Bert Noglik

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Bert Noglik (born 20 May 1948) is a German jazz journalist and music critic.

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Born in Leipzig, Noglik studied cultural studies at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate on environmental design in urban space in 1974. He has been a freelance publicist since 1977. From 1976 to 1979, he was the first German correspondent of the Polish magazine Jazz Forum and edited its German edition in Warsaw in 1980/1. Noglik has written numerous articles for specialist journals, anthologies, symposia as well as radio broadcasts for various radio stations such as the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and the Deutschlandfunk. Since the beginning of the nineties, he has been a jazz judge at the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. [1]

From 1992 to 2007, Noglik was artistic director of the Leipziger Jazztage. In this function, he developed musical-scenic projects (for example, Survival Songs with David Moss and Jeanne Lee, Bach Now with Joachim Kühn and the Thomanerchor). Noglik is an internationally sought-after expert on contemporary jazz and improvised music for symposia and competitions. Since 1999, he has organised the Bach reflections in Jazz at the Leipzig Bach Festival.

For his coverage of Polish jazz since the 1970s and his efforts to promote artistic exchange as director of the Leipziger Jazztage, dedicated solely to Poland in 2005, Noglik received the Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland on 10 September 2008. In 2009, he initiated the festival series in Berlin Sounds no walls.

From 2012 until 2014, [2] [3] Noglik was artistic director of the JazzFest Berlin.

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