Michael Rauhut

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Michael Rauhut (* 1963 in Altdöbern ) is a German musicologist , author and expert on the GDR music scene.

Scientific career

Michael Rauhut studied music and cultural studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU) from 1984 to 1989 . From 1989 to 1992 he was a doctoral candidate at the Research Center for Popular Music at HU. In 1993 he received his doctorate in philosophy and became a research associate at the Berlin Institute for Contemporary Youth Research . From 2000 to 2005 Rauhut was a research assistant at the chair “Theory and History of Popular Music” at the HU's Musicology Seminar. In 2006 he became a lecturer at the Institute for Music at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg , and in 2007 he became a research assistant at the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg (FZH). Since January 1st, 2008 Rauhut has been Professor of Popular Music at the Department of Music at the University of Agder in Kristiansand (Norway). Since 2009 he has been a full member of the Agder Vitenskapsakademi .

His specialties include the popular music of the GDR , blues and jazz , the history of popular music and the connection between youth culture and popular music. In addition, Rauhut is involved in a variety of advisory and journalistic activities, including for the Federal Agency for Civic Education , the State Center for Civic Education Thuringia and for the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED dictatorship . From 1996 to 1999 Rauhut was a presenter and editor at the Berlin radio station JazzRadio 101.9 and from 1999 to 2005 was one of the regular authors of the music department of Deutschlandradio Berlin . Since 2008 he has been a member of the jury for blues and related blues at the German Record Critics' Prize . Rauhut is the author, editor and co-editor of numerous scientific publications and non-fiction books on the rock history of the GDR .

Publications (selection)

Book publications

  • Beat in the gray area. GDR rock 1964 to 1972 - politics and everyday life. BasisDruck, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86163-063-X
  • Shawm and leather jacket. Udo Lindenberg, BAP, underground rock and politics in the eighties. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-065-X ; second, slightly changed edition as: shawm and leather jacket. Rock and politics in the GDR in the eighties. State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-931426-70-X
  • Amiga. The discography of rock and pop productions 1964–1990. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-189-3 (together with Birgit Rauhut)
  • Whip east love. The Freygang Book. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-319-5 (together with André Greiner-Pol )
  • Rock in the GDR 1964 to 1989 (Zeitbilder). Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89331-459-8
  • Bye bye, Lübben City. Blues freaks, tramps and hippies in the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X (jointly published with Thomas Kochan); expanded new edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-89602-793-1
  • I've had the blues a little longer. Traces of a music in Germany. Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-495-2 (jointly edited with Reinhard Lorenz)
  • The customer book. Blues in Thuringia. State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-937967-78-3
  • One sound - two worlds. Blues in divided Germany, 1945 to 1990. transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3387-0

Articles (selection)

