Matthias Osterwold (born 1950) is a German culture manager.

Life

Born in

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, Osterwold studied sociology, economics and urban research in Hamburg as well as musicology in Berlin. In 1983, he was one of the founders of the "Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.," an organization for the promotion of

Neue Musik Neue Musik (English ''new music'', French ''nouvelle musique'') is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is char ...

and is on its board of directors. Since 1994, he has been an elected member of the interest group "Rat für die Künste Berlin". Between 1999 and 2001, he was music curator at the

ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...

. For the sound art festival in Berlin, he was on the artistic direction team both in 1996 and 2006. In Berlin and Lucerne, he was co-initiator of the "Pfeifen im Walde" (1994/97) festival. From 2001 to 2014, he was

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the ...

of the

MaerzMusik MaerzMusik is a festival of the Berliner Festspiele and has been held annually since 2002 in March at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and other venues. It is the successor festival to the Musik-Biennale Berlin and is considered one of the most im ...

, the "Festival für aktuelle Musik" of the

Berliner Festspiele The Berliner Festspiele (German for Berlin Festivals) are a series of festivals, art exhibitions, and other cultural events organized all year long by a common organization in Berlin. Events are held at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, a pre-ex ...

. 2002 to 2004, he sat on the jury of the "Hauptstadtkulturfonds". From 2013 to 2018, he was head of the

Klangspuren Klangspuren, also Klangspuren Schwaz, subtitled Tiroler Festival für Neue Musik, is an annual festival for contemporary music in Schwaz in Tyrol, founded in 1994. The title literally translates to "traces of sound". It commissioned around 200 or ...

festival in

Schwaz Schwaz () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative center of the Schwaz district. Schwaz is located in the lower Inn valley. Location Schwaz lies in the middle of the Lower Inn Valley at the foot of the Kellerjoch and ...

. In the years 2018–2020, Osterwold worked as music curator of the "Ruhrtriennale". He organized various art performances for

Terry Fox Terrance Stanley Fox (July 28, 1958 June 28, 1981) was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated due to cancer, he embarked on an east-to-west cross-Canada run to raise money ...

and after his death became involved in ''Terry Fox Association''.

Publications

* with Terry Fox, Eva Schmidt und Bernd Schulz: ''Works with sound, Arbeiten mit Klang.'' Kehrer, Heidelberg 1999. . * ''Ghosts and monsters. Technology and personality in contemporary music.'' In ''Leonardo Music Journal. CD Series.'' Vol. 8, 1998 (CD with accompanying booklet). * Edited with Volker Straebel and

Nicolas Collins Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music, a sound artist and writer. He received his BA and MA from Wesleyan University, and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. Upon graduating from ...

: ''Pfeifen im Walde. Ein unvollständiges Handbuch zur Phänomenologie des Pfeifens.''''Pfeifen im Walde. Ein unvollständiges Handbuch zur Phänomenologie des Pfeifens''
on WorldCat Podewil, Berlin 1994

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Osterwold, Matthias Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1950 births Living people People from Hamburg