Dietmar Hiller

Dietmar Hiller on the bust of Leonard Bernstein in the Konzerthaus Berlin 2006

Dietmar Hiller (born April 26, 1958 in Berlin ) is a German musicologist , organist , dramaturge at the Konzerthaus Berlin and lecturer at the "Hanns Eisler" Academy of Music in Berlin .

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After graduating from the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Oberschule , a school with a musical focus, Hiller studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1976 and graduated in 1981 with the diploma examination. In 1984 he became a Doctor of Philosophy PhD . Organ studies with church music director Erich Piasetzki from 1977 to 1984 supplemented his artistic training. In 1987 he took part in the improvisation competition for young organists in Halle (Saale) .

Hiller has worked as a dramaturge at the Konzerthaus Berlin (Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt) since 1984. His job profile consists of program planning and negotiation, the creation and editing of program booklets, concert introductions, late-night discussions and content-related collaboration in press and public relations work. Since 1988 he has been teaching music history at the University of Music in Berlin. His focus is on early music history and special courses in church music and musica antiqua . Since 1995 he has been organist for the parish of the Catholic Academy in St. Thomas Aquinas and for the German Bishops' Conference. From 1987 to 1989 he also worked with Frank Müller from Magdeburg as Carillonneur at the French Cathedral and at the Nikolaikirche. In 2003 he was appointed to the jury of choirs of the State of Berlin, of which he was a member until 2015. Hiller works as a speaker and concert organist at home and abroad (concerts in Poland , the Czech Republic , France , Switzerland , Brazil, among others ).

Publications (selection)

Book publications

• Investigations into Robert Schumann's views on the problem of musical genres . University thesis (Phil. Diss.), Berlin 1984.
• The organ in the Schauspielhaus Berlin . Berlin 1990.

Articles in book publications

• The National Theater and the beginnings of Berlin's Mozart care . In: Konzerthaus Berlin - Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt . Berlin 1994, pp. 43-51.
• Liturgy and performance - Robert Schumann's views on church music . In: Schumann Studies 3/4 . Zwickau City Council, Culture Department, Cologne 1994, pp. 95ff.
• Organs in Brandenburg and Berlin. Organ festival magazine . Cultural festivals in the state of Brandenburg e. V., Potsdam 2005.
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. In: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's living and working places, lecture series spring 2003, ed. by Veronika Leggewie, Edition Linea classica Koblenz 2003, ISBN 3-9807515-1-1 , p. 7ff.
• The 19th century until the founding of the empire. A portrait gallery . In: Ingeborg Allihn, Wilhelm Poeschel (ed.): “How with full choirs”. 500 years of church music in Berlin's historic center . ortus musikverlag, Beeskow 2010, ISBN 978-3-937788-19-7 .
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms , Max Reger and the fate of Protestant church music in the 19th century. In: Because it makes the souls happy. Protestant music culture since Martin Luther . Published by Cordula Timm-Hartmann, Verlag der Francke Foundations in Halle 2012, Catalogs of the Francke Foundations 28, ISBN 978-3-447-06699-0 .
• Striking and hidden - thoughts on the presence of the Luther chant in the music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Choral, Cantor, Cantus firmus. The meaning of the Lutheran hymn for school and social history. Edited by Erik Dremel and Unte Poetzsch, Hallesche Forschungen 42, Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen, Halle 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10387-9 , pp. 151–158.

Articles and articles in magazines

• For the 300th birthday of the organ builder Zacharias Hildebrandt . In: Musik und Gesellschaft , vol. 38, no. 10, 1988, pp. 524-526.
• Music and technology: moves, combinations and typesetters. To develop the sound registration on the organ . In: Music and Society 2/1989.
• On the way to a biblical audience. The music in the oratorios of George Frideric Handel . In: Bible and Church 2/1993.
• Plea for a sensibly used hall organ . In: Organ International . No. 1, 1998, pp. 36-41.
• Like a "bang". The Klais organ of St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin. In: Musica sacra No. 6, Regensburg 2014, p. 364f.
• Stefan Heucke's 'Deutsche Messe' op.80 . In: musica sacra No. 04, Regensburg 2017.
• Adam's Passion by Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson . In: musica sacra No. 04, Regensburg 2018.

Contributions to scientific conferences

• Schumann's concept of romanticism and the role of the musical genres . In: Robert-Schumann-Tage 1994, 9th scientific workshop on questions of Schumann research . Zwickau 1989, pp. 8-16.
• Karl Friedrich Fasch and the founding of the Berliner Singakademie . In: Studies on performance practice and interpretation of the music of the 18th century, Issue 41: Report on the scientific conference in Zerbst on April 16 and 17, 1988 . Michaelstein near Blankenburg 1989, ISBN 3-89512-093-6 .
• For the representation of French organ music on the Trost organ - problems and suggestions . In: 250 years of the consolation organ in the concert hall of the castle church in Altenburg . Working material for the major scientific conference The Altenburg Trost Organ and its significance in past and present musical life on September 30, 1989 . City Council of Altenburg with the Kulturbund der DDR, Altenburg 1989, pp. 9-14.
• Together with Barbara Stühlmeyer : Listening practice and performance practice of the music of St. Hildegard von Bingen . In: Medievales 10. Actes du Colloque d'Etudes Medievales de l'Universite de Picardie-Jules Verne St-Riquier, 5-8 December 1998 . Amiens 2000, pp. 138-146.
• Striking and hidden - thoughts on the presence of the Luther chant in the music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. (Published in: Choral, Cantor, Cantus firmus. The meaning of the Lutheran hymn for school and social history. Verlag der Franckesche Stiftungen Halle 2015.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietmar Hiller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of the Konzerthaus Berlin as seen on July 19, 2011
2. ↑ Introductory lecture for subscription concerts , seen on July 7, 2011.
3. ↑ Homepage of the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" , viewed on July 19, 2011
4. ^ Homepage of the Catholic Academy in Berlin e. V. seen on July 19, 2011
5. ↑ Vita Dietmar Hiller ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , as seen on July 7, 2011.