{{Short description|Austrian music and drama critic (1971–2024)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
'''Peter Jarolin''' (1971 – February 2024) was an Austrian music and drama critic who wrote predominantly about opera and theater in Vienna. He wrote for the daily newspaper, ''Kurier''.
== Life == === Studies and professional beginnings === Jarolin grew up in Vienna. After studying law at the University of Vienna, Jarolin became a music and drama critic for the Viennese daily ''Kurier'' in 1996; he later became an editor at the ''Kurier'', as well.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Korentschnig |first1=Gert |last2=Leyrer |first2=Georg |date=19 February 2024 |title=Der Kurier trauert um Peter Jarolin |url=https://kurier.at/kultur/peter-jarolin-nachruf-kurier-kultur-redakteur-oper/402784753 |work=Der Kurier |language=de}}</ref>
== Writing == Jarolin published several articles in the Vienna State Opera's ''Prolog'' magazine, and in the ''Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde'', published by the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt. He had also held introductory lectures before performances and moderated interviews, for example at the Vienna Musikverein, the ImPulsTanz Festival, and the Grafenegg Music Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artists' profiles |url=https://arsonore.at/kuenstler/kuenstler-2020/peter-jarolin |access-date=20 February 2024 |website=arsonore.at}}</ref>
His reviews of classical pieces were praised in the ''Shakespeare Jahrbuch''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boltz |first=Ingeborg |date=2005 |title=Verzeichnis der Shakespeare-Inszenierungen |journal=Shakespeare Jahrbuch |volume=141 |pages=214, 226}}</ref> Burgtheater actor Peter Matic, in his autobiography, cites reviews by Jarolin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Matic |first=Peter |title=Ich sag's halt |date=16 November 2016 |isbn=978-3-903083-34-9 |pages=69|publisher=Amalthea Signum Verlag }}</ref> International theater scholars cited Jarolin's reviews.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mayer |first=Sandra |title=Oscar Wilde in Vienna: pleasing and teasing the audience |date=2018 |publisher=Brill Rodopi |isbn=978-90-04-37042-5 |series= |location=Leiden |pages=293}}</ref>
== Death == Jarolin died in February 2024, at the age of 52. The Kurier's obituary spoke of "demons" in Jarolin's personal life, and stated: "He never recovered from a health emergency in January."<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 February 2024 |title=Kulturjournalist Peter Jarolin ist tot |url=https://orf.at/stories/3349213/ |work=Austrian National Broadcasting}}</ref> Gert Korentschnig, head of the paper's arts section, wrote that "He is irreplaceable, in every respect," in a personal obituary in the ''Kurier''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 February 2024 |title=Musikkritiker Peter Jarolin 52-jaehrig verstorben |url=https://www.diepresse.com/18178760/kurier-musikkritiker-peter-jarolin-52-jaehrig-verstorben |work=Die Presse |location=Vienna}}</ref>
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