Eleonore Büning

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Elisabeth Eleonore Büning (née Bauer ; born January 2, 1952 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German music journalist .

Life

Eleonore Bauer was born as the daughter of Otto Bauer and Gertrud Bauer-Kadolsky in Frankfurt am Main and grew up in Bonn . She attended the Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium, where she graduated from high school on June 15, 1970. She began studying music, theater and literature at the Free University of Berlin . From 1973 to 1976 she was employed as a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Afterwards she completed several internships for music therapy at the Medical University of Hanover and gave music lessons.

In 1989 she presented her dissertation under the title AB Marx and Beethoven in the Berliner Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (1824-1830) . In it she examined the origin of the musical myth Beethoven . The book was published in bookshops under the title How Beethoven came on the pedestal . After her marriage, she settled in Berlin. Eleonore Büning has two children.

Since 1978 Eleonore Büning has published essays for music magazines, since 1983 she has been writing about music for the Berliner tageszeitung , and later also for Weltwoche in Zurich, Rheinische Merkur and radio. In 1994 she became music editor in the features section of the time . In 1997 she moved to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; From 2008 until her retirement she was an editor in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. She also moderates music programs at WDR 3 .

Eleonore Büning has been chairwoman of the German Record Critics' Award since November 2011 .

Prizes and awards

Works

  • Elisabeth Eleonore Bauer: How Beethoven got on the pedestal. The creation of a musical myth. JB Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1992, ISBN 3-476-00849-5
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Eleonore Büning: Music in conversation. Forays through the classic. Propylaea, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-549-07178-7
  • Eleonore Büning, Claus Spahn a. a .: Maurizio Pollini. The life and music of the great pianist. Zeitverlag Bucerius, Hamburg 2007 (ZEIT-Klassik Edition 13), ISBN 3-476-02213-7
  • Eleonore Büning, Claus Spahn a. a .: Alban Berg Quartet. Biography and music of the famous ensemble. Zeitverlag Bucerius, Hamburg 2007 (ZEIT-Klassik Edition 16), ISBN 978-3-476-02216-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b faz.de: Eleonore Büning
  2. ^ Suhrkamp Publisher: Eleonore Büning
  3. ↑ wdr3.de: Eleonore Büning ( Memento from December 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Büning, Eleonore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Elisabeth Eleonore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main