Ulrich Andreas Vogt
Ulrich Andreas Vogt (born August 6, 1952 in Dortmund ) is an entrepreneur and culture manager in Dortmund, was tenor at the Dortmund Opera House , managing director and founding director of the Dortmund concert hall .
Entrepreneur and singer
Ulrich Andreas Vogt grew up in Dortmund and originally wanted to be a musician. After attending the Leibniz Gymnasium in Dortmund, he studied piano and violin at the local conservatory . When his father suddenly died in 1974, Ulrich Andreas Vogt took over the management of the company - initially together with his mother Lieselotte Vogt - which was a well-known service company in Dortmund, founded in 1932 by his grandfather Franz Vogt. He passed the master builder cleaning exam at the Chamber of Crafts in Berlin and attended the business academy for managers in Bad Harzburg . At the same time, the desire to become a singer grew in him. For five years he took lessons from the soprano and chamber singer Elisabeth Grümmer in Paris, where he attended the Ecole d'Art Lyrique of the Grand Opera by Rolf Liebermann . He became a master student of Elisabeth Grümmer and performed with her a. a. in Berlin and at the International Music Festival in Lucerne . Further studies took place in Cologne and Bayreuth . In 1979 he was engaged as a tenor at the Dortmund Opera House, where - parallel to his entrepreneurial activity - he appeared as a soloist in operas, lieder and oratorio evenings and was supported in particular by Hans Wallat .
The steady growth of the family business and the double burden forced him to distance himself from the dream of a career as a singer. He gave up his singing career in 1984 and devoted himself more and more to his company, which he expanded in the following years into the service company "Vogt Group" (focus on facility management ). Today the company is divided into eight different companies and has over 1,800 employees in six federal states. a. with locations in Dortmund, Aachen, Heidelberg, Magdeburg and Leipzig.
Founding director
Ulrich Andreas Vogt remained connected to music and was involved in the board of the Theater- und Konzertfreunde Dortmund eV, of which he was chairman from 1985 to 1994. During this time he succeeded in forming what was then the largest theater association in the Federal Republic with over 2,300 members and was later appointed honorary chairman. In 1992, under the umbrella of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry, he initiated the establishment of the Dortmund Cultural Foundation and the “ProPhilharmonie” working group and promoted the construction of a concert hall, a “Philharmonic for Westphalia”, for which he received over 2000 supporters and many in a short time Could win sponsors. After many years of discussion about the financing and the location issue - originally the idea was to renovate the Westfalenhallen for 120 million DM and integrate a concert hall into it - in 1997 the political decision to build the concert hall on the site of the former UFA film theater in Brückstrasse , not far from the main train station, like and Vogt was appointed managing director, builder and artistic director of the newly founded Dortmund Konzerthaus GmbH in March 1998 by the city of Dortmund .
Under his direction, the concert hall was planned in detail and built quickly according to the specifications of optimal acoustics and a relatively small area. At the same time, a marketing concept was developed and the “ Rhinoceros alatus ” (winged rhinoceros) established as a symbol and logo , which, at Vogt's suggestion, became the “city mascot” and can still be found in exposed locations in downtown Dortmund today. For the artistic design of the interior rooms, Vogt won over the painter Oliver Jordan , whose oversized artist portraits in oil now adorn the foyers.
The foundation stone was laid on October 15, 2000, and the house was opened in September 2002. Over 40,000 visitors came to the first “open house” day. The opening concerts that followed on September 13th, 14th and 15th were very well received by the audience and the media. With a mixture of classical music and upscale entertainment (for example Circus Roncalli , Christmas show, children's concerts, choir concerts), the new concert hall in the Dortmund catchment area was quickly accepted and developed into a success story.
In the first three years, which were under the motto "Departure", Vogt was able to engage internationally renowned orchestras, conductors, soloists and artists, for example the top orchestras from Vienna, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, Dresden and Leipzig with conductors such as Kent Nagano , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Kurt Masur , James Levine , Riccardo Muti , Waleri Gergiew , André Previn , Thomas Hengelbrock and Christian Thielemann . Vogt was able to win over Matthias Pintscher , Hanspeter Kyburz , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Rebecca Saunders and Péter Eötvös as “ Composer in Residence ” . Thus, the concert hall quickly moved up into the "premium class" of global concert halls (International Society of the Performing Arts) and was used for numerous radio and television recordings.
On the occasion of Hans Wallat's 75th birthday , a "semi-staged" performance of the Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner with top-class soloists and the Dortmund Philharmonic under the direction of Hans Wallat took place under Vogt's direction in the Konzerthaus in 2003/2004 . With Gudrun Hartmann (Zurich Opera, Bayreuth Festival) and Andreas Fuchs ( Robert Wilson's lighting designer ), a completely new interpretation, highly praised by experts, was achieved.
After disagreements with the political leadership of the city, Vogt resigned his office in January 2005. The circumstances of the separation at that time sparked a wave of indignation in Dortmund.
Culture manager
In 2006, Christian Wulff appointed Vogt to the supervisory board of the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover. In 2007 the Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth eV elected Vogt to its board of trustees , and in May 2009 he became its deputy chairman and managing director of the newly founded "Servicegesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth GmbH", which is responsible for sponsoring the Bayreuth Festival . He resigned from the board in June 2010.
Awards
Ulrich Andreas Vogt has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, was honored with the ideas prize of the German Marketing Club, was awarded the Bürgerertaler of the FDP as well as the Iron Reinoldus of the Westphalian Press Club .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Triptych by Oliver Jordan ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Laying of the foundation stone
- ↑ Press release about the opening
- ↑ Press report on Götterdämmerung
- ↑ Press release on termination
- ^ Declaration of honor for Vogt
- ^ Plans for Bayreuth
- ↑ Nürnberger Zeitung: Friends of Bayreuth change their management team ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 28, 2010
Web links
- Vogt Group
- Dortmund Concert Hall
- Theater and concert friends Dortmund
- Society of the Friends of Bayreuth
- Handelsblatt article in 2002
- Portrait in WDR3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vogt, Ulrich Andreas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur and culture manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dortmund |