Peter Metag
Peter "Jimi" Metag (born November 30, 1950 in Peitz ; † May 12, 2013 in Cottbus ) was a German concert promoter . He was one of the main organizers of Jazz concerts in the German Democratic Republic .
Life
Peter Metag lived in Peitz and learned the trade of a locksmith. He never used his actual first name, Klaus-Peter. He became better known under his nickname "Jimi" because he had hair like Jimi Hendrix . As of beat and soul music enthusiast, he organized in 1969 together with Ulli Blobel music events in the movie theaters Peitz and in 1973 the series of events Jazzwerkstatt Peitz . Between 3,000 and 5,000 visitors from all over the GDR traveled to the Peitzer open-air concerts, which take place every year in June. Until it was banned by the GDR authorities in 1982, it was the most popular jazz festival in the GDR.
Jimi Metag gave up his job as a locksmith, continued to manage jazz musicians and, after the Peaceful Revolution, from 1990 also looked after reading trips with jazz and others. a. with Günter Grass and Peter Rühmkorf . In the last years of his life he was dependent on a wheelchair due to a cerebral hemorrhage. For health reasons, Metag was no longer able to participate in the revival of the jazz festival in Peitz from 2011. Metag left behind his partner Silvia Hagen, who had lived with him since 1986.
literature
- Rainer Bratfisch (ed.): Free tones: the jazz scene in the GDR. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-370-7 , limited preview in the Google book search.
- Ulli Blobel (ed.): Woodstock am Karpfenteich: The Peitz Jazz Workshop. With CD, bound. Federal Agency for Civic Education Bonn / Verlag Jazzwerkstatt Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8389-0136-7 , table of contents.
Web links
- Ingo Bauer: Interview with Peter Metag. In: jazzkeller69.de , 1994, (PDF; 32 p., 1.45 MB); Obituary in jazzkeller69.de
- Gerold Hildebrand : Cut off listening area. Jazz-Peitz - Montreux of the East prevented that. In: Horch and Guck , 2011, No. 3, pp. 74-75, review of Woodstock am Karpfenteich .
- Ingrid Hoberg: Peitz - Berlin and then the whole wide world of jazz. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , May 30, 2012, interview with Ulli Blobel.
Individual evidence
- ↑ klt: Jazz Workshop founder "Jimi" Metag is dead. ( Memento of 3 November 2013, Internet Archive ). In: Märkische Oderzeitung , May 15, 2013.
- ↑ Funerary inscription, Alter Friedhof Dammzollstrasse, Peitz
- ^ Peitz Jazz Workshop, 1973 to 1982. In: Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), 1997; Exhibition: Bohemia and dictatorship in the GDR - groups, conflicts, neighborhoods. 1970 to 1989.
- ↑ a b Ingrid Hoberg: "Bauer 4" is reminiscent of Jimi Metag. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , May 15, 2013.
- ^ Antje Rößler: Playground and Hitchhiker Idyll. In: Jazzzeitung , 2011, No. 3, interview with Ulli Blobel.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Metag, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metag, Jimi (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert promoter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Peitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | cottbus |