Eckart Rohlfs

Eckart Rohlfs (born December 23, 1929 in Tübingen ) is a German music manager and music journalist .

After finishing school, Rohlfs completed his training in the music trade , learned the flute, piano and organ in private lessons, then studied newspaper studies, musicology and Italian at the University of Munich and received his doctorate in Munich in 1957.

Rohlfs founded the Neue Musikzeitung together with Herbert Barth and Bernhard Bosse in Regensburg in 1952 and has worked there for over 50 years in the editorial office . For decades Rohlfs, who co-founded the “Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland” (then “Musical Youth of Germany”) in Bayreuth in 1950, was one of the most influential officials in German musical life and was a member of numerous committees in Germany and abroad, including in German Music Council , in the entire field of music education and music funding and in many national and international music organizations . The focus of his work was the competitions Jugend musiziert , which he co-founded in 1963 and which he led for 33 years as federal manager , and the European Union of Music Competitions for Young People , which he helped to establish in Brussels in 1970 and which From 1988 to 2007 he was the general secretary in Munich. In 2006 he was a member of the jury of the International Rotary Music Competition in Moscow, Russia. His publications include the Handbuch der Musikberufe (Regensburg 1988). He was also co-initiator of the German Music Council and, from 1986 to 2002, co-editor of the Music Almanach , the standard work on musical life in Germany.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckart Rohlfs in the catalog of the German National Library