Manfred Mandl prevailed once morest 17 candidates who had applied for the office. He has been working as head of the Mostviertel-Ost region of Caritas Lower Austria since January 2022, following previously being managing director of Kultur.Region since 2014. Lower Austria had been. He will lead the Landes-Kultur-GmbH (LKG) together with the artistic director Alfred Weidinger. Mandl studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and then worked in controlling, finance and economics functions.
Isolde Perndl will be moving to the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences as managing director at the beginning of September. According to reports, there had been increasing difficulties with Alfred Weidinger. “I was able to support the LKG well in the first phase of its existence, the professional processes are in place – now I can turn to new tasks,” Perndl told the OÖN in December.
Governor Thomas Stelzer (VP) is pleased to have gained a “highly professional and culture-oriented manager”: “He will successfully further develop the cultural institution, which is important for Upper Austria, together with Prof. Weidinger.”
