Wolfram Goertz

Wolfram Goertz (* 1961 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German journalist , musician and musicologist . He coordinates the special outpatient department for musicians' medicine at the University Hospital Düsseldorf.

education

After graduating from the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Viersen-Dülken in 1980 , he studied musicology and philosophy in Cologne and Bochum as well as church music and medicine (doctoral studies) in Aachen. He completed courses in choral conducting with Herbert Schernus (Cologne) and Eric Ericson (Stockholm).

Act

He has been writing music and theater reviews since 1978, including for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Fono Forum , various radio stations and, since 1998, for Die Zeit . Since 1989 he has been the music editor of the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf . In 1991 Goertz founded the jazz choir of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences , which he directed until its dissolution in 2003 and with which he has given numerous concerts in Germany and abroad. In 2004 he conducted the world premiere of Alvin Curran's choral composition "Music Is Not Music" (text by John Cage ) with the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart. As an organist he has performed in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy and Finland.

Goertz is also a member of the jury at important music competitions, including the German Record Critics' Prize , the State Choir Competition of the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Düsseldorf International Organ Festival.

At the Robert Schumann University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf Goertz worked as a lecturer in interpretation analysis, orchestral repertoire and choral conducting.

Since 2005 Goertz has worked at the Clinic for Cardiology in the St. Franziskus Hospital of the Maria Hilf Clinics in Mönchengladbach, and since 2010 also at the Düsseldorf University Hospital; there he has coordinated the new interdisciplinary outpatient clinic for musicians' medicine since 2011.

2009 PhD on "Strategies of an anxiety-relieving musical accompaniment therapy for cardiac catheter examinations" for Dr. rer. medic. at the Medical Faculty of the RWTH Aachen .

Awards

• 1994: Prize for Literature from the State Capital Düsseldorf
• 2009: Prize for science journalism from the German Society for Cardiology
• 2012: Media award from the professional association of German ophthalmologists for his book "Augen-Praxisstunde".

Publications

• 2000: Classic by the slice - 100 CD tips for music lovers . ISBN 3-7700-1124-4
• 2002: Classic slice by slice 2 . ISBN 3-7700-1147-3
• 2006: Wolfram Goertz u. a .: Martha Argerich read & listen , DIE ZEIT Klassik Edition. ISBN 3-476-02207-2
• 2009: Strategies for an anxiety-relieving musical accompaniment therapy for cardiac catheter examinations , Shaker Verlag , Aachen, ISBN 978-3-8322-8383-4
• 2011: Wolfram Goertz u. a .: Eye consultation , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-642-17355-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfram Goertz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Medical Association Mainz: MGM program, the musicians' clinic (accessed on June 1, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Musician Ambulance. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, accessed on August 11, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Rheinische Post: Wolfram Goertz ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Rheinische Post: Who is Wolfram Goertz? ( Memento from November 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Jazzchor Mönchengladbach  ( 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.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} ido: Home> Artists> Wolfram Goertz ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Prize of the German Record Critics / Jury / Biographies: Wolfram Goertz ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Program 8th State Choir Competition 2009: p. 21, jury members PDF file, 1.8 MB
8. ↑ Lecturer directory - ROBERT-SCHUMANN- HOCHSCHULE DÜSSELDORF, p. 65 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file, 109 kB  
9. ↑ Life at Maria-Hilf Issue 6/2009, p. 8, Music as Medicine ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file, 2.1 MB  
10. ^ Wolfram Goertz in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
11. ↑ Medical journalism award for Goertz. (No longer available online.) January 28, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 5, 2010 .  ( 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.    
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