO in 1998
  13. ^ Martin C. Stucki Foundation
  14. ↑ The Jewish-Christian 16 million project “Double Door” is entering the concrete phase. Retrieved on July 16, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  15. ^ Concept architectural. July 28, 1967, accessed July 16, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheim, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cultural journalist and former radio and television manager
DATE OF BIRTH September 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH to bathe