Bernhard Günther

Bernhard Günther has been Artistic Director of the festival Wien Modern since 2016. From 2012 to 2022 he also directed the festival ZeitRäume Basel – biennial for new music and architecture, which first took place in 2015. From 2004 to 2016, as Chief Dramaturg of the Philharmonie Luxembourg, he was responsible for the festival rainy days among other things. With unfinished studies at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (Violoncello) and the University of Vienna (Musicology, Theatre Studies, Linguistics and more), he came to mica – music information center austria, where he worked until 2004 as curator and deputy director, and as Editor of the Lexicon of Contemporary Music from Austria.

As a passionate visitor and organiser of concerts of various genres and formats he has been intensely involved in new music and its surroundings for over 25 years. He is a cultural manager, curator, author, dramaturge, musicologist, jury member, graphic designer, occasional cellist and part-time biodynamic winegrower, is married, has one daughter, and lives in Vienna.