Stefan Brandt

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Stefan Brandt in the Hamburger Kunsthalle in March 2013

Stefan Brandt (born January 16, 1976 in Weimar ) is a German cultural manager . From 2012 to 2017 he was managing director and board member of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In June 2017, he moved to the exhibition, event and experimentation forum Futurium in the center of Berlin as director , which deals with future scenarios and their active design.

Life

Stefan Brandt studied musicology and singing at the Universities of Detmold , Paderborn and Basel as well as at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . He received his doctorate in musicology from the University of Basel in 2004 with a thesis on baroque operas by Handel and Porpora . During his studies and his doctorate, Brandt received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . From 2002, Brandt directed the baroque opera ensemble Pasticcio Renano in Basel, which he founded and with whom he performed several Handel operas. Brandt worked as a musician until 2004 and appeared as a vocal soloist in the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Konzerthaus Berlin . He took on roles in several world premieres by the contemporary composer Friedrich Schenker . In 2004 Brandt moved to McKinsey & Company's Vienna office . There he worked as a management consultant until 2011 and, among other things, advised the Frankfurt Opera under its artistic director Bernd Loebe with the aim of improving the interaction between the opera house, the audience and the city of Frankfurt.

From October 2012 to May 2017 Brandt was managing director and board member of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and formed the dual leadership of the house with director Hubertus Gaßner . By the end of 2014 it was possible to renovate the house economically and to build up reserves. In addition to the commercial area of ​​responsibility, Brandt was also responsible for the art gallery's interdisciplinary program. As managing director, Brandt was also jointly responsible for the implementation of the modernization project for the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which began in summer 2014 and was completed as planned at the end of April 2016. In the year it reopened in 2016, the Kunsthalle achieved its best value since it was founded in 1869, with over 562,000 visitors. From 2015, Brandt and Gaßner supported Hamburg's application for the 2024 Summer Olympics, along with other representatives of the cultural institutions . In the same year Brandt presented a series of pictures in the Hamburger Kunsthalle by the photographer Jim Rakete , who photographed Olympic athletes in Hamburg's cultural institutions. Brandt also initiated the interdisciplinary Art Lab format , whose first project AUSSEN / INNEN with the Radialsystem V and the Ensemble Resonanz premiered at the Kunsthalle in June 2016.

At the beginning of 2017, Brandt was appointed as the new director of the Berlin Futurium, where he is responsible for the content management of the house. He took office in June 2017. According to Brandt, the Futurium, which is within sight of the Reichstag building directly on the banks of the Spree, will combine utopias with real life in its exhibitions and events . The future relationship between humans and technology, nature and oneself is to be examined. On September 16, 2017, the Futurium was open to the public for the first time with the interdisciplinary program One Day Future . The building opened on September 5, 2019 with a ceremony.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Futurium has a director. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Brandt: Studies on the relationship between music and drama in Nicola Porpora's operas: Arias from "Arianna e Teseo" (1727) in the context of the early Settecento, 2004 online. Retrieved May 18, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Nostalgia for the good. In: Berliner Zeitung, November 13, 1999 online. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Grabbed by the throat. In: Die Welt, November 15, 1999 online. Retrieved May 4, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Brandt, Jakob Haesler, Katharina Herrmann, Eckart Windhagen: How McKinsey helps the Frankfurt Opera. Music as a value proposition. In: Crescendo. No. 1, 2007, ISSN  1436-5529 , pp. 10-13 ( online ).
  6. ↑ New managing director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle appointed. hamburg.de, May 14, 2012, accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Hamburger Kunsthalle creates a balanced budget again. portalkunstgeschichte.de, August 27, 2013, accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Hamburger Kunsthalle before the start of extensive modernization. hamburg.de, May 6, 2014, accessed May 4, 2015 .
  9. ↑ The renaissance of a magnificent Hamburg building. welt.de, April 25, 2016, accessed on July 21, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle records record number of visitors . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on September 7, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Where art and sport meet. Abendblatt.de, February 21, 2015, accessed on May 4, 2015 .
  12. ↑ How do you feel about art, sports friend? In: DIE ZEIT, November 5, 2015 online. Retrieved November 18, 2015 .
  13. ^ Concerts in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Abendblatt.de, October 1, 2015, accessed on July 21, 2015 .
  14. ^ "Combining utopias with real life" - Futurium . In: Futurium . June 1, 2017 ( futurium.de [accessed September 7, 2017]).
  15. ^ "Combining utopias with real life" - Futurium . In: Futurium . ( futurium.de [accessed on September 7, 2017]).
  16. ↑ One day of the future: Open House in the Futurium | BERLINboxx . In: BERLINboxx . ( berlinboxx.de [accessed September 7, 2017]). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinboxx.de
  17. ↑ Opening of the Futurium - September 5th to 8th, 2019 : “On September 5th, 2019 the Futurium will officially open its doors. The opening ceremony will take place with Chancellor Angela Merkel and invited guests. "
personal data
SURNAME Brandt, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar