Jakob Ullmann [SEP] place of birth
Jakob Ullmann
Jakob Ullmann (born 12 July 1958 in Freiberg, Germany) is a German composer and university professor. He is the son of theologian and politician Wolfgang Ullmann.
After refusing to undergo military service in East Germany, Ullmann worked as groundskeeper, boilerman and house painter from 1978 until 1982 in Dresden. From 1979 until 1982 he studied church music in Saxony. Being denied official enrollment in Berlin's Academy of Fine Arts, he studied composition privately with Friedrich Goldmann.
Since the early 1980s he has been
- www.jakob-ullmann.com – official website
- musikrat.de – biography and project description at German Music Council (in German)
- Profile at Hochschule für Musik Basel
- Interview by Georg-Friedrich Kühn (in German)
- Gisela Nauck: Der Komponist Jakob Ullmann - ein Portrait - Feature from: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 1/ 2002 (in German)
- Jakob Ullmann at Edition RZ