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Third graders visiting my workshop – February 2024
Interview in Welt am Sonntag (german newspaper)
Geigenbaumeister Thomas Rojahn, 49, betreibt in Berlin eine eigene Werkstatt. Warum er für ein Instrument mehrere Monate braucht, keines wie das andere klingt – und was passieren muss, damit Musikschüler nicht gleich aufgeben. → more
25. SEPTEMBER 2022 • WELT AM SONNTAG • NR. 39
April 7, 2023: Repetition of the RBB documentary from February 27, 2018 (german)
Master luthier Thomas Rojahn in the RBB (local TV-Station) documentation Auf dem Landwehrkanal – Berlin mit dem Schiff erfahren (from the 12th minute)
Interview with Berliner Schulpate (german)
German Movie Klang aus Meisterhand
Master Luthier Thomas Rojahn talks about the passion for his job
A film by Nicole Danzfuss, Ivan Bogomolov, Lolita Lavreniuk
School Classes Visiting my Workshop
January 23rd, 2019 fourth grade Freie Waldorfschule Berlin Südost
February 13th, 2019 third grade Rosa Parks elementary school
The Official European Craft Days 2019 Video
European Craft Days 2019
Workshop Show on Friday and Saturday, April 5th and 6th, 2019, 3pm - 6pm
Master Luthier Thomas Rojahn,
Taborstraße 6,
10997 Berlin
Free admission
Sixth graders visiting my workshop – April 2018
European Craft Days 2018
Workshop show, 23rd March 2018, 3pm - 6pm
Master Luthier Thomas Rojahn,
Taborstraße 6,
10997 Berlin
Free admission
http://www.kunsthandwerkstage.de/
http://berlin.kunsthandwerkstage.de/ teilnehmer/geigenbaumeister-thomas-rojahn
The RBB (local television) in my workshop – May 2017
Third graders visiting my workshop – May 2017
Concert on 2nd April 2017:
On the occasion of the European Craft Days, master luthier Thomas Rojahn presents:
"El PASEO" – Tango y mas!
Tango Nuevo – Balkan Rhythms - Dances and Songs from Central America to Eastern Europe
A concert by EL PASEO on Sunday evening at 6 pm at the Tabor Church in Taborstraße 17 in 10997
Berlin (diagonally opposite my workshop).
Admission is free
European Craft Days 2017
Workshop show, 31st March 2017 to 2nd April 2017, 3 pm - 6 pm
Master luthier Thomas Rojahn,
Taborstraße 6,
10997 Berlin
Free admission
http://www.kunsthandwerkstage.de/
http://berlin.kunsthandwerkstage.de/teilnehmer/geigenbaumeister
European Craft Days from 1st April 2016 to 3rd April 2016
Visitors to my workshop at the Craft Days
Thank you for visiting me and your interest in my craft. I am looking forward to see you in the future again in my workshop.
Master Luthier Thomas Rojahn and his passion for his craft
Article in the newspaper "Berliner Woche" (german):
Kreuzberg. Wie stellt man sich einen typischen Geigenbauer vor? Wahrscheinlich einen Mann schon etwas älteren Jahrgangs, der,
bekleidet mit Schürze oder Arbeitsanzug, seinem Handwerk nachgeht... → more
From chisels and sounds of planets
Hartmund Welscher (Van-Magazine) talks to luthier Thomas Rojahn → more
The Youngest in the Workshop
The Kita(Kindergarten) Klimperkiste visiting my workshop:
European Craft Days 2016
Workshop show, 1st April 2016 to 3rd April 2016, 3 pm - 6 pm
Master luthier Thomas Rojahn,
Taborstraße 6,
10997 Berlin
Free admission
http://www.3tage-handwerk-design-berlin.de/#about
http://berlin.3tage-handwerk-design.de/teilnehmer/geigenbaumeister
Film Shooting in my Workshop
European Craft Days 2015
Workshop show at 29th March 2015, 2 pm - 6 pm
Master luthier Thomas Rojahn,
Taborstraße 6,
10997 Berlin
Free admission
http://www.3tage-handwerk-design-berlin.de/#about
Open workshop: Viola – seeing, hearing, trying out
Sa 29th November 2014, 1 pm - 8 pm
Free admission
Master luthier Thomas Rojahn, Taborstr. 6, 10997 Berlin
On this open workshop day the focus is on the Viola.
In particular you will be able to see and play an asymmetrical half Viola, that I have made to a conception of my teacher. Let yourself be surprised by the ease to play this instrument and its sonorous sound! → more
ESTA Germany
National Congress in 2014
25th - 26th October 2014 in the Music Academy of Kassel Louis Sohr → more
German Bratschistentag 2014, the German Viola Society
THE SOUND SONORE
Friday, October 17 to Sunday, October 19
University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim → more
Sample lessons with Viola Lecturers of the Berlin music academies
1st July 2014 - 3rd July 2014
Free admission
For those interested in studying viola, violinists and violin teachers interested in playing the viola, violists of the "Landesjugendorchester" (State Youth Orchestra)
and winners of the contest "Jugend musiziert" (youth makes music).
Participating lecturers include: Prof. Hartmut Rohde, Prof. Irmgard Huntgeburth, Marion Leleu...
The viola – Instrument of 2014
The Berlin Music Council nominates the viola for the instrument of the year 2014.
ESTA 2014
42. International Congress of the EUROPEAN STRING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION from 8 to 13 April 2014 in Dresden
Violin Art Gallery celebrates 50th contest "Jugend musiziert" (youth makes music)
19th/20th and 23rd May 2013 – Exhibition of fine stringed instruments and bows of outstanding masters of violin and bow making from Franconia and guests to celebrate the 50th contest "Jugend musiziert"... → more
Open-door day
8th and 9th December 2012
Sat / Sun from 11 am to 5 pm
I am looking forward to meet you. → more
Viola Asymmetric model AK
In the history of violin making, there are countless attempts to optimize handling and acoustic operation of the viola. That resulted in different models, but there is no original construction of a viola yet... → more
Matinee Chamber Music & Violinart Gallery
MEETINGS 2012:
MATINEE CHAMBER MUSIC & VIOLINART GALLERY
in the Zehntspeicher, Neunkirchen am Brand
November 11, 2012
First place in the International Violin Making Competition in Náchod (2004)
Sound compared with the Stradivarius
For young musicians, being awarded first prize at international competitions lays the foundation for a great stage career. Here
audience, media and record companies pay attention to young talents, contacts are made and contracts are signed. Also for the
makers of the instruments themselves, there are such international competitions. Tomasz Rojahn of his craft in... → more
Erlanger Nachrichten on 25 May 2004