Dorothea Kolland

Dorothea Kolland (born October 31, 1947 in Selb ; nee Keupp ) is a German musicologist. From 1981 to 2012 she was the head of the cultural office in the Berlin district of Neukölln .

Life

Kolland attended secondary school in Selb and lived in Thierstein (Fichtelgebirge) until she graduated from high school , where her father was parish priest until 1975. The psychologist Heiner Keupp is her brother. Today Kolland lives with Hubert Kolland in Berlin and has two children.

Education

From 1967 Kolland studied solo singing with Marianne Schech at the Munich University of Music and Theater and musicology with Thrasybulos Georgiades at the University of Munich , alongside Italian studies, sociology and Protestant theology. From 1969 to 1970 she spent at the Università degli Studi di Firenze with Howard M. Brown and continued her studies at the TU Berlin with Carl Dahlhaus , Michael Nerlich and Wolf Lepenies , where she received her doctorate in 1978 on “The youth music movement: 'community music' - theory and Practice".

Professional Activities

During her studies, Kolland translated MGG articles from Italian, worked as a journalist and assisted György Ligeti from 1972 to 1973 in the preparation of compositions and his composition negotiations. Her musicological focus areas include the history of music in Berlin, the beginnings of music theater, music education, the workers' music movement, Hanns Eisler , music in and against National Socialism.

In 1978 she became an education officer at the Federal Association for Cultural Youth Education at the Remscheid Academy and carried out, among other things, the “Year of the Child” and “Children's Culture Weeks” projects.

From 1981 to 2012 she was the head of the Neukölln Cultural Office. During her term of office, the reinstitutionalization, reopening or expansion of cultural facilities of the gallery in the Körnerpark , the Museum Neukölln , the community center in Gropiusstadt or the Saalbau Neukölln fall . In 2001 the "Alte Dorfschule Rudow" cultural center was added. In addition, independent cultural institutions such as the Neukölln Opera , the Passage Cinema and the Puppet Theater Museum and the "Workshop of Knowledge" in the Comenius Garden were established. She initiated the research project "Resistance in Neukölln" (1983), which came to a preliminary conclusion with the establishment of the memorial terminal in Neukölln town hall.

She initiates, organizes and directs various projects and exhibitions. In order to support various projects, Kolland and other Neukölln initiatives founded the Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e. V. as well as the community foundation Neukölln.

Under the direction of Kolland, the Neukölln Cultural Office took part in several international cultural exchanges and city partnerships such as “ Buenos Aires - Berlin” (2004), Prague , Paris , Lyon , St. Petersburg , Toronto , Brazil . In 2008, through her application initiative, she managed to get Neukölln to participate in the Council of Europe project INTERCULTURAL CITIES.

As part of her membership in the Berlin Council for the Arts, she initiated the Cultural Education Offensive (2007) and developed the "Sponsorship" and "Cultural Education Fund" models. She is a member of the State Advisory Council on Cultural Education.

Honors

On July 22, 1997 she received the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon.

Memberships

• Jury member in the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (2000-2004)
• Board member of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft
• Council for the Arts (until 2010)
• Community Foundation Neukölln (Board of Directors)
• Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln (Board of Directors)
• Provincial Advisory Council on Cultural Education

