Werner Burkhardt

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Werner Burkhardt (* 9. July 1928 in Hamburg , † in August 2008 ) was a German Jazz - Journalist and music and theater critic . He wrote jazz reviews for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and for well-known feature editors ( Die Zeit , Die Welt , du ).

Life

Werner Burkhardt and his friend Joachim Kaiser graduated from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg in 1948 . In his final year of school he attended 400 theater and concert performances with Kaiser. He then studied literature and English in Hamburg and began to write about jazz for the daily newspaper Welt in 1952 , and later also about pop. He also made contributions to the NDR's predecessor station, the NWDR, very early on . In 1970 he went to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, wrote not only jazz articles but also about opera and theater from Hamburg. As a freelancer for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, he also wrote jazz reviews.

Burkhardt has translated several books from English, including the Billie Holiday autobiography Black Lady [Sings the Blues] , Jazz told by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro , and the two Jack Kerouac novels Unterwegs ( On the Road ) and Gammler, Zen and high mountains ( Dharma Bums ). From 1952 he also worked for the radio and produced several television features, including a portrait of Louis Armstrong , Mahalia Jackson and the jazz city of New York . In the 1970s and 1980s he had the program Werner Burkhardt's Pop Commentary on NDR 2 for 18 years . In 2002 a collection of his jazz and rock reviews was published by Oreos Verlag.

Burkhardt was also a consultant for jazz at the Teldec label . At the end of the 1990s, Burkhardt left a part of his sound carrier collection comprising around 6,000 records to the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg. There they can be heard in the library's sound archive .

Werner Burkhardt died in August 2008 at the age of 80.

Awards

  • In 1998 Burkhardt received the "Senator Biermann-Ratjen Medal " from the city of Hamburg for his life's work.

Werner Burkhardt Music Prize

Werner Burkhardt bequeathed his estate to the Hamburg Cultural Foundation , which has been offering the "Werner Burkhardt Music Prize" since 2012. This is endowed with € 5,000 and is awarded every two years to a young jazz musician from Hamburg.

Previous winners:

Works

  • Sounds, times, musicians. Half a century of jazz, blues and rock , Waakirchen, Oreos Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-923657-70-6
  • The Pope is dead. The jazz researcher and critic Joachim-Ernst Berendt has died , Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, vol. 56, no. 29 of 5./6. February 2000, p. 18
  • Symphony in mansions and barns. The Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1988
  • Chicago . In: Joachim Ernst Berendt (ed.) “The Story of Jazz. From New Orleans to Rock Jazz ”. Reinbek 1978 (1991), pp. 63-8, ISBN 978-3499171215 , last edition: 2000
  • Jazz Library - Lester Young. A portrait , together with Joachim Gerth, Pegasus Verlag, Wetzlar 1959
Translations
  • John Clellon Holmes: The saxophonist , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1963, (translated with Horst Dölvers) novel
  • Jack Kerouac : Unterwegs , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1959
  • Nat Shapiro , Nat Hentoff : Jazz tells . (OT: Hear me talkin 'to ya ), foreword by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1959
  • Billie Holiday and William Dufty: Schwarze Lady , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1957

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music in the airstream. Documentary, 2006, 87 min., Script and director: Henriette Kaiser, production: Lemuel Film, first broadcast: November 5, 2006, BR , table of contents  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from BR.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de  
  2. ↑ According to the obituary in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 29, 2008, written by his friend Joachim Kaiser , he was found dead in his Hamburg apartment. An exact date of death was not known at this time.
  3. ^ Reviews of sounds, times, musicians
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 2008
Place of death Hamburg