Joachim-Ernst Berendt (20 July 1922 in
Berlin
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– 4 February 2000 in
Hamburg
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) was a German music journalist, author and producer specialized on
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
.
Life
Berendt's father, Ernst Berendt, was a
Protestant
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pastor
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belonging to the
Confessing Church
The Confessing Church (german: link=no, Bekennende Kirche, ) was a movement within German Protestantism during Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to unify all Protestant churches into a single pro-Nazi German ...
who was imprisoned and died in the
Dachau concentration camp
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. J.-E. Berendt started studying Physics, but his studies were interrupted by his enlistment to the
Wehrmacht
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. Already during the
Nazi Germany
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years Berendt took an interest in
jazz
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; enthusiasts in this period retreated to the underground.
After
World War II
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, he helped founding the
Südwestfunk (SWF) radio network in the then French
occupation zone
Germany was already de facto military occupation, occupied by the Allies of World War II, Allies from the real German Instrument of Surrender, fall of Nazi Germany in World War II on 8 May 1945 to the establishment of the East Germany on 7 Octo ...
of Germany. From 1950 until his retirement in 1987, he was in charge of the jazz department of the SWF.
In 1952, the first German edition of Berendt's ''Jazz Book'' was published. It became a definitive book on jazz translated into many languages and is still being updated and reprinted. For almost 40 years, Berendt produced the jazz program of the
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...
station of the German public radio and TV network
ARD. His weekly TV show ''Jazztime Baden-Baden'' and his daily radio shows were pioneer work in promoting jazz in post-war Germany. Berendt later focused on
world music and was one of its early promoters, founding a World Music Festival in 1965.
Berendt initiated and organized many jazz festivals (
American Folk Blues Festival
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,
Berliner Jazztage
JazzFest Berlin (also known as the Berlin Jazz Festival) is a jazz festival in Berlin, Germany. Originally called the "Berliner Jazztage" (''Berlin Jazz Days''), it was founded in 1964 in West Berlin by the Berliner Festspiele. Venues included ...
,
World Expo Osaka).
He was the producer of many records, mainly for
MPS Records
MPS Records was a German jazz record company and label founded in 1968 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. MPS stands for "Musik Produktion Schwarzwald" (Music Production Black Forest).
History
Originally based in Villingen, MPS was founded as the su ...
, and supported the ''Jazz & Lyrik'' project, combining jazz performances with readings of poetry (not
jazz poetry Jazz poetry has been defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject. Some critics consider it a distinct genre though others ...
).
Berendt was awarded, amongst others, the critic's award of German television, the culture award of Poland, and twice the
Bundesfilmpreis
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.
Berendt died on 4 February 2000 at the age of 77 after a traffic accident which he was involved in as a pedestrian. The accident happened in Hamburg, Berendt was on his way to a book promotion for his book ''Es gibt keinen Weg nur Gehen'' (''There Is No Way, Only Going'').
Berendt's huge collection of records, books, magazines, photos and more is in the archive of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt.
Later work
In 1983, Berendt published ''The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma'' and ''The Third Ear: On Listening to the World''. In these books Berendt investigates in listening in general, i.e. its medical, historical, physical, cultural and philosophical aspects.
This turn to philosophy also saw him becoming a disciple of the Indian mystic
Osho
Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 193119 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (), was an Indian godman, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controv ...
.
[Joachim Süss, Bhagwans Erbe, p.27]
Works (selection)
* "Jazz: A Photo History." (Translated by William Odom), Schirmer Books 1979, .
*Joachim-Ernst Berendt reads
Rainer Maria Rilke "Seelenlandschaften" (Landscapes of the Soul), with music from
Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.
Biography
Philip Catherine was born in London, England, to an English mother and Belgian father, and was raised in Brussels, Belgium. His grandfather was a violinist in the ...
,
Krzysztof Zgraja,
Vladislav Sendecki
Vladyslav Sendecki, known as Vladislav Sendecki, (born 1955 in Gorlice) is a Polish jazz pianist. In Polish, his name is spelled Władysław Sendecki.
Since 1996 he has been permanently associated with the NDR Big Band as a composer and pianist.
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; Producer: ℗1998
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Bibliography
* ''The Jazz Book'', Lawrence Hill & Company, New York
* ''The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness'',
Inner Traditions
Interior may refer to:
Arts and media
* ''Interior'' (Degas) (also known as ''The Rape''), painting by Edgar Degas
* ''Interior'' (play), 1895 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck
* ''The Interior'' (novel), by Lisa See
* Interior de ...
* ''The Third Ear: On Listening to the World''
*''Klangräume'' (1996)
*
The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change', Andrew Wright Hurley
Berghahn Books(2011)
See also
*
Karl Lippegaus
References
External links
*
Obituary from ''Der Journalist''*
Jazz & Lyrik
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1922 births
2000 deaths
German male journalists
German music journalists
German music critics
German record producers
German radio personalities
Jazz writers
German radio producers
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Jazz record producers
German male writers
Rajneesh movement
20th-century German journalists
German military personnel of World War II