Armin Johnert

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Armin "Jeff" Johnert (* 1960 ) is a German DJ , music producer , music label operator , music journalist and local politician .

Life

Johnert was born in 1960 and grew up in Osterode am Harz . He studied economics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Johnert began his career as a DJ while still studying in 1984 at the Göttingen alternative disco Pink . At the same time he was active in various EBM and New Wave bands such as The Ballad Bombs , The Fynecry and Bigod 20 . From 1988 to 1989 he was responsible for purchasing New Wave / Indie at WOM .

Through his acquaintance with Talla 2XLC , Johnert came to the record distributor AMV / Logic in 1989, where he was responsible for exports. Talla 2XLC also put in contact with the techno magazine Frontpage , founded by Jürgen Laarmann and Stefan Weil , for which Johnert was editor-in-chief from July 1989 . After differences with Jürgen Laarmann about the further direction of the magazine, Johnert withdrew from the magazine in 1992 together with the Technoclub, which had been the publisher to date . Together with Talla 2XLC, he revived New Life Soundmagazine from 1992 . He also played DJ Jeff at the Frankfurt Club Bizarre at Dorian Gray for ten years . As a music producer, he was involved in the publication of projects such as Caspar Houser , Illuminatus , PAC-Men , Nils Bergen and Techno Teens . He founded and operated the record labels 23 Frankfurt and 3 Lanka .

From 1991 Johnert was initially employed in the export department and later as sales manager for Discomania's exclusive sales department ; he remained active in this function until the company's bankruptcy in 2010. In 2008 Armin Johnert appeared in the documentary We Call It Techno! on.

Johnert has been running a wine shop in Bad Homburg since 2009 . In the same year he became parliamentary group leader of the Bad Homburg citizens' list.

Johnert has been married to Frank Hirschelmann since 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Dreisbach: 500 singles, 150 guests and a well-known DJ . In: fnp.de of June 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Is there a life after music? - Armin Johnert . In: fazemag.de from May 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Erik Meyer: The Techno-Scene: A youth cultural phenomenon from a social science perspective . Leske + Budrich Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3810025876 , page 102.
  4. ↑ About us . In: ccfinewine.de, accessed on October 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ Martina Propson-Hauck: The Rejuvenator . In: fr.de of November 5, 2009.
  6. ↑ Imprint . In: buergerliste-badhomburg.de, accessed on October 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Johnert, Armin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeff; DJ Jeff; Johnert, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ, music producer, music label operator, music journalist and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1960