After artistic engagements with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, he was most recently permanent conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Hofmann was born in 1917 as the son of a chamber musician in Wrocław and grew up in Halle and Dresden.
[1] After being selected from a group of guest conductors, he succeeded music director Richard Treiber at the Constance Municipal Orchestra (from 1962 Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz) in 1959 (from 1962, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra of Constance), whose position had already been advertised since 1956.
[1] According to Robert Heinze, "a personal feud" between a concert pianist who had probably been passed over and the music director led to a scandal.
[4] A reticent city and the realities of Inner-German relations [de] did not help to quickly clarify the facts of the case.