Albrecht Roeseler (29 January 1930 – 6 August 1994) was a German violinist, musicologist and journalist. From 1973 to 1993 he was responsible for the headline of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Life Roeseler was born in 1930 in Berlin as son of the publishing director Johannes Roeseler and his wife Katharina, née Storbeck. He first attended the in Berlin-Nikolassee and from 1943 up to the Abitur in 1948, the at Schloss Bieberstein near Fulda.
From 1948 to 1950 he studied violin with Max StrubAlbrecht Roeseler: Grosse Geiger unseres Jahrhunderts. Piper, Munich among others 1987, , . and music theory with Wilhelm Maler and Johannes Driessler at the Nordwestdeutschen Musikakademie Detmold. In 1950 he passed the state music teacher examination in the subject violin. From 1950 to 1956 he studied musicology and English at the FU Berlin and with the help of a Fulbright Program, at the Indiana University Bloomington. In Indiana Willi Apel and Paul Nettl were among his teachers. In the 1950s he was also violinist in the and in the "Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra" as well as in the Aspen festival orchestra. In 1952/53 he also taught at the "Conservatory John Petersen" in Berlin-Zehlendorf. In 1957 he was appointed by Adam Adrio at the philosophical faculty of the FU Berlin with the dissertation Studien zum Instrumentarium in den Vokalwerken von Heinrich Schütz. Die obligaten Instrumente in den Psalmen Davids und in den Symphoniae Sacrae IStudien zum Instrumentarium in den Vokalwerken von Heinrich Schütz : die obligaten Instrumente in den Psalmen Davids und in den Symphoniae sacrae I on WorldCat which granted him his Dr. phil.Albrecht Roeseler: Studien zum Instrumentarium in den Vokalwerken von Heinrich Schütz. Die obligaten Instrumente in den Psalmen Davids und in den Symphoniae Sacrae I. Dissertation, FU Berlin, 1958.
Roeseler then worked first as literary editor in publishing houses, most recently in Piper Verlag. From 1973 to 1993 he was head of the feature section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.See Paul Hoser Süddeutsche Zeitung
Roeseler died in Haar (near Munich) at the age of 64.
Publications with Wolf Loeckle (ed.): Musikhochschulen in Deutschland – wie gut sind sie?.Musikhochschulen in Deutschland – wie gut sind sie? on WorldCat ConBrio-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1994, . with Wolf Loeckle (ed.): Franz Schubert – heute?. ConBrio-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Regensburg 1994, . (Ed.): Eine kleine Lachmusik. Musikeranekdoten aus unserer Zeit.Eine kleine Lachmusik : Musikeranekdoten aus unserer Zeit on WorldCat With 6 linocuts by Eduard Prüssen. 6th edition, new edition, Piper, Munich among others (1990), (first edition 1971). Grosse Geiger unseres Jahrhunderts.Grosse Geiger unseres Jahrhunderts on WorldCat Paperback edition reviewed and expanded by Norbert Hornig, Piper, Munich among others 1996, (first edition 1987).
Literature Bruno Jahn (collaborator.): Die deutschsprachige Presse. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch.Die deutschsprachige Presse. Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch on WorldCat Vol. 2: M–Z. Saur, Berlin 2005, , . Joachim Kaiser: Ein überlegener Charakter (Nachruf). In Süddeutsche Zeitung, 8 August 1994, . Hans-Michael Körner (ed.): Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie (BBE). Vol. 3: P–Z. Saur, Munich 2005, , . Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE). Vol. 8: Poethen – Schlüter. 2nd revised and extended edition, K. G. Saur, Munich 2007, , pp. 488f.
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