Ado Schlier

Ado Schlier (born January 31, 1935 in Würzburg ) is a German presenter , music journalist and artistic director of various festivals.

Ado Schlier, 2019

Life

Since 1954 Ado Schlier has been the artistic director of many concert events, for example he designed the Munich Jazz Days for ten years , the Erdinger Jazz Days from 1978 to 2008 and was responsible for the Burghausen Jazz Festival on radio and television for 30 years . He also advised the Goethe-Institut on worldwide jazz events by German artists.

In the mid-1950s, Ado Schlier began broadcasting at the Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcaster, and in the early 1960s he presented on Radio Salzburg with Herbert Feuerstein . In the mid-1960s he began working on the German-language program of the RAI broadcaster in Bozen . First, Ado Schlier moderated programs there such as music reports , guest book , Leise klingt Musik and Folklore international , later a musically diverse program Meine Radiostunde , in which songwriters also play a major role.

In the mid-1960s, Radio Bremen commissioned him to design a 24-part radio series in love with a small town - portraits of small European towns , later the 12-part series Typically German as an attempt to interpret the moods of different regions.

In 1961 he started the series Jazz auf Reisen with Bayerischer Rundfunk . In 1963 he organized the Munich Jazz Days, which lasted around a week and took place in the sold-out congress hall of the Deutsches Museum , which held 2,300 people. Werner Götze , also from Bayerischer Rundfunk, moderated the event, which attracted international attention and was partially broadcast by more than 30 radio stations worldwide - including Moscow, Johannesburg, Taipei, Addis Abbeba, Djibouti, Tokyo and Ceylon. From 1977 to 1999 Schlier was also an editor in the field of jazz, folk and songwriter on radio. He was part of the team from the very beginning at Bayern 3, which was one of the most successful pop waves in Europe at the time, and designed programs such as Gute Nacht Freunde and Musiklokaltermin as well as Weekend with Bayern 3 and Morning Sky , Musik Report and BR Jazznacht .

His television activity began in the late 1970s with Bayerischer Rundfunk. From 1979 to 1985 he developed the selection model of the Grand Prix for ARD and a series of portrait programs of well-known songwriters for RAI Sender Bozen. For Bavarian TV he was in charge of the show stage with Alfred Biolek and specials with André Heller , Herman van Veen and others.

Schlier also wrote music journalistic articles in many newspapers, for example in tz , Münchner Merkur , Augsburger Allgemeine and Playboy .

Since 1987 he has designed the programs for the Songs on a summer evening festival , which he had also designed.

Web links

• Brief portrait of B3 with photo on b3-history.de
• Portrait in the Main-Post (2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jimmy Jungermann : Munich's Jazz Has Dixie Stomp , Billboard, June 1, 1963.