Karl C. Berger takes over interim management
- Contract with Peter Assmann terminated by mutual agreement
- Karl C. Berger takes over interim management
The state of Tyrol and the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum association, as shareholders of the Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsgesellschaft, will mutually terminate the contract with Managing Director Peter Assmann with effect from December 31, 2022. “The contract is terminated at the personal request of the managing director. We would like to thank Peter Assmann for managing the Tyrolean State Museums in a particularly challenging time due to the pandemic,” explains the Minister for Culture Beate Palrader and Franz Peggerchairman of the association.
The management position is being re-advertised. The interim management will be taken over from November 1, 2022 until the new management is appointed by Karl C. Berger, long-time director of the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum. “Karl Berger is a distinguished museum expert who knows the structures and challenges of the Tyrolean state museums very well. He is ideally suited to take on the responsible management role on an interim basis LRin Palfrader and Franz Pegger. “I am very pleased to be able to take over the interim management and to lead the extremely committed and motivated team of the Tyrolean State Museums in the coming months,” says Berger.
Karl C. Berger, born in Lienz in 1976, grew up in Matrei in Osttirol, is married and has three children. He lives in Flirsch am Arlberg. Berger studied folklore (European ethnology) and political science at the University of Innsbruck. Since 2008 he has been employed at the Tyrolean State Museums, and since 2015 he has headed the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum. Among other things, Berger is a member of the jury for the Austrian Museum Quality Seal, a board member of the Museum of Tyrolean Farmhouses in Kramsach and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the South Tyrolean Museum of Folklore in Dietenheim. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for Remembrance Culture and Folk Culture and of the Documentation Archive Migration Tirol.