Hagen Kunze (born 1973) is a German journalist, music critic and playwright.
Life
Kunze comes from a pastor's family and learned piano at an early age. He attended the special school for music education in Zwickau and studied musicology, journalism and philosophy in Leipzig, Graz and Halle (Saale). Afterwards, he worked as a freelance journalist and
music critic
''The Oxford Companion to Music'' defines music criticism as "the intellectual activity of formulating judgments on the value and degree of excellence of individual works of music, or whole groups or genres". In this sense, it is a branch of mus ...
as well as church musician - he wrote for daily newspapers and professional journals, such as the ''
Neue Musikzeitung''.
Kunze was an editor and later editorial director of the ''Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung'' - ''
Leipziger Volkszeitung
The ''Leipziger Volkszeitung'' or ''LVZ'' (German for ''Leipzig People's Newspaper'') is a daily regional newspaper in Leipzig and western Saxony, Germany. First published on 1 October 1894, the LVZ was formerly an important publication of the ...
''. This was followed by a position as personal assistant to the Saxon CDU member of the European Parliament
Lutz Goepel. From 2008 to 2012, he was chief dramaturge of the in Freiberg/Döbeln. He also worked as a teacher at the Döbeln grammar school. Since 2013, he has been teaching at the Evangelische Oberschule Lunzenau. Kunze gained media recognition when he appeared in the satirical programme
Extra3 and a TV report was dedicated to him. This happened because he did not have a particulate matter sticker on his electric car and parked in
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
.
Kunze is a member of the
CDU.
Work
* Das kleine Bach-Büchlein: ein Gespräch mit Johann Sebastian Bach., Minibibliothek, Buchverlag für die Frau, Leipzig 2000.
* Lobgesang: Mendelssohn in Leipzig, Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2009.
* Clara & Robert Schumann: Musik und Liebe, 2009.
* Musikalischer Stadtrundgang durch Leipzig, 2012.
* Musenkuss: Richard Wagner und die Frauen., 2013.
* Der Thomanerchor Leipzig zwischen 1928 und 1950: Umbrüche: Erinnerungen und Dokumente.
''Der Thomanerchor Leipzig zwischen 1928 und 1950 : Umbrüche: Erinnerungen und Dokumente''
' on WorldCat'' CD supplement with the earliest sound recordings of the Thomanerchor since 1928, Edition Thomanerchor vol. 1, Querstand, Altenburg 2013 (ed. with Steffen Lieberwirth
Steffen Lieberwirth (born 10 March 1952) is a German musicologist, dramaturge and journalist.
Life
Born in Leipzig, Lieberwirth studied musicology and German literature at the Karl-Marx-University Leipzig and the Martin Luther University of Ha ...
).
* Der Thomanerchor Leipzig in frühesten Filmdokumenten. Zwischen Tradition und Moderne; DVD with Filmdokumenten des Thomanerchores von 1941,1942 and 2012, Edition Thomanerchor Bd. 2, Querstand, Altenburg 2013 (ed. with Stefan Altner and Günter Atteln)
* Das Thomaner-Büchlein, 2014.
* Große Sachsen, Minibibliothek, 2015.
* Die Geheimnisse der Familie Bach, 2015.
* Wunderkinder.
* 200 Jahre Opernchor Leipzig (ed.), Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2017
* Große Thüringer, 2017
* Spioninnen: Mata Hari und andere Frauen in geheimer Mission, 2017
* Gin, 2018
* Leonardo da Vinci, 2019
* Beethoven und die Liebe, 2019
References
External links
*
Hagen Kunze
auf der Webseite des Buchverlags für die Frau
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German music critics
Dramaturges
20th-century German journalists
German opinion journalists
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
1973 births
Living people