Wolfram Goertz (born 1961) is a German journalist, musician and

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

. He coordinates the special outpatient clinic for musician medicine at the University Hospital of Düsseldorf.

Education

Goertz was born in

Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Netherlands, Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, th ...

. After he passed his

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

in 1980 at the , he studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

and philosophy in Cologne and Bochum as well as

church music Church music is a genre of Christian music written for performance in church, or any musical setting of ecclesiastical liturgy, or music set to words expressing propositions of a sacred nature, such as a hymn. History Early Christian musi ...

and medicine (doctoral studies) at the

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), in German ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen'', is a German public research university located in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With more than 47,000 students enrolled in 144 study prog ...

. He completed courses in choral conducting with Herbert Schernus (Cologne) and Eric Ericson (Stockholm).

Work

Since 1978 he has written

music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

and theatre reviews, among others for the ''

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of ''SZ'' is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and ...

'', ''

Neue Zürcher Zeitung The (''NZZ''; "New Newspaper of Zurich") is German language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zurich. The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the German Swiss newspaper of record ...

'', ', various radio stations and since 1998 also for ''

Die Zeit (, ) is a German national weekly newspaper published in Hamburg in Germany. The newspaper is generally considered to be among the German newspapers of record and is known for its long and extensive articles. History The first edition of was ...

''. Since 1989, he has been music editor of the ''

Rheinische Post ''Rheinische Post'' () is a major German regional daily newspaper published since 1946 by the ''Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft GmbH'' company, and headquartered in Düsseldorf. The Post is especially dominant in the western part of North Rhi ...

'' in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

. In 1991, Goertz founded the jazz choir of the Hochschule Niederrhein, which he conducted until its disbandment in 2003 and with which he performed numerous concerts at home and abroad. In 2004, he conducted the world premiere of

Alvin Curran Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. He is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard ...

's choral composition ''Music Is Not Music'' (text by

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

) with the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart. As an organist, he has performed in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy and Finland. Goertz is also a member of the jury at major music competitions, including the

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Preis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Preis (1911–1993), Austrian architect * Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007), German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer * Mary Louise Preis (born 1941), ...

, at the State Choir Competition of the NRW and at the International Düsseldorf Organ Festival. At the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Goertz worked as a lecturer in interpretive analysis, orchestral repertoire and choral conducting. Since 2005 Goertz worked at the Clinic for Cardiology at the St. Franziskus Hospital of the , since 2010 also at the University Hospital Düsseldorf; there he has coordinated the new Interdisciplinary Outpatient Clinic for Musicians' Medicine since 2011. In 2009, he presented his doctoral thesis on "Strategies of an anxiety-relieving music accompanying therapy during cardiac catheter examinations" for the degree of Dr. rer. medic. at the Medical Faculty of

Awards

* 1994: Förderpreis für Literatur der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf * 2009: Preis für Wissenschaftsjournalismus der

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie Deutsch ( , ) or Deutsche ( , ) may refer to: * or : the German language or in particular Standard German, spoken in central European countries and other places *Old High German language refers to Deutsch as a way to define the primary characteris ...

* 2012: Medienpreis des Berufsverbandes der deutschen Augenärzte für sein Buch "Augen-Sprechstunde".

Publications

* 2000: ''Klassik scheibchenweise – 100 CD-Tipps für Musikfreunde'', * 2002: ''Klassik scheibchenweise 2'', * 2006: Wolfram Goertz among others: ''Martha Argerich lesen & hören'', DIE ZEIT Klassik Edition. * 2009: ''Strategien einer angstlösenden Musikbegleittherapie bei Herzkatheteruntersuchungen'',

Shaker Verlag Shaker Verlag is a German publishing house located in Düren and Maastricht, established in 1986 by Dr. Chaled Shaker. Shaker Verlag is a publisher of scientific literature, especially monographs and dissertations. More than 20,000 booksShaker ...

, Aachen, * 2011: Wolfram Goertz among others: ''Augen-Sprechstunde'', Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goertz, Wolfram 20th-century German physicians 20th-century German journalists German music journalists 1961 births Living people People from Mönchengladbach