Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe

Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe (born April 25, 1930 in Arnstadt ; † January 9, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German organist, cantor, conductor and university lecturer in Weimar, Ilmenau, Heilbronn and Berlin. Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe was awarded the honorary title of church music director due to his many years of outstanding achievements in the field of church music .

Life

Ibe graduated from high school in 1949. At the age of thirteen, Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe took over the representation of the organist of the St. Jakobus Church in Ilmenau, who was drafted into the Wehrmacht . At his instigation, there was a change in the disposition of the romantically conceived Ilmenau Walcker organ in the neo-baroque style. In the fifties, Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe learned the art of organ playing and improvisation from Johannes Ernst Köhler , a professor at the Weimar Academy of Music, known as the “organ pope” . After graduation, Ibe became his assistant.

The GDR exerted increasing political pressure on Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe and his family because Ibe was employed at the church at the same time: among other things, his three daughters were to be denied the Abitur. Therefore, the family moved to Heilbronn in West Germany in 1982. From 1983 Klaus Ekkehard-Ibe worked as a cantor, organist and conductor in West Berlin .

In addition to his work as a cantor, Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe dedicated his entire life as a conductor of church choir and orchestra and realized numerous performances, including Bach oratorios, passions and cantatas, Mozart Requiem and Brahms Requiem . Furthermore, Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe organized numerous solo concerts as an organist with works by Bach and others.

literature

• Stephan Reisner: Der Tagesspiegel from May 31, 2002

credentials

1. ↑ ^{a b} Der Tagesspiegel - Klaus-Ekkehard Ibe , May 31, 2002
2. ↑ The organ of the St. Jakobuskirche in Ilmenau ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 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. .