Dietrich Rauschtenberger

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Dietrich Rauschtenberger (born September 23, 1939 in Schwelm ) is a German author, actor and jazz musician .

Live and act

Rauschtenberger started playing drums in the mid-1950s ; he was a member of various Dixieland and swing bands in the Wuppertal area . In 1960 he met Peter Brötzmann ; with him and Peter Kowald he founded a trio in 1961 that was one of the first groups in Europe to devote itself to free jazz . Since the 1970s he has presented his texts together with his music in music and literature projects. He also published short stories and essays in various anthologies and the journal Jazzthetik .

From 1984 to 1987 Dietrich Rauschtenberger was the drummer in the committee for optical-acoustic interaction with Jochem Ahmann and other artists and musicians.

Since 1986 he has been active in various theater productions as a musician or actor. He improvised with Eugen Egner and Dietmar Wehr in the group Gorilla Moon. He continues to play in the Wuppertal improvisation orchestra , in a trio with Wolfgang Schmidtke and Christian Ramond and in a duo with Paul Hubweber . He also performs his solo performance “The Art of Building a Drum Kit” . In 2005, his radio play How we invented free jazz was produced with Rolf Becker as the narrator. With Hans Wißdorf and Axel Petry he formed the trio Immaculate .

In 1989 Rauschtenberger received the satirical award from the Gladbeck literary office for the short story "More Pipe". In 1994 he was awarded the audience award at the 10th Wuppertal Literature Days for the short story "Kramer's Dachshund".

Fonts

  • Today is tomorrow yesterday , Klinx, 1979
  • From humans and machines , Klinx, 1984
  • More Rohr , Klinx, 1994 (new edition of Romanfürsorge Wuppertal, 2004)
  • Jazz and Ikebana , The fifth animal: Lucerne 2009
  • Trombeck: How we invented free jazz kuk Joachim Körber Verlag, 2015
  • With Kowald in Siberia: A journey to the center of Asia's Nacke, Wuppertal 2015

Discographic notes

  • Open Field Music (1976)
  • Geru (1992, with Andrew Solovyov, Peter Kowald and Alexander Kostikov)
  • How We Invented Free Jazz (2005)
  • Gorilla Moon Ten extemporaneous pieces (2007 with Eugen Egner and Dietmar Wehr)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discussion (muse sheets)
personal data
SURNAME Rauschtenberger, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, actor and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm