Ada Kadelbach

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Ada Kadelbach (born May 26, 1942 in Vienna ) is a German musicologist and hymnologist .

Life

Ada Kadelbach grew up in Osnabrück and Hildesheim . She studied school music, music and literature, American and English studies at the University of Mainz , in Bristol and at the University of Kansas in Lawrence (Kansas) . In 1972, she was in Mainz with a thesis on church songs of the Mennonites in North America Dr. phil. PhD.

She entered the school service of the state of Schleswig-Holstein and from 1973 taught at a grammar school in Westerland on Sylt . From 1980 she headed the Nordfriesland district music school in Husum and in 1985 went to the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education as a speaker in Kiel . In 1991 she was appointed head of the Office for Art and Culture of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck . In 2003 she took early retirement .

She is a board member of the International Working Group for Hymnology and has been co-editor of the Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology since 1991 . She was appointed by the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) to the Working Group for Ecumenical Songs (AÖL). In addition, she is a member of the hymn book committee of the North Elbian Church .

Ada Kadelbach is married to the Protestant pastor Jürgen Heering-Kadelbach.

Works (selection)

Books and editions

  • The Mennonite Hymn of North America (1742-1860): A Study of the Transplantation, Preservation and Reshaping of the European Hymn Tradition . Mainz, Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss. 1972.
  • The Husum court hymn book (Schleswig 1676); a hymn book believed to be lost and its sources / Husum: Stiftung Nordfriesland 1983.
  • (Ed.) The Husum court hymn book: Schleswig 1676 (digitized) . [Facsimile of the copy of the Nordfriesland district archive, Schloss vor Husum] Husum: Husumer Printing and Publishing Company 1986, ISBN 978-3-88042-314-5 .
  • (Ed.) Speculum aevi: Church singing in Lübeck as a mirror of the times . Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1995 ISBN 3-7950-07186 .
  • Thomas Mann and his church: two lectures by Ada Kadelbach and Christoph Schwöbel . Hanover: Church Office of the EKD 2001 (EKD texts 70) full text
  • Paul Gerhardt in the Blue Angel and other contributions to interdisciplinary hymn and hymn book research . Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2017, ISBN 978-3-7720-8464-5 . (= Mainz hymnological studies 26)

Contributions to encyclopedias and catalogs

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the hymn . In: Dieter Lohmeier (ed.), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Music and Literature in Northern Germany . Catalog for the exhibition on the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, Hamburg State and University Library 1988, Schleswig-Holstein State Library Kiel 1989, pp. 101–122.
  • Rationalism and restoration as reflected in the Evangelical Lutheran hymn . In: Speculum aevi. Church singing in Lübeck as a mirror of the times . On behalf of the International Working Group for Hymnology (IAH) and the library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995, pp. 27–40 and 43–54.
  • Songs of the Reformation Era - Worship Context and Types . In: Albert Gerhards , Matthias Schneider (eds.), Der Gottesdienst und seine Musik (Encyclopedia of Church Music 4/2), Laaber 2013, pp. 229–250.
  • Maria Elisabeth Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . In: Claudia Tietz, Ruth Albrecht and Rainer Hering (eds.) At second glance. Women and men of the Northern Church from the Middle Ages to the present . Matthiesen Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-7868-5510-1 , pp. 151-165.

literature

  • Michael Stitz: To God's praise and to human joy. Ada Kadelbach from Sylt researches hymn books and discovers surprising references and sources . Shz-Verlag, December 21, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to religion in past and present , 4th edition, Volume 9, Mohr Siebeck Verlag, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 3-16-146941-0 , p. Xlviii
  2. ↑ Dr. Kadelbach is taking early retirement , Lübecker Stadtzeitung from April 2, 2003, accessed on April 3, 2017
  3. ↑ Born in 1943, studied Protestant theology, musicology and German. Pastor in Schleswig, Husum and Neumünster. Adviser to the church leadership of the North Elbian Church, secretary of the International Dieterich Buxtehude Society .
personal data
SURNAME Kadelbach, Ada
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and hymnologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna