Rainer O. Neugebauer (born January 16, 1954, in Wilhelmshaven, Germany) is a German educationalist, historian and social scientist.
Neugebauer obtained his doctorate from the University of Bonn under Annette Kuhn, worked as a postman, scientific assistant, educator in a kindergarten, in youth media protection, and as a lecturer for political education at a school for conscientious objectors. From 1992 to 1997, he was professor of political science at the Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences in Cologne and Brühl. Since 1997 he has taught as a professor of social sciences at the Harz University of Applied Studies in Halberstadt and was the founding dean of the Department of Public Management there, [1] since 2019 as professor emeritus. [2] He is engaged in politics [3] [4] [5] [6] and culture. [7] [8] Among other things, Neugebauer is chairman of the board of trustees of the John Cage Organ Foundation Halberstadt, [9] [10] which realizes the piece ORGAN²/ASLSP by John Cage over 639 years, [11] [12] and artistic director there. [13] [14] Favorite occupation: bookworming. [15]
Halberstadt is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center, which was largely destroyed by Allied bombings in the late stages of World War II after local Nazi leaders refused to surrender. The town was rebuilt in the following decades.
ORGAN2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage and the subject of the second-longest-lasting (after Longplayer) musical performance yet undertaken. Cage wrote it in 1987 for organ, as an adaptation of his 1985 composition ASLSP for piano. A performance of the piano version usually lasts 20 to 70 minutes.
York Höller is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) is a music organization that promotes contemporary classical music.
Hymnen is an electronic and concrete work, with optional live performers, by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1966–67, and elaborated in 1969. In the composer's catalog of works, it is No. 22.
The County of Wernigerode was a state of the Holy Roman Empire which arose in the Harzgau region of the former Duchy of Saxony, at the northern foot of the Harz mountain range. The comital residence was at Wernigerode, now part of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The county was ruled by a branch of the House of Stolberg from 1429 until its mediatization to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1806. Nevertheless, the county remained in existence - with one short interruption - until the dissolution of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1918.
Norbert Müller-Everling is a contemporary German artist working with concrete art.
The Baden cabinet was the final Reichsregierung or Imperial Government of the German Empire. It was formed on 4 October 1918 by Prince Max von Baden, who had been appointed as Reichskanzler (Chancellor) the day before by Emperor Wilhelm II. It was the first cabinet of the Empire to include members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After the constitution was changed in late October 1918, the Chancellor and his government were for the first time accountable to the Reichstag (parliament). Previous governments had been accountable just to the Emperor.
Widerstand. Zeitschrift für nationalrevolutionäre Politik was a monthly magazine established in Germany in 1926 to advocate national-revolutionary idea. It was published in Berlin, under the editorship of Ernst Niekisch. Prominent contributors included Ernst Jünger, Friedrich Georg Jünger, A. Paul Weber, August Winnig, and Joseph E. Drexel. The newspaper was shut down in December 1934. After a time in the underground, Niekisch was arrested and held in Nazi concentration camps from 1937 to 1945.
Rita Maria Walburga Grosse-Ruyken is a contemporary German artist, sculptor, multimedia installation art, artfilm and performance, producer artist and member of the Association of German Artists Deutscher Kuenstlerbund. The core of her light – sound – space – form installations comprise sculptures in motion made from pure gold and silver. She became internationally known through her exhibition Rays of Light.
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk is a German historian and author. His work is focused on the German Democratic Republic and its Ministry for State Security.
Sabine Funke is a German painter who lives and works since 1987 in Karlsruhe.
Margot Pilz is an Austrian visual artist and a pioneer of conceptual and digital art in Austria. She was one of the first Austrian artists to combine computers and photography. Her works reflect the avant-garde culture of the 1960s and 1970s in their experimental techniques and performative aspects. Her work received renewed attention in the 2010s.
Rainer Cadenbach was a German musicologist and University professor.
Winfried Schrammek was a German musicologist and organist.
Harry Weibel is a German historian. His main topics are neo-Nazism, right-wing extremism and antisemitism in the GDR and racism in Germany from 1945 to the present.
Eva-Maria Houben is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer.
Juergen Staack is a German minimalist and conceptual artist based in Düsseldorf.
Ernst Bernhard Sehring was a German architect.
Georg Friedrich Felix Eberty was a German lawyer, amateur astronomer, and writer.