Eckart Kröplin

Eckart Kröplin

Eckart Kröplin (born November 25, 1943 in Güstrow ) is a German music and theater scholar .

Life and work

Eckart Kröplin grew up in Bützow ( Mecklenburg ) and attended high school there. After studying musicology at the University of Leipzig , he initially worked as a lecturer at the music publisher Breitkopf & Härtel / Deutscher Verlag für Musik in Leipzig. In 1969 he became a scientific assistant , then senior assistant, 1979 lecturer and 1982 professor for theory and history of music theater at the Leipzig Theater Academy . He received his doctorate from Leipzig University in 1975 and completed his habilitation there in 1978 .

From 1984 he worked as chief dramaturge and deputy director at the newly opened Semperoper in Dresden and later at various other theaters in Saxony and Thuringia . He has appeared with several book publications, numerous articles and scientific studies in various specialist bodies and thematic anthologies as well as at international conferences and congresses. He has also worked as a guest lecturer and dramaturge at several universities, colleges and theaters in Germany and abroad, for example in Dresden, Hamburg, Munich, Essen, Moscow, Gothenburg and Stockholm. His main research subjects are Richard Wagner , the romantic German opera , questions of opera aesthetics and music theater in the Soviet Union (especially Shostakovich ).

Publications (selection)

• Mozart - reception today and here. The socio-political relevance of the musical dramaturgy in ' Figaro's Wedding ' and ' Don Giovanni ' . (= Material on the theater. No. 22) (Musiktheater section, issue 1), Berlin 1973, OCLC 251460428
• Early Soviet opera. Shostakovich, Prokofiev . Henschelverlag Art and Society , Berlin 1985, DNB 870672428 .
• Richard Wagner. Theatrical life and living theater . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-370-00292-2
• Richard Wagner - music made of light. Synesthesia from romantic to modern. A documentary presentation . (= Wagner in discussion. Volume 6). 3 parts in four volumes, Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, Würzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8260-4449-6
• Richard Wagner and communism. Study on a suppressed topic . (= Wagner in discussion. Volume 9). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8260-5267-5
• Richard Wagner Chronicle . JB Metzler Verlag GmbH Stuttgart 2016, 572 pages. ISBN 978-3-476-02587-6
• Co-editor and author: 200 years of Theater Rudolstadt. 200 years of excitement . Thuringian State Theater Rudolstadt , Rudolstadt 1994, ISBN 3-9803772-0-2
• Yearbook I . Dresden State Opera 1985/1986 (Ed.), Dresden 1987
• Yearbook II . Dresden State Opera 1987/1988 (Ed.), Dresden 1989
• On the tension between reality and art reality in opera. In: Horst Seeger (Ed.): Opera today. An almanac of the music stage. Volume 2, Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1979, pp. 39–60.
• The revolution as theater. In: Program book for the Ring premiere of the opera 'Graf Mirabeau' by Siegfried Matthus . Aalto-Theater Essen 1989, pp. 24–62.
• Theatricality as a Social Phenomenon in the 19th Century. In: Peter Andraschke, Edelgard Spaude (Hrsg.): Welttheater. The arts in the 19th century. Rombach Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1992, ISBN 3-7930-9069-8 , pp. 85-98
• The German opera based on Wagner. In: Udo Bermbach , Wulf Konold (ed.): The beautiful reflection. Stations in opera history . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-496-00449-5 , pp. 211-242.
• Music nation and opera world. The opera in different national societies. In: Udo Bermbach, Wulf Konold (Ed.): Opera from the inside. Production conditions of the musical theater . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-496-00447-9 , pp. 281-316
• Bach in Russian-Soviet music. In: History of Music in Central and Eastern Europe. (= Communications from the international working group at the University of Leipzig. Issue 8). Gudrun Schröder Verlag, Chemnitz 2002, ISBN 3-926196-42-4 , pp. 1-28
• Shostakovich to the opera. Aesthetic views of the composer. In: music stage. 77. Edited by Horst Seeger, Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, Berlin 1977, pp. 7–34
• Dmitri Shostakovich. In: Udo Bermbach (Ed.): Opera in the 20th century. Development tendencies and composers . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01733-8 , pp. 508-530.
• Richard Wagner. Aesthetic position - musical conception - theatrical reception. In: Contributions to musicology. Edited by the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR, No. 3, Berlin 1982, pp. 173–201
• Aspects of Richard Wagner's theatrical reception. In: Leipzig contributions to Wagner research. Edited by Richard-Wagner-Verband Leipzig, Volume 2, Sax-Verlag Beucha-Markkleeberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86729-046-3 , pp. 235-259
• The fascination of the myth for the theater as a total work of art. Wagner's dramaturgy of myth as a utopia of the "free man" . In: Udo Bermbach / Dieter Borchmeyer (eds.): Richard Wagner. ,The Ring of the Nibelung'. Views of Myth . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-476-01326-X , pp. 99-128
• Crossing without arrival. For Wartburg - iconology and the original version of Wagner's Tannhäuser '. In: Irene Erfen (ed.): Wartburg yearbook “… the world still owes the Tannhäuser”. Special volume 1997. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7954-1235-8 , pp. 100-142
• Slow arrival and foreboding farewell. The ' Ring ' in the GDR. In: Udo Bermbach, Dieter Borchmeyer et al. (Eds.): Focus on The Ring of the Nibelung. (= Wagner spectrum. 1/2006). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3430-9 , pp. 63-110
• In the interplay of attraction and repulsion. The 'ring' in Russia and the Soviet Union. In: 2. Focus: The Ring of the Nibelung. (= Wagner spectrum. 2/2006). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3575-5 , pp. 39-83

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckart Kröplin in the catalog of the German National Library