Culture in the Oberbräu Holzkirchen: Managing Director Ingrid Huber says goodbye
Created: 08/10/2022, 07:02
By: Katrin Hager
Going into (un)retirement: Ingrid Huber (69) stops as managing director of Holzkirchner Kultur im Oberbräu.
As a director, she will remain in the culture business in the house.
© Thomas Plettenberg
She gave the community's culture center character, helped build it up and made it flourish.
Ingrid Huber is now retiring as managing director of Kultur im Oberbräu Holzkirchen.
Holzkirchen
– The seven-million-euro, long-term renovation of the Oberbräu in the heart of Holzkirchen was already underway when the then mayor Josef Höß knocked on Ingrid Huber’s door in 2008: could she imagine, in the community’s cultural center, operated via a GmbH, to take the lead?
What was meant by this was: fill it with life, because the management itself was initially the responsibility of municipal treasurer Josef Krause.
Huber first needed time to think about it.
The native of Holzkirchner had already proven back then that she can fill a house with life and creativity: in the former Baywa on Münchner Straße she had been making a small, fine cultural biotope bloom for five years at that time.
The beginnings
Being creative was already hers before Huber was working as cultural director, so to speak.
Actually, she is a sports teacher.
While still studying in Munich – “I already had four children by then” – Huber came into contact with physical theater through the Regensburg dream factory in the early 1980s.
Dance, acrobatics, artistry instead of higher, faster, further.
This also brought her to her home church.
To the gymnastics and sports club (TuS) and also to the middle school.
At some point she wanted to free herself from the corset of the sports club, which she chaired for a long time.
She knocked on the door of Mayor Höß to raise a theater with a lot of improvisation talent in the former Baywa until its demolition - today the boarding house with the restaurant Terra is there: the Fools.
"I wanted to be my own boss," says Huber.
The Fools Theater was a huge success.
"It was somehow so easy, even though it was so much work."
Five years after this step, the mayor asked her if she could imagine taking over the management of the new cultural center.
Another corset, in a municipal company?
But the challenge was tempting, the opportunity unique.
Huber said yes.
Actually exactly the right thing for an organizational talent like her.
The takeover
She got on when the new cultural center was still a construction site.
And shaped the same with her concept and with her partner from the old Baywa, the then cinema operator Gerd Zimmer, who finally moved to the new home.
The planning of the building had to fit the purpose.
Huber's initial concerns never materialized.
"I never thought: Now I'm going to give up." The community stayed out of the operative business and trusted Huber's experience and her small team.
"Of course I have to have the business plan checked," says Huber, who has been the manager since 2017, "but it's also about public money." has become clear in recent years.
And the house is alive: 200 to 250 events took place at normal times per year in Kultur im Oberbräu;
two thirds of them cultural events, the rest company events or weddings.
The embossing
In the cultural program, Huber gave the house its own touch.
"We always screened," says Huber, "we were inundated with inquiries." From agencies that market their artists.
"We always demanded a certain quality and watched the artists live ourselves." Sometimes even friendships developed, many excellent artists, especially cabaret artists, like to come to the Holzkirchner Kulturhaus again and again.
Huber and her team know their Holzkirchner audience.
And the boundaries of the house, with the listed stage in the hall and the cinema under the same roof.
Heavy metal doesn't really fit in there, says Huber and remembers when a moviegoer once complained because the band could still be heard in the opera broadcast in the cinema at the women's carnival.
It shouldn't be too elitist
because otherwise there will be no audience, and it shouldn't be too shallow either.
"We also have an educational mandate," says Huber.
"I am convinced that we humans need culture because it stimulates something in us that is otherwise not stimulated in everyday life, things that you would otherwise not be able to imagine."
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The future
"When I started, I said I'd do it for a maximum of ten years.
Now there are 13,” says Huber, who will be 70 in October.
"Now the big birthday is coming, now it's good." The successor is settled.
Christine von Löwis, who has long proven herself as Huber's deputy for nine years, takes over the management.
Veronika Leo, previously working in the Waitzinger Keller in Miesbach, is at her side as deputy.
Ingrid Huber is not from the world of the Holzkirchner Kulturhaus, even when she officially retires from September 1st.
She remains loyal to the Fools-Theater as spoken theater division of the Freies Landestheater Bayern.
When the Kultur im Oberbräu opens again in September, Huber will no longer be the boss, but will be going in and out as a director: Then the rehearsals for her new production of "Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse" will start.
She is already looking forward to her new life and more time for family, garden and hobbies: "Then I won't be multitasking anymore", Huber quotes one of her favorite books and laughs, "but singletasking."