Reinhard Oehlschlägel

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Reinhard Oehlschlägel (2005)

Reinhard Oehlschlägel (born July 18, 1936 in Bautzen , † April 29, 2014 in Cologne ) was a German music journalist and radio editor .

Life

Reinhard Oehlschlägel was born in Bautzen in 1936 as the son of the lawyer Hans Oehlschlägel and the master tailor Ulrike Oehlschlägel (née Vesper) as the fourth son. In 1945, on the day of the bombing of Dresden , he fled with his family to Lower Saxony , “to Will Vesper's estate , at whose table he was fed for a while as a war child and presumably permanently immunized against right-wing ideas” - that is Gut Triangle at Gifhorn and also What is meant is the disgust for Vesper's National Socialist sentiments, which persisted even after the end of the war. He graduated from high school in Wolfsburg in 1956, studied chemistry and music for high school education in Braunschweig and Hanover, musicology with Rudolf Stephan in Göttingen, philosophy and sociology in Frankfurt am Main (among others with Theodor W. Adorno and at the institute) from 1958–62 for social research ), passed a private music pedagogy examination at the Frankfurt University of Music in 1965 and a concert qualification examination in playing the recorder in Darmstadt with Gerhard Braun .

From 1965 to 1969 he was a critic of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , 1970/71 for the Frankfurter Rundschau .

On January 1, 1972, he became editor in the E-Music department of Deutschlandfunk in the main department of culture and remained so until his retirement in 2001. In 1980, to open the broadcasting hall in Cologne's Funkhaus, he founded a festival with new music, sometimes with old music to the series "NovAntiqua", was then separated again and still exists today as a "forum for new music".

Since 1968 he was a member of the German section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (IGNM / ISCM), from 1982 to 1985 its vice-president, from 1989 to 1993 he was a member of the advisory board of ISCM. From 1991 to 2005 he was responsible for the edition and editing of the World New Music Magazine, the yearbook of ISCM, which he founded and of which he was elected honorary member in 2004.

In 1980, Oehlschlägel gave the impetus to found the Ensemble Modern , which he promoted through journalism and joint projects. In 1996 he initiated the “Young Talent Forum for Composers, Performers and Musicologists”, which he headed until 2002.

In 1981 he was co-initiator of the Cologne Society for New Music (KGNM) and twice on its board (1981–1984; 1990–1993).

In 1983 he and his wife Gisela Gronemeyer founded the specialist magazine MusikTexte , of which he was co-editor until his death. In the same publishing house he edited source texts by various composers together with Gronemeyer.

Through his almost fifty years of activity as radio editor, reviewer, publisher and organizer, Oehlschlägel accompanied and shaped the development of new music in a critical, reflective manner. He was the author of numerous premiere, concert and festival reports, book reviews, interviews, lectures, commentaries, essays and broadcasts on new music.

“His strategy, which has been persistently practiced for decades, of questioning positions and theses taken and confronting them with counter-theses in order to check them for their correctness and durability and, if necessary, to relativize them or to reject them as incorrect, is a tried-and-tested, sometimes unpleasant and annoying means of knowledge . "

Fonts

book

  • Reinhard Oehlschlägel: With skin and hair - Conversations with Mathias Spahlinger - Texts and documents on New Music , ed. v. Rainer Nonnenmann, Pfau, Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 9783897273467 [contains two detailed discussions about the positions and biographical stations of Oehlschlägels, a representative selection of his texts and documents]

Articles, broadcasts, reviews

  • When one hit beats the other. Rhyming and inconsistent in the musical entertainment business , in: FAZ from June 29, 1965.
  • Criticism of music criticism. A radio discussion with Theodor W. Adorno , in: FAZ from March 15, 1965.
  • Mezcaline and sharp dialectics. For the quarter “Pro Musica Nova” in Bremen , in: FAZ from May 18, 1966.
  • Visible and invisible music. Schnebel, Stockhausen and Kagel in the Munich Werkraumtheater , in FAZ on July 22, 1966.
  • Booth magic for intellectuals. Nam June Paik's entertainment through boredom , in: FAZ from July 30, 1966.
  • Evening every night. Herbert Eimert's last musical night program , in: FAZ from December 29, 1966.
  • Taste, triviality, criticism. A dialogue between musicology and music education , in: FAZ from April 25, 1967.
  • Rise of an ensemble. Clytus Gottwald's Stuttgart Schola Cantorum in Baden-Baden , in: FAZ from July 20, 1967.
  • Resolution for snobs. A nightly open-air concert on the Mediterranean Sea , in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of August 11, 1969.
  • The radio, just a distribution machine? Observations and theses on the cultural policy of broadcasting , in: Frankfurter Rundschau from August 15, 1970.
  • Courses, concerts, course concert. On the structure of the Darmstadt summer courses , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of September 2, 1970.
  • A departure in Darmstadt? Participants in the music holiday courses attempted democratization , in: Frankfurter Rundschau from September 11, 1970.
  • 'Change the System' by Christian Wolff , broadcast on Deutschlandfunk on August 5, 1974, 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm
  • "If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep". Experiment about Cage , in: Cage Box , ed. from the Culture Office Bonn, 6. – 14. June 1979, pp. 12-14.
  • Listen to music - understand musical language. On the Presence of Music II , in: The characters. New Aspects of Musical Aesthetics II , ed. by Hans Werner Henze, Frankfurt 1981 (Fischer), pp. 308-314.
  • Experimental city Cologne. New ways of music , in: A thousand flowers. Cultural landscape of North Rhine-Westphalia , ed. by Lothar Romain and Hartwig Suhrbier , Wuppertal 1984, (Hammer), pp. 165-170.
  • Composing in the Federal Republic of Germany. On some aspects of the production, organization and reception of new music , in: Lust am Kompieren (= musical questions of the time 16), ed. by Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Kassel 1985 (Bärenreiter), pp. 139–154.

Secondary literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Max Nyffeler : A contentious, fertile spirit has fallen silent - On the death of Reinhard Oehlschlägel , in: Neue Musikzeitung from May 2, 2014
  2. ^ ISCM Honorary Members
  3. ^ Rainer Nonnenmann: Fragments of a critical physiognomy of the music journalist Reinhard Oehlschlägel , in: Mit Haut und Haaren , p. 11, see list of publications

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personal data
SURNAME Oehlschlägel, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio editor and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 2014
Place of death Cologne