Michael Schindhelm

Michael Schindhelm ( born October 1, 1960 in Eisenach ) is a German author, cultural consultant and theater director.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1979 at the special classes for chemistry in Merseburg he studied at the Voronezh State University (Russia) and finished his studies with a diploma quantum chemist. From 1984 to 1986 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin. There he worked in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry (Director: Lutz Zülicke ), where he shared the office with the there are also active Angela Merkel. He then worked until 1990 as a translator, writer and dramaturg.

Work

1990 Schindhelm Speaker of the director of the theater Nordhausen and after the establishment of Theater Nordhausen Loh -Orchester Sondershausen GmbH Director. In 1992 he was appointed director of the stages the city of Gera. From 1994 to 1996 he was general manager of the theater Altenburg- Gera, then, from 1996 to 2006, director and artistic director of the Theater Basel (1999, Theatre of the Year and Bavarian Theatre Prize, 2001 again Bavarian Theatre Prize ). In addition, he served from 1997 to 2005 as co- president of the Basel Symphony Orchestra.

From 1 April 2005, he was General Director of Stiftung Oper in Berlin ( Komische Oper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, German Opera ). After already pronounced resignation in November 2006 Schindhelm resigned from the post on February 15, 2007, as his opinion, due to poor budgetary position of the federal state of Berlin too little money for the culture and the work of the Foundation is available.

From March 2007 Schindhelm as a cultural manager in Dubai ( UAE) has worked since March 2008 Cultural Director of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. Schindhelm gave this office in the summer of 2009, when it became clear that due to the world economic crisis, planned by the Opera House and other cultural sites would not realisisiert. Schindhelm criticized in an interview that the cultural commitment in Dubai should ultimately benefit only the financing of major real estate areas, without cultural eigenvalue.

Since the summer of 2009 Schindhelm is internationally active as a cultural advisor of public facilities. Among other things, he works with the Dutch architecture firm OMA (Office for Metropilitan Architecture) on the master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong together. Together with the think tank AMO, he developed in 2010, the training and the Strelka Institute for Forschunsprofil in Moscow, where he directed ( 2010-2012 ) the research area of public space. 2011/12, he developed a concept for culture and sport in the planning of the innovation city Skolkovo (Russia).

Furthermore Schindhelm support Welthungerhilfe in global philanthropy projects and is a 2013 member of the Board since January.

Since 2013 Schindhelm consultant at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK ) for international projects and curated a series of lectures on Global Culture.

In addition Schindhelm operates since 1990 as a writer, librettist, and translator ( from Russian ). Since 2000, he has published six novels and non-fiction. His book about the experience in Dubai was published in 2009 in German under the title Dubai speed and 2011 in English under the title Dubai High. For the opera black earth of the composer Klaus Huber wrote the libretto (Basel, 2001), as well as for the opera worlds of mercury light of the composer Cong Su ( Berlin, 2006). In 2003, he turned with Joerg Jeshel in the Gobi Desert to the documentary Song of the steppe. In the period 2003-2008, together with Christoph Schaub was the Birds Nest documentary about the construction of the stadium for the Olympic summer games in Beijing in 2008. From 2004 to 2006 Schindhelm led on Swiss TV TV Talk " salon ".

Criticized Schindhelm when it was announced in 2000 that he Unofficial employees of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR in the 1980s. Then in Switzerland (2001) and in Germany (2004) Honorary Councillors used have estimated these contacts and are consistently come to the judgment that these contacts do not make Michael Schindhelm work in public service in question.

Works

  • Roberts travel. German publishing house, 2000, ISBN 3-421-05330-8.
  • Magic of the West. German publishing house, 2001, ISBN 3-421-05442-8.
  • Black Earth ( 2001). Stage work ( opera ) in nine sequences ( libretto along with Klaus Huber, to poems and prose of Osip Mandelstam ). Music: Klaus Huber. UA November 3, 2001 Basel
  • The camel on the runway. Christoph Merian Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-85616-225-9.
  • The challenge. German publishing house, 2005, ISBN 3-421-05644-7.
  • My adventure Switzerland. Real time Verlag, Basel, 2007, ISBN 978-3-905800-00-5
  • Dubai speed. German Taschenbuch Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24768-9,
  • Dubai High. Arabian Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9558894-7-9.
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