Walter Cikan

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Walter Cikan (born May 20, 1944 in Saaz ) is a German music producer and music therapist .

Education

Cikan studied from 1962 to 1966, from 1978 to 1983 and from 1992 to 1995 music education , cultural studies and music therapy at the Pedagogical Institute in Halle , at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and at the University of the Arts in Berlin . In the 1960s he was one of the first beat musicians in the GDR to work part-time ; from 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the Studio Team Leipzig .

Activity in radio

From 1973 he promoted this music as a music producer in the main music department of the GDR radio . From 1986 he was head of the youth music department. Until 1991 he worked with around 300 different bands and performers in the genres of rock , pop and jazz and recorded over 1,000 music tracks and concert recordings with them. A considerable part of it was released on the Amiga record label . In addition, he oversaw the contemporary radio festival Jazzbühne Berlin in various functions. Cikan presented his personal analysis and examination of the contradicting cultural-political conditions for the development of a specific youth music culture in the GDR as a specialist book.

Activity as a music therapist

From 1992, Walter Cikan worked as a music therapist and licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist, mostly freelance in his own practice at a school for the mentally disabled in Berlin-Hellersdorf and at various senior facilities in Berlin.

literature

  • The conveyance of aesthetic values ​​in the youth dance music ( beat , rock, pop) produced and distributed by radio in the GDR . Diploma thesis, Karl Marx University Leipzig, 1983.
  • Interview in: Rockmusic and Politics - Analyzes, Interviews and Documents (Eds. Peter Wicke, Lothar Müller), Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1996, pp. 81–88.
  • Rotes Rockradio - Popular Music and the Commercialization of GDR Radio (Edward Larkey), LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2007.
  • Jürgen Balitzki Electra - LIFT - Stern Combo Meißen - Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001.
  • Olaf Leitner Rockszene GDR - Aspects of a mass culture in socialism , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1983
  • Götz Hintze Rock Lexicon of the GDR , Berlin 2000
  • Contributions to specialist journals, including “Music in School”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As a lecturer, he also conveyed the views of the regime to the bands in relation to possibly offensive song texts. See Tilman Steffen: Rock & Zensur: A thousand eyes on the cassette player Zeit Online from October 10, 2014, updated June 23, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Cikan, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer and music therapist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Saaz