Ernst Hofacker

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Ernst Hofacker (born April 24, 1957 in Recklinghausen ) is a German author, music journalist, radio presenter and editor.

Life

Hofacker graduated from the Münster University of Applied Sciences with a degree in social education in 1982 and worked in this profession until 1989.

As a guitarist, he has played in various amateur bands since 1975, and in 1985 he began writing his first articles as a freelancer for the Westfälische Nachrichten .

In 1989 Hofacker moved to Munich . At first he worked there as a music editor for the local radio station Radio Charivari , followed by an internship at the print magazine Soundcheck from 1990 to 1992 . At the end of 1992 he moved to Bravo as a music editor , and from 1995 he worked for the Musikexpress for eight years . From 2003 to 2008 Hofacker was the head of text for the youth magazine Yam! . He then developed the concept for the new edition of the music magazine Sounds as a subsidiary of Rolling Stone , of which he was the editor until 2009.

Hofacker has been working as a freelance journalist and author since 2010. From 2010 to 2013 he was editor-in-chief of the "Guitar Dreams" magazine.

Hofacker has published several books, including Rolling Stones - Confessin 'The Blues (Bosworth Verlag, 2009, 5th revised edition 2013), the Wolfgang Niedecken "standard work!" and called "absolutely recommendable" . In 2012, Von Edison bis Elvis - how pop music was invented ( Reclam ), a study on the prehistory of pop music, and in 2016 Hofacker published it in 1967 - when pop changed our world forever ( Reclam , 3rd edition 2017). The Frankfurter Allgemeine Woche wrote: "... his analysis is an example of the thorough traditional music journalism that is found less and less in times of self-celebrating pop reporters and discourse theorists." In 1967, when pop changed our world forever, Bild was one of the "really best books" of the year and judged: "An overall view that has been missing so far."

In May 2018 the band Rolling Stones (Reclam, 2018) appeared in the 100-page series of Reclam , in March 2019 the band Live fast, love hard and die young. Tragic stories from rock and pop (Reclam).

In 2013, Hofacker was awarded the 2nd prize at the Karl Theodor Vogel Prize of the German trade press for his article "Tropenholz-Report" as "Specialist Journalist of the Year" .

In 2013/14, Hofacker was in charge of the exhibition project "Generation Pop" as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Völklinger Hütte . From 2014 to 2016 Hofacker managed the Munich indie pop band Matija , formerly The Capitols. In addition, Hofacker presented his own radio program "Circles" on the Internet broadcaster ByteFM from 2016 to 2019 .

After his debut novel Flint or the miraculous song of the Mellotron (Agenda Verlag, May 2019) Hofacker published The 70s again on Reclam in February 2020 . The sound of a decade ( Reclam-Verlag , 2020).

Ernst Hofacker has a daughter and lives in Münster .

Book publications

  • The Princes - Facts, Photos, Backgrounds ( Edel Company , 1994)
  • Rolling Stones - Confessin 'The Blues: The Music of the Rolling Stones 1963 - 2008 ( Bosworth Edition , 2009)
  • Giants. The legendary builders of rock music ( Hannibal Verlag , 2011)
  • From Edison to Elvis - how pop music was invented ( Reclam-Verlag , 2012)
  • Rocky - from myth to musical ( Edel Germany , 2012)
  • 1967 - when pop changed our world forever ( Reclam-Verlag , 2016)
  • Rolling Stones - 100 pages ( Reclam-Verlag , 2018)
  • Live fast, love hard and die young. Tragic stories from rock and pop ( Reclam-Verlag , 2019)
  • Flint or the miraculous song of the Mellotron (Roman, Agenda Verlag , 2019)
  • The 70s. The sound of a decade ( Reclam-Verlag , 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ernsthofacker.de/bucher/rolling-stones-buch-cover-pdf/. Retrieved January 29, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ «Sgt. Pepper »and what else happened in 1967 . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on January 29, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Reclam 100 pages. Retrieved May 29, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ernst Hofacker: "Live fast, love hard and die young!" ( Reclam.de [accessed on April 23, 2019]).
  5. ^ German trade press: Winner 2013. Accessed on January 29, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site: Generation Pop! Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  7. ↑ ByteFM / Team. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ernst Hofacker: Flint or the miraculous song of the Mellotron |. Retrieved on May 10, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ http://agenda.de/. Retrieved on May 10, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ The 70s. The sound of a decade. Retrieved on February 17, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hofacker, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, music journalist, radio presenter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen