Achim Hebgen

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Achim Hebgen (born April 15, 1943 in Berlin ; † September 25, 2012 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German radio presenter , music producer and former head of the SWR jazz editorial team.

Life

Hebgen became a member of the jazz editorial team of the then Südwestfunk under Joachim-Ernst Berendt in 1970 , after having been Berendt's assistant at the Berlin Jazz Days for three years . Hebgen, who initially worked in the broadcaster's jazz editorial department until 1978, involved, promoted and thus promoted numerous musicians who were hardly known to the general public in the jazz projects of Südwestfunk, the Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden and the jazz program at the Donaueschinger Musiktage made known to a large audience. In his subsequent time as a music editor, he was responsible for the radio club and the pop shop on SWF 3 as well as for the programs Rock Shop, Music Avenue and Forum Musik on SWF 2 . When he took over the management of the jazz editorial team at Südwestfunk in 1991, he devoted himself particularly to the interface between European jazz and world music . In January 2002 he took early retirement.

He worked u. a. as a discographer on Berendt's jazz book , as a producer in productions of the MPS label, a. a. from Jasper van't Hofs Pork Pie or the Association PC , with. In 1996 he brought the Banda Cittá Ruvo di Puglia and Pino Minafra to the Musiktage in Donaueschingen and confronted them there with musicians such as Willem Breuker and Michel Godard ; he also produced the resulting Enja album, thereby contributing to the renaissance of banda music. For Enja he also produced the album Round About A Midsummer's Dream by the Gianluigi Trovesi Nonett , released in 2000 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Press release from Südwestrundfunk (SWR)
  2. ↑ cf. Burghard König Jazzrock: Tendencies of Modern Music Reinbek 1983, p. 239
  3. ↑ Achim Hebgen at Discogs (English)
  4. ^ Peter Bastian: La Banda - Italian blood in German veins ( Memento from July 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), Jazzthetik 3/1998
personal data
SURNAME Hebgen, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio presenter, music producer and former head of the SWR jazz editorial team
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2012
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau