Alex Moroder ( Ortisei, 13 May 1923 – Ortisei, 11 November 2006) was an Italian activist.

Biography

He was the son of sculptor

Ludwig Moroder Ludwig Moroder "Lenert" ( Ortisei, 7 November 1879 – Ortisei, 10 August 1953) was an Italian sculptor and teacher. He was also known as:''Ludwig Moroder dl Meune'' or ''Lodovico Moroder''. Biography He was born in Ortisei, which at the time w ...

and Adele Moroder. In

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he was enrolled in the Italian army with the

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fighting

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. In September 1943 he was deported in the labour camp of

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and at a later time, he was moved to

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, where he worked in an infirmary and as an interpreter. In 1945 he married Paola Grossrubatscher and had five children: Ulrike, Wolfgang,

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, Ruth e Stefan. He died in 2006 due to the post effects of hepatitis he contracted in the labour camps.

Ladinian investment

Alex Moroder advocated for the conservation and diffusion of the culture and of the language native to the

Ladin people The Ladins are an ethnic group in northern Italy. They are distributed in several valleys, collectively known as Ladinia. These include the valleys of Badia and Gherdëina in South Tyrol, of Fassa in the Trentino, and Livinallongo (also known ...

, he actively founded and worked in these associacions: * ''Union di Ladins de Gherdëina'' (1951-2006) * Secretary of the ''Union Generela di Ladins dla Dolomites'' (1975-1987) * Administrator of the newspaper '' La Usc di Ladins'', a weekly Ladin newspaper distributed in the

Dolomites The Dolomites ( it, Dolomiti ; Ladin: ''Dolomites''; german: Dolomiten ; vec, Dołomiti : fur, Dolomitis), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range located in northeastern Italy. They form par ...

(1974-1994) * ''Radio Ladin de Gherdëina'' (1955-1997) * '' Museum de Gherdëina'', he was one of the founders alongside Robert Moroder who was the president, Hermann Moroder-Jumbierch, Heinrich Moroder-Doss Raimund Mureda, Luis Piazza and Vigil Prugger. (1958-2006) * ''Ladin theatre in Ortisei'' He was also part of these other cultural associacions: * ''Parochial choir of Ortisei'' (1941-2006) * ''

Italian Alpine club The Club Alpino Italiano is the senior Italian alpine club which stages climbing competitions, operates alpine huts, marks and maintains paths, and is active in protecting the Alpine environment. It was founded in Turin in 1863 by the then finan ...

Alpenverein Südtirol The South Tyrol Alpine Club (german: Alpenverein Südtirol), abbreviated AVS, is an association of German and Ladin-speaking mountain climbers in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Founded in 1946, it is sub-divided into 32 sections and 58 local division ...

Val Gardena section'', he was a founder alongside Hans Sanoner, Batista Vinatzer, Flavio Pancheri, Norbert Mussner, Heinrich Moroder-Doss and Bruno Moroder * ''association for the maintaining of the uses and costumes of Val Gardena'' (1956-1968) * ''Scholastic Patron'', president from 1965 to 1985

Written productions

*', Calënder de Gherdëina, Union di Ladins de Gherdëina, Ortisei, 1965 (Ladin). * '' – fanatism blinds'' - interview with Ingrid Runggaldier Usch di Ladins, Ortisei 2006 (Ladin). * Alongside Edgar Moroder he produced a genealogic tree of his family.

Radio Ladin

Alongside Bruno Moroder in 1955 he founded ''Radio Ladin de Gherdëina'', with the purpose of creating cultural and news-oriented transmissions in the Ladin language that were also transmitted on

RAI RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terr ...

.Alessandra Zendron: ''RAI Bolzano. Dalla stazione EIAR alla radiotelevisione trilingue''. Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma 2006, pagine 94, 113, 114, 137, 138, 139. The

Museum Gherdëina The Gherdëina Local Heritage Museum was opened in the ''Cësa di Ladins'' in Urtijëi, in northernmost Italy, in 1960. The building is the seat of the Union di Ladins de Gherdëina a cultural organisation for the keeping of the Ladin language ...

owns over 500 magnetic coils registered by Alex Moroder and his associates during their activities, they were awarded the status of documental patrimony of Alto Adige and named ''Archivio Radio Ladin Alex Moroder'' it has now been digitalized and is accessible by the Mediateca of the Autonomous province of Bolzan.

Honoreficences

*''Golden lamb'' of the county of Ortisei, 7 December 1991 *''Medal of Honour'' of

Tirol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

and

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, 15 August 1999

References

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