Klaus Walter

This article deals with the moderator and journalist Klaus Walter. For other people see Klaus Walther .

Klaus Walter, 2009

Klaus Walter (* 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a radio presenter, DJ , journalist and author.

Career

Klaus Walter grew up in the Schwanheim district of Frankfurt . He has been writing on pop culture , sports and politics since the mid-1970s . From the late 1970s to the 1980s, he initially worked as a taxi driver and as an editor for the magazine Pflasterstrand . In the 1990s he wrote for Die Beute . Since 1984 he has presented pop music beyond the mainstream in the radio show Der Ball ist rund on Hessischer Rundfunk . In doing so, he often combined the music with current political developments, primarily from a left perspective. At the end of 2008, after the program had existed for almost 25 years, it was discontinued despite numerous protests. Since January 2008, he has been moderating the three-hour, then two-hour and now one-hour program Was ist Musik on the Hamburg internet radio station ByteFM every Monday evening . Since March 2014 he has also moderated the taz.mixtape , a joint production with taz . Outside of ByteFM, Klaus Walter u. a. for Zündfunk , hr2 and Deutschlandfunk radio broadcasts.

Today he writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Frankfurter Rundschau , taz, jungle world , as well as the music magazines Spex , Intro and Rolling Stone .

In his radio programs and texts he deals with pop music and pop culture from a feminist perspective. Furthermore, Klaus Walter maintains a pop-left view of music and deals with topics such as rockism , criticism of the peace song , heteronormativity in pop, with the connection between gay pop culture and gentrification , with left- wing history, with racist stereotypes in pop and the like. a. apart and writes against the " retromantic transfiguration of pop heroes ".

Together with Thomas Meinecke and Frank Witzel , he published the conversation book Turntables in Edition Nautilus in 2005 and The Federal Republic of Germany in 2009 . Walter is currently working on a book about the history of Frankfurt subcultures.

Walter has been a member of the Goethe Institute's Music Advisory Board since 2009 . Together with Carolin Callies , Silke Hartmann, Malte Kleinjung, Michael Müller and Kai Staudacher, he has been organizing the monthly literary series text & beat at Orange Peel in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel since 2011 .

Walter lives in Frankfurt.

Awards

• 2018: International Music Journalism Award

Fonts

• with Frank Witzel and Thomas Meinecke : record player. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus 2005. ISBN 978-3-89401-451-3 .
  • Audio book, read by the authors: Bonn: Normal Records 2005 ISBN 978-3-89401-463-6 .
• with Frank Witzel and Thomas Meinecke: The Federal Republic of Germany. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus 2009. ISBN 978-3-89401-600-5 .

Web links

Commons : Klaus Walter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Klaus Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Moderator page at the ByteFM web radio
• Interview with Klaus Walter on the 20th anniversary of the show The Ball is round on satt.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.taz.de Klaus Walter: What is left today? . the daily newspaper, September 10, 2005.
2. ^ Protest page against the abolition of The Ball is Round and other author programs on hr3
3. ↑ Stephan Loichinger: From in the audible middle . fr-online, November 8, 2008. ( Memento from November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ What is music? In: Missy Magazine, December 20, 2008
5. ↑ "Twenty-four Seven" a week in Pop with Klaus Walter, in: Byte FM website, January 20, 2014
6. ^ "Twenty-four seven" a week in Pop with Klaus Walter, in: Byte FM website, February 24, 2014
7. ↑ “Twenty-Four Seven” a week in Pop with Klaus Walter, in: Byte FM website, March 3, 2014
8. ^ Klaus Walter: Made up voices. In: Jungle World, March 6, 2014
9. ↑ Klaus Walter: What is music? All love legal. In: ByteFM website, February 2, 2014
10. ↑ Klaus Walter: What is music? Is gender a lie? No men today. In: ByteFM website, January 19, 2014
11. ↑ Klaus Walter: What's weird about peace. In: Jungle World, December 22, 2011
12. ↑ “Twenty-Four Seven” a week in Pop with Klaus Walter, in: Byte FM website, November 25, 2013
13. ^ Klaus Walter: Chelsea Boys and Village People. In: Jungle World, July 2, 2003
14. ↑ Klaus Walter: Where Joschka also went in and out. In: TAZ, April 14, 2007
15. ↑ Klaus Walter: What is music? Haithiopia Revisited. In: Byte FM website, March 30, 2014
16. ↑ No premature ejaculation. In: TAZ, March 6, 2013
17. ↑ Klaus Walter: 50 years after the impact. In: TAZ, February 3, 2009
18. ↑ Advisory Board for Music I of the Goethe Institute
19. ^ Award-winning music journalist Klaus Walter - "There can be no John Peel today" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . September 19, 2018 ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed September 20, 2018]).

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