Karina Hauptfleisch
Karina Hauptfleisch (néé Karina Bekker, 1945-). Librarian, teacher, arts researcher.
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Biography
Born Karina Lou Bekker in Graaff-Reinet in 11 April, 1945, J.P Bekker (a town clerk) and Anna M. Bekker (a school teacher and bookkeeper). Due to the itinerant nature of her father's work, she grew up end got her early schooling in various places, among them Pearston, Paarl and Barkly West, before completing her schooling at the Hoër Meisieskool Oranje in Bloemfontein. She then studied at the University of the Orange Free State (UOFS), obtaining a BA with majors in English and History, and a Senior Teaching Diploma. She married Temple Hauptfleisch in 1968 and is the mother of IT Company director Anzel Mercker and theatre director, designer and writer Gaerin Hauptfleisch.
Taught one year, then worked for PACOFS as part-time usher and assistant front-of-house manager. Worked in libraries in Pretoria and Stellenbosch for 26 years, before becoming a research assistant and educational co-ordinator of outreach programmes at the University of Stellenbosch's University Museum and Gallery (2000-2010).
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
At the start of the 1960s, while at university, she became the organiser of student ushers for productions put on PACOFS, continuing to do this after her marriage to theatre researcher and lecturer Temple Hauptfleisch, later also taking charge of programme sales at the Civic Theatre, Bloemfontein for three years. Having moved to Pretoria, she was for a brief time the secretary of Dinkteater in the 1970s, and from 1988 onwards served on the editorial staff of the South African Theatre Journal as subscriptions manager, a job she did for more than twenty years (1988-2011).
Because of her husband's role as theatre researcher and critic, she would join him for performances and festivals, probably ending end up seeing more than 4000 theatre and music productions during their active careers.
Given her knowledge, she has been an occasional researcher on theatre and art matters over the years and has been a contributing author to the ESAT encyclopaedia on South African theatre since its founding.
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