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Alfred Quellmalz (born October 25, 1899 in Oberdigisheim ; † December 5, 1979 in Hauset , Belgium ) was a German musicologist .

Life

Quellmalz, the son of a city doctor, had been an assistant at the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau since 1928 . In 1932 he was with his dissertation on the way from Elslein. A contribution to the history of the older German secular song at the University of Freiburg for Dr. phil. PhD.

On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4,715,632). After working as an assistant at the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg i. Br. He was archivist from 1937 to 1945 and in 1938 became head of Department II (folk music) of the State Institute for German Music Research in Berlin. In 1939 he was co-editor of the anthology Our song book of the HJ . From 1940 he worked with the SS Ahnenerbe .

On behalf of his institute and the "South Tyrolean Culture Commission" of the SS-Ahnenerbes, who was promoted to department head for folk music in 1941, he collected folk music in South Tyrol from 1940 to 1942 by traveling the country and using the most modern tape recorders and cameras to record the music of the native population recorded. About 3000 songs and instrumental pieces were fixed in this way.

This came about because Heinrich Himmler, as "Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity" and President of the SS ancestral inheritance , wanted to have documented the culture there before the depopulation of South Tyrol (see option in South Tyrol ). Quellmalz 'tapes, now owned by the University Library of Regensburg , were digitized by the Vienna Phonogram Archive between 2006 and 2007.

From 1943 to 1944, Quellmalz was also head of the department for "Indo-European-German music" in the SS Ahnenerbe. In 1944 he was drafted into the Waffen SS , where he became the Untersturmführer . However, due to a secret order from Reichsführer SS Himmler, he stayed in Waischenfeld , where the “Ahnenerbe” had been relocated in 1943 because of the war.

After the end of the Second World War , Quellmalz was initially no longer given a musicological position. Until 1949 he worked as a freelance music writer in Bregenz and from 1947 to 1949 he was also a sound engineer for the Austrian broadcasting company in Vorarlberg. Since 1950 he has been employed at the state studio of the SWF in Tübingen and has also been a lecturer at the Trossingen University of Music . From 1954 to 1961, until he retired, he was state officer at the German Youth Red Cross in Stuttgart. From the 1950s onwards he conducted folk music research in the Allgäu and follow-up surveys in South Tyrol. a. were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) .

From 1968 to 1976 he published his research results from the 1940s as South Tyrolean folk songs in three volumes. A scientific commentary was no longer produced.

Quellmalz 'great importance lies in the methodically meticulous and highly committed documentation of folk music in what was then the "contract area", which in addition to South Tyrol (province of Bolzano) also included the thirteen municipalities (province of Verona) and the Canal Valley (province of Udine). As a representative of the "older" German musical folklore, despite his willingness to compromise with the regime, he succeeded in organizing his work scientifically, essentially free of ideology. His collection is therefore not only to be understood as a source of folk music under National Socialism, but mainly as an attempt to record the oldest layers of the orally transmitted traditional music of South Tyrol with a view to music-historical research.

Fonts

  • together with Hans Joachim Moser: Folk songs of the 15th century from St. Blasien . In: Folklore gifts. John Meier offered on his seventieth birthday , Berlin: de Gruyter 1934, pp. 146–156.

literature

  • Nussbaumer, Thomas: Alfred Quellmalz and his South Tyrolean field research (1940–1942): a study of musical folklore under National Socialism . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: StudienVerlag 2001, ISBN 3-7065-1517-2 .
  • Franz Kofler / Walter Deutsch: Folk music in South Tyrol. Dances and pieces from the tape collection Dr. Alfred Quellmalz 1940 - 42 (series: Corpus Musicae Popularis Austriacae , vol. 10) Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Weimar 1999, 442 pages, book with CD.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 5359.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 475.
  3. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , p. 5.360.
personal data
SURNAME Quellmalz, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdigisheim
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1979
Place of death Hauset , Belgium