Ulli Blobel

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Ulrich "Ulli" Blobel (born November 1950 in Peitz ) is a German concert promoter , publisher and music producer . He was one of the most important organizers of jazz concerts in the German Democratic Republic .

Live and act

Blobel attended school in Peitz and then completed an apprenticeship as an optician . He organized his first music events from 1969 in the Peitz film theater. Together with Peter “Jimi” Metag (1950–2013), Blobel founded the series of events in 1973, Jazzwerkstatt Peitz , which he held fifty times up to 2012. From 1976 he worked as a freelance concert organizer, initially in Berlin (East). The annual Peitzer open-air concerts in June, which were banned in 1982, attracted up to 3000 visitors (including nationwide); it was one of the most influential jazz festivals in the GDR. In 1984 Blobel migrated to Wuppertal, where he ran a concert agency. From 1993 to 2008 he devoted himself to the labels ITM and WestWind, which he founded, and sales companies in several European countries, e . Partly based in Italy, the production and distribution of records, CDs and DVDs. After finishing his work as a concert agent, he founded the Friends of Jazzwerkstatt Berlin-Brandenburg in 2006 in cooperation with musicians , from which a jazz label was created in 2007 with the entrepreneurial society Jazzwerkstatt , as well as a new classic label called Phil.harmonie . He is the producer of more than 1000 records with musicians from all over the world, e.g. B. by Eric Dolphy , Rolf Kühn .

Blobel has been convicted several times for bootlegs and copyright violations: most recently in 2004 by a court in Grasse (France) for illegal robbery of songs by Cesaria Evora to 6 months imprisonment and a fine, respectively in 2006 a court in Aix-en-Provence and in 2011 from the Wuppertal district court Violation of the copyright law and attempted fraud in the offense with forgery of documents to two years imprisonment on probation and a fine.

Fonts

  • Woodstock am Karpfenteich: the Jazzwerkstatt Peitz , Verlag Jazzwerkstatt, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-034405-3 .
  • Peter Brkusic & Ulli Blobel: Ginger Baker - A Natural Born Drummer. , Biography, Verlag Jazzwerkstatt, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-9814852-9-5 .
  • Ulli Blobel & Ulrich Steinmetzger (Eds.): Berlin | Berlin, Tricks from East and West , Verlag Jazzwerkstatt, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-9814852-6-4 .
  • Sketches of Spain , Verlag Jazzwerkstatt, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-9814852-8-8 .
  • Aleppo - lies behind us , Verlag Jazzwerkstatt, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-946079-00-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The engine of jazz in Berlin Jazzzeitung 7/2010
  2. ^ Tribunal de GI de Grasse judgment 04 / 2326cpk June 8, 2004, German Label Execs Sentenced In Copyright-Infringement Case , Billboard July 5, 2004
  3. ↑ [1] Jurabilis Archive June 14, 2004
  4. ↑ Cour d'Appel d'Aix En Provence Arret Ch No.2006 / 519 September 14, 2006
  5. ^ [2] Westdeutsche Zeitung 1.6.2011
personal data
SURNAME Blobel, Ulli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blobel, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert promoter and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Peitz