[1] After a job-related apprenticeship as tool and die maker he attended the Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Fakultät [de] in Freiberg to prepare his university studies.
at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Scientific Council of the Humboldt University of Berlin with the thesis Music in the Radio of the Weimar Republic – Studies on the History of the Origin of Media-Specific Art Production and Mediation.
[2] The administrative scientist Susanne Hepperle of the Saarländischer Rundfunk retrospectively described Amzoll as a former "functionary in the SED basic organization of the GDR Broadcasting Corporation".
[7] The journalist Otto Köhler (1993) found little sympathy for this in a guest article in Die Zeit, since DS Kultur was "above all his [Amzoll's] work" and the music editor "has gotten himself into a lot of trouble with the SED and much admiration from expert colleagues in the West for his program initiatives".
In addition, he published in the theory journal UTOPIE kreativ[11] as well as in national daily and weekly newspapers (der Freitag and Neues Deutschland among others).
[12] Recent radio reports have been published by Deutschlandradio Kultur; for the Deutschlandfunk he designed specialist programs such as "Atelier neuer Musik".