Christian Zürner
Christian Zürner (* 1968 in Lauingen ) is a German jazz bassist and cultural educator.
Life
Zürner first played the piano and drums before switching to the electric bass at the age of fourteen. The autodidact first played as a bass player in various formations in Bamberg . In the 1980s, under the influence of the music of John McLaughlin, he turned to modern jazz and took lessons from Dominique di Piazza . In 1989 he began studying Protestant theology and German at the University of Erlangen, and then between 1993 and 1998 he studied cultural education at the University of Hildesheim . He then worked at the musicology seminar in Detmold / Paderborn in order to then work as a cultural pedagogue in Detmold and in Rüsselsheim. He received his doctorate with a thesis on aesthetic education and early romanticism .
In the mid-1980s he began working with the guitarist Rainer Hartmann . In 2001 her duo CD miniatures was released . In addition, he also plays in other formations such as Madras Special by Ramesh Shotham and in the Bamberg formation Schweinsohr Selection . Zürner has been director of studies at the Evangelical City Academy in Frankfurt am Main since December 2007 .
Book publication
- Christian Zürner: Aesthetic Education and Early Romanticism. Critical dialogues between Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Theodor W. Adorno . Lit-Verlag 2006; ISBN 3-8258-9171-2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zürner, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz bassist and cultural educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauingen |