Hannes Zerbe

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'''Hannes Zerbe''' (born 17 December 1941) is a German jazz composer and pianist.

== Life ==
Zerbe was born in [[Łódź|Litzmannstadt]]. After studying electrical engineering, he studied piano and [[musical composition]] at the [[Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"]] and the [[Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber]]. He has been a professional musician since 1969.

From 1985 to 1987, he was a master student for composition with [[Paul-Heinz Dittrich]] at the . Zerbe has organised and led international workshops and tours in the fields of [[jazz]] and [[improvisation|improvised music]] since the late 1970s.

Zerbe was a member of the group ''[[FEZ (Band)|FEZ]]'' (with [[Conny Bauer]], [[Christoph Niemann]] and Peter Gröning) and the quintet ''Osiris'' (by with , and ). In 1979, he founded his large-scale ''Hannes Zerbe Blech Band'', with which compositions by [[Hanns Eisler]] were also performed. From 1980, he also played in a duo with the tuba player , and from 1995 in a duo with the clarinettist . Furthermore, Zerbe was involved in text-music projects with actors, directors and singers (for example [[Lauren Newton]]), including [[Bert Brecht]], [[Ingeborg Bachmann]], [[Kurt Schwitters]] and [[Heiner Müller]].

He has worked with other contemporary jazz musicians (including [[Willem Breuker]], , ), [[Charlie Mariano]], , , [[Klaus Koch]] and [[Gebhard Ullmann]]. Since 1996, he has led the Berlin "Jazzorchester Prokopätz", which performs compositions by Eisler, [[Kurt Weill|Weill]], Breuker and Zerbe in [[big band]] format. Experiences with this workshop line-up flowed into the "Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchester", founded in 2011. In a duo with the saxophonist Dirk Engelhardt, he also improvises on poems by [[Gottfried Benn]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/3hvQjXk Besprechung ''Eisleriana'' (Rondo)]</ref>

Among other works, Zerbe wrote a ''Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra'' and ''Reflections on Eisler's Winter Battle Suite.'' He also composed for film.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3rPJC7B Hannes Zerbe] on Music Brain</ref>

Zerbe is also involved in political contexts. With his ensemble and with the actor [[Rolf Becker]] in the cultural programme of the Rosa Luxemburg Conference of the left-wing daily newspaper ''[[junge Welt]]'', he arranged the performance of ''[[Das Floß der Medusa]] – Requiem für [[Che Guevara]]'' by [[Hans Werner Henze]].<ref>junge Welt, 18 December 2019, .</ref>

== Recordings ==
* ''Blech Band'' (Amiga 1984)
* ''Rondo a la [[Erich Fried|Fried]]'' (BVHaast 1992)
* ''Ochsenkarren'' with Unkrodt and the Bläservereinigung Berlin (1994)
* Brecht: ''Alles wandelt sich'' with Gina Pietsch (vocals) and Jürgen Kupke (clarinet) (1991)
* ''Jazzorchester Prokopätz'' (2005)
* [[Peter Hacks]]: ''Was träumt der Teufel'' with Gina Pietsch (Ohreule 2009)
* Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchester ''Eisleriana'' (2011 )
* Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchester ''Erlkönig'' (2013 JazzHausMusik)
* Hannes Zerbe/Jazz Orchestra Berlin: ''Kalkutta'' (2017 JazzHausMusik)

== Radio play music ==
* 1992: : ''König und Besenbinder'' – direction: [[Peter Groeger]] (Kinderhörspiel – DS Kultur)

== Further reading ==
* (ed.), unter Mitarbeit von : ''.'' Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, .
* [[Jürgen Wölfer]]: ''Jazz in Deutschland. Das Lexikon. Alle Musiker und Plattenfirmen von 1920 bis heute.'' Hannibal, Höfen 2008, .

== References ==


== External links ==
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* [https://ift.tt/3pA4tcU Homepage von 'Prokopätz']
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[[Category:20th-century classical composers]]
[[Category:German jazz composers]]
[[Category:German jazz pianists]]
[[Category:1941 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Łódź]]

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