Biography: Christian Reder | German | Arabic

Born 1944 in Budapest. Studied at the University of Vienna (social sciences & economics), consultant, writer, professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Head of the Center of Art and Knowledge Transfer). Editor of the book series 'Edition Transfer' at Springer Wien New York, co-editor of the newspapers "Volltext" (literature) and "Recherche" (science) Vienna.

With Eric Pleskow Wien 2007	With Alexander Kluge Salzburg 2006	With Ingrid Reder Venice 2006
With Sadik J. Al-Azm Damascus, 2002	With Amin Maalouf Ile d'Yeu, 2001	With Humberto Maturana Santiago de Chile, 1999

• Writer and editor: essays and 'essayistic' studies on art and artists, history, reformism, cultural relations, codes. Published dialogs and interviews with for example Anatolij Achutin (Moscow), Wolfgang Petritsch (Vienna-Paris), Jacques Le Rider (Paris) or Peter Sellars, Erich Lessing, Alexander Kluge, Zaha Hadid, Wolf D. Prix / Coop Himmelb(l)au, Brigitte Kowanz, Peter Kubelka, Walter Pichler, Bruno Gironcoli, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Günther Domenig, Peter Weibel, Peter Gorsen, Arnulf Rainer, Harald Szeemann, Helmut Lang - and with representatives of various cultures such as Ali Mohammed Zahma, Khazan Ghul, Anwar Amin (Afghanistan), Amin Maalouf (Lebanon) or Sadik J. Al-Azm (Syria) or Mustafa Djamiljow (Crimean Tatars).

• Since 1985, professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2005, Head of the Center of Art and Knowledge Transfer. Member of the university senate. Priorities: Open, 'essayistic' research projects aimed at making differentiations freed from the bounds of the usual disciplines. Student-support for commercial and non-commercial projects. Learning-by-doing. Ties between art and science, between disciplines, cultures, between text, sound and visual media. Audio-visual anthropology. Realization of 'transfer projects' as a means of experiencing cultural similarities and differences and global complexity (for example recently in Damascus, in Libya, in the Ukraine).

• Since 1980. Freelance project worker, concentrated on development programs, the media, civil society, social and political projects.
Main fields: Support projects for Nicaragua 1979/80, followed by permanent work on the 'Austrian Relief Committee for Afghan Refugees' 1980-1994, building up of the organization, establishing the international financing, the programs; month-long periods of residence in Pakistan/Afghanistan. Official corruption analysis for the trial taking place in the aftermath of the construction of the new general hospital in Vienna. Intensive participation in the establishment of the independent publishing house 'Falter' in Vienna (1982-1994). Work on widely-varying approaches for new conceptions; on reform for art schools, for MAK (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts); for the Austrian National Museums. Concepts for an international cultural center in Geneva; for a better design education; for a reform of cultural management courses; for the Patan Museum in Nepal; reform programs for Austrian cultural policy. Ongoing adviser in the fields of the media and publishing; in recent years particularly for Springer Verlag (Vienna-New York) on the extension of its art, architecture and cultural sciences program.

• 1970-1980: After graduating in Vienna, ten years work as management consultant with Knight Wegenstein AG (Zurich - Dusseldorf - London), responsible for 'special projects' in the field of politics and public services and for public relations. Development of systems and organization structures for companies in the fields of banking, construction, machinery, food, media. Later on concentration on public services and political change programs like the Hamburg hospital reform, the Austrian hospital reform, the building department and the police department of the city of Hamburg, the German and the Iranian State Railway.

Personal data: Married since 1966 to Ingrid Reder (fashion designer, 1983-1998 lecturer for fashion and design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna); two daughters.