Wolfgang Hauck

Wolfgang Hauck (born 1964 in Geisenfeld) is a German multimedia artist, musician and project developer who has been active since the 1980s.
The self-taught artist was already interested in art and music at the age of 13.
He developed electronic musical instruments, staged performances in rural areas, founded a cultural association and completed therapeutic, craft and artistic training.

He has been a freelance artist and lecturer since 1982.
Hauck is the initiator and director of numerous artistic and social projects.

He has lived in Landsberg am Lech since 1991, with additional offices in Berlin and Venice.
Hauck has led the theater group Die Stelzer since 1994, which became internationally known for its theater on stilts.

Hauck developed the pedagogical application of stilt theater as a trauma pedagogical method for the Cultural Relief Program and used it on behalf of the German Foreign Office in refugee camps in Turkey and later in Afghanistan.

A particular focus of Hauck’s work is the culture of remembrance and the artistic communication of history.
In 1988, he was invited by the Dachau artists’ groups to show a public installation on this subject.

In 2013, he realized his first exhibition with construction fences on the main square in Landsberg entitled dieKunstBauStelle.
This gave rise to the cultural and art association of the same name, dieKunstBauStelle, in 2014.

As part of the Kultur macht stark federal program, he has developed more than 20 model cultural education projects for young people and refugees.
Wolfgang Hauck is a lecturer at the University of Augsburg in the practical part of the social work course.

In 2018, he initiated the Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award (WDCA ), the first International Jewish-German Festival Week in Landsberg am Lech with the Bernstein Anniversary Concert.

Hauck is also known for his work in the field of digital and multimedia exhibitions.
With the BayernHistoryApp, he has brought digital local history in Bavaria to the smartphone.

The collaboration with Dr. Edith Raim and the project Das Labyrinth developed from this context. Another joint project is the Digital Atlas of Nazi Crimes (Nazi Crimes Atlas).

In the portrait series Landsberger Leute, Peter Wilson writes about him: “Without Wolfgang Hauck and his seemingly unlimited enthusiasm, Landsberg’s cultural landscape would be qualitatively and quantitatively poorer”.

Photo: Conny Kurz