Ulrich Küchl

Provost Ulrich Küchl

Ulrich Küchl (born November 22, 1943 in Königsberg ) is an Austrian composer , Roman Catholic priest and was the 46th provost of the Eisgarn monastery .

Life

Ulrich Küchl escaped from the Red Army with his family by detours to Austria. In 1962 he passed the Matura in Waidhofen an der Ybbs . From 1962 to 1967 he studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Sankt Pölten . 1967 was carried ordination to the priesthood.

In 1976, at the age of only 33, Ulrich Küchl was appointed provost of the Eisgarn collegiate monastery by the then diocesan bishop Franz Žak . On September 5, 1976, he was ceremoniously installed as the provost of Eisgarn. As a motto he chose Futura inquirimus (“We are looking for the future”), which comes from the Letter to the Hebrews ( Hebrews 13:14  EU ). From 1976 to 2008 he was pastor in charge of the parishes of Eisgarn and Eggern and, for a few years, also of the Reingers parish . On April 1, 2009, Provost Ulrich Küchl resigned from managing the monastery after 33 years of activity.

music

He also studied church music with Prelate Walter Graf at the diocesan church music school St. Pölten. Küchl conducted private music studies with Gottfried von Eine . Performances of his works at festivals ( Carinthian Summer , International Choir Academy Krems), in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Norway and Japan. There was a long-term collaboration with the Küchl Quartet and with various other artists: Anna Maria Pammer (soprano), Maria Höllerer (soprano), Birgit Kolar (concertmaster people), Franz Bartolomey (Wiener Philharmoniker), Michael Bladerer (Wiener Philharmoniker ), Stephen Delaney (University of Music Vienna), Ensembles Voces (Vienna), sirene Operntheater a . a.

So far he has created 52 operas , including a church opera , an operelle , choral works, song cycles, chamber music and orchestral works.

Memberships

• Member of the Austrian Composers Association (ÖKB)
• Member of the Interest Group of Lower Austrian Composers (INÖK)
• Member of the Order of Lazarus
• Member of regional studies for Lower Austria, among others

Awards

• 1993: Silver Medal of Honor from the Austrian Red Cross
• 1993: Ring of honor of the market town of Eggern
• 1998: Culture Prize Winner of the Province of Lower Austria
• 1999: Honorary citizen of the market town of Eisgarn
• 2001: Great Golden Decoration for Services to the Federal State of Lower Austria
• 2002: Decoration of honor for science and culture of the market town of Eisgarn
• 2003: Awarded the "Leopoldi Krug" from the federal state of Lower Austria

Church awards and offices

• 1967: ordained priest
• 1967–1972: various chaplain positions
• 1972–1976: Pastor in Waldkirchen and Reibers
• 1976: Appointed provost of the Eisgarn collegiate monastery
• 1976–2008: Pastor in Eisgarn, Eggern and Reingers
• 1996: Appointed Chaplain to His Holiness
• 1998–2004: Episcopal Vicar for Art and Culture in the Diocese of St. Pölten
• 2001–2004: Regens of the St. Pölten seminary
• 2003: Appointed Honorary Prelate of His Holiness
• 2009: Retirement as provost of Eisgarn

Cause St. Pölten

From 2001 to 2004 he was Regens of the seminary of the diocese of St. Pölten . He and his deputy as Regens, Wolfgang Rothe , got into the headlines as a result of the so-called "Scandal of St. Pölten", which dealt with the moral misconduct of some seminarians and the leadership behavior and (state) legal homosexual acts of the regents.

As a result, Küchl resigned all of his church offices. He has always denied the allegations made against him and still does so today.

Publications

• The social situation of the auxiliary teachers in the “parish schools” of the Waidhofer / Thaya deanery around 1840 . In: Hippolytus NF 12/88. St. Pölten, 1988.
• The Raiffeisenkasse Eggern. Festschrift for the inauguration of the new cash desk building , Heidenreichstein, 1991.
• Years Eisgarn bank office 1891–1991, Raiffeisenbank Oberes Waldviertel , Eisgarn, 1991.
• Market survey and award of the coat of arms Eggern 1978 , Eggern, 1978.
• Festschrift, 600 years of Eisgarn school , Eisgarn, 1993.
• Heimatbuch Eisgarn , Eisgarn, 2010.
• For village pastoral care in the 19th century. In: Yearbook for Regional Studies of Lower Austria NF 80 2014, pp. 1–75.
• Pastor Josef Glanz - a "priest original" of the diocese of St. Pölten. In: Hippolytus NF 34, St. Pölten 2015, pp. 96–112.
• Some Notes on the Sacrament of Consecration. In: Reinhard Dörner (Hg), In the world but not from the world, Kevelaer 2015, pp. 88-104.
• Stephan Biedermann, The penultimate provost of Eisgarn. In: Waldviertler Biographien Vol. 4, Horn 2015, pp. 351–381.

literature

• Wolfgang F. Rothe: Collegiate chapter in the German-speaking area. A canonical inventory. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . 124 / Canonical section. 93, 2007.
• Wolfgang F. Rothe: Miscell: The right of the provost of Eisgarn to use the pontificals: An example of the emergence of unlawful customary law. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. 124 / Canonical section. 93, 2007.
• Hannes Gans, Eva Wrazdil: Monastery secrets - A look behind the walls of Austrian religious houses. Stocker, Graz a. a. 2004.
• Reinhard Dörner: Honor the truth! / The St. Pölten scandal. Cardinal-von-Galen-Kreis, Münster 2008.
• Alexander Rausch : Küchl, brothers. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Web links

• Ulrich Küchl Music Information Center Austria (accessed October 30, 2013)
• Conflict over the former rain of St. Pölten Bishop warns of renewed damage to credibility , Die Tagespost , July 5, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sex scandal upset the Catholic Church. Die Welt from July 14, 2004

predecessor	Office	successor
Stephan Biedermann	Provost von Eisgarn 1976 - 2009	Andreas Lango