!!!Baumgartner, Ulrich

b. Berlin (Germany), March 20, 1918, 
d. Graz (Styria), Aug. 18, 1984, manager of cultural events and 
director. At the age of 17 assistant in the commercials department at 
the Universum Film Company (UFA), after 1945 art editor and artistic 
director in Graz, organized the Kapfenberg Festival in Styria. 
1964-1977 artistic director of the  Vienna Festival, brought ballet 
into the programme. Founded the "Arena", an alternative festival to 
traditional "highbrow" events and worked at the avant-garde festival 
steirischer herbst in Graz.



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