Christiane Gerischer

Christiane Gerischer (* 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a German musicologist, journalist and university lecturer. She is president of the Clara Hoffbauer University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam .

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Christiane Gerischer studied until 1980 at the Technical University of Berlin on teaching . She completed her studies with the first state examination. Between 1981 and 1985 she worked in open youth social work in the Protestant House of the Middle in Gropiusstadt and in the Schnüfflerhilfe in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 1983 she learned percussion while working . She performed, accompanied dance and taught Brazilian percussion in Berlin and Potsdam.

From 1990 to 1997 Christiane Gerischer studied comparative musicology at the Free University of Berlin . She completed this course with a master's degree . She then did her doctorate until 2003 with a computer-aided rhythm analysis on the subject of microrhythmic phenomena in Baian samba . Furthermore, she took on music ethnology teaching assignments from 1997 in Brazil and from 2004 at German music colleges and universities. Between 2002 and 2010 she was a freelance radio music journalist with a focus on world music for radio multicultural of the Berlin-Brandenburg radio , DeutschlandRadio Kultur , Südwestrundfunk , Hessischer Rundfunk , Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln and Deutschlandfunk . From 2005 to 2010 she worked in the daily music department of DeutschlandRadio Kultur. Gerischer also directed intercultural music projects at schools in Brandenburg .

Since 2011, Christiane Gerischer has been the head of the course of studies of the practice-integrated dual course in music education and music education in social work at the Clara Hoffbauer University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and its predecessor, the Hoffbauer Berufsakademie . Between 2010 and 2016 she played a key role in setting up the vocational academy and university. She is a professor for music-pedagogical and musicological theory . She is the university president. Her main research interests are rhythm and groove research with special attention to music psychological aspects, popular music in Brazil, Africa and Latin America, music education in social work, socio-cultural music work.

Christiane Gerischer has two sons.

Awards and honors

In 2007 Christiane Gerischer received the Jaap Art Prize for the “ Most Significant Article Published in the Field of Ethnomusicology ” (Society for Ethnomusicology).

Fonts (selection)

• Why inclusive social work needs music educators . In: Jank, Birgit (ed.): Music in social fields and contexts of inclusion . Potsdam series of publications on music education, Potsdam. University Press Potsdam.

• Rhythm and dance - a moving relationship . In: Transgressions of a musical kind . Festschrift for Regine Algayer-Kaufmann. Ed.by Anja Brunner, Cornelia Gruber and August Schmidhofer. Pp. 75-92

• Opportunities for transcultural music education in social work . In Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, Melanie Unseld (Ed.): Transculturality and Music Education . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. MS 243-262

• Groove - magic moments - attempt at a rational approach . In Stefanie Alisch, Christiane Gerischer (Eds.): PopScriptum 11 'The Groove Issue'

• O suingue baiano - Rhythmic Feeling and Micro-Rhythmic Phenomena in Brazilian Percussion . In: Ethnomusicology , Vol. 50, No. 1 Winter 2006. pp. 99-119

• Microrhythmic interaction in Afro-Brazilian rhythms - To understand groove phenomena . In Christa Brüstle, Nadia Ghattas, Clemens Risi, Sabine Schouten (eds.): Out of the beat, rhythm in art, culture and nature . , Bielefeld, transkript Verlag.

• O suingue Baiano - Microrhythmic phenomena in Baian percussion (Brazil), Peter Lang, 2003

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Christiane Gerischer . Published on fhchp.de . Accessed March 4, 2019.
2. ^ Presidium . Published on fhchp.de. Accessed March 1, 2019.