Tomas Zierhofer-Kin

Tomas Zierhofer-Kin (left, Wiener Festwochen 2018)

Tomas Zierhofer-Kin (born October 3, 1968 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian cultural manager .

Life

During his vocal studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Tomas Zierhofer-Kin and Markus Hinterhäuser founded the Zeitfluss -Festival as part of the Salzburg Festival in 1993 , in which he offered alternative and unknown art movements.

In 2000 he took several episodes of the radio - Satire The El-Tozki show on (Tozki = Tomas Zierhofer-KIn). In 2001 and 2002 he worked as an advisor to the Munich Senator for Culture. In 2002 he separated from the Zeitfluss Festival and was appointed curator of the Wiener Festwochen , at the same time he opened an Italian restaurant in Vienna . 2005-2016 he was artistic director of Danube Festival in Krems , 2006, music director of the Mozart Festival Kontracom06 in Salzburg.

From 2017 he was director of the Wiener Festwochen . In June 2018, his contract was terminated three years before it expired.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Markus Hinterhäuser ( Memento from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Sebastian Fasthuber: Avant-garde for everyone. How Tomas Zierhofer-Kin, as director of the Danube Festival in the Krems Province, drove out provinciality. In: Falter , No. 17. 2016, accessed on June 19, 2018 . 
3. ^ Artistic director Danube Festival ( Memento from March 17th, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20090327_OTS0184/donaufestival-vertragsverlaengerung-von-tomas-zierhofer-kin-knapp-vor-dem-schluss-festivalstandort-bleibt-krems
5. ↑ Tomas Zierhofer-Kin becomes director of the Wiener Festwochen. derStandard.at, article from November 19, 2014, accessed on November 19, 2014.
6. ^ Contract with the head of the Wiener Festwochen terminated. orf.at, article from June 19, 2018, accessed June 19, 2018.