Wolfgang Ulrich Werner

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Wolfgang Werner, 2013
"Cultural Manager of the Year";
awarded on September 28, 1991

Wolfgang Ulrich Werner (* 1941 ) is a former chemist , cultural worker and theater founder and director .

Life

Wolfgang Ulrich Werner was born in the middle of World War II and grew up in Hanover . After graduating from school, he worked in the late post-war period from 1959 for around two decades as a sales representative for pharmaceutical and drugstore products until his profession became superfluous due to the "triumphant advance of drugstore chains". In the early 1980s he began to work as a ski and sailing instructor and learned to get by on a monthly income of only around DM 1,000 .

In 1981 Wolfgang Werner returned to his hometown Hanover, where he opened the Werkstatt-Galerie Calenberg (WGC) on Kommandanturstrasse in the Calenberger Neustadt district . There he initially ran a workshop for pottery, lithography and other handicrafts . In addition, he offered various workshops, supplemented his program with exhibitions and - after various theater workshops - first stage events.

However, after various leisure homes also offered - and in some cases cheaper - craft courses, Wolfgang Werner converted his house to a pure theater business in 1983. Since then, numerous artists have appeared in the WGC at the beginning of their careers, such as Matthias Brodowy , Rüdiger Hoffmann , Alix Dudel or the cabaret artist Volker Pispers .

Together with artist friends, Werner also invented new formats such as “the narrative stage, where a professional narrator and the audience have their own say”, or the Calenberg literary breakfast, where well-known writers appear at breakfast. In addition, Wolfgang Werner offered live radio plays and public coaching seminars in his WGC, as well as all rooms for rent for private events.

Fonts

  • Wolfgang U. Werner: I just opened the door. The adventure workshop gallery Calenberg. 35 years. July 1981 – July 2016 , Engelskirchen: Seh-Sam-Verlag - Edition Sonne, 2016, ISBN 978-3-941806-24-5

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Werner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Stefan Arndt: 35th anniversary / Werkstatt-Galerie Calenberg reinvented ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from July 4, 2016, updated on July 7, 2016, last accessed on May 10, 2016. January 2018
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Kommandanturstrasse , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 147
personal data
SURNAME Werner, Wolfgang Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 1941