Jakob Kranz (moderator)

Jakob Kranz (born October 15, 1974 in Königs Wusterhausen ) is a German moderator and editor .

Career

Kranz began his career as a child speaker for the radio play ensemble from the radio of the GDR and as a voice actor for DEFA- Synchron . After graduating from high school, Kranz completed a commercial apprenticeship and worked as a specialist consultant and dispatcher at the sound carrier dealer WOM (World of Music) . From 1998 to 1999 he was the production manager of the film production company moovie-The Art Of Entertainment for various cinema, TV and advertising productions. Since his internship at Radio Fritz , the youth radio of the rbb, at the beginning of 2000, Kranz worked there as a music editor, presenter and reporter . He moderated the programs Nightflight , Blue Moon , RadioFritzen in the afternoon and from issue 123 from May 2, 2007 to issue 149 from August 26, 2009, the Chaos Radio of the Chaos Computer Club . In addition, from September 2001 to February 2017, Kranz presented the weekly heavy metal broadcast Stahlwerk on Radio Fritz from rbb.

From summer 2003 to September 2009 he regularly organized the Stahlwerkparty , a metal event in the Berlin area. He was a member of the jury for the Berlin pre-selection for the Wacken Metal Battle and moderator of "Wacken Radio 2008". Jakob Kranz wrote regular columns for the music magazine unclesally * s as well as for the successor magazine Greatest .

In January 2010, Kranz switched to the Berlin editorial team of Metal Hammer magazine . Among other things, he wrote reports on the Rammstein concert in New York's Madison Square Garden , accompanied the Danish band Volbeat in their hometown of Copenhagen, and reported from the studio of the Californian band Machine Head . Kranz was in the production of special issues for Black Album by Metallica in September 2011, Appetite for Destruction by Guns N 'Roses in the spring of 2012 and the chronology History of metal involved.

In October 2012, Kranz switched to the Dortmund magazine Rock Hard as editor . In 2014 he co-founded Deaf Forever magazine and has been part of the editorial team there since the first issue.

After Radio Fritz announced the postponement of the steelworks slot (from Thursday 8 p.m. to midnight) from February 4, 2017, listeners of the program started a petition against the new broadcast time at midnight, which was signed over four thousand times. A short time later, Kranz switched to the radio station StarFM , on which the steelworks has been operating at the usual time since March 2017 under the new name Heavy Hour .

Radio plays

• 1987: Wilhelm Raabe : Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (Hans) - Director: Manfred Täubert (children's radio play (2 parts) - Broadcasting of the GDR )
• 1987: Bodo Schulenburg : The Calf and the Swallow (Jesus) - Director: Manfred Täubert (children's radio play - GDR radio)

Web links

• Jakob Kranz at Metal Hammer

Individual evidence

1. ^ Website of the Chaos Radio
2. ↑ Greatest Berlin website
3. ↑ Editing ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Metal Hammer (accessed November 24, 2010) 
4. ↑ [1] Website of the Rock Hard Magazine
5. ^ The new night on Fritz. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 8, 2017 .  ( 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.    
6. ↑ Petition to preserve the Stahlwerk Radio broadcasting space - online petition. Retrieved March 8, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Friends of harder listening, listen up ... - STAR FM FROM HELL. Retrieved March 8, 2017 .