Hagen Kunze

Hagen Kunze (born 1973) is a German journalist, music critic and playwright.

Life

Kunze comes from a pastor's family and learned piano at an early age. He attended the special school for music education in Zwickau and studied musicology, journalism and philosophy in Leipzig, Graz and Halle (Saale). Afterwards, he worked as a freelance journalist and music critic as well as church musician - he wrote for daily newspapers and professional journals, such as the Neue Musikzeitung.

Kunze was an editor and later editorial director of the Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung - Leipziger Volkszeitung. This was followed by a position as personal assistant to the Saxon CDU member of the European Parliament Lutz Goepel. From 2008 to 2012, he was chief dramaturge of the Mittelsächsisches Theater [de] in Freiberg/Döbeln. He also worked as a teacher at the Döbeln grammar school.^[1] Since 2013, he has been teaching at the Evangelische Oberschule Lunzenau.^[2] Kunze gained media recognition when he appeared in the satirical programme Extra3 and a TV report was dedicated to him. This happened because he did not have a particulate matter sticker on his electric car and parked in Leipzig.

Kunze is a member of the CDU.^[3]

Work

• Das kleine Bach-Büchlein: ein Gespräch mit Johann Sebastian Bach.,^[4] Minibibliothek, Buchverlag für die Frau, Leipzig 2000.
• Lobgesang: Mendelssohn in Leipzig, Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2009.
• Clara & Robert Schumann: Musik und Liebe, 2009.
• Musikalischer Stadtrundgang durch Leipzig, 2012.
• Musenkuss: Richard Wagner und die Frauen.,^[5] 2013.
• Der Thomanerchor Leipzig zwischen 1928 und 1950: Umbrüche: Erinnerungen und Dokumente.^[6] CD supplement with the earliest sound recordings of the Thomanerchor since 1928, Edition Thomanerchor vol. 1, Querstand, Altenburg 2013 (ed. with Steffen Lieberwirth).
• Der Thomanerchor Leipzig in frühesten Filmdokumenten. Zwischen Tradition und Moderne; DVD with Filmdokumenten des Thomanerchores von 1941,1942 and 2012, Edition Thomanerchor Bd. 2, Querstand, Altenburg 2013 (ed. with Stefan Altner and Günter Atteln)
• Das Thomaner-Büchlein, 2014.
• Große Sachsen, Minibibliothek, 2015.
• Die Geheimnisse der Familie Bach, 2015.
• Wunderkinder.
• 200 Jahre Opernchor Leipzig (ed.), Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 2017
• Große Thüringer, 2017
• Spioninnen: Mata Hari und andere Frauen in geheimer Mission, 2017
• Gin, 2018
• Leonardo da Vinci, 2019
• Beethoven und die Liebe, 2019

References

1. Andreas Friedrich: "Externe Fachleute helfen an Sachsens Schulen aus: Ohne sie würden manche Fächer ausfallen" (External experts help out at Saxony's schools: Without them, some subjects would fail), in the Leipziger Volkszeitung dated 13 June 2012, p. 4.
2. Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG. "Multitalent loves music and books". Retrieved 16 August 2020.
3. Hagen Rösner: Der Kulturpendler, in the Leipziger Volkszeitung dated September 2008, p. 16
4. Das kleine Bach-Büchlein : ein Gespräch mit Johann Sebastian Bach on WorldCat
5. Musenkuss Richard Wagner und die Frauen on WorldCat
6. Der Thomanerchor Leipzig zwischen 1928 und 1950 : Umbrüche: Erinnerungen und Dokumente on WorldCat

External links

• Literature by and about Hagen Kunze in the German National Library catalogue
• Hagen Kunze auf der Webseite des Buchverlags für die Frau