Matthias Theodor Vogt

Matthias Theodor Vogt ( born May 5, 1959 in Rome ) is a German cultural historian and author. He is since 1994 director of the Institute for Cultural Infrastructure Saxony and since 1997 Professor of Cultural Policy and Cultural History at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau / Görlitz. The University of Pécs in 2012 appointed him professor honoris causa.

Life

Vogt grew up in and around Freiburg im Breisgau. He is a grandson of King Theodor Berger Anglisten Spira (1885 - 1961) and nephew of Mainz classicists Andreas Spira ( 1929-2004 ). Vogt studied cello first at Nicholas Uhlenhut at Basel Conservatory, later at Atis Teichmanis ( Musikhochschule Freiburg), and studied theater science, philosophy, German literature and musicology at the universities of Munich, Aix -en- Provence, Paris III and Berlin. In 1983 he graduated with a Master of Arts at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich with Klaus and Susanne Lazarowicz Vill. In 1988, Dr. phil. Carl Dahlhaus at the Technical University of Berlin and in 2008 Dr. hab. at the University of Pécs. Since 1983, Vogt has lectured in English, German, French and Italian primarily in Europe, Japan and the United States.

From 1986 to 1989 Vogt led the public relations of the Bayreuth Festival and was specifically responsible for the program booklets. He worked at the Salzburg Festival, the Vienna State Opera, Teatro alla Scala di Milano, the Venice Biennale, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the State Operetta Moscow, the Russian National Theatre and the Aquario Romano in Rome. He worked with Luigi Nono, Luciano Berio and Karlheinz Stockhausen at the premieres of " Prometeo ", "Un Re in Ascolto " and " Saturday from Light". As a musician and musicologist, his focus is on contemporary music and the role of music in theater productions.

Matthias Theodor Vogt was from 1992 to 1995 quill at the concept of the Saxon cultural sphere Act ( SächsKRG ) of 20 January 1994 and involved in the enforcement and implementation. He is considered the " father of the cultural space law", which was suggested by the Commission of Inquiry Culture in Germany the German Bundestag other countries as a model.

In 1994, State Minister Hans Joachim Meyer and Matthias Theodor Vogt Institute for cultural infrastructure Saxony (ICS ), whose director Vogt since then. 1997 Vogt was appointed Professor of Cultural Policy and History at today's Faculty of Management and Cultural Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau / Görlitz. In 2008 he became a member of the International Graduate School Zittau. 2001-2005 He was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Dresden, 2002-2010 at the Charles University, Prague, in 2003 at the University of Breslau, 2009 at the University of Sannio Benevento and 2012 at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

In 1997, Vogt joint responsibility of the institute for cultural infrastructure of Saxony and the Zittau / Görlitz the program " Culture and Management Görlitz (BA, MA )" under the auspices of the UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor and established the European Network on Culture and Management.

Vogt is married and has three children.

Science and practice of cultural policy

Since 1990, Vogt researches dedicated to the field of cultural policy and cultural transformation processes in Europe. His special interests are methodological aspects of cultural policy sciences. In the field of minority policy, he has analyzed, among others, the Lusatian Sorbs in studies. He is co-editor of the European Journal for Minority Issues (Vienna) and the trilingual journal " Culture Management - Cultural Management - Zarządzanie Kultura " ( Krakow ). In studies in Erlangen, Landsberg am Lech, Altötting and other Vogt has examined the principal-agent potentials for local cultural policies. Vogt has written around 100 books and articles as an author, editor and co-editor. He is responsible for the series " Cultural Infrastructure " at the University of Leipzig publisher or publisher Peter Lang and " editions of the Collegium Pontes " the publisher Peter Lang.

Books (selection)

  • The genesis of the Histoire du Soldat by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz -, Igor Stravinsky and René Auberjonois. Bamberg 1989 [ PhD thesis at the Technical University of Berlin]
  • The Gustav Mahler Festival Hamburg 1989, Kassel, Basel, London, New York 1991. ISBN 3-7618-1015-6
  • Cultural areas in Saxony, a documentary. With a photographic approach of Bertram Kober and the legal opinion of Fritz Ossenbühl. Cultural Infrastructure Volume I, University of Leipzig Verlag, 1st edition 1994, 2nd exp. Edition 1996, 3rd edition 1997. ISBN 3-931922-04-9
  • Cultures encounter. Report on the Collegium Pontes Görlitz - Zgorzelec - Zhořelec 2003, together with Jan Sokol, Eugeniusz Tomiczek. Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT Wrocław and Görlitz 2005. ISBN 83-7432-018-4
  • The contribution of the churches and religious communities to the cultural life in Germany. In: German Bundestag (ed.): Culture in Germany. Final Report of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag. Regensburg 2008 ( on CD). ISBN 978-3-932581-93-9
  • Conditions of European solidarity. The Collegium Pontes I. Publisher Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, etc. 2009 together with Jan Sokol, Beate Ociepka, Detlef Pollack, Beata Mikołajczyk writings. ISBN 978-3-631-58030-1
  • Periphery in the center of Europe. The Collegium Pontes II Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, etc. 2009, together with Jan Sokol, Beate Ociepka, Detlef Pollack, Beata Mikołajczyk writings. 978-3-631-58031-8 k
  • The strength of weakness. The Collegium Pontes III writings. Publisher Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, etc. 2009, together with Jan Sokol, Beate Ociepka, Detlef Pollack, Beata Mikołajczyk. ISBN 978-3-631-58032-5
  • Europeanization in everyday life. Writings of the Collegium Pontes IV Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, etc. in 2009, together with Jan Sokol, Beate Ociepka, Detlef Pollack, Beata Mikołajczyk. ISBN 978-3-631-58033-2
  • The stranger as enrichment. The Collegium Pontes writings. Volume V, together with Jan Sokol, Dieter Bingen, Jürgen Neyer, Albert Löhr. Publisher Peter Lang, Frankfurt etc. 2010 ISBN 978-3-631-60233-1
  • Minorities as an added value. Writings of the Collegium Pontes, Volume VI, together with Jan Sokol, Dieter Bingen, Jürgen Neyer, Albert Löhr. Publisher Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main etc. 2010 ISBN 978-3-631-60239-3
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