Wolfgang Muth

Wolfgang Muth (born October 14, 1928 in Bernburg an der Saale ) is a former German jazz author and jazz expert.

Muth studied English and was an expert on European jazz between the wars in the GDR. In 1964 he published a biography about Ernst Höllerhagen and in 1971 “Johnny plays on - Negro music in Germany during the Weimar Republic” (the title alludes to Ernst Krenek's jazz opera from 1927). On the same topic he organized an exhibition at the Jazz Days in Slaný in Czechoslovakia in 1973. In 1985 he organized an exhibition in Berlin (GDR), which was to be called “Jazz Behind Barbed Wire”; instead of this title, which was forbidden in view of the Berlin situation, it was called “Jazz and Jazz Musicians in Camps of Hitler's Fascism”. His research on jazz music in the concentration camp, such as the “ Ghetto Swingers ” by Fritz Weiss (Bedrich Weiss) in Theresienstadt , he published under the title “Music behind barbed wire - Swing in Ghetto and KZ” in Bernd Polster's band “Swing Heil - Jazz in National Socialism “(Berlin 1989).

literature

• Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .