Wolfgang Konrad (musician)

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Wolfgang Konrad (born March 30, 1941 in Glücksburg near Flensburg) is a former violinist , most recently with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (until 1974). As the initiator of the iTVone project, inventor and private researcher, he pursues the consistent examination of moving images, sound and the special implementation of content-related, technical and dramaturgically intended interaction - the "scenic interaction". This led to numerous, holistic new developments (1988 teletext extensions for app-like personalized participatory functions such as quizzes, shopping carts, billing systems - synchronized with the TV picture) with creative approaches for the media (cross-media staging). He has received national and international awards for his productions.

Life

First, W. Konrad successfully completed a music degree at the Music Academy in Lübeck. From 1960 to 1966 he studied music at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in the master class for violin from Max Rostal . During his time in Cologne he founded the university string quartet (Wolfgang Konrad, Primoz Novsak , Volker David Kirchner , Susanne Basler ) and gave concerts at home and abroad.

Wolfgang Konrad made a name for himself with premieres of new music (chamber music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann , with Hans Ulrich Humpert and Karlheinz Stockhausen ) and received numerous awards (award from the University of Music in bronze, chamber music prizes). Later he was employed as concertmaster at the State Theater in Braunschweig, continued to give concerts as a soloist and was then 1st violinist with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra.

Many film and sound productions (The Beauty and the Beast, Ben Hur , OPUS (with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and conductors Elmar Bernstein , Korngold etc.), with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (Mozart symphonies - here the last recording by Schmidt-Isserstedt etc.) have been created since 1974 under his artistic and technical direction.

Since 1962, he has already dealt with interactive communication (content and technology), the visualization of music (sound and film / video productions) and has developed various content-related, technical solution concepts for interactive music and video productions for laser disc , television (OPUS concept - Mendelssohn -Overture). At the same time he was a guest student in Cologne at the University of 1964. In 1978, a short self-study in the field of computer science followed (Munich).

Dealing with interactive communication and his comprehensive knowledge (of hardware / software and as a media producer) made him a pioneer in the field of media interactivity with a multitude of new interactive concepts for one-to-many and many-to-many dialogues .

As early as 1988 he used the possibilities of teletext for the first time to combine the content of a scene with a PC-like and personalized interaction on TV. In 1995 the first concepts as well as a CD-ROM production with a layer technique and the functions for a self-cutting story were created, which form the current basis for a new iTV PlayOut Center and media mixer technology. During this time he installed numerous successful iTV projects and new thinking models for interactive television with OpenTV , Windows, MHP , Web, etc. The iTV programs such as the SKL show, Who was that? and 1, 2 or 3 reached an audience of millions on RTL, ARD, ZDF, SF, ORF, Sat1 and were moderated by people such as Günther Jauch , Thomas Gottschalk and Axel Bulthaupt . Since 2003 he has been working on a technologically innovative directing playout center system and on the further expansion of the cross-media iTVone project, for which he laid the foundations in 1995.

Projects (excerpts)

Numerous interactive industrial projects (BMW, Siemens Los Angeles "Millennium", Japan, Expo 2005 etc.)

  • 1980 IZ research project - interactive and already multimedia-based citizen information centers (test projects)
  • 1986 Video spectacle with Colosseum recordings, a multimedia production with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra (compositions and arrangements by Hanns-Christoph Schuster). The audience experienced a new type of installation on a Dali-like stage (laser and video installations with octrophonic orchestral sound - playback and musicians playing live).
  • 1990 Publication of OPUS - visualization of the composer's intellectual creative process on the interactive LaserDisc as well as other interactive games (LaserGame, LabyTrap, Herpa 3000, Match, Brain, Star ...)
  • 1994 first HDTV productions (piano trio Ludwig v. Beethoven)
  • 1995 Co-founder of the DVD Working Group EU (Head of Motor-Sport-Verlag, Stuttgart)
  • 1995–1999 consultant for interactive television at Axel Springer Verlag
  • 2004 Test of the playout center at Bibel TV in cooperation with Telekom
  • 2005 Presentation of new revenue models at the Telekom event (t-com value added forum) in Bonn
  • 2006–2007 first attempt with cable investors for independent broadcasting
  • 2009 Research and development in Ilmenau (IDMT, Prof. Brandenburg, Blankom etc.): Foundation of the iTVone Crossmedia Solution
  • 2010–2011 Start of preparation in Thuringia for a cross-media TV / WEB production with Saxonia Entertainment - a pioneering project for interactive television (Esmeralda * s puzzling stories), which was completed as a demo in autumn 2012.
  • Since 2012, further project idea developments such as the music portal SKlanG, cross-media projects such as “The largest test drive in the world” for Audi (concept phase) and intercontinental opera “Alceste” (concept phase) as well as new forms of advertising to measure advertising efficiency based on iTVone technology

Awards

  • 1963: Chamber Music Prize from the University of Music in Cologne (bronze)
  • 1965: Chamber music prize of the FRG for string quartet (Wolfgang Konrad, Primoz Novsak, Volker Kirchner, Susanne Basler)
  • 1992: Gold ITVA pyramid film award for the interactive music video production OPUS
  • 1993: Grammy (sound) for the new recording "The Beauty and the Beast" (with Colosseum records, Nürnberger Symphoniker)
  • 1999: Horizon Prize for interactive SKL show concepts (broadcast on RTL with Günther Jauch)

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Konrad in the list of 1st violinists of the Bamberg Symphony. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  2. ITVONE ( memento of October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Thuringian State Media Authority . Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  3. Götz Gerson (2001): Now the ARD also has its quiz. In: welt.de. Retrieved September 13, 2014

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