Introducing: Jazzfest Research Lab

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As part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, Jazzfest Berlin initiated the international Jazzfest Research Lab in January 2023. It welcomes academics and students to take a critical look at the festival’s archive, its programmes, creators, musicians and – last but not least – its myths. In two seminars during the summer semester of 2024, students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim have explored the festival’s history from various perspectives. In this film, the participants give a first look at how they dealt with their research subject. Some of the multimedia works created in the seminars will be presented by the students this autumn on the Jazzfest Berlin website and in the festival’s anniversary magazine.

Available from 12 July 2024

7 min

German and English

To the Jazzfest Research Lab

With

Dr. Bettina Bohle – Lecturer at University of Hildesheim, Director of Jazzinstitut Darmstadt
Svenja Daniel – Berlin University of the Arts
Paula Hilpert – University of Hildesheim
Lars Hünerfürst – Berlin University of the Arts
David Kuen – Berlin University of the Arts
Prof. Dr. Matthias Pasdzierny – Berlin University of the Arts
Lina Roß – University of Hildesheim
Konstantin Scharf – University of Hildesheim
Markus Weber – University of Hildesheim

Many thanks to our contemporary witnesses who attended the two seminars:

Dieter Hahne – Total Music Meeting & Free Music Production
Markus Müller – Free Music Production
Prof. Julia Hülsmann – Department of Music Education, Berlin University of the Arts
Ihno von Hasselt – Production manager Jazzfest Berlin 1978 – 2015
Dan Peter Sundland – Kim Collective
Nadin Deventer – Production manager Jazzfest Berlin 2015 – 2017 and Artistic Director of Jazzfest Berlin since 2018

Many thanks to Dr. Bettina Bohle, Prof. Dr. Matthias Pasdzierny, Joel Grip and Heinrich Köbberling for the spontaneous session at the Jazz-Institut Berlin, Dan Peter Sundland, KIM Collective as well as to all students of the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim.

This film was made in collaboration with students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim.

A Film by

MOJA film
Adam Janisch – Production, Editing, Sound