Sculpture Black Clef, created by Taro Miyabe in 1982, at the Horst-Lippmann-Platz in Frankfurt am Main
Horst Lippmann (17 March 1927 in Eisenach, Germany – 18 May 1997 in Frankfurt am Main) was a German jazz musician, concert promoter, writer and television director, best known as promoter of the influential American Folk Blues Festival tours of Europe during and after the 1960s.
The son of a hotelier, Lippmann played drums in the illegal Frankfurter Hot Club in the 1940s, and wrote for one of the first German jazz magazines, Mitteilungen für Freunde der modernen Tanzmusik (Messages for Friends of Modern Dance Music). After the war he played in the combos of the Hot Club with Günter Boaz. Together with Olaf Hudtwalcker [de], he was involved in the founding of the German Jazz Federation [de], and organized and participated in concert tours by the West German jazz clubs. In 1953 he founded the German Jazz Festival at Frankfurt.
Rieth, Michael: Horst Lippmann. Ein Leben für Jazz, Blues und Rock. Prefaces by Emil Mangelsdorff and Klaus Doldinger. Heidelberg 2008: Palmyra. (German)
Rau, Fritz: 50 Jahre Backstage. Erinnerungen eines Konzertveranstalters. Heidelberg 2005: Palmyra. Pg. 18-20, 23-26, 31-34, 36-40, 235-239 (German)