Jürgen Golle attended from 1949 to 1954 the primary school in Steinpleis. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Thomanerchor (Lipsia) and attended the Thomasschule. In 1958 he returned to Zwickau to the Gerhart Hauptmann high school. From 1959 he worked as a laborer and auxiliary mechanic at the Zwickau Central Institute for Manufacturing Technology and in 1962 after attending an evening school graduated from high school. From 1962 to 1966 he studied the subjects Music and German at the Pedagogical Institute Zwickau and from 1965 to 1969 with Wilhelm Weismann at the Academy of Music and Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Lipsia. In the subjects of music theory and composition Golle taught from 1967 at the College of Education Zwickau. He passed his state examination as a composer and pedagogue for music theory in 1969. In 1972 he received an additional teaching assignment at the Leipzig Music Academy. From 1979 he worked as a senior assistant at the Zwickau University of Education and in 1984, after a short stay abroad at the Conservatory in Leningrad (Sankt Petersburg), was appointed lecturer in teaching music theory / composition at the PH Zwickau. In 1993 he followed the call as a professor at the Technical University of Chemnitz. Golle lives in Zwickau and has been retired since 2005.
(Rainer Stelle)