German Music Information Center
The German Music Information Center (MIZ) is the information and documentation facility of the German Music Council . It has set itself the task of providing information about the structures, tasks and developments of the widely ramified musical life in Germany. To this end, it provides statistics, structural data and background information and offers guidance on current funding opportunities, specialist events and further education and training opportunities in the field of music.
organization
The German Music Information Center (MIZ) is part of the Deutscher Musikrat non-profit project company based in Bonn. The sole shareholder of the project company is the Deutscher Musikrat eV based in Berlin. The project company and registered association together form the German Music Council .
The MIZ is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), the Cultural Foundation of the Länder , the City of Bonn and, on a private basis, the Society for the Exploitation of Ancillary Rights (GVL). The private sponsor is the music publisher Hal Leonard Europe.
Tasks and information inventory
As the information and documentation facility of the German Music Council, the German Music Information Center (MIZ) bundles data and facts on musical life in Germany on a broad basis. The spectrum ranges from musical education and training to amateur musicians , professional music practice and events, to media and the music industry . The aim of this is to provide an orientation about the widely ramified and diverse musical landscape in Germany and to present musical life primarily from the perspective of its institutions. The main areas of responsibility are:
- Description of the institutions involved in musical life, including ensembles, associations, orchestras, music theaters, funding institutions and music festivals with information on activities, management structures and contact details,
- Evaluation and processing of music-related statistics from various music associations, research institutions and official bodies,
- Publication of technical articles, etc. a. on the topics of musical education and training, orchestras and music theater, independent ensembles, music in the church, jazz, world music and pop as well as the music industry and media,
- Presentation of structural data in the form of topographical representations, etc. a. to training centers, music theaters and musical instrument making,
- Collection of cultural-political documents, daily news, specialist literature and additional sources from the field of institutionalized musical life,
- Information about national and state-wide advertised music competitions, music prizes and grants as well as musical training and further education offers.
In addition, the MIZ picks up on current topics and presents them in separate focal points. The most extensive publications were the information portal "Church Music - Music in Religions" and in 2018 the portal "Music and Integration". The MIZ also issues print publications at irregular intervals, most recently the compendium "Musikleben in Deutschland", which was also published in English.
In order to carry out its tasks, the MIZ works closely with the network of the German Music Council.
history
The German Music Information Center (MIZ) was founded in 1997 under the umbrella of the German Music Council. The official opening took place on February 26, 1998 in the Haus der Kultur in Bonn. The new institution took over a. the editing of the music almanac , which the German Music Council published since 1986. The music almanac recorded the institutions of musical life in Germany (associations, musical theater, orchestras, etc.) and presented all institutions with basic information and contact details. In 2007, the seventh edition of the Music Almanac was published for the last time in print. Since then, the data has only been published online in the institution database on the MIZ website.
In addition to updating the institution database, the MIZ was assigned numerous other tasks when it was founded, which aimed at taking a look at musical life as a whole. This included u. a. the publication of statistics, the provision of background information on various areas of institutionalized musical life and the compilation of offers for musical training. These offers have been continuously expanded and expanded since then.
Advisory Board
Since its foundation, the work of the MIZ has been accompanied by an advisory board made up of representatives from professional associations, collecting societies, documentation, science and teaching, as well as cultural policy. The first chairman of the advisory board in 1997 was the then board member of the German Broadcasting Archive Foundation in Frankfurt / Main and Potsdam-Babelsberg, Joachim Felix Leonhard . In 2020 Robert von Zahn, Secretary General of the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia , took over the office.
International contacts
As a member of The International Association of Music Information Centers (IAMIC), the MIZ works with over 40 national music information centers around the world and acts as a specialist information and intermediary for inquiries from other European and international countries.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information platform for German music life In: neue musikzeitung, No. 5, 2016, accessed on July 30, 2019.
- ↑ Hal Leonard Europe and the German Music Council announce far-reaching partnership , accessed on July 23, 2020
- ↑ Andreas Eckhardt: "Musical Life" - On the history and definition problems of a term . In: Andreas Eckhardt and Rudolf Stephan (eds.): In rebus musicis. On music in history, education and cultural politics. Richard Jakoby on his 60th birthday. Schott, Mainz 1990, pp. 108-112.
- ↑ Information platform for German musical life . In: neue musikzeitung, No. 5, 2016, accessed on July 31, 2019.
- ↑ Church music - music in religions . Information portal "Church Music - Music in Religions" of the German Music Information Center, accessed on July 31, 2019.
- ↑ Music and Integration . Information portal "Music and Integration" of the German Music Information Center, accessed on July 31, 2019.
- ^ German Music Council (ed.): Musical life in Germany . Bonn 2019.
- ^ German Music Council (Ed.): Musical Life in Germany . Bonn 2019.
- ^ Margot Wallscheid: The German Music Information Center. To the creation of a network . In: Helmut Knüppel (Ed.): Ways and Traces. Links between education, science, culture, history and politics. Festschrift for Joachim-Felix Leonhard . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2007. P. 610.
- ^ Margot Wallscheid: The German Music Information Center. To the creation of a network . In: Helmut Knüppel (Ed.): Ways and Traces. Links between education, science, culture, history and politics. Festschrift for Joachim-Felix Leonhard . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2007. S. 607.
- ↑ Andreas Eckhardt (Ed.): Musik-Almanach 1986/87. Musical life in the Federal Republic of Germany . Bärenreiter-Verlag [u. a.], Kassel [u. a.] 1986.
- ^ Andreas Eckhardt (Ed.): Music Almanach 2007/08. Data and facts about musical life in Germany . Bärenreiter-Verlag [u. a.], Kassel [u. a.] 2007.
- ^ Margot Wallscheid: The German Music Information Center. To the creation of a network . In: Helmut Knüppel (Ed.): Ways and Traces. Links between education, science, culture, history and politics. Festschrift for Joachim-Felix Leonhard . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2007. pp. 610–616.
- ^ Margot Wallscheid: The German Music Information Center. To the creation of a network . In: Helmut Knüppel (Ed.): Ways and Traces. Links between education, science, culture, history and politics. Festschrift for Joachim-Felix Leonhard . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2007. P. 610f.
- ↑ Robert von Zahn appointed as chairman of the advisory board of the MIZ In: DMR-Newsletter 1/2020, accessed on July 23, 2020.
- ↑ IAMIC. Member's web sites. International Association of Music Information Centers website, accessed July 30, 2019.