Scientific symposium in co-operation with the Anton Bruckner Institute
In the anniversary year 2024, the academic symposium, which is of course once again being organised in the proven cooperation with the Anton Bruckner Institute to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, will focus on Anton Bruckner the man, who, on the one hand quite deliberately, and on the other, not least because of the image painted of him, especially posthumously, seems to be literally hidden behind the personality of the artist.
The lectures focus on Bruckner's social existence, his private everyday life, his personal preferences, interests, habits and needs. In this context, questions such as how Bruckner actually lived away from his artistic environment, what problems and banalities of daily life he was confronted with as a man of his time, what socio-cultural developments or changes in his era he took part in and what joys and sorrows moved him. In order to illuminate these multi-layered social and socio-historical aspects as comprehensively as possible, the internationally renowned speakers will approach the topic in an interdisciplinary discussion.
The aim of the two-day conference is to make the man Bruckner visible and tangible behind all those "stereotypes that have played and still play a dominant role in every study of Bruckner: good-natured and ingenious, marvellous and lost in the world, awkward and touching, the object not of enthusiasm but of amusement, in other words, in the famous words [...] from Hans von Bülow: 'half-genius + half-idiot".
10:30
Welcome & Opening
Prof. Mag. Dr. Alfred Weidinger
Dr. Klaus Petermayr
11:00
Artists and their everyday lives in the 19th century: a search for clues
Associate Professor Dr Regina Thumser-Wöhs, Linz/Vienna
11:30
Anton Bruckner and his family
Dr.in Elisabeth Maier, Vienna
// Lunch break //
14:00
Psychodynamic considerations on Anton Bruckner's personality structure
Dr. Martin Haltrich, Vienna
14:30
The sociable Bruckner
Dr.in Andrea Harrandt, Vienna
// Coffee break //
15:30
»Raben-Viech-Kerl« — an attempt to search for Bruckner's humour
Dr. Johannes Leopold Mayer, Baden
16:00
Otto Kitzler. An international teacher for an Upper Austrian genius
University Professor Dr Paul Hawkshaw, New Haven
// Small buffet //
9:30
Glowing wicks, climbing stairs and ink-black tables. On the constitution of biographical narratives based on selected student anecdotes
Clemens Gubsch, MA, Vienna
10:00
Bruckner's flat in the Hessgasse
Dr Friedrich Buchmayr, St. Florian
// Coffee break //
11:00
Bruckner's culinary habits
Dr Klaus Petermayr
11:30
Bruckner and his calling cards
Magdalena Wieser, MAS, Linz
// Lunch break //
14:00
Bruckner und das liebe Vieh
Dr Andreas Lindner, Vienna
14:30
The»‘Bruckner« cot
Dr Wolfgang Artmann, Krenglbach
// Coffee break //
15:30
Der (ver)öffentlich(t)e Tod
Mag. Jan David Schmitz, Linz
16:00
Bruckner the man today. His person in contemporary music education
Mag.a Lydia Zachbauer, Linz
16:30 Final discussion