Harald Eggebrecht

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The Percy Warberger writer trio (from left): Harald Eggebrecht, Michael Winter and Sten Nadolny ;
1995 at a reading by Otto Stender in the Georgsbuchhandlung , Hanover

Harald Eggebrecht (* 1946 in Helmstedt ) is a German journalist, author, critic and publicist.

Life

Harald Eggebrecht is the son of the writer Jürgen Eggebrecht (1898–1982) and the pianist Elfi Eggebrecht, b. Stiehr (1905-2000). His brothers are the Egyptologist and director of the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim , Arne Eggebrecht (1935-2004), and the cellist and Munich Philharmonic Jörg Eggebrecht (1939-2009).

Eggebrecht studied literature, musicology and art history in Munich and Berlin, and received his doctorate in 1978. From 1981 to 1987, he was initially cultural editor of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Since then he has been working as a freelance writer for the media, especially for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1995 he realized the series Die Große Geiger on Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Eggebrecht is the author of publications on Goethe, Karl May , Sergiu Celibidache, Philipp Otto Runge , Henri Rousseau , Ludwig II, among others . He was a juror in international music competitions (ARD competition, Munich; Gradus ad Parnassum, Vienna; Louis Spohr competition, Weimar , Joseph Joachim Competition, Hanover; Leopold Mozart Competition, Augsburg). He was also a lecturer in Weimar, Salzburg and Würzburg. His books on great violinists (2005) and great cellists (2007) are considered standard works.

Eggebrecht is the author of the classic video column Auftakt on the Süddeutsche Zeitung's online presence. Together with Sten Nadolny and Michael Winter he wrote the serial novel Das große Spiel under the pseudonym Percy Warberger , which appeared in the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in 1994/1995.

Harald Eggebrecht lives in Munich.

Fonts (selection)

  • Great cellists. With two digressions about great violists , with a foreword by János Starker . Piper, Munich / Zurich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-04669-5 .
  • Great violinists. Kreisler, Heifetz, Oistrach, Mutter, Hahn & Co , with a foreword by Joachim Kaiser. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-492-04264-3 .
    • expanded paperback edition: Große Geiger . Piper, Munich / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-492-24302-9 .
  • Art of napping . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2002, ISBN 3-451-07019-7 .

Web links

Commons : Harald Eggebrecht  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the video column "Auftakt"
personal data
SURNAME Eggebrecht, Harald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Percy Warberger (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic, literary critic and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt