Annette Kreutziger-Herr

Annette Kreutziger-Herr (* 1962 as Annette Kreutziger in Holzminden ) is a German music and cultural scientist .

Life

Annette Kreutziger studied historical and systematic musicology , Italian and medieval studies in Hamburg , Kiel and Bologna . She has taught in Germany, Italy, Norway and England as well as in the USA (visiting professorships at Smith College and Principia College 1995, 1997, 2009). From 1985 to 1990 she worked for Luigi Nono and from 1989 to 1996 advisor to Claudio Abbado as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She received her doctorate in 1990 and her habilitation in 2002.

From 1993 to 1999 she was a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg , and from 2001 to 2005 professor at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . Kreutziger-Herr was professor of musicology and cultural studies at the Cologne University of Music and Dance from 2005 to 2014 . She has also been a lecturer and keynote speaker at European, US and Canadian universities as well as initiator and organizer of lecture series and international conferences, including "Relationship Magic: Music and Literature" (Hamburg 1995), "Apocalypse Now" (Hamburg 1998), “Medieval Longing ?” (Heidelberg 1998), “Mozart” (Cologne 2006), “Music and Nature” ( Kopavogur , Iceland , 2011, and Cologne 2011). It was funded by the German National Academic Foundation and the German Research Foundation . She has been a Fellow of the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston ( Massachusetts ) since 2005 , a member of the Advisory Board of the Mariann Steegmann Foundation and was awarded the Sigurd Greven Prize in 2008 for her work on music-related research on the Middle Ages.

She is married to Klaus-Hendrik Herr. The couple have two children, Vincent-Immanuel Herr (born 1988) and a daughter born in 1992.

She is a member of the Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism and a member of the coordination group of the Berlin Forum of Religions.

In autumn 2014 she opened a Christian-scientific practice in Berlin and supports various projects in a global context.

Works

Kreutziger-Herr published on epistemological, cultural and musicological topics. A children's book, poems and articles on human rights, ethical and spiritual issues were published. She was the initiator and editor of various book and publication series, u. a. “European female composers” (since 2005 Böhlau Verlag).

Books (selection)

A dream from the Middle Ages. The rediscovery of medieval music in modern times, Cologne / Weimar 2003
Johannes Ciconia (approx. 1370–1412): Composing in a culture of words (= Hamburg Contributions to Musicology, Volume 39), Hamburg / Eisenach 1991
Jakobs Schäfchen (children's book), Hamburg 1991
(as publisher) Lexicon Music and Gender (with Melanie Unseld), Kassel / Stuttgart 2010
The 101 most important questions: Classical music (with Winfried Bönig, Tilmann Claus, Gerald Hambitzer), Munich 2009
(as publisher) History / Herstory: Alternative music stories (with Katrin Losleben), Cologne / Weimar 2009
(as publisher) Mozart in view: productions, images and discourses. Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007
(as ed.) The other. A search for traces in the history of music in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 15), Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern 1998
(as ed.) From the New World. Forays through the American music of the 20th century (with Manfred Strack) (= North America Studies, Vol. 8, edited by Norbert Finzsch and Rolf Meyn), Hamburg 1997
with Nina Noeske and Susanne Rode-Breymann as editors: Yearbook Music and Gender , Volume 3, Gender Studies in Musicology. Quo vadis? Festschrift for Eva Rieger . Olms, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14494-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Kreutziger-Herr, Annette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kreutziger, Annette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music and cultural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holzminden

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