Jürgen Stark (Author)

Jürgen Stark

Jürgen Stark (born March 20, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German author, journalist, musician and former member of the Popular Music Committee of the German Music Council .

Life

Stark has published numerous books on social, cultural-political and especially popular music topics, including biographies of artists such as Udo Lindenberg and the band Die Prinzen . From 1984 to 2000 he edited the paperback series "Rock Calendar" together with Thomas Böhm. With Dieter Gorny he published several yearbooks on the subject of pop culture.

Stark worked for more than 40 publishers in German-speaking countries. As a journalist, he worked as a concert critic for Die Welt and for seven years as a correspondent for Entertainment Media Verlag ( MusikWoche , Blickpunkt: Film ). As a freelance journalist, he wrote reports for music journals, magazines and daily newspapers. In addition, he was involved in developing the concept for Metal Hammer magazine and was also the editor-in-chief of the paper during the initial phase of the market launch.

Stark worked scientifically for the rock'n'pop museum of the city of Gronau and designed the content for the permanent exhibition there on "The cultural history of popular music in the 20th century". On behalf of the German Phono Academy , Stark developed the SchoolTour project as a project manager in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education , which was started in 1999 as a campaign for more music and creativity in schools.

At the Hamburg University of Music and Theater , Stark was a guest lecturer in the field of media and design (pop course). For many years he was an appointed member of the Federal Committee for Popular Music at the German Music Council.

Stark teaches as a lecturer at universities (including University of Popular Arts , Berlin and EurAka European Media and Event Academy, Baden-Baden) in the fields of media and culture (including history of electronic media, history of popular music in the 20th century, media education and media theory ) and was a co-founder of the Institute for Cultural Communication IKK at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences . Stark was Deputy Director for Media Journalism at the IKK. In the IG Medien in Hamburg he acted as spokesman for the professional group jazz, rock, pop.

Since May 2011, Jürgen Stark has published his "culture column" two to three times a month in the Mittelbadische Presse with the regional editions Offenburger Tageblatt , Lahrer Zeitung, Kehler Zeitung and Acher-Rench-Zeitung as well as the connected Baden Online portal.

Jürgen Stark is the first chairman of the non-profit cultural association International Culture Productions e. V., sponsoring association for the connected pop office in the metropolitan region of Strasbourg-Ortenau, where Stark is also first chairman.

Fonts (selection)

• The SchoolTour Book , Berlin, Bosworth Edition, 2011
• Who does pop history belong to? , Berlin, Bosworth Edition, 2010 (with Gerd Gebhardt )
• pop culture 2002/2003 . Rowohlt, 2002 (with Dieter Gorny )
• Hamburg from 7 to 7 . 24th edition Hamburg, Ternia-Verl. and advertising agency, 2000
• The hit makers . Munich, Econ, 1998
• The princes . Düsseldorf, ECON-Taschenbuch-Verl., 1996
• Udo's Odyssey . Dehrn, Polymedia Marketing Group and Trignon GmbH, 1996
• Renaissance of the philistines . A settlement with 15 years of turning point. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-89533-123-6
• Survival art . Düsseldorf, Zebulon-Verl., 1995
• The football reading book (with Klaus Farin ), Reinbek 1990 ISBN 3-49918-596-2
• The big dizziness? .Punk, New Wave, Neue Deutsche Welle (with Michael Kurzawa ) Frankfurt [Main], Verlag Freie Gesellschaft, 1981

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Stark in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jürgen Stark at the German Music Council