Arthur Godel

Arthur Godel (born August 19, 1946 ) is a Swiss cultural journalist and former head of the German-language culture program DRS 2 of the SRG (1995–2008) and vice director of the Swiss radio DRS (2000–2008).

Life

After studying music (violin) at the Lucerne Conservatory and studying musicology , German and Romance languages , Godel became an employee of SRG. He received his dissertation from the University of Zurich with a thesis on the compositional process under Schubert .

Godel taught musical analysis from 1989 to 1994 as a part-time lecturer at the Musicological Institute of the University of Zurich and from 1978 to 1994 at the Zurich University of Music, music history.

Godel presided over the music jury of the Migros scholarship competition from 1998 to 2007 and was a member of the music commission of the city of Basel . His ten-part radio play series The Life of Johann Sebastian Bach was awarded the Zurich Radio Prize in 1985. In 2010 he received an award from the Margrit Egnér Foundation for his versatile work as a cultural mediator and speaker on musical and literary topics .

Godel has been working as a consultant for the JS Bach Foundation since 2008, where he is responsible for the “reflections”. Since 2002 he has been leading the annual literature seminars of the SRF Kulturclub in the Hotel Waldhaus in Sils-Maria.

Publications

• Schubert's last three piano sonatas (D 958-960). History of development, draft and fair copy, work analysis. Valentin Koerner, Baden-Baden 1985.
• On the self-law of Schubert's fantasies. In: Congress report Schubert Congress Vienna 1978 , pp. 199–206.
• Reflection on the Bach cantata "O eternal fire, o origin of love" BWV 34. In: Bach Anthologie 2009 . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Web links

• Short biography of Arthur Godel at the JS Bach Foundation
• DRS 2 should be accessible to everyone: Arthur Godel is stepping down as program director after 13 years. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 28, 2008