E. Dieter Fränzel

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Dieter Fränzel 2009
(in the Waldfrieden sculpture park )
Dieter Fränzel 2014

Ernst Dieter Fränzel (born July 23, 1935 in Wuppertal - Elberfeld ) is a German culture and media educator , music producer and author . He has been organizing alternative cultural projects since the 1960s.

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Fränzel learned the trade of machine fitter at the Rittershaus & Blecher machine factory in Barmer, before qualifying as a technical draftsman . Together with friends he founded the jazz club "Jazzkatakombe" in Barmen in 1957 , and the Jazz Wuppertal interest group in the following year . After completing his social pedagogical training at the Evangelical Youth Academy in Radevormwald and graduating from the Remscheid Academy , he worked as a culture and media pedagogue.

In the 1960s, Fränzel was a jazz consultant at the German Youth Event Service in Düsseldorf, was a co-founder of the working group of West German jazz clubs and a film consultant for the German Jazz Federation . He ran his own concert and guest performance office, worked for Peter Brötzmann and Irene Schweizer , organized tours with a. a. Carla Bley , Paul Bley , Wolfgang Dauner , Gunter Hampel , Inge Brandenburg . In 1964 in Wuppertal he founded the Jazz Laboratory and the Zeitkunst Society for the promotion of contemporary art and culture , which also organized the Jazz series in the opera house . In 1964 he brought Charles Mingus to a concert (later produced for Enja on phonograms) in the town hall in Wuppertal.

From 1968 to 1973 he was the head of the “impuls” action center, in which, in addition to concerts and readings, he also established an art house cinema. In 1974 he co-founded the communication center “ die börse ”, one of the first socio-cultural centers in Germany, in whose planning and conception he played a major role. There he also worked as a program designer and is now active on the advisory board.

From 1976 he worked for the city of Unna for thirteen years , most recently as head of the department for municipal cultural work , where he helped to develop and shape the alternative cultural policy of the district town conceived by Axel Sedlack. To this end, he brought artists such as Hoffmann's Comic Teater around Peter Möbius to Unna permanently and organized the Jazz aktuell concert series and the Unna Jazz Festival in 1982 , where a. produced the music for an album by Peter Brötzmann and Günter Baby Sommer . In 1989 he returned to Wuppertal professionally to be responsible for the “intercultural encounters” in the cultural office as project manager. He then worked at the adult education center in Wuppertal until 1998 .

In 2009 he founded the "KlangArt" concert series in the sculpture park by Tony Cragg , which he also served as curator. As an author, Fränzel has not only published numerous articles and contributions on jazz music, communication centers and socioculture in various publications, but also initiated and edited a book on the regional history of jazz in Wuppertal. In 2006 he organized an exhibition on the history of jazz in Wuppertal. He was also the spokesman for the advisory board of the Peter Kowald Gesellschaft / ort eV

Fonts

  • Sounds like Whoopataal: Wuppertal in the world of jazz Klartext Verlag: Essen 2006 (2nd expanded edition 2008, with JAZZ AGe Wuppertal)
  • Heiner Bontrup & E. Dieter Fränzel The Ernst Höllerhagen story: A jazz musician between National Socialism and the economic miracle. Rediscovery of a swing legend. With discography (1934–1955) NordPark: Wuppertal 2011

literature

  • Heiner Bontrup “Man is what he makes of himself.” E. Dieter Fränzel - jazz expert. Enabler, bringing people together The best time: The Magazine for Lifestyle October / November 2010: 20–25
  • Rainer Kascha The Wuppertal Communication Center ›die börse‹: A contribution to the modernization of social and cultural services Springer VS: Wiesbaden 2013

Web links

Commons : E. Dieter Fränzel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sounds like Whoopataal: Wuppertal in the world of jazz Essen 2006, p. 90
  2. ↑ Sounds like Whoopataal: Wuppertal in the world of jazz Essen 2006, p. 106ff.
  3. ↑ Impulse Action Center - a piece of the mosaic of Wuppertal's cultural history
  4. ↑ Heiner Bontrup “Man is what he makes of himself.” The best time October / November 2010; 20-25
  5. ↑ cf. Axel Sedlack Paths to the human city. The new cultural policy in Unna 1974–2011. Unna / Dortmund 2016 and The Unna Project The cultural policy in Unna 1974–2011
  6. ↑ Cf. Matthias Bigge, Günter Strüder New Cultural Policy in the Ruhr Area Die Blaue Eule, 1994, pp. 119–121
  7. ↑ Jazz in the foreground Wuppertaler Rundschau , March 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Fränzel, E. Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fränzel, Ernst Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German culture and media pedagogue, music producer and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal