Bert Noglik

Bert Noglik (born May 20, 1948 in Leipzig ) is a German jazz journalist and music critic .

Life

Noglik studied cultural studies at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1974 on environmental design in urban space . He has been a freelance journalist since 1977. From 1976 to 1979 he was the first German correspondent for the Polish magazine Jazz Forum and published its German edition in Warsaw in 1980/1. Noglik has written numerous articles for specialist journals, anthologies, symposia and broadcasts from various broadcasters such as MDR and Deutschlandfunk . He has been a jazz juror at the German Record Critics' Prize since the early 1990s .

From 1992 to 2007 Noglik was artistic director of the Leipzig Jazz Days . In this function he worked on musical and scenic projects (for example survival songs with David Moss and Jeanne Lee , Bach Now with Joachim Kühn and the St. Thomas Choir ). Noglik is an internationally sought-after expert on contemporary jazz and improvised music for symposia and competitions. Since 1999 he has organized the Bach reflections in Jazz at the Leipzig Bach Festival.

On September 10, 2008, Noglik received the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his reporting on Polish jazz since the 1970s and his efforts to promote artistic exchange as the director of the Leipzig Jazz Days , which in 2005 were dedicated to Poland alone . In 2009 he initiated the Sounds no Walls festival series in Berlin .

Noglik was the artistic director of the Berlin Jazz Festival from 2012 to 2014 .

Publications

• Bert Noglik, Heinz-Jürgen Lindner: Jazz in conversation. Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1978, 2nd edition 1979, conversations with 12 jazz musicians from the GDR (with biographical data).
• Bert Noglik: International Jazz Workshop. Verlag Neue Musik 1981, Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17791-9 .
• Bert Noglik: Klangspuren: Ways of improvised music. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-10812-8 .
• Bert Noglik: Peitz and the fire eater from the Center Pompidou , pp. 22–43, in: Ulli Blobel (ed.): Woodstock am Karpfenteich: Die Jazzwerkstatt Peitz. Verlag jazzwerkstatt, Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 2011, 208 pp., Ill. 1 CD-ROM, ISBN 978-3-8389-0136-7 .
• Ulrich Olshausen : In conversation: Bert Noglik. How do you find the right jazz, Mr. Noglik? In: FAZ , October 20, 2012, beginning.

Directorial work

• 1996: Survival Songs - scenic opera for five voices and virtual orchestra with Sussan Deihim, Jeanne Lee, Sainkho Namtchylak , Phil Minton , Conny Bauer , Gunter Hampel , Frank Schulte and Yoshihide Otomo . Concept and direction: Bert Noglik and David Moss . Performances in the Leipzig Opera House, Dresden and in the Berliner Ensemble .

• 1998: Capetown Traveler - music opera with Abdullah Ibrahim and ensemble, Frank Schulte , Lauren Newton and Timbre. Director: Bert Noglik. Performance at the Leipzig Opera House .

• 2008: JazzJandl. The poet Ernst Jandl and his uncanny love for jazz. - Radio play on behalf of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . With Frank Schulte (field recording and electronic composition) and Lauren Newton , voice. Director: Bert Noglik. Broadcasts in 2009 on Deutschlandfunk , Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Südwestrundfunk (SWR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bert Noglik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Noglik portrait by MDR Figaro , November 4th 2010.

Interviews

• “Ecstasy is everything.” In: Tagesspiegel , October 31, 2012.
• Networks of sensual experience. ( Memento from December 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Goethe-Institut , October 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jurors biography for the German Record Critics' Prize
2. ↑ Four new directors for the Berliner Festspiele - Bert Noglik takes over the management of the JazzFest Berlin. In: neue musikzeitung , June 21, 2011.
3. ↑ Noglik: “I leave with a good feeling.” In: Deutsche Welle , October 28, 2014, interview.
4. ↑ Summary of: JazzJandl. In: Deutschlandfunk , March 8, 2009.