Matthias Spindler died

The journalist and historian Matthias Spindler has died. He was known for his numerous radio features on jazz as well as for his extremely knowledgeable and always well-balanced music reviews, which appeared in specialist magazines and daily newspapers. And this pioneer of private radio also had a second passion: history. As a trained historian, he devoted himself to researching separatism in the Palatinate. His last of many articles about Enjoy Jazz in the "Mannheimer Morgen" appropriately dealt with a historic event: the presumably last live concert in Germany before the november 2020 lockdown and thus the first interruption in the more than 20-year history of our festival. In Matthias Spindler, jazz has lost an interdisciplinary thinker and empathetic writer. His passionate ability to provide intelligent, always multi-dimensional criticism will be missed. And very much so. Our thoughts are with those whose privilege it was to know this wonderful journalist and ever-curious man even better than we did.

Photo: Manfred Rinderspacher