Dietrich Boekle

Dietrich Boekle around 2010

Dietrich Boekle (born March 27, 1936 in Tübingen ; † March 25, 2014 in Reutlingen ) was a German composer and painter .

Life

At the age of eleven, Boekle received his first piano lessons from Dolly von Sauer, the daughter of Liszt's pupil Emil von Sauer . From 1950 he took piano lessons with Hilde Esslinger. This was followed by an encounter with the Brahms connoisseur Fellinger and visits to the studio of the Tübingen sculptor Ugge Bärtle . In 1956 he took lessons from Eugen Frosch and entered the master class of Walter Rehberg at the Karlsruhe University of Music. From 1957 to 1959 he gave concerts in Karlsruhe. After Rehberg's death, Boekle continued his piano studies with W. Wolf in Munich, Salzburg and Hanover. An important meeting with the composer Alfred Koerppen took place at the Hanover Music Academy .

In 1960 he continued his piano studies at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe with Valentin Rybing and graduated in 1961 with the concert exam. Concerts abroad and a. a performance of the piano concerto in E flat major KV 271 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the theater in Funchal on Madeira at the Festival de musica . In 1962 radio recordings followed and in 1964 a teaching position at the Academy for Music in Darmstadt. In 1965, together with Angelika Nebel, the world premiere and radio recording of the 5 movements for 2 pianos by Mathias Spahlinger followed . His last appearances as a pianist also took place during this time. Boekle took composition lessons from Konrad Lechner and concentrated more and more on composing. In 1970 he met the conductor and composer Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt and worked with him.

In 1968 he began with the composition Aítion for large orchestra, which was premiered in 1970 by the Norwegian composer Finn Mortensen of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1971 In the Times of Weakness , a mixed-media piece with slide projections, three drums, a jazz formation, sounds from tape based on a text by Brecht , which was performed in Darmstadt and Stuttgart. In the following years Boekle expanded his activities at the Academy of Music by giving lectures on contemporary music. 1973 Participation in the scenic cantata Strik bei Mannesmann , a project of the vds and the DGB under the artistic direction of Hans Werner Henze , which premiered in the same year at the theater of the Berliner Ensemble am Schiffbauerdamm and which had its West German premiere in 1974 during the Ruhr Festival in Recklinghausen .

From 1978 a friendship and artistic collaboration developed with the composer and conductor Hans-Jürgen Wenzel from Halle . In the course of this collaboration, Boekle taught at the Halle composer class , which Wenzel had founded in 1976. One of his students was the composer Annette Schlünz . He was commissioned by the Hallesches Philharmonie (now the Staatskapelle Halle ) for the concerto for large orchestra, which premiered in Halle in 1982 under Hans-Jürgen Wenzel. At the Schauspielhaus Berlin , the second version of the concerto was performed again in 1989 by the Halleschen Philharmonie under the direction of chief conductor Olaf Koch . Boekle maintained intensive artistic contacts with younger colleagues. For the composers Volker Blumenthaler and Cord Meijering it was considered an important stimulus. For many years he worked artistically with the Ensemble Phorminx .

In 1992 Dietrich Boekle returned to Tübingen. After several trips that took him to Cuba, Greece and Morocco, he began studying art, first at the Kolping School in Stuttgart, then at the Free Art School in Stuttgart. In May 2001 he had an exhibition in the Sudhaus (Tübingen) with paintings, collages and drawings from the period 1992 to 2001 under the motto Fields, Traces, Signs . In 2011 he moved to Zalavár in Hungary. In 2013 he moved his residence to Reutlingen for health reasons . Dietrich Boekle died there on March 25, 2014.

Works

Chamber music

• vocal
  • Chile Cantata (1974)
  • Cycle for soprano and ensemble based on Erich Fried (1979)
• Instrumental
  • Palimpsest for five cellos (1982)
  • Aristeas for flute and guitar (1986)
  • Cento 1 for flute and clarinet (1992)

Orchestral works

• Aítion (1970)
• Concerto (1982/1989)

Multimedia works

• In the Times of Weakness (1971)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich Boekle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Boekle at ensemble-phorminx.de
• Obituary notice for Dietrich Boekle