Günther Huesmann
Günther Huesmann (* 1957 in Münster ) is a German music journalist specializing in jazz .
Career
Huesmann studied musicology , theater, film and television studies and education in Cologne and Berlin. As a trainee in the jazz editorial team of Südwestfunk , he worked with Joachim Ernst Berendt and Werner Wunderlich as early as 1980 . From 1983 to 1987 he was a jazz critic for the Kölnische Rundschau , later as a music journalist for Stereo , Frankfurter Rundschau and Der Tagesspiegel . In 1989 he co-authored the new editions of Berendts Jazzbuch , a standard work on jazz. Since Berendt's death in 2001 he has looked after it alone.
From 1991 to 2001 he directed the Jazz Across the Border festival at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. In 2012 he succeeded Reinhard Kager as head of the SWR jazz editorial team.
In 2011 he was nominated for the Grimme Prize for the documentary film Musik - mon amour (Arte, ZDF, with Daniela Schmidt-Langels) about the Japanese violinist Midori Gotō , the German composer Helmut Oehring and the Israeli singer Yasmin Levy .
Fonts
- Joachim Ernst Berendt , Günter Huesmann: Das Jazzbuch , Fischer TB, 2011, ISBN 3596159644
- Jazz in Germany since 1945 , Music Today, November 1986
Web links
- Message from SWR as the new head of the jazz editorial team in 2012
- Literature by and about Günther Huesmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait (Last Radio Poets) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See also Huesmann: Jazz in Germany after 1945, Goethe-Institut
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huesmann, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |