Horst Lippmann

Horst Lippmann ( born March 17, 1927 in Eisenach, † 18 May 1997 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German jazz musician, concert promoter, radio, author and television director.

Life

The hotelier son Lippmann played the early 1940s drums in the illegal Frankfurt Hotclub Combo ( with Carlo Bohländer and Emil Mangelsdorff ) and edited and sold one of the first German jazz magazines, announcements for fans of modern dance music. In it, he published the schedule of jazz music in the enemy BBC. For this he was imprisoned by the Nazis. After the war he played in the combos of the Hot Club, among others with Günter Boas. Together with Olaf Hudtwalcker he was involved in the founding of the German Jazz Federation and organized as their speaker jazz concert tours by the West German jazz clubs. In 1953 he founded the German Jazz Festival Frankfurt.

As a concert organizer Lippmann brought the first jazz and from 1962 the big blues and later rock stars to Germany. In 1963 he took his tour manager Fritz Rau to 50 percent as a partner in his concert agency, whose name he changed in Lippmann Rau. Between 1963 and 1985 they organized the American Folk Blues Festival. For more tour events, which established Lippmann, the Festival Flamenco Gitano were and the Musica Argentina. The tour posters by Lippmann Rau was designed by the graphic designer Günther Kieser, the visualization of music aimed at its most surrealistic works and was formative for the emerging street art of concert posters. Popular design is Kiesers to Jimi Hendrix, meander out numerous power cable medusa regardless of whose voluminous mane of hair.

Lippmann was also as a radio writer ( Jazz Club ), is a director of the television program Jazz and saw active. Together with Rau Lippmann has also the record label scout and L R ( Lippmann Rau ) founded and operated.

Lippmann's musical legacy is in the Lippmann Rau music archive of his birthplace Eisenach. In 2012 he was recorded with Fritz Rau into the Blues Hall of Fame.