Jens Sülzenfuß

Jens Sülzenfuß (* February 12, 1939 ; † before March 6, 2016 in Hamburg ) was the author and speaker of jazz programs for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk .

Life

Jens Sülzenfuß worked in the advertising industry, first as a graphic designer, then as a copywriter. He also worked as a speaker in radio commercials. He designed record covers, for example in 1979 for the album Expressly Ellington by the trio Al Haig Jamil Nasser and Art Themes and in 1983 for the album Im Hamburger Federbett by Wolf Biermann , using Goya's lithograph The Sleep of Reason gives birth to monsters . As a drummer, Sülzenfuß worked on the single Die Zubi-Singers in 1983 .

Under the editorship of Michael Nauras , Sülzenfuß started the series "Zeit für Bebop " on Norddeutscher Rundfunk in 1983 , in which he traced the emergence of this jazz style in over 100 episodes. This was followed by series of programs on swing , cool jazz and hard bop . He then moderated numerous jazz programs with portraits and interviews with musicians. Classical and early modern jazz continued to be a focus.

Sülzenfuß owned a collection of at least approx. 25,000 records and CDs. For more than three decades he acted as a radio presenter on a total of over 1,000 jazz programs. He produced until the end and died at the age of 77 in his house in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, where he was found on March 6, 2016.

Web links

• Mourning for Jens Sülzenfuß , obituary by the NDR jazz editorial team