Joachim Kaiser
(18 December 1928 ? 11 May 2017) was a German musician, literature and theatre critic and senior editor in the
feuilleton
of the
Suddeutsche Zeitung
(from 1959)
.
Starting 1977 to 1996 he held a seat as a professor of
history of music
at the
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
.
Life
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Kaiser was born in
Milken
,
East Prussia
(Miłki, Poland) in 1928. He was the son of a country doctor. Literature and music began to interest him at an early age, and at age eight he began to play the piano. After the
flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945?1950
, he attended the
Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Hamburg)
. He then studied
musicology
,
German studies
, philosophy and sociology at the
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen
, the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main
and the
Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen
. Among his fellow students were the musicologists
Carl Dahlhaus
and
Rudolf Stephan
.
Kaiser's career as a critic began in 1951. On his review of the
Theodor W. Adorno
publication:
Music and Catastrophe. About the "Philosophy of New Music",
Mathias Dopfner
described him as one of "the best known and most successful Adorno students ever".
[1]
Beginning in 1953, Kaiser took part in events of
Group 47
. In 1958 he was awarded a doctorate in German Studies at the University of Tubingen on the subject of
Franz Grillparzer
's dramatic style
.
Kaiser worked in the cultural editorial department of the
Suddeutsche Zeitung
from 1959. He was a member of the writers' association
PEN-Zentrum Deutschland
.
Kaiser is known for training well-known pianists:
Artur Rubinstein
,
Vladimir Horowitz
,
Glenn Gould
,
Sviatoslav Richter
and
Friedrich Gulda
.
Although kaiser was known for training such famous pianists, he spent a large portion of his time training young interpreters in the art of piano playing.
[2]
Kaiser felt a special connection to the work of
Richard Wagner
and supported and accompanied the new beginning of the
Bayreuth Festival
in 1951 under the direction of Wagner's grandchildren,
Wieland
and
Wolfgang
.
Kaiser married the translator and novelist Susanne Kaiser in December 1958.
[3]
They had two children: the director
Henriette Kaiser
[4]
and the sports editor Philipp Kaiser. He lived in Munich on the edge of the
Englischer Garten
.
[5]
In 2009 he handed over his extensive private archive to the
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
as a
Nachlass
. Besides letters from Theodor W. Adorno and Alfred Andersch, it contains correspondence with
Ingeborg Bachmann
,
Ernst Bloch
and
Heinrich Boll
. From May 2009 onward, Kaiser answered readers' questions weekly in his video column
Kaiser's Classic Customer
on the website of
SZ-Magazin
which he had to give up two years later, due to illness. The series has not been continued since.
[6]
Joachim Kaiser died in Munich, aged 88.
Work
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- Kleines Theatertagebuch.
[7]
Rowohlt, Reinbek 1965 (with preface:
Kritik als Beruf
).
- Große Pianisten in unserer Zeit.
Piper Verlag
, Munich 1965; New edition 1996,
ISBN
3-492-22376-1
.
- Beethovens 32 Klaviersonaten und ihre Interpreten.
S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1975,
ISBN
3-10-038601-9
.
- Erlebte Musik. Von Bach bis Stravinsky.
[8]
Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1977,
ISBN
3-455-08942-9
.
- Erlebte Musik. Teil 2. Von Wagner bis Zimmermann.
[9]
DTV, Munich 1982,
ISBN
3-423-01787-2
.
- Mein Name ist Sarastro. Die Gestalten in Mozart's Meisteropern von Alfonso bis Zerlina.
[10]
Piper, Munich 1984,
ISBN
3-492-02818-7
.
- Wie ich sie sah … und wie sie waren ? Zwolf kleine Portrats.
List, Munich 1985,
ISBN
3-471-77969-8
.
- Erlebte Literatur. Deutsche Schriftsteller in unserer Zeit.
[11]
Piper, Munich 1988,
ISBN
3-492-03048-3
.
- Leben mit Wagner.
Knaus, Munich 1990; New edition: Siedler, Munich 2013,
ISBN
978-3-8275-0028-1
.
- ?Vieles ist auf Erden zu thun.“ Imaginare Gesprache (…).
[12]
Piper, Munich 1991,
ISBN
3-492-03490-X
.
- Was mir wichtig ist.
[13]
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1996,
ISBN
3-421-05056-2
.
- Kaisers Klassik. 100 Meisterwerke der Musik.
