Walter Fink (patron)

Walter Fink (born August 16, 1930 - April 13, 2018 ) was a German entrepreneur. He was a patron of new music and a founding member, board member and sponsor of the Rheingau Music Festival .

Life

Walter Fink was a managing partner of the Fink group of companies (Fink Shoes + Sport GmbH; Lahr Shoes GmbH & Co. KG), a family company based in Wiesbaden-Nordenstadt, which was sold in 2010.

In 1987 he was a founding member of the Rheingau Music Festival. He was a member of the board of the Rheingau Music Festival Förderverein and a member of the jury for the Rheingau Music Prize .

In 2007 Fink was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . He was Grand Officier of the Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs . On October 19, 2011, the Karlsruhe University of Design awarded Walter Fink an honorary doctorate in philosophy (Dr. hc) for his dedicated research into new ways of expressing new music and media art.

New music

Fink supported the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt . He was interested in important world premieres and was in personal contact with composers. Several composers dedicated works to him, for example Volker David Kirchner 1995 his clarinet quartet Exil and Toshio Hosokawa 2001 Temple Bells Voice from the last movement of his oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima .

In 1990 he initiated the annual composer portrait for the Rheingau Music Festival , which introduces composers and their works in the field of chamber music and in larger cast.

Walter Fink donated the ZKM Walter Fink Prize for dance, electroacoustic music and media at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, which was taken over by the ZKM after three successful awards based on its artistic ideas.

On the occasion of Walter Fink's 80th birthday, Volker David Kirchner composed the piano piece Nachlese , Toshio Hosokawa wrote Für Walter for soprano saxophone and piano and percussion ad libitum. Both works were premiered at the Rheingau Music Festival 2010.

Walter Fink promoted the work of the musiktheater intégrale of the Karlsruhe University of Design on the sculpturality of music and was involved in the new festival ZeitGenuss. Music of our time on CampusOne of the University of Music Karlsruhe.

Walter Fink Prize

Walter Fink and the Institute for Music and Acoustics of the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM) founded the "Walter Fink Prize of the ZKM for electroacoustic music, dance and media", which is endowed with 10,000 euros and was awarded for the first time in 2009 . In 2012 the Walter Fink Prize was restructured because it was no longer carried by the patron, but exclusively by the ZKM and was called the "Giga-Hertz Prize for Dance and Media". It is no longer advertised.

• Prize winners 2009: rosalie , Humberto Teixeira , Matthias Ockert
• Prize winners 2010: Pipo Tafel and Daniel Berwanger
• Prize winners 2011: Mireille Leblanc and Ake Parmerud

Web links

• http://www.fink-preis.de/
• http://www.karlsruhe.de/b1/kultur/musik/zeitgenuss.de
• A patron for the modern. ( Memento from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Thanks for listening deeply ( memento from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Composers honor patron Walter Fink ( Memento from June 14, 2011 in the web archive archive.today )
• The portrait: Walter Fink-Hang up the jump rope-Untiring commitment to new music, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 27, 2004 ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rheingau Musik Festival: Co-founder Fink died on musik-heute.de, April 13, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Hoesch: Patrons in the best sense. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 20, 2010
3. ↑ Ilona Sauerbier: "Fink shoes changes hands" , on schuhmarkt-news.de from April 16, 2010
4. ↑ The Rheingau Music Festival was founded 20 years ago . Blasmusik.de. December 4, 2007. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 5, 2010. 
5. ^ The Rheingau Music Festival Förderverein . Rheingau Music Festival. 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
6. ^ About the Music Prize . Rheingau Music Festival. 2010. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Message in Wiesbadener Kurier , November 3, 2007
8. ↑ Chaîne-Journal d'Allemagne ( Memento of the original of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , No. 20, November 2007 (PDF file; 6.79 MB) 
9. ↑ Toshio Hosokawa for Walter for saxophone, piano and percussion (2010) (PDF; 3.2 MB) Schott . 2010. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. 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. Retrieved August 5, 2010. 
10. ^ Composers' workshop : Walter Fink on his 80th birthday . Rheingau Music Festival. 2010. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. 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. Retrieved August 5, 2010. 
11. ^ Website Walter Fink Prize ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.