Hans Zurbrügg

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Hans Zurbrügg (* 1944 in Bern ) is a Bernese hotel entrepreneur, former jazz musician and music producer . He is co-founder of the Bern International Jazz Festival . In his work he also supports the cultural assets jazz and blues.

Musical work

As an amateur trumpeter, he joined the Wolverines Jazz Band of Bern in 1963, of which he was the band leader until its 50th anniversary in 2011. In 1966 he and friends founded the Wolverines Jazz Club , which regularly held concerts in Bern (including Erroll Garner in 1971 ).

In 1976 he initiated the 1st International Jazz Festival Bern and founded the association IJFB ( International Jazz Festival Bern ) for this purpose . As part of the jazz festival - which celebrated its 43rd anniversary in 2018 - concerts by well-known artists take place every year. a. Ella Fitzgerald , B. B. King , Herbie Hancock .

Entrepreneurial activity

Together with his wife, the interior designer Marianne Gauer, he founded ZG Hotels (Hotels Innere Enge and Savoy Bern ) in 1990, after having been co-owner and director of the internationally active Gauer Hotel Group from 1972 to 1990 . In 1992 he opened the Hotel Innere Enge , which is home to the Marians Jazzroom , which today is one of the most important jazz clubs in Switzerland with international guests and has been from Down Beat (one of the leading US jazz magazines) to the “Great Jazzrooms” for years »Is counted.

Zurbrügg has been able to count on the cooperation of his son Benny Zurbrügg for almost 20 years, who has been responsible for all jazz events (over 200 concerts per year) for several years.

Zurbrügg has also been producing jazz albums since 1976. In 2004 he began working on the basis for the realization of The Jazz & Blues ART BOX , a publication containing the jazz and blues concerts of the Bern Festival from 1983 to 2002, all of which were recorded on Swiss television . The edition of 230 DVDs from the archives of the Bern Jazz Festival with high-quality visual and sound evidence of jazz and blues history is considered to be “the most comprehensive collection of video recordings that has ever been presented”, according to Wynton Marsalis .

Awards

In 1989 he was awarded the entrepreneurship prize of the Trade and Industry Association in Bern. In the same year he received the Golden Medal from the Burgergemeinde - the highest award for extraordinary services of the city of Bern. The IJFB association , of which he is still president today, received the highest endowed culture prize in Switzerland from the civic community of Bern in 1995, at CHF 100,000. In 1994 the Pro Renova association awarded him and his wife the Golden Roof in recognition of the planning and implementation of the Hotel Innere Enge . In 2013 he received the Beacons in Jazz Award from New School University in New York .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jazzletter. In: Swissjazzorama No. 15, 2006 (PDF; 1.5 MB).
  2. ^ Christine Nydegger: The hotel where jazz music lives . In: Berner Zeitung . November 26, 2015, accessed October 6, 2018.
  3. ^ Entry in the musician database of Radio Swiss Jazz . Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Michael Feller: Where jazz vibrates from the walls. In the Bern newspaper. March 12, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018.
  5. ^ Christian Strübin: A life for jazz. In: SRF . December 16, 2012 (interview with Hans Zurbrügg), accessed on October 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b Andreas Keizer: Jazz festivals Bern and Montreux open their treasuries. In: swissinfo.ch . November 24, 2015, accessed October 5, 2018.
  7. ^ The Jazz and Blues Art Box.
  8. ↑ Bern Communication Prize to Hans Zurbrügg. In: advertising week . May 12, 2014, accessed October 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zurbrügg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss hotel entrepreneur and music producer, former jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern