The Journalist, TV Presenter and Professor for Music and Media will host the evening.
Holger Noltze, born in 1960 in Essen is a journalist, moderator and professor of music journalism. From 1990 onwards, he has been working for the German radio broadcaster WDR-Hörfunk as well as the TV broadcaster WDR-Fernsehen. In 2005 he was appointed Professor for Music and Media/Music Journalism at the University of Dortmund.
Holger Noltze writes reviews and reports for publications including ‘Opernwelt’, the F.A.Z. and the weekly column ‘The Society of Music’ for the digital VAN magazine.
2013 saw the publication of ‘Liebestod. Wagner, Verdi, wir‘, which was voted book of the year in the “Opernwelt” magazine's critics’ poll. In 2016, he published a volume of conversations with the pianist Menahem Pressler: ‘Dieses Verlangen nach Schönheit. Conversations about music’.