Projects

• "Kiez international" (since 1982)
• "Resistance in Neukölln" (1983)
• 175 years of the gymnasium in Volkspark Hasenheide (1985)
• "Pollicino", opera by Hans Werner Henze (1986)
• "Exulant for the sake of the chalice - 250 years of Bohemia in Neukölln" (1987)
• "A picture, a book, a dog-ear - an exhibition for children" (1988)
• "We were 10 brothers - Jewish life in Neukölln" (1988)
• " Rixdorf muses, naysayers & Caprifischer - music and theater history from Neukölln" (1990)
• "Do you really marry Hasan Schmidt?" (Musical, 1990)
• "Girls in Sight - a Girls' Exhibition" (1991)
• "Heaven, Hell, Rubber Twist - History of Berlin Children's Games" (1993)
• "Always Strangers - Neukölln Church History" (1994)
• "48 hours Neukölln" (since 1998); Awarded the 2008 Culture Prize of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft
• Development of the intercultural project "Good daughters - good sons. On misunderstandings of living together" (2002) and the project "19 Freedoms"
• Urban development and culture projects such as the " Gropiusstadt pilot project " and the "Areas" with art campaigns such as the "Green Skyscraper", the "Salatfeld", the "Workshop for Change", "Areas", "Occupation", "Space Thinks" and the "longest coffee table" in Gropiusstadt, which has meanwhile become an institution.
• "Récup - from the waste of this world. An art project between Neukölln and Africa " (2007)
• Neukölln cultural development plan (2009), (www.kultur.neukoelln.de)
• 650 years of Rixdorf - Neukölln (2010), plus numerous projects, including a. the comic "World empires bloomed and fell. 650 years Rixdorf - Neukölln" and "Weltbürger" (documentation)
• Artists - pupils - workshops for the renovation of Karl-Marx-Straße (since 2009), documentation 2010 in "Querstraße" (Kulturamt Neukölln)

Publications

• The youth music movement. "Community Music" - Theory and Practice. Stuttgart 1979
• City discovery tour and music tree rattle. Experiences, results and perspectives of children's cultural work. Regensburg 1981
• Cultural work with foreign children and young people. Models, projects and experiences (together with H. Bockhorst). Remscheid 1981
• ... We were ten brothers ... traces of Jewish life in Neukölln. Berlin 1988
• Rixdorf muses, naysayers and Capri fishermen. Music and theater history from Rixdorf and Neukölln. Ed. Hentrich, Berlin 1990
• Again and again strangers. Church history between loyalty to rule, claim to faith and humanity. Berlin 1994
• Front puppet theater. Puppet theater in the war. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1997
• Terra Incognita? Cityscapes of Neukölln. Kramer, Berlin 1999
• Between Skylla multiculturalism and Charybdi's leading culture. In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen 91, Bonn 2000
• Karl-Marx-Strasse. Kramer, Berlin 2001
• The long way to the city. The Gropiusstadt in upheaval. Kramer, Berlin 2002
• From the basement to the roof. Office for Culture and Libraries, Neukölln 2006
• “Kiez international” in the “Contact Zone”: intercultural concepts in Berlin-Neukölln. In the Yearbook for Cultural Policy, Essen 2002/2003
• Dealing with values: 'Good Sons, good Daughters - Misunderstandings in Community life', in: Yudihishthir Raj Isar (Ed.): Inclusive europe, Budapest 2005
• Cultural diversity: diversity and difference. In: Yearbook for Cultural Policy, Essen 2006
• A forgotten dimension: the banlieues of Europe. In: Yearbook for Cultural Policy, Essen 2007
• The “Neukölln guidelines”: Intercultural cultural work in Berlin-Neukölln, in: Institute for Cultural Policy (Ed.): Home through culture. Cultural locations as learning locations for intercultural competence. Food 2007
• Making sensual people reasonable. Dorothea Kolland thinks about the educational potential of art and the resulting responsibilities. In: Tanz-Journal 5 - 2007. Friedrich Verlag *
• Immigrants in Berlin, in: JAWilliams (Ed.) Berlin since the wall's end. Cambridge 2008
• Fade into the story. History, told in various ways. Yearbook for Cultural Policy 2009. Topic: Cultures of remembrance and politics of history. Food 2009
• Empires flourished and fell. 650 years of Rixdorf - Neukölln. Comic. Together with Anna Faroqhi (2010)
• From problem district to art district. Cultural work in Neukölln. In: Volke, Kristina (ed.) Intervention Kultur. The power of cultural action. Wiesbaden 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Dorothea Kolland in the catalog of the German National Library
• culture-neukoelln.de
• 48 hours Neukölln X ( Memento from May 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• kulturnetzwerk.de
• neukoelln-plus.de
• District Office Neukölln of Berlin: "Intercultural Cities - A project of the Council of Europe and the European Commission to promote and support the efforts of local authorities to promote cultural diversity" ( Memento from May 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Office of the Federal President