Ellen Hickmann

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Ellen Hickmann in her study, Hanover (2003)

Ellen Hickmann , née Hiss (born July 28, 1934 in Flensburg ; † February 18, 2017 in Kühlungsborn ) was a German musicologist , record producer and university professor .

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family

Ellen Hickmann was the daughter of the magistrate Karl Hiss and Berta Hiss. Hickmann's first marriage was to the musicologist Hans Hickmann . There were two children from this marriage. In 2010 she married Erhard Brepohl for the third time .

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In 1938 the family moved to Kappeln an der Schlei , where they continued their childhood. She graduated from high school in 1955 at the Klaus Harms School . She then began studying school music at the State University of Music Hamburg and took German and literature as minor subjects at the University of Hamburg .

During a semester abroad in 1956/57 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , the cornerstones for her interdisciplinary scientific career were laid with a focus on instrument science . As part of her organ studies, she developed her interest in early music, as well as in instrument and notation studies and attended lectures in comparative musicology .

In the summer of 1957 she continued her school music studies in Hamburg and began studying musicology at the same time . Her professors included the musicologist Hans Hickmann, who specializes in ancient Egyptian music . For her doctoral project in ethnomusicology, she also took the subjects ethnology and prehistory .

In 1958 she married Hans Hickmann and together with him cataloged what was then the largest private collection of musical instruments owned by Hermann Moeck in Celle .

In 1963 she graduated in Hamburg the first state examination for the teaching profession in music at high schools. In addition to working on her dissertation , she gained relevant experience in the design and implementation of musical instrument exhibitions. After the unexpected death of her husband in 1968, she played a key role in the addition, correction and completion of his last manuscripts - u. a. Contributions to the Handbook of Oriental Studies . In 1969 she did her doctorate with Georg von Dadelsen with the dissertation “Musica instrumentalis. Studies on the Classification of Musical Instruments in the Middle Ages ” .

In addition to her academic work as a freelance employee at the Lexikon der Ägyptologie , Hickmann worked as an editor in the proofreading department of the archive production of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft , where she wrote a large number of record texts, including for the Musique Royale series under the name "EH Hiss". She then became the artistic recording manager of the “Classic” production department. From 1970 to 1973 she made numerous recordings as a producer with well-known national and international orchestras, chamber music ensembles, soloists and conductors - including the re-recordings of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth under the direction of Karl Böhm and the recording of Carl Maria in 1972 von Weber's opera Der Freischütz in collaboration with the conductor Carlos Kleiber and the Staatskapelle Dresden .

After passing the second state examination at the Hamburg University of Music , Hickmann taught music and English at the Eppendorf grammar school from 1975 . At the same time, she designed school radio programs on African music for the North German Radio and continued her academic career as a lecturer in ethnomusicology at the University of Hamburg. She also worked as a freelance museum educator at the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg (today: Museum am Rothenbaum) , where she designed exhibitions for the museum's musical instrument collections.

In the summer of 1976 she accepted the call to a C4 professorship for musicology with a focus on ethnomusicology at the Hanover University of Music and Drama . She worked here until she retired in 1999. In addition to her teaching activities, she gave lectures and advocated the transfer of knowledge to an unfamiliar audience.

Research priorities

In addition to her many years of teaching at the HMT Hannover, Hickmann devoted herself to researching pre-Columbian musical cultures in the Andean region in the 1980s . Musical instruments from archaeological contexts, their cultural characteristics and their musical potential formed the center of her research, for which she worked closely with museums. In 1979 and 1980 she carried out the first research stays of her long-term project "Music and musical instruments of pre-Columbian cultures of the Andean region (South America)" in La Paz . Between 1985 and 1989 she spent a year in Ecuador , where she made the inventory of largely undiscovered pre-Columbian sound tools in numerous museums in the country.

In 1981, together with Cajsa S. Lund, she established the Study Group on Music Archeology under the umbrella organization of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) and took over the chairmanship. In 1998, together with Ricardo Eichmann , she initiated the renaming of the music archaeological research group to the International Study Group on Music Archarology (ISGMA) and the new affiliation of the group to the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.

Together with Eichmann, she organized the interdisciplinary conference series “Studies on Music Archeology”, which took place every two years in the Michaelstein Monastery in Blankenburg (Harz) and the results of which they published in the form of extensive conference volumes.

Other activities and memberships

Parallel to her research work, Hickmann was committed to the national and international research community. In 1976 she was elected chairman of the West German National Committee of the International Folk Music Council (from 1983 International Council for Traditional Music ICTM ). A year later she was jointly responsible for the organization of the Round Table "Music and Archeology" at the 12th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Berkeley .

In addition, she took over the leadership of the study group "Musical Instrument Studies" within the Society for Music Research (GfM) and a position on the board of the Association of German Scientists (VDW). From 1995 on, she worked as a specialist adviser on the new publication of the encyclopedia The music in the past and present .

Hickmann published the results of her music archaeological research in numerous international journals and edited volumes. In 1983 she became co-editor of the newly founded, biannual journal archaeologia musicalis .

estate

Hickmann's scientific estate and instrument collection are archived in various institutes: in the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, in the Berlin University of the Arts , the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, the Georg-August University in Göttingen , and the Musical Instrument Museum Markneukirchen , the music media company Celle and the Wossidlo research center for ethnology at the University of Rostock .

