About myself
BIRTH
At 17.dec. 1963 in Cluj, (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg) Romania
EDUCATION
1987 – graduated the Agricultural Academy of Cluj
1992, and 1994 – followed Mass-media management training at Budapest
1995 – followed an NGO-management training at Ilieni (Romania)
1998 – graduated the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj (Art History sequence)
1998–2000 – PhD at Rabbinical Institute of Budapest (Cultural History sequence)
LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE: English (fluent, written and spoken), German (working
level), Romanian (mother-tongue level), Hungarian (native)
COMPUTER SKILLS: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, Dbase, Corel Draw, Freehand, Adobe
Photoshop, Aldus Pagemaker, Ventura Publisher, QuarkXPress etc.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Federation to Maintain Jewish Culture in Hungary – Executive Director
Accomplishment: I had initiated and organized events like "Days of Hungarian-Jewish Culture",
International short prose literary contest, within five countries. Both broadcasted and strongly
mediated. Initiated and presented a series of twelve musical events called "Famous Jewish
Composers" (John Zorn, Serge Gainsburg, Burt Bacharach and others). I had reorganized the tender
writing, what had made materially possible the implementation of new activity fields.
Jan. 1999 – Feb. 2000
Szombat (the journal of The Federation to Maintain Jewish Culture in Hungary): – Sales and
Marketing Manager March. 1998–present
Accomplishment: Beside the bad Editorial management, I succeeded in my efforts to rise the
circulation with almost 240% within a year, using mostly the subscriber targeted promotion.
Korunk (Transilvania's premier Hungarian cultural journal): – Public Relations, Circulation &
Marketing Manager. Feb. 1997 – Jan. 1998,
Accomplishment: During the five-month tenure, the circulation grew with over 140%, and I had
initiated and established advertising initiated sales, which was inexistent until that.
Romanian State Television's Cluj Branch, the Hungarian Broadcast --Producer
Jan. 1996 – Feb. 1997,
Accomplishment: I produced cultural shows, I had made portrait-films about artists and I had made
one short essay-film too, titled Sundance, which was presented at the International Essay-film
Contest in Tirgu Mures (Romania).
Művelődés (cultural journal): -- Editor, than (1994) Column Editor & Project Manager
Oct. 1991 – Nov. 1996,
Accomplishment: beside the editorials, essays and studies, which I wrote upon topics such are art-
criticism, history of art and history, I earned the knowledge of editing, computer editing and
publishing. In the same period of time I learned some basic know-how about the circulation
management and accountings.
Művelődés Association, -- chairman Jan. 1995 – March 1997,
Accomplishment: The Association, which was founded to manage the journal's finance, I organized
and opened more than 40 art exhibitions and symposiums that were meant to be our fundraising
strength.
MEMBERSHIPS
Naturinform – (he first environmentalist NGO founded in Transilvania) grounding member
Magyar Újságírók Romániai Egyesülete (Association of the Hungarian Journalists in Romania)
distinguished member
Amnesty International member
Adress:
WINTER PÉTER
Address: 1046 Budapest, Szabolcsi Bence tér 1., I. em. 1.
Phone.h: 230-0564,or 329-5018; office: 311 66 65