Klaus-Martin Bresgott

Klaus-Martin Bresgott (born January 24, 1967 in Greifswald ) is a German art historian and conductor .

Life

After graduating from the church college in Potsdam-Hermannswerder , Bresgott studied German and art history, parallel to choral conducting. He worked as an ensemble singer and founded the Berliner Ensemble Athesinus Consort Berlin in 1992 , with which he recorded several CDs. From 1996 he worked as a freelance cultural manager, dramaturge and conductor. His complete recording of the sacred choral music op. 12 by Hugo Distler was awarded on the best list 3/2008 of the Association of the German Record Critics' Prize. He received the French Choc de Classica in 2019 for the recording of Johann Hermann Schein and Frank Schwemmer . He publishes art studies and choral music.

Bresgott has been working in the cultural office of the EKD Council since 2009 . In 2012 he initiated and curated the nationwide 366-day concert project 366 + 1 - Church sounds from Augsburg to Zittau, and in 2018 he was curator of the exhibition “Called by your name. Maria and Nicholas ”. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Bible and Culture Foundation .

Bresgott is married and has five children.

Publications (selection)

• The Dutch quarter in Potsdam. Homilius, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89706-161-9 .
• Jerichow Monastery. Homilius, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89706-040-X .
• Cistercian monasteries in the state of Brandenburg. Homilius, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89706-900-8 .
• (Ed.): Church sounds. 77 songs for the church year. LVH, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-7859-1065-8 .
• Learn to see. The language of the arts in the world of the Church. Berlin, 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-052315-1
• Learn to see. Images and symbols in the world of the Church. Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052316-8
• (Ed.): Ms. Musica speaks ... Reformation choir book . Bärenreiter Kassel, 2011, ISMN 979-0-006-54129-4
• (Ed.): Chorbuch Leonhard Lechner . Carus Stuttgart, 2014, ISMN M-007-16398-3
• (Ed.): Hugo Distler : The Christmas story op. 10 Urtext. Carus Stuttgart, 2015, ISMN M-007-16589-5
• (Ed.): Hugo Distler : Four motets for Advent and Christmas. Carus Stuttgart, 2015, ISMN M-007-16593-2
• (with Athesinus Consort Berlin ): Leonhard Lechner . Sacred Choral Music. Carus Verlag in coproduction with Deutschlandradio Kultur , 2013, EAN 400-9-35083-384-5
• (with Athesinus Consort Berlin): Frank Schwemmer . Contemporary Choral Music. Carus Verlag in coproduction with Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2014, EAN 400-9-35083-464-4
• (with Athesinus Consort Berlin): Hugo Distler : The Christmas story. Carus Verlag in coproduction with Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2015, EAN 400-9-35083-472-9
• (with Athesinus Consort Berlin): Samuel Scheidt . Cantiones Sacrae. Carus Verlag in coproduction with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2018, EAN 4-00935-083488-0
• New sacred spaces. 100 churches of classical modernism. Park Books, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03860-158-6 .
• (with Johann Hinrich Claussen ): The land of Fontanes. Monuments publications, Bonn 2019, ISBN 978-3-86795-153-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus-Martin Bresgott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography of Klaus-Martin Bresgott at Carus-Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] , accessed on June 6, 2020.
2. ↑ Best List 3-2008 schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on August 26, 2018.
3. ↑ [2]
4. ↑ Employee of the Kulturbüro ekd.de, accessed on August 26, 2018.
5. ↑ Contact | 366 + 1 KIRCHE KLINGT 2012 In: ekd-366plus1.de , accessed on April 12, 2019.
6. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/kunsthistoriker-klaus-martin-bresgott-es-ist-wichtig-mit.1278.de.html?dram:article_id=409958
7. ↑ About us. bibel-und-kultur.de, accessed on August 26, 2018.
8. ↑ New to the Foundation's Board of Trustees. bibel-und-kultur.de, accessed on August 26, 2018.