Alexandra Kertz-Welzel

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Alexandra Kertz-Welzel (born October 15, 1970 in Neunkirchen , Saarland ) is a German music teacher , musicologist and musician. Since 2011 she has been professor and head of music education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Her broad research interests include International Music Education , Philosophy of Music Education, Music Education Policy, Community Music, and Children's Musical Cultures.

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1990 at the Wendalinum high school in St. Wendel , Kertz-Welzel studied school music, music education, musicology, German literature and philosophy at the University of Music and the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . When Kristin Merscher she has piano and Gerald Hambitzer harpsichord studied. As a pianist, she has expertise in historical performance practice and in the piano repertoire of the 19th century. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe and the USA. From 1992 to 2000 she was a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk .

In her interdisciplinary dissertation The Transcendence of Emotions (2000), Kertz-Welzel dealt with the relationships between music and feeling in early romantic literature . After her legal clerkship in Neunkirchen and Ottweiler (2000–2002), Kertz-Welzel worked as a researcher and visiting lecturer at the University of Washington in Seattle from 2002–2005 . She then presented her insights into comparative music education in her book Every child for music: Music Education and Music Lessons in the USA (2006), the first German-language study on music education in the USA since Walter Gieseler's study from 1969. Her book was published in 2018 Globalizing Music Education: A Framework released.

From 2005 to 2011 she taught German, music and philosophy in school at the Gymnasium am Stadtgarten in Saarlouis and worked as a lecturer in music education and music didactics at the University of Music in Saarbrücken. In April 2011, she was appointed university professor for music education at the Ludwig Maximilians University. As part of the LMUexcellent excellence initiative , she was also a mentor of the Faculty of History and Art from 2011 to 2017. In 2013 she founded the Munich Community Music Center (MCMC) based at LMU . Since October 1, 2018, she has been Managing Director of the Art Studies Department at LMU Munich.

From 2016 to 2018 she was co-chair of the Commission on Policy: Culture, Education and Media of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) and, from 2017 to 2019, chair of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME).

Publications (selection)

as an author

  • The transcendence of feelings. Relationships between music and feeling at Wackenroder / Tieck and the musical aesthetics of romanticism . Röhrig Universitätsverlag, Sankt Ingbert 2001, ISBN 978-3-86110-278-6 (dissertation, Saarland University, 2001).
  • Every child for music. Music education and teaching in the USA . Blue Owl, Essen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89924-169-3 .
  • Globalizing music education: a framework . Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2018, ISBN 978-0-253-03257-7 .

as editor

  • with David G. Hebert: Patriotism and nationalism in music education . Ashgate Publishing, Farnham 2012, ISBN 978-1-4094-3080-3 .
  • Music Education in North America . In: Discussion of music education . (Series of articles 2008–2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Gieseler: Music education in the USA compared with German conditions . Klett, Stuttgart 1969, OCLC 60900488 .
  2. ↑ LMU - Excellence Initiative . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  3. ^ Munich Community Music Center (MCMC) . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of music education at the LMU Munich . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  5. ^ ISME Commission on Policy: Culture, Education and Media . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  6. ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of music education at the LMU Munich . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  7. ^ International Society for Music Education (ISME) . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  8. ^ International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) . Accessed July 7, 2020.
  9. ^ Curriculum vitae on the website of music education at the LMU Munich . Accessed July 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kertz-Welzel, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)