Martin Zenck

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Martin Zenck (born August 9, 1945 in St. Peter , Black Forest ) is a German musicologist . Until 2010 he was a professor at the University of Würzburg .

life and work

After studying musicology, philosophy and modern German literature in Freiburg and at the FU Berlin and TU Berlin, he received his doctorate there in 1975 with a thesis on the concept of art Theodor W. Adorno's art as conceptless knowledge . 1982 followed the habilitation on the Bach reception of the late Beethoven with Carl Dahlhaus at the TU Berlin .

After working from 1982 to 1985 as a producer of new music at the WDR in Cologne and from 1986 to 1989 as a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation , he accepted a professorship for historical musicology at the University of Bamberg in 1989 . In 1994 he was a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Lake Como. Since the 1990s he was a member and vice-chairman of the international Goethe-Institut in Munich, for which he carried out music projects in the Soviet Union, later Russia and India. Since the 2006/07 winter semester he has been Professor of Musicology with a focus on New Music and Aesthetics at the University of Würzburg . In 2011 he spent three months in Washington DC with the funds of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science to work in the Library of Congress on the estate of the pianist and composer Eduard Steuermann . In the same year, with the support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, he was in Basel for two months to further promote his studies on exile research on the composer Stefan Wolpe in the "Stefan Wolpe" collection of the Paul Sacher Foundation .

In 2013, Zenck was awarded the Happy New Ears Prize of the Hans and Gertrud Zender Foundation , endowed with 10,000 euros . In 2013 he was visiting professor at the University of Chicago with a focus on labyrinth research in the spaces of knowledge and on the music theory and composition practice of Pierre Boulez .

Fonts

  • Zenck, Martin: Art as conceptless knowledge. On the concept of art in Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic theory . Fink, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7705-1365-7 .
  • Zenck, Martin: The Bach Reception of the Late Beethoven. On the relationship between music historiography and reception historiography of the “classical” . Steiner, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-03312-0  ( formally incorrect ) .
  • Baumann, Max Peter (ed.): Music, the Arts and Rituals . The World of Music, I, 1998. University of Bamberg (Guest Ed. Zenck, Martin), ISBN 3-86135-708-9 .
  • Becker, Tim; Woebs, Raphael; Zenck, Martin (ed.): Depiction and power of representation in the arts and media . Reimer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-496-02790-4 .
  • Becker, Tim; Woebs, Raphael; Zenck, Martin (ed.): Signature and fantasy in the fine arts, literature and cultural studies of the early modern period . Fink, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4308-3 .
  • Zenck, Martin (ed.): Generating and understanding meaning. Rational, performative and mimetic concepts of understanding in cultural studies . Fink, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7705-4521-6 .
  • Zenck, Martin: Pierre Boulez. The score of the gesture and the theater of the avant-garde , Fink, Paderborn 2016, ISBN 978-3-7705-5998-5

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Zenck, Martin. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 17 (Vina - Zykan). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ Short biography of Martin Zenck. (No longer available online.) University of Würzburg , June 16, 2012, archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; accessed on October 25, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Zender Prize to Isabel Mundry and Martin Zenck ( Memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Dieter Mersch : At the limits of language. A laudation to Isabel Mundry and Martin Zenck, the winners of the Hans and Gertrud Zender Foundation 2013 . In: New magazine for music . tape 174 , no. 3 . Schott Music , 2013, ISSN  0170-8791 , p. 56-61 , JSTOR : 23994730 .
  5. ↑ Review in the FAZ on February 10, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Zenck, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Peter , Black Forest