Albrecht Dümling

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Albrecht Dümling (born February 17, 1949 in Wuppertal ) is a German musicologist and critic living in Berlin .

After studying and a. in musicology in Essen, Vienna and Berlin, he received his doctorate from Carl Dahlhaus with a thesis on Arnold Schönberg and Stefan George. In 1985 he published on Bertolt Brecht and his relationships with composers. He wrote as a critic for Der Tagesspiegel , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Musikzeitung . For several years he was a jury member in the Association of German Critics.

“ Degenerate Music ” is one of Dümling's main fields of activity. He was a co-founder of the International Hanns Eisler Society and of Musica reanimata , a non-profit association for the revival, promotion and re-performance of the music of ostracized and forgotten composers. In 2007 he received the well-endowed Kairos Prize for his commitment in this area . In addition to other institutions, Dümling is scientifically connected to the Royal Holloway University of London , the University of Melbourne and the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.

Dümling is also the curator of the exhibition Degenerate Music. An annotated reconstruction . It was created in 1988 for the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and has since been shown in around 50 locations in Europe (including Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam). An English version of it, created in 1991 for Los Angeles, has so far been presented in Boston, New York, London, Barcelona, ​​Miami, Chicago and Tel Aviv (March 2011). The Spanish-language version was created in 2007 for the University of Seville and was last shown in Salamanca in 2011. In 2007 the fourth version was created for the Berlin Philharmonic under the title The Suspicious Saxophone. 'Degenerate Music' in the Nazi State .

Since 1995 he has dealt with the German-speaking musician exile in Australia, to which he has devoted research projects at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the TU Berlin and at the National Library of Australia. He published the results in 2011 in his book "The Disappeared Musicians. Jewish Refugees in Australia", which met with a good response in Germany and Australia. It was published in English in 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kolja-lessing.de/kritikerpreis.html
  2. ↑ http://www.musica-reanimata.de/
  3. ↑ a b http://www.das-verdaechtige-saxophon.de/Startseite.html
  4. ↑ http://www.toepfer-stiftung.de/fr/kairos-preis-2007-2/
  5. ↑ http://www.duemling.de/2012/01/rezensions-die-verschwundenen-musiker/
personal data
SURNAME Dümling, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal