Rudolf Klausnitzer

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Rudolf "Rudi" Klausnitzer (born January 22, 1948 in Piberbach , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian theater director , journalist and culture manager .

Life

Rudi Klausnitzer attended school in Linz and graduated from high school in 1966 . He then studied political science and journalism at the University of Salzburg until 1969 . From 1967 he co-founded the Austrian radio station Ö3 and invented what is now Austria's most successful program with around 2.8 million listeners every day, the Ö3-Wecker , which he moderated along with other programs such as “People”. From 1968 he worked as a freelance journalist in the Upper Austria regional studio of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation .

From 1972 to 1974 he was the personal assistant to ORF general manager Gerd Bacher . From 1976 to 1978 Klausnitzer was head of the family editorial team in the Salzburg regional studio, where he a. a. developed a weekly health magazine. In 1979 he was given the management of Ö3.

In the mid-1980s he went to Bertelsmann AG in Germany as a consultant for the television sector , where he was particularly active in program development for subscription television (pay TV).

After Klausnitzer had helped set up the Radio Hamburg station in 1986 , he became managing director and program director of Sat.1 in 1987 . In 1989 he changed to the station Premiere in Hamburg in the same position .

In 1992 he returned to Austria to succeed Peter Weck as director of the United Theaters in Vienna . His first production was the German-language premiere of Kiss of the Spider Woman . In 1995 the European premiere of the Disney musical Beauty and the Beast followed . In 1997, the dance of the vampires , the stage version of Roman Polański 's film of the same name, premiered under his directorship . From 1992 to 2006 he was also the artistic director of the Theater an der Wien . His successor in this position was Roland Geyer . In addition to the City of Vienna (Wien Holding), Rudi Klausnitzer is the second owner of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien GmbH, and thus also the venues Theater an der Wien , Raimundtheater and Ronacher .

In June 2002 he was appointed General Director and Chairman of the Management Board of the News publishing group . At the beginning of 2006 he resigned for personal reasons and switched to the advisory board. In August 2006 he applied for the post of ORF General Director.

Klausnitzer has been an independent media consultant since 2007 and, together with the family's own dmcgroup based in Vienna , Hamburg and Munich , develops projects in the field of Web 2.0 and social media, as well as collaborations with international media institutions such as the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai . In 2008 he was appointed a member of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna .

In his book The End of Chance Klausnitzer gives an overview of " Big Data " in a popular scientific style .

Rudi Klausnitzer has been a sworn and court-certified expert for radio and television since 1990.

He is a member of the board of the children's aid organization Plan International Germany .

Private

Since December 18, 1981, he has been married to the journalist Isabella Klausnitzer , with whom he has a daughter and a son.

Klausnitzer was vacationing in Khao Lak , Thailand , when the seaquake hit the Indian Ocean in 2004 . He and his family barely survived the tsunami that followed.

Works

  • The end of chance: How big data makes us and our lives predictable. Ecowin, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7110-0040-8 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Klausnitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Firmenmonitor.AT // Company details. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Armin Wolf: Sorry, but the day was really tight today… . In: ZIB 2 diary, August 16, 2006. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Celebrities also criticize: "Little help came from the Austrian authorities" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on October 25, 2016]).
  4. ^ Minister of Culture Drozda honors Rudolf Klausnitzer . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed December 14, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Klausnitzer, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klausnitzer, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian director, media journalist and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Piberbach , Austria