Autor: Christian Broecking
Christian Broecking (1957 – 2021) was a sociologist and musicologist who wrote for publications including the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Berliner Zeitung, the Tagesspiegel, Die Zeit, and Jazz Thing. His dissertation was on the social relevance of African-American music. Broecking was Senior Research Associate at
the Hochschule Lucerne (Switzerland), and he teached music history at the Winterthurer Institut für Aktuelle Musik, near Zurich.
He was the director of JazzRadio Berlin from 1995 to 1998, and of Klassik Radio Frankfurt from 2000 to 2003. He served as juror for the German Record Critics’s Award, and for NPR.