Fonts (selection)

  • Musica instrumentalis. Studies on the classification of musical instruments in the Middle Ages (= Collection d'études musicologiques Volume 55). Koerner, Baden-Baden, 1971, ISBN 3-87320-555-6 (also dissertation, Hamburg 1971).
  • Ancient music from the New World. Archaeological documents of music making in pre-Columbian cultures of Peru, Ecuador and Colombia . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris, 1990, ISBN 3-631-43423-5 .
  • Sounds of ancient America. Musical instruments in art and cult (= publications of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Volume 25). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21323-8 .
  • From music archeology to historiography. Andean music archeology and musical instruments, singing and dancing in Guaman Poma's Nuéva crónica y bien gobierno (= Analecta Gorgiana Band 1053). Gorgias Press, Piscataway, 2011, ISBN 1-4632-0101-X .
  • Eichmann, Ricardo and Ellen Hickmann (eds.): Studies in Music Archeology I ‒ VII . Rahden / Westphalia: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2000‒2010

Web links

Commons : Ellen Hickmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media: HMTM Hanover: Mourning for Ellen Hickmann. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Ellen Hickmann. In: MGG Online. Retrieved August 21, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Musik-Medienhaus Celle: Ellen Hickmann. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Ludolf Baucke: "In search of rarities - encounters with Ellen Hickmann" . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 10, 1978.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ricardo Eichmann: "In memoriam Ellen Hickmann (July 28, 1934 - February 18, 2017)" . In: Ricardo Eichmann, Fang Jianjun, Lars-Christian Koch (eds.): Studies on Music Archeology XI. Musical archeology from an anthropological point of view . Rahden / Westphalia 2019, p. xi .
  6. ↑ Ricardo Eichmann: "In memoriam Ellen Hickmann (July 28, 1934 - February 18, 2017)" . In: Ricardo Eichmann, Fang Jianjun, Lars-Christian Koch (eds.): Studies on Music Archeology XI. Musical archeology from an anthropological point of view . Rahden / Westphalia 2019, p. xi .
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g Rüdiger Schumacher: "Ellen Hickmann for the completion of the 70th year of life" . In: Ellen Hickmann, Ricardo Eichmann (Hrsg.): Studies on music archeology IV. Music archaeological source groups: soil documents, oral traditions, record . Rahden / Westphalia 2004, p. xiii .
  8. ↑ B. Spuler (Ed.): Handbook of Oriental Studies . Suffering u. Cologne 1970.
  9. ↑ Hans Hickmann: "Ancient Egyptian Music" and "The Music of the Arab-Islamic Realm" . In: Bertold Spuler (ed.): The Near and the Middle East, Supplementary Volume IV: Oriental Music (=  Handbook of Oriental Studies ). Leiden / Cologne 1970.
  10. ^ Ellen Hickmann: a total of 40 music-related entries . In: W. Helck, E. Otto, W. Westendorf (eds.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie . tape 1‒6 . Wiesbaden 1975.
  11. ↑ Ulla Behn: "Archaeologist in matters of music - A woman makes Hanover the focus" . In: Neue Hannoversche Presse . February 22, 1978.
  12. ↑ Ellen Hickmann: "African drums", "Music of magicians, rulers and gods", "African string playing", "Traditional music in everyday African life" . In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Schulfunk department (ed.): NDR Schulfunk. Music 2nd half of 1976 . Hamburg 1976, p. 9-24 .
  13. ^ Ludolf Baucke: Sounds with the gold trumpet . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 25, 1979.
  14. ↑ ISGMA. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Ellen Hickmann, Ricardo Eichmann (Ed.): Studies on Music Archeology I – X , Rahden / Westphalia, 2000
  16. ↑ Ellen Hickmann, Richard L. Crocker, Bahtja Bayer, Mantle Hood, Charles Lafayette Boilès, Anne Draffkorn Kilmer, Liang Ming-Yüeh, Cajsa Lund: "Music and Archeology" . In: Daniel Heartz, Bonnie Wade (Eds.): Report of the Twelfth Congress, Berkeley 1977 . Kassel 1981, p. 844-869 .
  17. ↑ Ellen Hickmann: Art. "Alt America" . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG) . 1: Part A-Bog. Kassel / Stuttgart 1994, Sp. 483-506 .
  18. ↑ Ellen Hickmann, Catherine Homo-Lechner: "Editorial" . In: archaeologia musicalis . 1st year, issue 2, 1987, pp. 5 .
  19. ^ Ibero-American Institute: Dr. Gregor Wolff. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  20. ^ University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover: HMTM Hanover: University Library. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  21. ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Public Relations: Instrument Collection - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  22. ^ Georg-August University of Göttingen - Public Relations: Personnel - Georg August University of Göttingen. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  23. ↑ - Daniel Kunert - Music Media House - Home. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Dr. phil. Christoph Schmitt (Head) - Wossidlo Research Center for European Ethnology / Folklore - University of Rostock. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hickmann, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiss, Ellen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, record producer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 2017
Place of death Kühlungsborn