Ulrich Baumgartner (cultural manager)

Ulrich Baumgartner (born March 20, 1918 in Berlin ; † August 18, 1984 in Graz ) was an Austrian cultural manager and director.

Life

At the age of 17 Ulrich Baumgartner assisted as an advertising film assistant at the UFA in Berlin. After the Second World War, Baumgartner was the founder and head of the Graz university studio and in 1948 handed over the management to Heinz Gerstinger . After 1945 he was culture editor and theater director in Graz, later organizer of the Kapfenberg Culture Days . Baumgartner was the artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen from 1964 to 1977 and brought Leonard Bernstein , Maurice Béjart , Giorgio Strehler and Claus Peymann to Vienna for the first time . He integrated the ballet as part of the festival weeks.

Ulrich Baumgartner worked with the Graz Styrian Autumn and founded the Vienna Arena as a counter-festival to 'high culture': In 1970, the Festwochen Arena began as part of the Wiener Festwochen , which was held in the former St. Marx slaughterhouse from 1975. When the building threatened to be demolished after the event program in 1976, Baumgartner expressed his solidarity with the occupants of the arena . Baumgartner was also occasionally active as an actor, for example in 1977 and 1981 in two episodes of the crime series Tatort ( The forgotten murder and murder in the opera ).

Baumgartner was a member of the Libertas Gemina Lodge from 1966 until his expulsion in 1975.

Web links

• Entry on Ulrich Baumgartner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Died: Ulrich Baumgartner, 66. Der Spiegel 35/1084, August 27, 1984
2. ↑ Horst Christoph: Arena anniversary: ​​Kindergarten der Rebellion profile , June 10, 2006
3. ↑ Ulrich Baumgartner. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 9, 2017 . 
4. ^ Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 18 .