Hans Otto Jung

Hans Otto Jung (17 September 1920 – 22 April 2009) was a German viticulturist, jazz musician and patron of music. In the 1940s, he played as a pianist in the Hotclub Combo which he cofounded with Emil Mangelsdorff and others. In 1987, he was a cofounder of the Rheingau Musik Festival. With his wife Ursula Jung, he sponsored cultural initiatives in the Rhein-Main region.

Hans Otto Jung
Born(1920-09-17)17 September 1920
Lorch am Rhein, Province of Hesse-Nassau, Free State of Prussia in the Weimar Republic
Died22 April 2009(2009-04-22) (aged 88)
Rüdesheim am Rhein, Hesse, Germany
Occupation
Organization

Life and career

Born in Lorch, Jung grew up in a musical family; his father Carl Jung, a viticulturist, organized regular chamber music concerts in Rüdesheim, with notable performers and composers who were personal friends of the family.[1][2] Paul Hindemith composed a ragtime to congratulate to the birth of Hans Otto, titled Young Lorch Fellow. Ragtime.[3]

Jung learned to play the piano with Emma Lübbecke-Job among others, and later the violin and the viola,[4] performing in public for the first time in 1935. He studied social sciences in Frankfurt.[4] As a student, he co-founded the Hotclub Combo in 1941, playing as the group's pianist with Carlo Bohländer, Emil Mangelsdorff, Hans Podehl and Charly Petry.[5] In 1943, he also learned to play the double bass, and served as the group's bassist from 1945 to 1948 in the Hotclub Sextet. The broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk aired in 1946/47 a show with him as the solo pianist,[3] playing in the style of Teddy Wilson.

He completed his studies with a Ph.D. in business administration (Betriebswirtschaft). He directed the family's winery,[2] which focused on the production of alcohol-free wines and brandy, but still often listened to jazz concerts and chamber music concerts in the Rhein-Main region. He often invited performers, especially pianists, to play at his residence Boosenburg, where he had two Steinway pianos.[2]

Jung was the president of the Wiesbaden association of artists and art lovers (Verein der Künstler und Kunstfreunde) from 1976.[6] In 1987, he was a co-founder and patron of the Rheingau Musik Festival.[2] Together with his wife Ursula, a historian, he was a patron of culture in the region, sponsoring institutions such a chamber music series and "Brahmstage" in Rüdesheim, the concert series "Die Kammermusik" in Wiesbaden,[6] and Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium and the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.

He had an accident in the winter 2008/09 when he attended a concert of his friend Menahem Pressler in Hamburg, and died in Rüdesheim. His jazz collection of periodicals, manuscripts and correspondence is held by the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt.[7] His residence still serves as a location of regular jazz and chamber music concerts, organized by his son Edu and the town of Rüdesheim.[2]

Lexicon entry
  • Carlo Bohländer, Reclams Jazzführer Stuttgart 1970

References
  1. Zwerin, Mike (2000). The Ghetto Swingers. Swing Under the Nazis: Jazz as a Metaphor for Freedom. Cooper Square Press. pp. 17–21. ISBN 978-1-46-173197-9.
  2. "Melancholie pur / "Mit meinen heißen Tränen" / Ergreifende Interpretation von Schuberts "Winterreise" im Rahmen der Sonntagskonzerte". Rheingau-Echo (in German). 20 March 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. "R.I.P.: Hans Otto Jung". Jazz Station. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  4. Kater, Michael H. (1995). Gewagtes Spiel: Jazz im Nationalsozialismus (in German). Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. pp. preface, 149–154. ISBN 978-3-46-241106-5.
  5. "Bohländer, Carlo". frankfurter-personenlexikon.de (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  6. Lewinski, Wolf-Eberhard von; Jung, Ursula (1992). Aus der Geschichte des Vereines (in German). Wiesbaden: Die Kammermusik. p. 7. Archived from the original on 2017-11-18. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  7. "Jazzarchives in Europe". Jazzinstitut Darmstadt (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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