Schneekluth, Munich 1997,
ISBN
3-7951-1425-X
.
- Kaisers Klassik. Da Capo.
Schneekluth, Munich 1999,
ISBN
3-7951-1732-1
.
- Von Wagner bis Walser. Neues zu Literatur und Musik.
[14]
Pendo, Zurich 1999,
ISBN
3-85842-358-0
.
- "Ich bin der letzte Mohikaner".
[15]
(autobiography, with Henriette Kaiser). Ullstein, Munich 2008,
ISBN
978-3-550-08697-7
.
Catalogue of works
Lecture series
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Kaiser's many years of lecturing activity at the
Gasteig
in Munich include his extensive series of lectures on specific artists and art forms, especially on the subject of music:
From 11 October 1994 to 17 July 2007 Kaiser gave 206 lectures, a total of 322. With 170,000 listeners, Kaiser's lectures are considered as one of the most successful to date of the
Munchner Volkshochschule
[
de
]
.
Radio series
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During weekly radio broadcasts (one hour long, for example "Kaisers Corner" in Bayern4-Klassik), he dealt with
Chopin
for half a year and with "Beethoven ? Werk und Wirkung" for a whole year. In addition to this, there were regular word broadcasts, such as "Kaiser's Magazine Show".
Films
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- Der letzte Kaiser.
TV-
Feature
, 2008, 5:25 Min., Buch: Peter Gerhardt, Produktion:
Hessischer Rundfunk
,
ttt ? titel, thesen, temperamente
[
de
]
, First broadcast: 16 November 2008.
- Musik im Fahrtwind.
Dokumentarfilm, 2006, 87 Min., Written and directed by
Henriette Kaiser
, Production: Lemuel Film, First broadcast: 5 November 2006,
Bayerischer Rundfunk
- Der Klassik-Kaiser.
Dokumentarfilm, 1997, Buch und Regie: Eckhart Schmidt, Production: Raphaela Film GmbH
- In the film
Bruckners Entscheidung
(1995) by
Jan Schmidt-Garre
Kaiser played the role of
Richard Wagner
.
Awards
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References
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- ^
Mathias Dopfner (18 December 2008).
"Wie Joachim Kaiser zum Anti-Adorno wurde"
.
welt.de
. Retrieved
16 June
2020
.
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Joachim Kaiser about Arthur Rubinstein: "Wonderful, astonishing, incomprehensible, but it is not only the technical clarity of his playing, the touching, in slow movements heart-moving lucidity of his phrasing, the stormy temperament of his outbursts. All of this weighs a lot, wants to conquer, preserve and be kept alive..." In
Große Pianisten in unserer Zeit.
5th edition, 1996, p. 60.
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Autoren ? Susanne Kaiser.
Website of the
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
.
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Suddeutsche Zeitung (6 March 2020).
"Joachim Kaiser: Leben zwischen Buchern und Noten"
(in German).
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"Ich habe nichts gegen Dackel"
.
FAZ.net
. 24 October 2005
. Retrieved
16 June
2020
.
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"Folge 87: Ein Trick in Es-Dur"
.
Sz-magazin.sueddeutsche.de
. Archived from
the original
on 25 October 2015
. Retrieved
16 June
2020
.
Erklarung der SZ-Redaktion vom Januar 2011 zu Kaisers Erkrankung (im Anschluss an einen der ublichen Kommentare zu "Kaisers Klassik-Kunde").
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Kleines Theatertagebuch.
on WorldCat
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Erlebte Musik. Von Bach bis Stravinsky.
on WorldCat
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Erlebte Musik. Teil 2. Von Wagner bis Zimmermann.
on WorldCat
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Mein Name ist Sarastro. Die Gestalten in Mozart's Meisteropern von Alfonso bis Zerlina.
on WorldCat
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Erlebte Literatur : Vom 'Doktor Faustus' zum 'Fettfleck'. Deutsche Schriftsteller in unserer Zeit
.
on WorldCat
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Vieles ist auf Erden zu thun : Imaginare Gesprache mit Ingeborg Bachmann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Kafka, Johann Nestroy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Clara Schumann, Kurt Tucholsky u. a
on WorldCat
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Was mir wichtig ist.
on WorldCat
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Von Wagner bis Walser. Neues zu Literatur und Musik.
on WorldCat
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"Ich bin der letzte Mohikaner".
on WorldCat
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Siehe
Theodor-Wolff-Preis ? Preistrager 2010
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