Klaus Umbach

Klaus Umbach (24 April 1936 – 28 January 2018) was a German culture-journalist, who became known through his trenchant articles and glosses in the magazine Der Spiegel, but also as an author of books.

Life

Umbach studied law. He subsequently worked as an editor at EMI, also at Deutsche Welle.

From 1969 to 2007 he was music editor in the cultural section of the German news magazine Der Spiegel.[1]

Umbach died in Cologne at age 81.

Work

Books
  • Klaus Umbach (edit.): Richard Wagner – ein deutsches Ärgernis.[2] Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-33034-2.
  • Klaus Umbach: Geldschein-Sonate. Das Millionenspiel mit der Klassik.[3] Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-550-06450-0.
  • Klaus Umbach: Celibidache, der andere Maestro.[4] Piper Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-492-22553-3.

Musical theatre
  • Klaus Umbach: Wahnfried Ein deutsches Stammlokal[5] Die wunderbare Welt der Wagners. Ein kleines Gesamtkunstwerk. World premiere on 27 August 2006, Ruhrtriennale, staging: Markus Dietze.[6]
gollark: But we don't really need that since people do not need to live there, and all you actually *need* just to teach people is a room with some computers/monitors/networking and maybe an outdoor turtle testground.
gollark: The traditional thing would be a big campus area with nice green spaces and paths and stuff, with buildings for... student housing and lectures and whatnot.
gollark: Do you want *my* ideas for this university thing?
gollark: I have a bunch of spare ones for "mining" and stuff.
gollark: Wait, 114, not 113.

References
  1. "KLAUS UMBACH, 81", Der Spiegel, 30 December
  2. Richard Wagner – ein deutsches Ärgernis on WorldCat
  3. Geldschein-Sonate. Das Millionenspiel mit der Klassik on WorldCat
  4. Celibidache : der andere Maestro on WorldCat
  5. Wahnfried Ein deutsches Stammlokal on Online Music Magazine.
  6. "Wahnfried Ein deutsches Stammlokal. Die wunderbare Welt der Wagners. Ein kleines Gesamtkunstwerk. Von Klaus Umbach". Ruhrtriennale. Retrieved 30 December 2019.


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