Berthold Seliger (Author)

Berthold Seliger (born 1960 in Rheinberg-Orsoy ) is a German concert promoter and publicist .

Life

Seliger grew up in Orsoy, Fürstenfeldbruck and Grafrath - Wildenroth . He studied music education . From 1980 to 2000 he lived in Fulda, where he worked as a teacher. In 1988 he founded a concert agency there, which operates under his name and as the “Office for Music, Texts & Strategies”. He has organized European tours for Calexico , Lambchop , Pere Ubu , The Residents , Tortoise , The Walkabouts and Townes Van Zandt, among others . He has also worked as a German tour operator for Lou Reed , Patti Smith , Bratsch, Van der Graaf Generator , Rufus Wainwright , Lucinda Williams , Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Youssou N'Dour, among others .

Seliger publishes a regularly published newsletter , which in 2003 received the Mersha Award from Musikexpress , Rolling Stone and Metal Hammer for the “best newsletter” in the music industry. He also runs a blog. Seliger also regularly writes articles on music and cultural-political topics, for example in concrete , Berliner Zeitung , FAZ , Junge Welt and Freitag .

Since 2013 he has published several essayistic non-fiction books on the subject of "international music business" as a journalist . He gave keynote speeches at various national and international major educational events , for example at the Zurich music fair m4music.

Berthold Seliger has lived in Berlin since 2000.

Essay non-fiction books

• The business with music: an insider report , 352 pages, Edition Tiamat , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89320-180-8 .
• I have a stream: for the abolition of fee-financed state television , 303 pages, Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89320-199-0 .
• Klassikkampf: Serious music, education and culture for everyone , 496 p., Matthes & Seitz , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95757-467-1 .
• From the imperial business: How large corporations destroy cultural diversity. Concerts - Festivals - Social , 344 pages, Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89320-241-6 .

Awards

• 2013: Mersha Award for the "best newsletter in the music industry"

Web links

• Berthold Seliger - Blog | Concert agency Seliger
• Berthold Seliger in conversation with Zündfunk , Bayern 2 on July 9, 2019
• "Empire business": A book about the music business , Arte -Journal from July 4th, 2019, 3-minute video
• Short biography and reviews of works by Berthold Seliger at perlentaucher.de
• Jürgen Kleindienst: From Highfield to Wacken: These corporations set the pace for German music festivals - who is behind Highfield, behind SMS, Splash, Full Force, Wacken, Melt, Wacken or Rock am Ring? It is no longer the impresarios of the old school who are in charge of the concert and festival business, but large corporations, says the author and organizer Berthold Seliger. That has consequences for cultural diversity - and ticket prices. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, August 22, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019 . 

supporting documents

1. ↑ The complete interview: Berthold Seliger , Deutsche Welle from October 1, 2013, accessed July 27, 2019.
2. ↑ documented by blog entry from June 7, 2019.
3. ↑ THOMAS WINKLER: "I am manically enthusiastic music listener" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 28, 2013, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 46 ( taz.de [accessed June 29, 2020]).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Reeperbahn Festival International , reeperbahnfestival.com, accessed July 27, 2019.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Author profile Berthold Seliger at Edition Tiamat, accessed July 27, 2019.
6. ↑ Berthold Seliger - Blog | Concert agency Seliger. Retrieved June 29, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Berthold Seliger Keynote , Conference Empire Business or Cultural Diversity , accessed July 27, 2019
8. ↑ Monopoly in the global concert business - keynote with Berthold Seliger , m4music.ch, accessed July 28, 2019.
9. ↑ Tour operator Berthold Seliger criticizes the greats of the music industry , Die Zeit from September 9, 2013, accessed July 27, 2019
10. ↑ Berthold Seliger on pop culture and "creative industries" as gentrification , telepolis interview by Reinhard Jellen with Seliger from March 9, 2014, accessed July 27, 2019.
11. ↑ Interview about his demand to abolish public television , Neue Westfälische from December 10, 2015, accessed July 27, 2019.
12. ↑ Seriously open ears for serious music , review in Frankfurter Rundschau of October 6, 2017, accessed July 27, 2019
13. ↑ "Corporations are only interested in superstars" Berthold Seliger in conversation with Carsten Beyer , deutschlandfunkkultur.de from May 13, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019.