  • M. Rauhut: Music Knows no Borders. The Political Background of the GDR's International Rock Concerts in the Late Eighties. In: Will Straw et al. (Ed.): Popular Music - Style and Identity. The Center for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and Institutions, Montreal 1995, ISBN 0-7717-0459-3 , pp. 233-235.
  • M. Rauhut: ear to earth. Rock music in the crosshairs of the Stasi. In: Peter Wicke, Lothar Müller (ed.): Rock music and politics. Analyzes, interviews and documents. Ch. Links, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-096-1 , pp. 28-47.
  • M. Rauhut: Blues in red. The Gerulf Pannach case and the ban on the Klaus Renft combo. In: Deutschland Archiv 5/1998, ISSN  0012-1428 , pp. 773-782.
  • M. Rauhut: Looking East. The Socialist Rock Alternative in the 1970s. In: Toru Mitsui (Ed.): Popular Music - Intercultural Interpretations. Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 1998, pp. 343-348.
  • M. Rauhut: Rock music in the GDR. Political coordinates and everyday dimensions. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . Supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament, B 28/1999, ISSN  0479-611X , pp. 32–38.
  • M. Rauhut: The development of light music in the GDR (rock, jazz) and in the transformation process. Expertise on behalf of the German Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany, Study Commission "Overcoming the Consequences of the SED Dictatorship in the Process of German Unity." Published in: German Bundestag (Ed.): Materials of the Study Commission "Overcoming the Consequences of the SED- Dictatorship in the process of German unity ”. Volume IV, 2. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, ISBN 3-7890-6354-1 , pp. 1784-1814.
  • M. Rauhut: Invisible Walls. Rock and Regionalization in East Germany. In: Tony Mitchell, Peter Doyle (Eds.): Changing Sounds - New Directions and Configurations in Popular Music. University of Technology, UTS Printing Services, Sydney 2000, ISBN 1-86365-364-3 , pp. 162-165.
  • M. Rauhut: GDR beat music between engagement and repression. In: Günter Agde (Ed.): Kahlschlag. The 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED in 1965. Studies and documents. Structure Taschenbuch, Berlin 1991, pp. 52–63; completely revised version in: Kahlschlag , 2nd, extended edition. Structure paperback, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-8045-X , pp. 122-133.
  • M. Rauhut: On silver swing through the night. GDR rock in the seventies and eighties. In: Melody & Rhythm. Pictures from 20 years of GDR rock. Photographs by Herbert Schulze. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf´, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-374-8 , pp. 8-13.
  • M. Rauhut: Rock and Rebellion. Altenburg 1976. Sheets on the regional studies of Thuringia. State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2003, 8 pp.
  • M. Rauhut: Small escapes. From the blues of a restless youth. In: Michael Rauhut, Thomas Kochan (Ed.): Bye bye, Lübben City. Blues freaks, tramps and hippies in the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X , pp. 51-67.
  • M. Rauhut: At the window. Rock music and youth culture in the GDR. In: Barbara Hammerschmitt (Red.): Rock! Youth and Music in Germany. Published by the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Ch. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-384-7 , pp. 71-77.
  • M. Rauhut: Art and class struggle. Political premises of musical entertainment on radio in the GDR. In: Ulf Scharlau, Petra Witting-Nöthen (ed.): "When the jazz band plays ...". From hits, swing and operettas. On the history of light music on German radio. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86650-603-1 , pp. 101-130.
  • M. Rauhut: Blues in the GDR. Cultural symbolism, everyday use and political interpretation. In: Stiftung Jugendburg Ludwigstein and archive of the German youth movement (ed.): Historical youth research. Yearbook of the archive of the German youth movement. NF Volume 1 • 2004. Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach im Taunus 2006, ISBN 3-89974-310-5 , pp. 351–372.
  • M. Rauhut: Enter the cathedral. The rock song as a message and medium. In: Barbara Stambolis, Jürgen Reulecke (Ed.): Good-bye Memories? Songs in the Generation Memory of the 20th Century. Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-769-7 , pp. 427-442.
  • M. Rauhut: Black and white nets. Afro-American music as a political medium in the GDR. In: Werner Kremp, David Sirakov (Hrsg.): Global singing from the garden of freedom. Anglo-American popular music and its relevance to US foreign policy. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2008, ISBN 978-3-86821-012-5 , pp. 231–249.
  • M. Rauhut: The beautiful appearance of the real. On the cultural use of the blues in Germany from 1945 to 1990. In: Germany Archive 1/2008, ISSN  0012-1428 , pp. 29–39.
  • M. Rauhut: Let it bleed. Blues discourses in West and East. In: Michael Rauhut, Reinhard Lorenz (ed.): I've had the blues a little longer. Traces of a music in Germany. Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-495-2 , pp. 108-121.
  • M. Rauhut: Dans på Titanic. Tamara Danz and Silly skrev et oppsiktsvekkende chapters i GDR rocking history. In: Benedikt Jager, Jon Raundalen (eds.): GDR - Det det var. Østtysk kultur- og hverdagshistorie. Abstract forlag AS, Oslo 2009, ISBN 978-82-7935-268-6 , pp. 110-112.
  • M. Rauhut: Building Block West and Building Plan East. On the political transformation of youth culture styles in the GDR. In: Georg Maas, Jürgen Terhag (Hrsg.): Musikunterricht heute, Volume 8: Between rock classics and ephemera. 50 years of popular music in school. Lugert Verlag, Handorf 2010, ISBN 978-3-89760-367-7 , pp. 73-82.
  • M. Rauhut: Eléments de l'Ouest, construction de l'Est. Transformation politique des styles de cultures de jeunes en RDA. In: Allemagne d'aujourd'hui 194/2010, ISBN 978-2-7574-0146-0 , pp. 138-144.
  • M. Rauhut: Hero of the working class. To the John Lennon reception in the GDR. In: From politics and contemporary history, supplement to the weekly newspaper Das Parlament 27/2010 (July 5, 2010, ISSN  0479-611X ), pp. 21–28.
  • M. Rauhut: The Voice of the Other America. African-American Music and Political Protest in the German Democratic Republic. In: Timothy Brown, Lorena Anton (Ed.): Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday. Subversive Politics in Europe from 1957 to the Present. Berghahn Books, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-85745-078-4 , pp. 92-108.
  • M. Rauhut: Standing at the Crossroads. Constructions of authenticity in the German reception of the blues. In: Uta Daur (Ed.): Authenticity and Repetition. Artistic and cultural manifestations of a paradox. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-1924-9 , pp. 215-236.
  • M. Rauhut: Undercover Agents for the Blues. How do we know what the blue tones are worth. In: Michael Fischer / Fernand Hörner (Hrsg.): Deutsch-Französisches Musiktransfers / German-French Musical Transfers (Lied und popular Kultur / Song and Popular Culture. Yearbook of the German Folk Song Archive Freiburg, vol. 57, 2012). Waxmann, Münster et al. 2013, ISBN 978-3-8309-2787-7 , pp. 327-345.

Features for radio and television (selection)

  • Wittstock instead of Woodstock. Hippies in the GDR , documentary, RBB, first broadcast on October 10, 2005, 45 minutes.
  • Honecker's filthy children. Hippies in the GDR , radio feature, Deutschlandfunk, first broadcast on January 25, 2005, 45 minutes.
  • In the name of the Lord. Church, Pop and Socialism , documentary, RBB, first broadcast on November 26, 2013, 45 minutes.
  • We never used the pulpit. Church, Pop and Politics in the GDR , radio feature, MDR Figaro, first broadcast on October 1, 2014, 60 minutes.
  • The Voice of America - US Music in the GDR , documentary, RBB, first broadcast on November 8, 2016, 45 minutes.

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personal data
SURNAME Rauhut, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, author, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdöbern