Klaus Totzler
Klaus Totzler (born January 2, 1952 in Vienna ) is an Austrian music journalist, DJ and photographer who lives in Vienna to this day.
Organizational and curatorial activity
He also became known as the artistic director of the Vienna Songwriting Association (VSA) and thus of the Blue Bird Music Festival, which is organized by the VSA. Totzler is also curator of the CD series "Between The Lines".
In 2004 the Vienna Songwriting Association was founded. In addition to Klaus Totzler, the founding members are the musicians Eva Woska and Daniel Mölksmith and the journalist Jenny Blochberger.
The Blue Bird Festival was founded in 2005 by the Vienna Songwriting Association. Over three days, around twelve artists perform in front of around 1,500 people in the Porgy & Bess jazz club in Vienna . The musicians of the Indiefolk Club Festival come from home and abroad and mostly belong to genres such as indie folk, alternative country and singer-songwriter. Klaus Totzler is the festival's artistic director.
Work as a music journalist
From 1992 to 2017 Klaus Totzler worked as a journalist for the ORF - among other things for the programs “Audimax”, “Montevideo” and X-Large , from 1994 he worked in the TV culture department of the ORF, from 2003 as the head of " U-Musik" ". He has produced contributions for the programs Kulturmontag and Zeit im Bild . Totzler is also the designer of various documentaries, including for Hannes Rossacher (“Get Up Stand Up” - Pop and Politics), the ORF show Kunststücke (including about Nick Cave and John Lennon ) and for ORF III (including about Pink Floyd and the Blue Bird Festival ). He was also responsible for directing ORF recordings of concerts by REM and Nick Cave. Among other things, he was responsible for directing the documentary series "Festival Diaries" for ORF eins .
Web links
- Vienna Songwriting Association: http://www.songwriting.at
- Klaus Totzler in a TV interview on the death of David Bowie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhydOYToBZc
- Klaus Totzler at the More Ohr Less Festival 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzLE7z9v9E
- Interview with Klaus Totzler about Viennese pop music in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerald C. Stocker: How much music is there in Austria's music journalists? In: The Gap . January 24, 2016 ( thegap.at [accessed September 13, 2018]).
- ↑ WIENER of the month: Klaus Totzler - intelligent punk with a sense of entertainment . In: Wiener Online . October 25, 2018 ( wiener-online.at [accessed October 31, 2018]).
- ↑ Vernissage: Klaus Totzler - The Other Side · Volume.at - The Event Community. Retrieved September 13, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Gerald Schmickl: The blue bird from the fruit tree . In: Pop, Rock and Jazz - Wiener Zeitung Online . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on November 18, 2017]).
- ↑ Samir Köck: Totzler's festival for singer-songwriters . In: The press . ( diepresse.com [accessed September 14, 2018]).
- ^ "Between the Lines": the sounding yearbook of the Vienna Songwriting Association as a double CD. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Karl Fluch: When the birds chirp in November. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
- ↑ imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG: Get up, Stand up! Retrieved November 18, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Klaus Totzler - European Forum Alpbach . In: European Forum Alpbach . ( alpbach.org [accessed November 18, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Totzler, Klaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian music journalist, DJ and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |