Judith Krummeck — broadcaster | writer | immigrant

Judith Krummeck has been WBJC’s evening drive-time host since 1998. Before immigrating to the United States, she was the arts editor for SAfm at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where she also presented live symphony concerts for SABC-TV. Judith was given the Praise Singer Award for her arts programming from South Africa’s Foundation for the Creative Arts, and she has twice been named Baltimore’s Best by Baltimore Magazine.

Judith was a drama and history of art major at the University of Cape Town and a professional actor in Cape Town before turning to broadcasting. She also holds a history of music qualification from the University of South Africa and an  MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore.

She is the author of three books. Her debut novel, The Deceived Ones, was published in spring 2024. Her biographical memoir, Old New Worlds, was a finalist in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards. Her first book, Beyond the Baobab, is a memoir in essays about her immigrant experience. Her screenplay, Philida, based on the novel of the same name by André Brink, is in development in South Africa.

As a teacher, Judith has lectured at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch, and for the Odyssey and Osher programs at Johns Hopkins University. Judith lives in Baltimore City with her husband, Douglas Blackstone, a musician and attorney.

Judith can be reached at jkrummeck@bccc.edu

You can link to Judith’s website here: http://judithkrummeck.com

Judith’s Articles:

Music is Life
The Food of Love
Different Eyes and Ears
“In sweet music is such art…”

recent posts:

• The Art of Living History on BookNotes

    In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, my guest on BookNotes this month is the historical novelist and preservationist Sharon Virts, whose six-part saga Fields of Honor, set during the first half of the 1800s, is grounded in historical fact.  

• The Goddess of Swizzle on BookNotes

            Baltimore poet, Shirley J. Brewer—who says that she earned her MBA from the Maryland Bartending Academy!—is out with her fifth poetry collection. I invited her to read from and talk about it on BookNotes.    

• A rose by any other name…

  On WBJC, we use the terms symphonic poem and tone poem interchangeably, and that tends to lead to confusion on the part of some of our listeners. In fact, they are the exact same thing. Whatever term we use, we are referring to a single-movement orchestral piece that tells a story or paints a musical […]