Reinhard Kager

Between 1994 and 2002, he also worked in Vienna as a freelance journalist specialising in music and theatre for numerous radio stations of the ARD and as a correspondent for the feature pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

There, he was responsible for the improvisation programme at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and for the SWR New Jazz Meeting [de].

His special focus was on innovative tendencies of Free improvisation and on experiments of the new electronic scene.

There, he works as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the magazine Opernwelt and the Neue Musikzeitung,[4] for the ORF and numerous ARD radio stations.

In October 2018, Kager took over the artistic direction of the Tyrolean festival Klangspuren and programmed the first cycle of events in September 2019.