Claudia Spahn

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Claudia Spahn (2019)

Claudia Spahn (* 1963 ) is a German musician and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine . She is a leading researcher in the development of music physiology and musicians' medicine, especially in the field of stage fright and fear of performing.

Life

Claudia Spahn received artistic training in recorder as a solo instrument, piano and violin since childhood. With the instruments recorder and piano she won several prizes at the state competition Jugend musiziert . She also completed training in classical ballet , modern dance and tap dance . Spahn studied medicine at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg as well as in Paris and Switzerland. Since 1986 she has been studying music at the University of Music Freiburg in the course of music teacher with a major in recorder. She finished her studies in 1991 as a qualified music teacher. Since 1992 Claudia Spahn has had numerous appearances as a pianist in the music-cabaret duo The Beautiful Baritons - together with the baritone Bernhard Richter . From 1994 to 2004 she performed as a pianist and recorder in music theaters in France.

In 1992 Spahn began her medical training in the subjects of psychosomatic medicine , internal medicine and psychiatry . In 1993 she became Dr. med. and in 1999 she became a specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine . In 2004, on the subject of prevention in the university education of musicians, the habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg followed. In the 2005/2006 winter semester, Claudia Spahn received the professorship for musicians' medicine at the Freiburg University of Music. Since then she has headed - together with Bernhard Richter - the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine (FIM) - an institution of the University of Music and the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In 2017 Claudia Spahn became Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations at the Freiburg University of Music. 2020 she became specialist systematic musicology to Dr. phil. PhD.

Claudia Spahn has significantly developed the subject of music physiology and musician's medicine structurally and in terms of content. She has written and edited a number of standard textbooks. In teaching, she teaches music students the physical and psychological basics of making music, preventive body-oriented approaches and dealing with stage fright . Music physiology can be studied as an independent minor at the Freiburg Research and Teaching Center for Music. She also teaches medical students in the preclinical and clinical study stages at the Medical Faculty in Freiburg.

In the outpatient clinic of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine at the Freiburg University Medical Center , Spahn treats musicians with the entire range of musician medical complaints, especially pain and overload syndromes. She offers a special consultation for patients with psychological problems, especially fear of performing.

Research areas

Claudia Spahn is an internationally known researcher in the field of prevention and health promotion of musicians in their studies and work, music psychological issues ( musician personality ) and movement analysis when playing instruments, music-physiological research and the evaluation of body methods. A special focus is on research into stage fright.

Memberships

Awards

  • 2009: Award of the Medical Faculty Freiburg for outstanding teaching (with Bernhard Richter and Edgar Voltmer)
  • 2010: Karl Storz Prize (with Bernhard Richter and Edgar Voltmer)
  • 2012: Countess Sonja Memorial Prize of the Singing with Children Foundation for services to musicians' medicine (with Bernhard Richter)

Fonts (selection)

Author

  • Autogenic training in the experience of a group of neurodermatitis patients. Freiburg im Breisgau 1993 (dissertation, University of Freiburg, 1994).
  • Model of the prevention of job-specific stress in higher education using the example of musicians. 2004 (Habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg, 2004).
  • Health for musicians: Development of the Freiburg prevention model (= Freiburg contributions to musicians' medicine. Vol. 1). Projekt-Verlag, Bochum / Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 3-89733-150-0 .
  • with Bernhard Richter and Mark Zander: hearing protection in the orchestra (= Freiburg contributions to musicians' medicine. Vol. 4). Projekt-Verlag, Bochum / Freiburg im Breisgau 2007, ISBN 3-89733-181-0 .
  • Stage fright: manual for a successful performance. Basics, analysis, measures. Henschel, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-89487-706-4 .
  • with Bernhard Richter, Matthias Echternach and Johannes Pöppe: The wind instrument game: Physiological processes and insights into the body. DVD-ROM. Helbling, Esslingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86227-089-7 .
  • Musicians' health in practice. Basics, prevention, exercises. Henschel, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-89487-761-3 .
  • with Bernhard Richter: Music with body and soul. What we do with music and they do with us. Knowledge & Life. Edited by Wulf Bertram. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7945-3129-5 .
  • with Bernhard Richter, Matthias Echternach, Louisa Traser, Michael Burdumy: The Voice. Insights into the physiological processes involved in singing and speaking. Insights into the Physiology of Singing and Speaking. Helbling Esslingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86227258-7 .
  • Body-Oriented Approaches for Musicians. Methods for performance and health promotion. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-45685502-8 .

Editor

  • with Bernhard Richter, Edgar Voltmer: Being a doctor, making music and health (= Freiburg contributions to musicians' medicine. Vol. 5). Projekt-Verlag, Bochum / Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-89733-185-3 .
  • with Bernhard Richter and Eckart Altenmüller : Musicians Medicine. Diagnosis, therapy and prevention of music-specific diseases. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7945-2634-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Spahn: Stage fright: manual for a successful appearance. Basics, analysis, measures. Henschel, Leipzig 2012, p. 155.
personal data
SURNAME Spahn, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963