Stefan Amzoll

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stefan Amzoll (born October 21, 1943 in Stuhm ; † October 23, 2019 in Uckerland ) was a German musicologist , journalist and freelance author. 1989/1990 he was editor-in-chief of Radio DDR II and 1990/91 deputy editor-in-chief of the German broadcaster Kultur . One focus of his work was contemporary music .

Life

Stefan Amzoll was born in West Prussia in 1943 and grew up in the GDR . After completing a job-related apprenticeship as a toolmaker , he attended the workers and farmers faculty in Freiberg to prepare for his university studies . From 1968 to 1972 he studied music and theater studies at the Humboldt University in East Berlin . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a research assistant for the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR . From the mid-1970s he also published articles in the association's magazine Musik und Gesellschaft . In 1987/88 he was - meanwhile music editor - at the social sciences faculty of the Scientific Council of the Humboldt University in Berlin with the dissertation A Music on the radio of the Weimar Republic - Studies on the history of the genesis of media-specific art production and communication to the Dr. phil. PhD. The reviewers for the work were Günter Mayer , Gerd Rienäcker and Dieter Boeck . Amzoll was one of those researchers in the GDR who were open to new music .

In 1977 he began his journalistic career as an editor at the second program of the radio program of the radio of the GDR ( Radio DDR II ). On May 1, 1978, he was awarded the Order of the Banner of Labor in Level II as a member of the journalistic “ collective ” . From 1979 to December 1989 he was editor-in-chief of Ernste Musik at Radio DDR II. There he initiated the program “Radio DDR-Musikklub”, which focuses on contemporary music. He also designed composer portraits by u. a. Georg Katzer , Friedrich Goldmann and Reiner Bredemeyer . From December 1989 to June 1990 Amzoll worked as editor-in-chief of Radio DDR II. The administrative scientist Susanne Hepperle from Saarländischer Rundfunk referred to Amzoll in retrospect as a former "functionary in the basic SED organization of the GDR radio".

After the fall of the Berlin Wall he was temporarily taken over by the new German broadcaster Kultur . From June 1990 he was deputy editor-in-chief under Monika Künzel until he was "suspended" from duty at the end of 1991 by the radio commissioner of the new federal states Rudolf Mühlfenzl and ZDF director Dieter Stolte . The journalist Otto Köhler (1993) found little understanding for this in a guest article in the ZEIT , because DS Kultur was “primarily his [Amzoll's] work” and the music editor “had some trouble with the SED for his program initiatives and a lot of admiration from expert colleagues traded in the west ”.

In November 1992 Amzoll was elected for the first time for the PDS by the Berlin House of Representatives in the Broadcasting Council of the broadcaster Free Berlin .

Amzoll has been a freelance writer since 1992. Contributions and interviews were published in specialist journals for new music ( MusikTexte , Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , neue musikzeitung, etc.) as well as the theater magazine Theater der Zeit and the literary magazine neue deutsche literature . Biographical articles have appeared in the music lexica Composers of the Present and The Music in Past and Present . He also published in the theory magazine UTOPIE Kreativ and in national daily and weekly newspapers ( der Freitag , Neues Deutschland, etc.). He has been writing for the features section of the young world since the early 1990s . More recent radio reports have appeared on Deutschlandradio Kultur ; For Deutschlandfunk he designed specialist programs such as the “Atelier of New Music” until the end.

Amzoll died in 2019 at the age of 76 in the Uckermark . He was buried in the Pankow III cemetery in Berlin.

Radio plays

Fonts (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Jürgen Schebera: What will we say about our days? On the death of Stefan Amzoll . In: Neues Deutschland , November 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d Renate Schubert: Without major damage? Talks with journalists from the GDR . Ölschläger, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88295-179-6 , p. 100.
  3. ^ Stefan Amzoll: Music on the radio of the Weimar Republic. Studies on the genesis of media-specific art production and communication . Dissertation A, Humboldt University, Berlin 1988, no p.
  4. ^ Gilbert Stöck: New music in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg at the time of the GDR. Compositions, politics, institutions . Schröder, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-926196-50-7 , pp. 90, 298f.
  5. ↑ High state awards bestowed on May 1st . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 27, 1978, vol. 34, issue 99, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Susanne Hepperle: Implementation of the West German order model. Radio and television . In: Roland Czada , Gerhard Lehmbruch (ed.): Transformation paths in East Germany. Contributions to sectoral unification policy . Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-593-35868-9 , pp. 191-238, here: p. 211 / fn. 42.
  7. ↑ Brief portrait at exit-online.org , accessed on November 16, 2015
  8. ↑ Otto Köhler : The embezzled transmitter. The decline of an interesting radio program after the fall of the Wall: The misery of DS culture . In: Die Zeit , 12/1993, March 19, 1993.
  9. ↑ Eight new members elected to the Broadcasting Council . In: Neue Zeit , November 28, 1992, vol. 48, issue 278, p. 19.
  10. ^ Publications by Stefan Amzoll in Theater der Zeit , accessed on November 16, 2015
  11. ^ Publications by Stefan Amzoll in UTOPIE Kreativ , listed in issue 129/130 (July / August 2001), pp. 659–660
  12. ↑ a b Obituary: With the best ideas and words . In: Junge Welt , October 31, 2019, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Amzoll, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, author and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Stool
DATE OF DEATH 23 October 2019
Place of death Upland