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Wolfgang Hauck

Project Lead

Portrait of Wolfgang Hauck
Wolfgang Hauck. Photo: Conny Kurz

Biography

Wolfgang Hauck (b. 1964) is a multimedia artist, project developer and lecturer with over forty years of interdisciplinary practice at the intersection of art, digital design and cultural education. He has lived and worked in Landsberg am Lech since 1991, with an additional office in Berlin.

Since 1982 he has been self-employed as an artist and lecturer. He directs the internationally active stilt-theatre group „Die Stelzer", has developed more than twenty model projects of cultural education within the federal programme „Kultur macht stark", and lectures at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in the Social Work programme.

Memorial culture and artistic mediation of history have been a central focus of his work for over thirty-five years. As early as 1988, at the invitation of the Dachau artists' groups, he created a public installation addressing the Nazi past. In 2013 he initiated the first exhibition on Landsberg's main square under the title „dieKunstBauStelle", from which the cultural association of the same name emerged in 2014.

In 2018 he founded the Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award and initiated the first international Jewish-German festival week in Landsberg am Lech.

With the BayernHistoryApp he developed a digital instrument for regional history education in Bavaria. From this long-standing combination of digital mediation, artistic practice and historical research grew his collaboration with the historian Dr. Edith Raim — first in the project „Das Labyrinth", then in the NaziCrimesAtlas, for which he leads the overall direction, concept and design.

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