Claus Oefner

Claus Oefner welcomes Bill Clinton and Helmut Kohl in the Eisenacher Bachhaus, 1998

Claus Oefner (born May 26, 1938 in Themar ; † May 3, 2017 in Berlin ) was a German musicologist .

Career

Claus Oefner attended the old-language branch of the Ernst Abbe High School in Eisenach . He studied at the Academy of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar music education and later musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg . There he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1960 to 1988 Oefner worked as a music teacher at the Liselotte Hermann School in Eisenach. From 1988 he worked for two years as a music dramaturge at the Landestheater Eisenach . After that he was director of the Bach House in Eisenach from October 1, 1990 to April 30, 2002 .

Oefner published on the Bach family, on Georg Philipp Telemann and on the history of music in Thuringia. He founded the Eisenach Telemann Days . He was chairman of the Thuringian Bach Weeks and founding president of the Standing Conference on Central German Baroque Music in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . He was also Vice President of the Regional Music Council of Thuringia and its honorary member.

Honors

• Georg Philipp Telemann Prize of the State Capital Magdeburg (1999)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (August 30, 1999)

Web links

• Literature by and about Claus Oefner in the catalog of the German National Library
• State Music Council awards badge of honor to Dr. Claus Oefner, September 9, 2013 ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Birgit Schellbach: Memory of Eisenacher music researcher , Thüringer Allgemeine from May 24, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Quilitzsch: Thuringian trailblazers for early music: Claus Oefner died at the age of 78. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . Mediengruppe Thüringen , May 6, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Dissertation: The musical life in Eisenach 1650–1750 .
3. ↑ Office of the Federal President