Max Dax

Max Dax (* 1969 in Kiel ), partly also: Maximilian Dax , bourgeois Maximilian Bauer , is a publicist , journalist , photographer and graphic artist .

Live and act

In 1992, Max Dax founded the magazine Alert, the first magazine in German-speaking countries whose articles consist exclusively of interviews . Based on Andy Warhol's magazine Interview , the detailed interviews , which are not conducted in a confrontational style, shed light on the life and work of the respective person in an open conversation. In April 2004 the last of the 11 issues of the magazine appeared.

In 1993 he started publishing a free event magazine ( Sonic Press ) in Hamburg . In the meantime he also worked in the music business for Alfred Hilsberg .

In 2003 he worked for six issues as editor-in-chief of the WOM journal .

As a freelance journalist, Max Dax published mainly in the feature pages of Welt am Sonntag and the taz .

From 2007 to 2010 Max Dax was editor-in-chief of the music and culture magazine Spex . After relocating the editorial office from Cologne to Berlin, Max Dax took up the popular culture tradition of Spex from the 1980s and 1990s. Every two months, topics from music and art are contextualized and presented in an expanded discourse context. In an interview with the taz , shortly after he was appointed new editor-in-chief, Max Dax characterized the tradition of Spex as follows: "Political courage, a clear appearance in words, images and design, a commitment to a political and cultural avant-garde in music, modern art, fashion, photography, cinema and literature ”. He had already explained his understanding of the tasks and functions of the magazine in 2005, on the occasion of the magazine's 25th anniversary, in an “Obituary for the Bible of Pop Journalism ” in the Welt am Sonntag . In October 2010 he gave up the post of editor-in-chief. He was replaced by a dual leadership made up of the editors Jan Kedves and Wibke Wetzker.

Since April 2011, Max Dax has been editor-in-chief of the print magazine Electronic Beats , a corporate publishing magazine of Deutsche Telekom . In 2013 he published the book Spex together with the journalist Anne Waak . The book. 33 1/3 years of pop , with selected texts from Spex that document the change in the language of music journalism. In 2019 he curated the exhibition "Hyper! A Journey into Art and Music" in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg .

Max Dax is co-operator of the graphics agency Minus - agency for visual concepts in Berlin.

Publications

• Literature by and about Max Dax in the catalog of the German National Library
• [together with Johannes Beck] The Life and Music of Nick Cave. An Illustrated Biography . Berlin: Die Gestalten Verlag , 2000. 174 pp. ISBN 3-931126-27-7
• [together with Robert Defcon] Only what is not is possible. The history of the Einstürzende Neubauten . Berlin: Bosworth, 2006. 320 pp. ISBN 3-86543-287-5
• Photographer of the illustrated book Palermo - La citta e la musica . Hamburg: Edel Classics, 2007. 120 pp. ISBN 978-3937406961
• Photographer of the illustrated book Napoli - La citta e la musica . Hamburg: Edel Classics, 2008. 120 pp. ISBN 978-3-940004-12-3
• Contemporary album cover design. The most beautiful and innovative record covers . Hamburg: Rockbuch Verlag [edel entertainment], 2008. 108 p. ISBN 978-3-927638-50-1
• Thirty conversations . Frankfurt / M .: Suhrkamp Verlag , 2008. 330 pp. ISBN 978-3-518-12558-8
• Spex. The book. 33 1/3 years Pop , AV - The Other Publishers, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8493-0033-3 , with Anne Waak

Web links

• For me, the interview is a sporting discipline. [Interview with Max Dax by Jakob Buhre], online at planet-interview.de , May 1, 2002
• Electronic beats

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alert Max Dax's website, Thirty Conversations, contains a selection of interviews from Alert . Meike Werkmeister: Letter business with a difference. In: Spiegel Online , July 18, 2002
   
   
2. ↑ “ More than music. Max Dax, Spex's new editor-in-chief, on moving to Berlin, breaking with the old Cologne editorial team - and building on traditions ”[Interview with Max Dax by David Denk]. In: taz , December 16, 2006, p. 19
3. ↑ Max Dax: The Burden of the Living Legend. In: Welt am Sonntag , August 21, 2005
4. ↑ Spex editor-in-chief leaves: Boiled, evaporated. In: the daily newspaper
5. ↑ Ex-Spex boss about corporate publishing: "I've never had so much freedom". In: taz , August 18, 2011
6. ↑ There is always loud shouting anyway. In: taz , March 18, 2013
7. ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: The Whiter Album. Retrieved March 8, 2019 . 
8. ^ Website of Minus - Agency for visual concepts