Interview with Gerhard Steinke, 12 October 2010, Steinke's apartment, Berlin

Abstract

Gerhard Steinke, born in 1927, already worked as a sound engineer at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, 1 beginning in 1947, prior to studying electroacoustics at the TU (Technical University), Dresden (1949–1953). From 1953 to 1990, he worked in various positions for the RFZ 2 of the German post office, in Berlin Adlershof. From 1956 until its close in the mid-1970s, Steinke managed the newly established research lab for inter-disciplinary problems in musical acoustics, 3 in which, if nothing else, the Subharchord, an electronic musical instrument, was developed. Steinke was a member of various international committees in the area of audiotechnology.