Robert Urmann

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Robert Urmann (born May 27, 1935 in Ried im Innkreis ) is an Austrian jazz expert, event manager , journalist , photographer , club official and lecturer in adult education .

Live and act

Robert Urmann is the son of Rudolf Urmann. He mainly acquired his knowledge of jazz through self-study. For years he wrote freelance reviews of jazz events for the daily newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten and other Austrian newspapers and magazines. His reviews have been quoted several times in international journals. He is a member of the artists' association MAERZ and worked there for a time on the association's board as a treasurer .

Urmann founded the Linz Jazz Club in 1956 and acted as its chairman for decades. The venues for the events he organized with internationally known jazz performers in Linz included: a. the Congress Hall of the Linz Chamber of Labor , the March Gallery and Weinberg Castle . His jazz lectures at the adult education center formed the basis for the regular group of visitors to the jazz events not only in Linz, but also in other Austrian cities.

He worked as a jazz advisor at the youth department of the city of Linz , at the Linz event company (LIVA) for the Bruckner Festival and for Ars Electronica . With the creation of the first Linz jazz plan, he managed to manage the concert series of the cooperating organizers as a group as Jazz on the Danube . The concert series for improvised music launched in October 2006 under the title Jazztime in the Brucknerhaus expressly refers to the great Linz jazz tradition initiated by Urmann and friends in the 1950s.

Urmann was anchorman for the jazz era in Linz between 1954 and 1978. The America House was the first place to stay. A permanent home was found in the Chamber of Labor, which was opened in 1953. The activities were carried out by the JazzClub founded in 1956, the adult education center and the City of Linz Cultural Office. The city developed into Austria's top address for jazz.

Awards

  • Art Award of the City of Linz (2012)

Publications

  • Glenn Miller in Linz. 101st birthday of a star , in: Kulturbericht Oberösterreich, Volume 59 (2005), Volume 3, p. 10.
  • Jazz in the Innviertel. 25 years of art and culture Raab , in: Kulturbericht Oberösterreich, Volume 59, (2005), Volume 2, S 9 PDF
  • Jazz emerges in Linz Characteristic of an upward trend of around twenty years, in: Linz aktiv, No. 59 (1976), Impulse S III-IV
  • Jazz and poetry , in: Kulturbericht Oberösterreich, Volume 60 (2006), Volume 10, p. 21.

literature

  • Urmann, Robert: jazz critic, photographer, producer , encyclopedia entry in: Otto J. Groeg, Who's who in the Arts: Biographical Encyclopedia, Containing some 13.000 Biographies and Adresses of Prominent Personalities, Organizations, Associations and Institutions Connected with the Arts in the Federal Republic of Germany, Volume 2, 1978, p. 326.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New concert series for friends of improvised music in: Brucknerhaus website ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. queried on November 10, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brucknerhaus.at
  2. ↑ Jazz in the Congress - The End of an Era in: ORF Upper Austria from April 11, 2012 queried on April 11, 2012
  3. ↑ Robert Urmann, in: Awarding of the art appreciation prizes 2012 in: Press release of the city of Linz from November 13, 2012, website of the city of Linz requested on November 10, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Urmann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian jazz expert, event manager, journalist, photographer, club official and lecturer in adult education
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ried im Innkreis