Bernd K. Otto

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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

Bernd K. Otto (2013, with the Red Hot Hottentots and Hugo Strasser )

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernd K. Otto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Lückemeier: Bernd Otto . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. December 12, 2018. Series of Frankfurt faces
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ Jürgen Schwab: Jazz Contrasts . In: Ders .: The Frankfurt Sound. A city and its jazz history (s) . Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei. 2004, p. 245
  5. ↑ Horst Lippmann (Ed.) The Barrelhouse Book 40 Years of Jazz. Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag 1993; P. 129
  6. ↑ The Banjo Podium. An obituary . Retrieved June 8, 2019
  7. ↑ Program of the 15th International Dietzenbach Jazz Days 2005 in the Dietzenbach community center
  8. ^ Dreieichenhain Castle Festival. Appearance notice 2009 . Retrieved June 8, 2019
  9. ↑ 11. Bingen Swingt 2006 website festivalticker.de. Retrieved June 8, 2019
  10. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Swing and Bebop in front of the altar . Retrieved June 8, 2019
  11. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography. In: lordisco.com. September 2019, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
  12. ^ Review of the book in Photo-Deal magazine . Retrieved June 8, 2019
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ Anselm Kiefer: The source of the Danube . Michael Werner, Cologne 1978
  15. ↑ 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)
  16. ↑ Table of contents (German National Library)
  17. ↑ Bernd K. Otto, Leo Übelacker: Zeitlofs market 1167–2007. Insights into the history of a village . Rhön- und Saalepost publishing house, 2007
  18. ↑ German Record Prize 1977 . In: Fono Forum , 5/1977, p. 13. fonoforum.de, accessed on June 8, 2019
  19. ↑ Frankfurt Swing All Stars - Can't We Be Friends. In: discogs.com. Discogs , accessed September 13, 2019 .
personal data
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