Paul Bernard Holdengräber (born March 15, 1960)[1] is an American interviewer, curator, and writer.
[1] His parents were Austrian Jews with roots in Romania and Poland, who fled Austria to Haiti during World War II.
[7][8] In Haiti, amid a Jewish community of 107 families, Kurt grew vegetables and worked as a farmer; it was in that country that he met and married Holdengräber's mother.
Under Holdengräber's direction, the institute became an active and lively forum for debate with its ambitious lecture series in which painters, poets, performers, writers and thinkers address critical cultural issues through lively talks, discussions and performances.
[16] Holdengräber founded LIVE from the NYPL, a conversation series with writers, musicians, filmmakers and artists.
[26] Fluent in four languages, Holdengräber has also written essays and articles for journals in France, Germany, and Spain.