Heribert Klein
Heribert Klein (born February 15, 1957 in Hachenburg ; † February 9, 2005 in Limburg an der Lahn ) was a German musicologist , organist , journalist and publicist .
Life
Klein came from the Westerwald . He studied school and church music with a focus on organ at the Cologne University of Music as well as German , musicology and pedagogy at the University of Cologne . 1978/79 he completed an organ specialized study to Frescobaldi interpretations at Ferruccio Vignanelli in Rome and in 1987 in musicology about Girolamo Frescobaldi for Dr. phil. PhD . In 1982/83 he received a scholarship from the German Music Council .
From 1987 to the end of 2003, Klein worked in the economic department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and for the FAZ-Magazin , where he interviewed and portrayed numerous international personalities from business and politics. In 2003/04 he was the editor in charge of ThyssenKrupp magazine .
He wrote several books, including about the Jesuit priest Oswald von Nell-Breuning and the work The Signs of Our Time together with the former Tagesthemen moderator Ulrich Wickert .
In addition to his full-time activity as a journalist, he was an organist in the Parish and Pallottine Church of St. Marien , where he also initiated and promoted the Orgel Plus concert series and the Zeitzeichen lecture series . He also worked as an organist at the High Cathedral in Limburg and most recently at the Woehl organ in the Catholic parish church of St. Lubentius in Dietkirchen . Towards the end of the 1970s he gave numerous organ concerts to the public as part of his studies in Rome. a. in a chapel in the Vatican, where he u. a. Impressively interpreted works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy .
Heribert Klein was married and the father of three children. He died of a serious illness in Limburg on February 9, 2005, 6 days before his 48th birthday.
Awards
Publications
- (Ed.): Oswald von Nell-Breuning. Indomitable to humans. Image of life. Encounters. Texts. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1989, ISBN 3-451-21483-0 .
- Girolamo Frescobaldi's Toccatas (= Schott musicology ). Schott, Mainz a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-7957-1852-X .
- Traces into the future . Illustration by Christoph Blumrich. In cooperation with the Heitkamp group of companies , Piper, Munich u. a. 1993, ISBN 3-492-03556-6 .
- (Ed.): Chips instead of brains? Paths into the 21st century (= Fischer . 12659). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1995, ISBN 3-596-12659-2 .
- Expert in diamonds: the anti-rivet book . Kölner Universitätsverlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-87427-058-0 .
- Operation America. Hoechst in the USA . Piper, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-492-03884-0 .
- German fates: In search of the identity of a people . Illustration by Hans Hillmann , Not for sale edition, Heitkamp-Ed., Herne 1998.
- with Klaus Niemöller (ed.): Church music in the past and present: Festschrift Hans Schmidt for his 65th birthday . Dohr, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-925366-62-8 .
- About the illusion and its reality: 25 years of Europa-Park . With photos by Lisa Farkas, Europa-Park, Rust 2000.
- Numerous organ recordings on various CDs
literature
- Ulrich Wickert : The signs of our time. What has become of freedom, equality and fraternity? With a portrait of Heribert Klein and Ulrich Wickert's answers in the questionnaire of the FAZ magazine . Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-89850-116-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heribert Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Heribert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist, organist, journalist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hachenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2005 |
| Place of death | Limburg on the Lahn |