Bernd K. Otto
Bernd K. Otto (born September 19, 1947 in Hanover as Bernd Kurt Otto) is a German jazz musician ( banjo , guitar ) and author.
Live and act
Otto began in 1967, just after he attended the Freiherr-vom-Stein-School , the high school had taken, at the Goethe University in Frankfurt study for teachers at elementary and secondary schools and majored in education sciences, biology and art education. From 1972 until the beginning of his retirement in 2001 he worked as a teacher at the Wallschule, a special school for people with learning disabilities, in Frankfurt am Main.
At the age of 16 Otto received his first banjo and taught himself to play as an autodidact . In 1965 he received jazz lessons from Carlo Bohländer and Emil Mangelsdorff . From 1975 to 1995 he was a member of the Frankfurt Barrelhouse Jazz Band ; he was involved in numerous tours in 30 countries and in record productions. In 1980 he founded and directed the group Jazz Classics , with which two albums were created, in 1985 he founded the Frankfurt Swing All Stars and in 1988 the European Swing All Stars , which he still directs today; with the first group two albums were created. From 1984 to 2002 he was editor of the journal Banjo Podium with Uli Heier .
Since 2005 he has played with Hugo Strasser at times in the string formation Strings Only, which he founded and led, with Martin Weiss , Max Greger junior and initially Aladár Pege (later Paul G. Ulrich ). He also played with Harold Ashby , Chris Barber , Jimmy McPartland , Paul Kuhn , Gustl Mayer and Bill Ramsey . Since 2009 he has been the musical director of the Red Hot Hottentots . According to discographer Tom Lord , he was involved in 55 recording sessions between 1975 and 1994.
Further occupations
Otto has been interested in Photographica since 1972 . He collects cameras, accessories and documents, especially from Carl Zeiss and its subsidiaries; he has published in numerous specialist journals in Germany and abroad and in 2012 published the extensive reference work Carl Zeiss Camera Register 1902–2012 .
From 1976 to 1978 Otto documented his works for Anselm Kiefer during this time and produced Kiefer's first book Die Donauquelle .
In his second residence, Zeitlofs , Otto laid out a fern garden in the old churchyard in 2016 with all of the Lower Franconian ferns . He also wrote two articles about the regional flora for the book Die Sinn - Wildbach in a cultural landscape of the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern . In 2007 he wrote a local history of Zeitlofs with Leo Uebelacker.
Private
Bernd K. Otto has been married since 1971 and lives with his wife Renate in Frankfurt am Main.
Discographic notes
- Barrelhouse Jazz Band: You Are Driving Me Crazy . Bellaphon 1976 ( German Record Award 1977)
- Jazz Classics Classic Jazz (Joke Records 1981, with Herbert Christ , Reimer von Essen , Arndt Huppertsberg , Horst Schwarz , Gerhard Abt, Dieter Nentwig , Wolfgang Sommer)
- Barrelhouse jazz band Plays Jelly Roll Morton ( Intercord , with Reimer von Essen, Horst Schwarz, Frank Selten , Agi Huppertsberg, Lindi Huppertsberg , Hans-Georg Klauer, rec. 1981)
- Frankfurt Swing All Stars Can't we be friends (Joke Records 1987, with Conny Jackel , Gustl Mayer , Jo Schomann, Ata Berk , Klaus Lohfink , Flip Gehring )
- Frankfurt Swing All Stars Jive at Five ( L + R Records 1989, with Conny Jackel, Gustl Mayer, Claude "Fiddler" Williams , Fritz Hartschuh , Dieter von Goetze , Ata Berk)
- The Two Clarinet Stompers Clarinet Joys (Stomp Off 1992, with Reimer von Essen, Alain Marquet , Agi Huppertsberg, Michael Däumling, Hans-Georg Klauer)
literature
- Peter Lückemeier : Bernd Otto . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 12, 2018, Frankfurter Faces series
- Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Wanderer between worlds - Bernd K. Otto . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 19, 2019, pp. F12 / F13. Row of Göpferts Runde
- Bernd K. Otto / Frankfurt Swing All Stars . In: Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclams Jazzführer . 3. Edition. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X . P. 121 f.
Web links
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: biography. ) Zeiss.com (
- Short biography ( Memento from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry. jazzdaten.ch; accessed on June 8, 2019
- Bernd K. Otto at Discogs (English). Retrieved June 8, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bernd K. Otto: Carl Zeiss Camera Register 1902–2012 . Publisher Rudolf Hillebrand. Neuss. 1st edition 2012. ISBN 3-9813746-4-9 . P. 24
- ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Lückemeier: Bernd Otto . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 12, 2018. Series of Frankfurt faces
- ↑ The magazine Photographica Cabinett incorrectly lists him as one of the authors in issue 66/2015 under the name of Bernd "Karl" Otto . ( Contents of notebook 66 2015 . In: cabinett.de . Retrieved on May 10, 2019)
- ↑ Jürgen Schwab: Jazz Contrasts . In: Ders .: The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei. 2004, p. 245
- ↑ Horst Lippmann (Ed.) The Barrelhouse Book 40 Years of Jazz. Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag 1993; P. 129
- ↑ The Banjo Podium. An obituary . Retrieved June 8, 2019
- ↑ Program of the 15th International Dietzenbach Jazz Days 2005 in the Dietzenbach community center
- ^ Dreieichenhain Castle Festival. Appearance notice 2009 . Retrieved June 8, 2019
- ↑ 11. Bingen Swingt 2006 website festivalticker.de. Retrieved June 8, 2019
- ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Swing and Bebop in front of the altar . Retrieved June 8, 2019
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography. In: lordisco.com. September 2019, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
- ^ Review of the book in Photo-Deal magazine . Retrieved June 8, 2019
- ↑ Bernd Otto and the history of ZEISS photography. Interview with Bernd Otto in German. In: Photography Now. Carl Zeiss AG , accessed on June 26, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Anselm Kiefer: The source of the Danube . Michael Werner, Cologne 1978
- ↑ Julia Raab: Ancient, mystical, but inconspicuous . In: Saale newspaper . Non-partisan district newspaper for Bad Kissingen, October 10, 2016 ( mainpost.de accessed on June 8, 2019)
- ↑ Table of contents (German National Library)
- ↑ Bernd K. Otto, Leo Übelacker: Zeitlofs market 1167–2007. Insights into the history of a village . Rhön- und Saalepost publishing house, 2007
- ↑ German Record Prize 1977 . In: Fono Forum , 5/1977, p. 13. fonoforum.de, accessed on June 8, 2019
- ↑ Frankfurt Swing All Stars - Can't We Be Friends. In: discogs.com. Discogs , accessed September 13, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Otto, Bernd K. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Otto, Bernd Kurt (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |