11 Facts About Emil Mangelsdorff

Emil Mangelsdorff was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment.

Emil Mangelsdorff played with several groups and was active, as an educator, until old age.

Mangelsdorff was born in Frankfurt, as the son of the bookbinder Emil Albert Joseph Mangelsdorff, born in Ingolstadt, and his wife Luise, nee Becker, from Wertheim.

In 1942 and 1943, Emil Mangelsdorff studied clarinet at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.

Emil Mangelsdorff was forced into the German army and was a Russian prisoner of war for four years.

Emil Mangelsdorff played in the groups of Joe Klimm and Jutta Hipp, and was a member of the Frankfurt All Stars and of the jazz ensemble of the broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk from 1958.

Emil Mangelsdorff continued to develop musically, playing bebop, fusion and cool.

In 1964, Emil Mangelsdorff wrote an instruction manual for jazz saxophone.

Emil Mangelsdorff gave his last concert in Frankfurt's Holzhausenschlosschen on 1 November 2021.

Emil Mangelsdorff informed in schools about the Nazi era as a witness of the time, continuing remembrance work until old age.

Emil Mangelsdorff died in Frankfurt am Main on 20 January 2022, at the age of 96.