Anna Friederike Potengowski

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Anna Friederike Potengowski (* 1975 in Weimar ) is a German flautist and chamber musician. She is a specialist in playing on replicas of prehistoric flutes.

life and work

Anna Friederike Potengowski first attended the flute class at the Belvedere Castle Music High School in Weimar and then the Carl Maria von Weber Music High School in Dresden. Then Potengowski studied flute with Eckart Haupt at the Dresden Music Academy and with Roswitha Staege at the Berlin University of the Arts . At the Hochschule für Musik Detmold she completed additional studies in chamber music with Hans-Jörg Wegner .

The unconventional means of expression drew Potengowski into the field of contemporary music after graduating. Since she was 16, she has been looking for such unconventional, passionate, musical means of expression in and with her flute and guitar ensemble Les Alliées . Out of the desire to bring contemporary flute music back to its artistic basis, she has dedicated herself to playing on paleolithic flute replicas since 2010 . In doing so, she found that a huge musical vocabulary could be generated on very simple bone and ivory instruments. Her work was supported by the Hermann Haake Foundation in the form of a grant . With the Ensemble VentOs , which specializes in contemporary music for paleolithic wind instruments and percussion , she has performed at festivals and concert series in Germany and Great Britain.

Potengowski presents music based on reconstructions of instrument finds at archaeological conferences. Their playful analyzes have been published in the communications of the Society for Prehistory and the Studies in Music Archeology . So far she has recorded such analyzes for the European Music Archeology Project , for British and Canadian radio stations, for Germany Radio Kultur, for WDR and the University of Tübingen.

On the Delphian label , Potengowski released the CD The Edge of Time , Palaeolithic Bone flutes of France & Germany together with percussionist Georg Wieland Wagner in 2017 . In these recordings, Potengowski played, among other things, a bone flute made of mammoth ivory carved by the archaeotechnician Wulf Hein , the original, almost 40,000-year-old model from the Swabian cave Geißenklösterle . The original flute can no longer be played due to the damage it has caused over time and is presented in the prehistoric museum of the University of Tübingen . It is not known what kind of music was played on this Paleolithic flute. Potgengowski and Wagner accordingly invented pieces of music that were based on the sounds of nature and the possibilities of this small, fine instrument. Potengowski obtained information beforehand from Friedrich Seeberger , who was the first to bring paleolithic instruments from Swabia back to life with the help of reconstructions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Anna Friederike Potengowski. In: Les Alliées.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Anna Friederike Potengowski. In: delphianrecords.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g SWR2. The sound of the past - music from prehistoric times. Broadcast on February 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ with SC Münzel: The musical "measurement" of paleolithic wind instruments of the Swabian Alb on the basis of reconstructions. Blowing techniques, sound material and sound world. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 24, 2015, pp. 173–192 ( PDF ); SC Münzel, NJ Conard, Wulf Hein, A.-F. Potengowski: Interpreting Three Upper Palaeolithic Wind Instruments from Germany and One from France as Flutes. (Re) construction, Playing Techniques and Sonic Results. In: Ricardo Eichmann, L.-C. Koch, F. Jianjun (Ed.): Studies on Music Archeology X: Sound - Object - Culture - History. Publishing house Marie Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2016, pp. 225–243.
personal data
SURNAME Potengowski, Anna Friederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flautist and chamber musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar