Dr. Jazzʼs Archive
Curatorial intervention / Commissioned work
Dr. Jazzʼs Archive, curatorial intervention at Demon Radio, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-documentation.com
Dates
21.9.–15.10.2023
Location
Demon Radio
Graz
Part of
Demon Radio
Production specifics
Courtesy of the Institute for Jazz Research, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and Jens-Uwe Völmecke
Dietrich Schulz-Köhn’s collection of jazz records pays testimony to his love and passion for the music—defying but also adjusting to the politics of his time. A selection is shown here along with photographs and documents from Schulz-Köhn’s archive. They show him in a Nazi uniform, posing with Parisian jazz musicians. Along with facsimiles of his wartime jazz fanzine, often written with naively patriotic rhetoric, they evoke the image of a figure steeped in ambivalence.
Retrospective
Retrospective