Axel Brüggemann

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Axel Brüggemann (born December 19, 1971 in Bremen ) is a German music journalist and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Brüggemann studied history , art history and musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and worked as a journalist for the world and the Frankfurter Rundschau, among others . In 2001 he moved to Welt am Sonntag as music editor . There he became text editor in 2004 . From 2006 to 2008 he was editor-in-chief of the classic magazine crescendo .

Brüggemann also works as a publicist and writes for various media. He was a columnist for Hörzu and is an employee of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , the Stern and the "Cicero".

He also works as a scriptwriter, director and presenter for ZDF , 3sat , arte , various ARD companies and SKY . His films include Heintje, Henze, Nina Hagen ( WDR ), “Beethoven's bestseller - Für Elise ” (arte), “Mozart's legacy - The Magic Flute ” (arte), “ Peter and the Wolf - Story of a World Success” ( arte), “The wrestler. Love, Power and Money with Richard Wagner ”(SKY) and“ The Saint and the Pope - Rolando Villazon in the footsteps of Francis ”(ZDF). He wrote the screenplay for 30 years of New Year's Eve gala for ZDF, moderated the Folle Journeé and other classical events for arte and appeared as a backstage reporter in Götz Alsmann's “Nachtmusik”. He is also a member of the rating jury for the television program “ I wear a big name "( SWR ). Brüggemann also develops numerous television formats such as “Stars of Tomorrow” with Rolando Villazon. In 2016 ZDF / arte broadcast the series “Epochs of Music History” which he designed, where he also directed the last episode, “Die Moderne”. Brüggemann moderated the eight-part show “Art in the City” on the trail of street art for SKY . He also developed the concept for the live broadcasts of the Bayreuth Festival for SKY, which he also moderates. For “Bayreuth the Show” he was nominated for the Grimme Prize in 2018 . In 2019, Axel Brüggemann received the Bavarian Television Prize in the Culture category for his moderation and the book for “Bayreuth die Show”.

In 2006 Brüggemann criticized the Berliner Philharmoniker and its chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle under his own name in the “ Park Avenue ” magazine . The orchestra no longer has a “German sound”, others could make music better “in black, red and gold”. Three weeks later, Brüggemann wrote, this time under the pseudonym “Fabian Bremer”, another article with the same thrust in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, which was criticized by many.

Brüggemann is particularly concerned with conveying classical music: In 2007, Brüggemann developed and produced the CD series of the Kleine Hörsaal , in which children meet classic stars, and which was awarded the Echo Klassik in the same year . After he wrote a Mozart biography for children, the book “Wie Krach zu Musik wird” ( Beltz ) appeared in 2010 and his Wagner biography for young people “Genie und Wahn” was published by the same publisher in 2013. Since 2008 Brüggemann has moderated the “Public Viewings” of the Bayreuth Festival, since 2012 the cinema broadcasts from Bayreuth on a regular basis.

In his book Wir zurück die Politik (2009), Brüggemann developed his visions for more civic engagement, more transparent politics and more dialogue between politicians and voters - among other things, he raises the question of whether Obama would also be conceivable in Germany.

In 2011 Brüggemann published the book "Landfrust - Ein Blick in die deutscher Provinz", in which he addresses the problems of the German province in a novel, essays and reports. Brüggemann's thesis is that we are romanticizing country life while we abolish it: churches, schools, mom and pop shops are being closed, rural life is being brutalized, and the villages are threatening to become the nation's new ghettos.

Fonts

  • The interviews . The opera glasses, Hamburg 2000.
  • Charlotte. The best columns from Hörzu . Ehrenwirth, Munich 2004.
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Mozart Dialoge (Ed. Johanna Fürstauer), Residenz Verlag, Vienna 2005.
  • Wagner's world or how Germany became an opera . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2006.
  • The small lecture hall (children's classic series with Hilary Hahn, Thomas Quasthoff, Christian Thielemann, Katharina Wagner). Deutsche Grammophon, Berlin 2007.
  • We're taking back politics . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • Who was Mozart? Jacoby & Stuart, Jacoby & Stuart publishing house , Berlin 2009. ISBN 978-3-941087-52-1
  • How noise becomes music. A music history for young people (with guest contributions by Daniel Barenboim, Thomas Quasthoff, Daniel Hope and others) Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2010.
  • Landfrust - A look into the German province , Kindler / Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-463-40592-6
  • "Genius and Madness - The Life of Richard Wagner" Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2013.
  • When I found silence: A plea against the noise of the world , Franz Welser-Möst , noted by Axel Brüggemann, Brandstätter, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-7106-0454-6

Awards

  • 2019 Bavarian TV Prize in the category of culture and education as moderator and author of the show Bayreuth Festival 2018 - Lohengrin and Bayreuth - The Show .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ YouTube: Excerpt from the backstage column with Axel Brüggemann
personal data
SURNAME Brüggemann, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bremen, Fabian (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen