Anton Bruckner 1892 © Ludwig Grillich Wien
Sa 5. Oct 24
09:00 Middle Hall Brucknerhaus Linz
Bruckner the
person
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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".

Programme

Saturday, 5 October 2024

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

 

Friday, 4 October 2024

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 //