Ulrich Olshausen

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Ulrich Olshausen (born August 17, 1933 ) is a German musicologist, jazz journalist and music producer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Frankfurt in 1953, Olshausen began studying bassoon at the Frankfurt University of Music , but then decided to train as a sound engineer , which he completed from 1955 to 1957 at the Broadcasting Institute in Nuremberg. He then completed his musicology studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1963 with a doctoral thesis on the solo song from the Shakespeare era accompanied by lute.

Act

He then worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and wrote concert and record reviews in the fields of jazz, folklore and pop, but also worked as a sound engineer for the Hessischer Rundfunk (hr). In 1967, Olshausen took over the newly founded jazz editorial team at hr. In addition to moderating and supervising weekly jazz broadcasts for radio , he was also responsible for the productions of the hr jazz ensemble , which had existed since 1958 . In addition, he became one of the responsible organizers of the German Jazz Festival , founded in 1953 by Horst Lippmann , which the broadcaster organized on its own after the concert agency Lippmann + Rau withdrew in 1984.

Furthermore moderated Olshausen several decades weekly broadcast Folk Time in Südwestfunk and the jury heard Prize of the German Record Critics and the program committee of the Goethe Institute on. Due to his numerous fields of activity , Olshausen was an influential music journalist and music official on the German jazz scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Even after his retirement in 1999 he continues to work as a journalist.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The lute-accompanied solo song in England around 1600. Phil. Dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 1963.
personal data
SURNAME Olshausen, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz journalist and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 17, 1933