Frieder Reininghaus

Friedrich Christoph Reininghaus, married. Lutz, (born March 13, 1949 in Korntal / Baden-Württemberg ) is a German music journalist and cultural correspondent.

Life

From 1967 Frieder Reininghaus studied music, music and theater studies, German literature and sociology in Stuttgart, Tübingen and Berlin, where he was also employed as a research assistant from 1972–1973. Reininghaus was chairman of the general student committee of the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts from 1968 to 1971 .

Reininghaus has lived as a cultural correspondent and journalist in or near Cologne since 1978, reporting on European music and opera life for Deutschlandfunk , Deutschlandradio , WDR and Südwestrundfunk , various specialist magazines, Rheinischer Merkur and several daily newspapers. He wrote a large number of essays and program contributions to operas and concerts; Guest lectures at the Univerzita Komenského Bratislava . Since 1996 he has been teaching at the University of Bayreuth , since 2005 at the Theater Studies Institute of the University of Vienna and since 2016 at the University of Salzburg .

From 2010 to 2018 Reininghaus (responsible) edited the Austrian music magazine (ÖMZ) in Vienna together with Daniel Brandenburg, initially with the participation of Doris Weberberger and Lena Dražić, and later Johannes Prominczel and Judith Kemp .

On June 11, 2019, Frieder Reininghaus was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Rostock University of Music and Theater .

Reininghaus is the father of the director and artistic director Florian Lutz and the actress Sophie Lutz .

Works

• Schubert and the tavern. Music under Metternich . Oberbaum, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-87628-148-2 (Stockholm 1981, Paris 1982).
• The musical partner. A collection of excellent anecdotes, mishaps and funny stories about the most famous musicians of old and more recent times or about music in general (1830) . Newly published, with an afterword and comments by Frieder Reininghaus. Kassel / Basel 1988, ISBN 3-7618-0919-0 .
• Music theater at the end of the 20th century . In: Helga de la Motte-Haber (ed.): History of music in the 20th century . Laaber 2000, ISBN 3-89007-424-3 .
• Handbook of experimental music and dance theater . Laaber 2004, ISBN 3-89007-427-8 (together with Katja Schneider and Sabine Sanio).
• Handbook of music and culture - media, markets, institutions . Laaber 2006, ISBN 978-3-89007-430-6 (together with Arnold Jacobshagen ).
• Chronicle of Music in the 20th Century (=  Handbook of Music in the 20th Century . Volume 13 ). Laaber 2007, ISBN 978-3-89007-433-7 .
• Bach ABC . Sinzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-89564-126-8 .
• Transitions. The composer and conductor Johannes Kalitzke . Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-89727-420-4 (together with Stefan Drees).

Web links

• Literature by and about Frieder Reininghaus in the catalog of the German National Library