Frank Wonneberg
Frank Wonneberg is a German author who mainly deals with topics related to vinyl records .
Life
Frank Wonneberg comes from a musician's household. His father was an orchestra director and university lecturer . In the mid- 1970s , Wonneberg completed an apprenticeship as a handwriter . After serving in the army in the GDR , he first studied musicology and then cultural history . He then returned to the publishing world and worked for various magazines such as the youth magazine Neues Leben . He designed record covers for the Amiga and designed posters for rock bands and music events.
After the reunification he came to Henschel-Verlag für Kunst und Theater , where he worked for the music magazine NMI - Neue Musik Information , which merged shortly afterwards with the Messitsch magazine . He was also responsible for digital media at the Institute for Film, Image and Sound . In 1993 he and two friends founded a vinyl mailorder . In 1995 he developed Living Vinyl magazine with his friend Ekkehard Sommer , which was discontinued after four issues. At the end of the 1990s he got in touch with the Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf publishing house , where he published the vinyl lexicon .
Wonneberg works for the "Society for Historical Sound Carriers" in Vienna and is co-editor of the Lindström publications . He is also a member of the “ARF Society” and the IASA country group Germany / Switzerland .
Works
- 2000: The Vinyl Lexicon . Lexicon Imprint, ISBN 3-89602-226-1
- 2008: Label customer vinyl . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-371-1
- 2011: Grand Zappa, International Frank Zappa Discology . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-89602-581-4
- 2016: The Vinyl Lexicon . Updated large format edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, ISBN 978-3-86265-622-6
literature
- If you do something, you can do it right right away . In: MINT, magazine for vinyl culture , No. 14, August 2017, p. 30, article about Frank Wonneberg
Web links
- Frank Wonneberg speaks in detail about the vinyl dictionary. Video on YouTube
- GND 1119806402
- Society for historical phonograms
- ARF Society
- IASA country group Germany / Switzerland
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SURNAME | Wonneberg, Frank |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German non-fiction author |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |