Reiner Michalke

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Reiner Michalke at the mœrs festival 2014

Reiner Michalke (* 1956 in Cologne ) is a German festival director, former bass player and jazz official. He is known in particular as the program director of the Stadtgarten (Cologne) from the beginning (1986) and artistic director of the mœrs festival from 2005 to 2016. Michalke is the managing director of the “Monheim Triennale”.

Act

Michalke studied economics and music (both in Cologne) and founded the association “Initiative Kölner Jazz Haus eV” in 1978 with Cologne jazz musicians like Achim Fink and Wulfin Lieske, of which he was chairman until 2017.

From 1976 to 1986 he worked as a freelance musician (including "Extempore", "NoNett"), expert for cultural policy, producer ("Stadtmusik") and moderator (including for WDR and Deutschlandfunk ) and as a lecturer for bass, guitar and ensemble playing at the Music school Remscheid active.

Since 1986, when concerts began in the Stadtgarten, he has been responsible for the program there as managing partner. The »Stadtgarten« is an internationally renowned venue for world music and jazz and presents around 400 music events annually on two stages and in the restaurant.

Michalke organized his first festival with the other members of the “Initiative Kölner Jazz Haus eV” in 1978 in Cologne-Holweide (“1st KölnerJazz Haus Festival”). At the “post this & neo that” festival, which took place between 1989 and 1996 in the Cologne Philharmonic , he was artistic director together with Matthias von Welck. For the “ MusikTriennale Köln ” in 1991 (up to and including 2007) he was the artistic director for the area “Jazz and Improvised Music”. In 2001, the "Office for innovative cultural projects and communication" was founded. a. Receptions organized by the federal government. On May 11, 2005 he was appointed artistic director of the Moers Festival . In 2008 he took over the management of the "Improvised Music Moers Network", which the German Federal Cultural Foundation supports from 2008 to 2011 as part of the New Music Network .

After a change in the office of Mayor of Moers and different assessments of the financial condition of the municipal company responsible for the festival, the Supervisory Board accepted his offer of resignation in August 2016.

Michalke, for whom jazz is “a flexible term”, claims a role as a mediator between musicians and politics. He is also a member of the “Europe Jazz Network”, an EU-funded association of European jazz concert directors, of the “Bundeskonferenz Jazz”, where he is responsible for European issues, and of the music advisory board of the Goethe Institute .

Publications

  • Reiner Michalke: Ten Years of Current Music in Cologne , in: Hans-Jürgen von Osterhausen (Ed.): On Stage - 10 Years of Cologne City Garden. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 1996, ISBN 3-7701-3958-5
  • Reiner Michalke (Ed.): The venue for jazz and current music in North Rhine-Westphalia. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2004, ISBN 978-3-89861-354-5
  • Reiner Michalke: Of used and new spaces , in: Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e. V. (Ed.), Audience. power. Culture. Cultural policy between supply and demand orientation , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89861-569-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Monheim Triennale is an international music festival that aims to bring pioneering current artistic positions in the field of improvised, composed and popular music to life. The festival will take place from July 1st to 5th, 2020 in Monheim am Rhein and will then be continued every three years. See about the Monheim Triennale. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ With the upgrading of the city garden to the "European Center for Jazz and Current Music", a separation of office and mandate was made. Michalke resigned from his position on the board and was appointed artistic director by the newly elected board in 2017. See Initiative Kölner Jazz Haus eV elects new board
  3. ↑ “The work for the initiative and for politics occupied him to such an extent that he gradually gave up playing the double bass. The trigger was a studio recording at Ansgar Ballhorn in Odenthal, to which Michalke drove up in a hurry and only noticed at the destination when he opened the trunk that he had forgotten his double bass. ”- Robert von Zahn: Jazz in Cologne since 1945. Concert culture and cellar art . Emons-Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-924491-81-X , p. 220
  4. ^ R. von Zahn: Jazz in Cologne since 1945 , p. 201f.
  5. ^ Moers Festival: Artistic director Reiner Michalke goes , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , 25 August 2016
  6. ^ [1] , World on Sunday .
personal data
SURNAME Michalke, Reiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz official and music manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne