Rainer Lotz

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Rainer Erich Lotz (* 1937 in Hamburg ) is a German discographer and jazz historian as well as an economist and political scientist who specializes in development aid.

Life

Lotz is a mechanical engineer, political scientist and economist (doctorate in Karlsruhe in 1965 on comparative costs in developing countries) who worked for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in development aid. He is also a passionate record collector, organizes record auctions and is the author of numerous publications on historical recordings, radio history, ragtime, jazz, etc. a. in “Doctor Jazz”, “Storyville”, “Der Jazzfreund”, “Banjo Podium”, “Hot Jazz Info”, “Fox on 78” (column “Of needles and cans”), “The bell jar”, ​​“Sound and smoke ", The" Black Music Research Journal "," 78 Quarterly "," International Discographer "," IASA Journal "," ARSC Journal ". He is the editor of the German National Discography , which is supposed to list all recordings made in Germany from the shellac period (78 records, around 1890 to 1960). The discography appears in the series of vocal recordings (operas, songs), cabaret, dance music, voice recordings, Judaica, ethnic recordings. His discographies appear u. a. self-published by Birgit Lotz Verlag , Bonn, and Storyville Records . As a jazz historian he researched a. a. the jazz propaganda band " Charlie and his Orchestra ", which performed in English on behalf of the Reich Propaganda Ministry in the Third Reich, and the early work of black musicians in Europe.

In 1998 he received the ARSC (Association of Recorded Sound Collections) Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017 he received the IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) Special Recognition Award. Lotz lives in Bonn . He is the father of the jazz flutist Mark Alban Lotz . In 2014 he received a Grammy nomination in the Historical Album category for the CD box Black Europe, which he was responsible for .

Part of his collection of over 60,000 shellac records went to the Library of Congress in 2009 .

Works (selection)

  • “Gramophone records from the ragtime era”, Harenberg 1979
  • "German hot discography. Cake Walk, Ragtime, Hot Dance & Jazz - a manual “, Lotz Verlag 2006
  • with Ian Pegg (Ed.) "Under the Imperial Carpet - Essays in black history 1780-1950", Rabbit Press, Crawley, Sussex 1986
  • Ed. And co-author "Black People, Entertainers of African descent in Germany and Europe", Lotz Verlag 1997
  • "German Ragtime And Prehistory Of Jazz - Volume 1: The Sound Documents" (in German and English), Storyville 1985
  • with Ulli Heier "The Banjo on Record - a Bio-Discography", Greenwood Press, Westport 1993
  • Ed. "Deutsche Nationaldiscographie", Lotz Verlag, from 1991 to 2007 24 volumes
  • With Horst Bergmeier “Hitler's Airwaves - the Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing”, Yale University Press 1997, with CD
  • the same "Charlie and his Orchestra - an obscure chapter in German jazz history", in Knauer (Ed.) "Jazz in Germany", Darmstadt Contributions to Jazz Research Vol. 4, 1996
  • With Bergmeier, Eisler “Gone - Documentation of Jewish Musical Life in Berlin 1933-1938”, with 11 CDs, Bear Family, Hambergen 2001
  • With Bergmeier, Kühn "Lili Marleen on all fronts - a song goes around the world", Bear Family 2005, with 7 CDs (around 200 different recordings are presented)
  • With Kühn "Zarah Leander - Can love be a sin", Bear Family 1997, 8 CDs
  • With Bergmeier "Jazz in Germany - the Swing Years", Bear Family 2007, "Jazz in Germany - from Cakewalk to Jazz", Bear Family 2008
  • "Live from the Cotton Club", Bear Family 2003, with CDs
  • "Americans in Europe", in the exhibition catalog "Thats Jazz", Darmstadt 1988 (Wolber Hrsg.)
  • "Jazz under the Nazis" in John E. Hasse "Jazz - the first century", New York 2000
  • Lotz, Willinghofer "The question of survival, water - a resource is becoming scarce", BMZ 1995 (and numerous other reports for the BMZ)
  • Rainer E. Lotz with Michael Gunrem and Stephan Puille "The dictionary of pictures of German shellac records. The German Record Label Book", 5 volumes, Holste-Oldendorf (Bear-Family-Records) 2019, ISBN 978-3899167078

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bonner hopes for "Grammy honors" in the Bonner Rundschau
personal data
SURNAME Lotz, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotz, Rainer Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German discographer and jazz historian, economist and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg