Renate Plöchl (born 29 July 1962 Pasching ) is an Austrian museumist, and scholar. She is director of the Upper Austrian State Library in Linz . She won the Marianne von Willemer Prize, with Dominoa.
Life
Plöchl grew up in Pasching near Linz. She completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller . She studied German, linguistics, journalism and communications at the University of Salzburg and the Free University of Berlin . She wrote her thesis on the work of the Linz writer Maria von Peteani .
Renate Plöchl worked at the Upper Austrian State Museum in Linz and at the Museum of Art History . She then worked at the Open Culture House in Linz before moving to the Directorate of Culture of the State of Upper Austria in 2003, where she took over the management of the Contemporary Culture Department in 2010. Plöchl was also director of the International Theater Festival SCHÄXPIR from 2010 to 2016 .
From 1989 to 2002, she was the editor of the magazine Neues Museum , founded in 1989 by the Austrian Museums Association . From 2006 to 2015, Plöchl was a member of the editorial team of the literary magazine Die Rampe , published by the Stifterhaus Linz .
From 2016, Plöchl has been director of the Upper Austrian State Library in Linz.
Renate Plöchl was married to the artist and journalist Peter Kraml, who died in 2017.
References
- "Historische Bibliografie - Forum OÖ Geschichte". www.ooegeschichte.at. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- "Im doppelten Jubiläumsjahr bei Jungen sehr beliebt". krone.at (in German). 2019-11-16. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- "was lesen sie gerade? Renate Plöchl Direktorin der OÖ. Landesbibliothek". nachrichten.at (in German). Retrieved 2025-01-02.