Bernd Hoffmann (jazz historian)

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Bernd Hoffmann (* 1953 ) is a German jazz journalist and musicologist .

Life

Hoffmann received his doctorate in 1985 at the Pedagogical University of the Rhineland in Cologne with the dissertation topic The Reflex of Afro-American Music in German-language music and radio magazines 1900-1945 . Afterwards he worked for the radio of the ARD and other broadcasters. For the WDR 3 he moderated in the 1990s, among other things, in the programs MusikHaus WDR and WDR 3 Konzert . Between 2002 and 2018 he headed the jazz editorial team at WDR . Here he campaigned for a cooperation with important jazz clubs (such as the Stadtgarten in Cologne or the domicil in Dortmund) and jazz festivals in North Rhine-Westphalia. At WDR he initiated the WDR Jazz Prize and WDR 3 Campus Jazz (a cooperation with the music academies in North Rhine-Westphalia). He is a founding member of the Federal Jazz Conference, was chairman of the Working Group on Popular Music Studies (ASPM) for twelve years, and in 2005 he was the founder of the Radio Jazz Research Association, which includes journalists, scientists and jazz organizers.

As a musicologist, he dealt with the reception of jazz in Germany, with ragtime , blues , sacred singing and video clip analysis. He is the editor of several volumes in the Jazz Research series of the International Society for Jazz Research in Graz. With its long-time director Alfons M. Dauer , he also realized a radio series on the WDR ( Zur Weltgeschichte der Volksmusik , 1992/93). He later worked in several series with the Graz ethnomusicologist Maximilian Hendler ( Sail away 2001/2 on the influence of modern shipping on the spread of European music in other parts of the world, In the Beginning 2006–2008 on the prehistory of jazz).

Hoffmann completed his habilitation in 2003 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and has a teaching position at the University of Cologne (seminar for music education) and the Cologne University of Music (jazz seminar).

The album Blauklang Projekt by Vince Mendoza , which Hoffmann produced for WDR, was nominated for a Grammy in 2009.

Fonts (selection)

  • The reflex of Afro-American music in German-language music and radio magazines 1900–1945 . ( Jazz research . Volume 35). Graz 2003 (dissertation).
  • Editor with Franz Kerschbaumer , Franz Krieger , Thomas Phleps (ed.): Festschrift Ekkehard Jost on the occasion of his 65th birthday. ( Jazz research . Volume 34). Academic Printing and Publishing Company, Graz 2002.
  • Editor with Helmut Rösing: ... and jazz doesn't last. Aspects of Afro-American Music. Festschrift Alfons Michael Dauer. Coda Musikverlag, Graz 1998.
  • "In favor of the German youth". On the reception of Afro-American music in the post-war period. In: Wolfram Knauer (Ed.): Duke Ellington and the consequences. ( Darmstadt contributions to jazz research . Volume 6). Wolke Verlag, 2000.
  • On the West German hot club movement of the post-war period , in Robert von Zahn (ed.): Jazz in Nordrhein-Westfalen since 1946 , Musikland NRW Volume 1, Cologne 1999, pp. 64–89.
  • The communications. Comments on a forbidden fan mail, In: Wolfram Knauer (Ed.): Jazz in Germany . ( Darmstadt contributions to jazz research . Volume 4). Cloud Publishing House, 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in 2003 as Volume 35 by Jazzforschung . Review of Alfons Dauer in Jazzforschung, Volume 17, 1985, p. 236
  2. ↑ Work on the future-proof jazz radio (Neue Musikzeitung)
  3. ^ Website of the working group for the study of popular music with essays by Hoffmann
  4. ↑ The long-term collaboration began in 1986 with Jan Reichow, the theme was the musical illustration of Dauer's The Tradition of African Wind Orchestras and the Origin of Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz journalist and jazz historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953