Tom Schroeder

Thomas "Tom" Schroeder (* 1938 in Grünberg in Silesia ) is a German music journalist and music organizer. He moderated various music programs in the field of public radio.

Act

From 1959, Schroeder studied Protestant theology , German and philosophy in Mainz; from 1964 he was editor-in-chief of the Mainz student newspaper nobis . Together with Martin Degenhardt and Reinhard Hippen, he formed the editorial team for Song magazine between 1966 and 1970 .

In 1968 Schroeder was co-organizer of the International Essen Song Days and in 1969 (as well as in the 1990s) the Burg Waldeck Festival . Since 1975 he has been one of the organizers of the Open Ohr Festival and since 1981 one of the organizers of the Lahnsteiner Blues Festival , which he also moderated in part.

In more than 3,000 radio programs for HR3 and various waves of SWF or SWR and WDR he introduced folk and blues , but also cabaret , rock music and rock jazz before. He used the programs with “brilliant interviews” but also “lots of humor, with heart and with the courage to experiment” to promote artists who were established in the USA and who were then unknown in this country, to analyze their songs and to introduce young talents. From 1988 to 2003 he was a permanent editor at SWF and SWR in Mainz. He was also co-author of the television series Sympathy for the Devil , in which Alexis Korner presented the history of rock and blues from 1972. He was on the jury of the German Cabaret Prize and is still a juror for the German Record Critics' Prize .

Prizes and awards

Schroeder was awarded the Blues Louis (SWR Blues Prize) in 2004; In 2005 he received the Peter Cornelius plaque for his services to the development of cabaret and musical life in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Web links

• Portrait (German Record Critics' Award)
• Tom Schroeder at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Cornelius plaque for the Mainz radio journalist Tom Schröder