Lippmann + Rau music archive

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The Lippmann + Rau Music Archive (until 2009: International Jazz Archive Eisenach ) is an international archive for jazz and popular music in Eisenach , which is maintained by the Lippmann + Rau Foundation . It has been located in the " Alte Mälzerei " industrial monument since 1999 , which has also housed the trombone jazz cellar of the Eisenach jazz club for a long time .

history

The archive was founded on May 7, 1999 by Reinhard Lorenz, the head of the Eisenach cultural office, and volunteers who were recruited from the Eisenach eV jazz club . It originally operated under the name Internationales Jazzarchiv Eisenach. It has worked closely with the Lippmann + Rau Foundation since 2006. In 2009 the foundation and the archive entered into a close cooperation with the Liszt School of Music Weimar . The cooperation was financially supported by the Thuringian state program ProExzellenz . This enabled a chair for the history of jazz and popular music to be established at the Weimar University of Music, which Martin Pfleiderer took over. At the same time he was appointed head of the archive.

In parallel with the expansion of staff and the restructuring of the archive, it was handed over to the Lippmann + Rau Foundation in 2009 and renamed the Lippmann + Rau Music Archive . One of the reasons for this was the fact that the collections now stretched far beyond jazz and blues and already covered the entire spectrum of so-called "popular music".

In 2013 the archive was awarded the Thuringian Archive Prize for its long-term commitment to popularizing jazz and preserving unique musical evidence .

The Eisenach Jazz Archive is the only institution of its kind in Germany alongside the Darmstadt Jazz Institute. It sees itself as an institution for jazz research , is based on the cultural history institute of Aby Warburg and focused on the topics of jazz in the dictatorships of Eastern Europe, jazz under National Socialism and the history of blues and jazz as well as American roots music . The archive maintained close connections to Darmstadt and the jazz archive of Rutgers University in the United States. It was looked after on a voluntary basis by the members of the jazz club until 2009.

In November 2014, the archive was promised 250,000 euros in federal funds, which are to be used for the renovation and expansion of the archive's premises.

As the old malt house no longer offers enough space for the growing archive and insufficient fire protection, an extension is planned to form the future core zone of the music archive. Three climate zones for the separate storage of vinyl, paper and films as well as an exhibition area are planned; the listed malt house then offers space for functional rooms. The Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was commissioned to plan the new building in November 2014 .

Foundation, endowment

In 2006, Reinhard Lorenz and the entrepreneur Daniel Eckenfelder together with a board of trustees, z. E.g. the musicians Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffay belong to the Lippmann + Rau Foundation. The aim of the foundation was to preserve the cultural heritage of Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau . Both ran the Lippmann + Rau music agency in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s . The Lippmann + Rau Foundation became the institutional sponsor of the Eisenach International Jazz Archive in 2009 .

Archives holdings

The legacy of the German blues and jazz pioneer Günter Boas forms the basis of the archive's collection . Out of sympathy for the Eisenach Jazz Club, Boas donated an extensive collection of records, magazines, photos, letters and other documents. His collection includes around 6,000 shellac records , around 8,000 long-playing records and EPs, as well as extensive correspondence with jazz musicians. In the course of time, the collection was expanded significantly through private donations. These include the collections of Sigurd Rosenhain , Fritz Marschall and Lienhard Roßberg as well as the estate of the Eisenach-born jazz expert Horst Lippmann, who was a friend of Boas. The guitarist Frank Diez of the Lippmann + Rau Foundation has made a collection of guitars, old original tapes from studio recordings, sketchbooks and other records about his many years of activities and experiences in the music industry available for the archive.

In 2005 the Swiss jazz musician Hazy Osterwald made a large part of his private collection, which includes original scores, personal documents and concert recordings, available to the archive. A year later, the jazz drummer Trevor Richards , who had to give up his house after the flood disaster in New Orleans , gave the archive 7,000 records, books, sheet music and several drum sets.

The business correspondence as well as sound, image and film material from the Lippmann + Rau agency (from around 1960 to 1990) can be found in the archive, as can large parts of the work of the graphic artist Günther Kieser , who worked with the agency for decades. In addition, respected music photographers have left parts of their work to the archive, such as Axel Küstner, Stephanie Wiesand, Friedrich Otto Bernstein or Valerie Wilmer .

The music archive continues to be supplemented by private collections, which it sifts through, indexes and catalogs after donation.

In 2009 the inventory included around 60,000 records / sound carriers, 80,000 photos / negatives, 28,000 magazines, 32,000 articles, 1,500 posters, 2,000 books / brochures and 1,000 videos.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professorship of Jazz History at the Musikhochschule Weimar  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hfm-weimar.de  
  2. ^ Thuringian Archive Prize to Lippmann + Rau Foundation Eisenach , press release of the Free State of Thuringia, accessed on November 22, 2013
  3. ^ Federal government funds the Eisenach Music Archive , accessed on November 18, 2014
  4. ↑ Swiss architect to design a new building next to the malt house , accessed on November 28, 2014
  5. ↑ Jazzzeitung No. 10/2002, p. 22.
  6. ^ Zeit Online, No. 36/2007, p. 49.
  7. ↑ See Eisenach Jazz Club .

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