Eva Rieger
Eva Rieger (born November 21, 1940 on the Isle of Man ) is a German musicologist . She was the first in the world after Sophie Drinker to deal with the social and cultural history of women in musical culture. Together with the German-Swiss patron Mariann Steegmann (1939–2001) she developed the idea of a foundation to promote women in music and art ( Mariann Steegmann Foundation ). In 2012 she was made an honorary senator of the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .
Life
Eva Rieger lived as the daughter of the German pastor Julius Rieger and the librarian Johanna Rieger, geb. Krüger, in London and moved to Berlin in 1953. She studied music education, musicology and English and received her doctorate in 1976 from the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on music education in the GDR. 1978–1991 she was an academic adviser at the Universities of Göttingen and Hildesheim; from 1991 professor for historical musicology (focus on the social history of music) at the University of Bremen . 1988–1992 member of the advisory board of the journal “Feminist Studies”.
Rieger gave lectures in the USA, Canada, Japan and Europe, was co-founder of the section "Women and Gender Studies" in the German Society for Music Research in 1996 and was an active participant and jury member several times at the conferences "Feminist Theory and Music" in the USA. The Mariann Steegmann Foundation was founded in 2000 by Mariann Steegmann in collaboration with Eva Rieger. This foundation runs both the "Mariann Steegmann Institute Art & Gender" at the University of Bremen and the "Research Center Music and Gender" at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . In 2009 she was a Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society.
research
Eva Rieger was the first to write a musicological study on the disadvantage of women in German musical culture (women, music and male rule) in the course of the women's movement. In addition to film music, music education, the life and work of Richard Wagner, her work focuses primarily on gender research in music culture, whereby she not only pleads for equality of women at all levels of music culture, but also transfers her analyzes to the music itself, which is not undisputed in traditional musicology. She has published several books as well as numerous articles, including a. in Music Research, Archives for Musicology , Feminist Studies. Her books have appeared in the UK, Sweden, Japan and South Korea.
Fonts (selection)
- School music education in the GDR . Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1977 ISBN 978-3-425-03767-7 . Dissertation at the Technical University of Berlin 1976
- (Ed.): Woman and Music . Frankfurt / M. 1980, 2nd edition Kassel 1989
- Woman, music and male rule. To exclude women from German music education, musicology and music practice . Berlin: Ullstein, 1981, 2nd edition Kassel 1988. Japanese translation 1985, Korean translation 1988
- Peace education in music lessons. Regensburg 1987 (ed.) A stormy winter. Memories of a contentious composer (Ethel Smyth). Kassel 1988
- Nannerl Mozart. Life of an artist in the 18th century. Frankfurt 1990. Revised. Edition 2005. Swed. Translation 1992
- Alfred Hitchcock and the music. An investigation into the relationship between film, music and gender, Bielefeld 1996
- (Ed.) (Together with Monica Steegmann): Women with wings. Life stories of famous pianists. Frankfurt / M. 1996
- (Ed.) (Together with Gabriele Busch-Salmen): women's voices, women's roles in opera and women's testimonies. Herbolzheim 2000
- (Ed.) "With a thousand kisses your Fillu". Letters from the singer Marie Fillunger to Eugenie Schumann 1875–1893. Cologne 2002
- (Ed.) (Together with Monica Steegmann): Divine Voices. Life stories of famous singers from Elisabeth Mara to Maria Callas, Frankfurt / M. 2002
- Minna and Richard Wagner. Stations of a love. Düsseldorf 2003
- Shining love, laughing death. Richard Wagner's image of the woman in the mirror of his music. Düsseldorf 2009
- Add. with Hiltrud Schroeder: A place for gods. Richard Wagner's walks in Switzerland. Cologne 2009
- Friedelind Wagner. Richard Wagner's rebellious granddaughter. Munich / Zurich 2012
- Frida Leider - singer in the conflict of her time . With the collaboration of Peter Sommeregger. Foreword Stephan Mösch . Hildesheim: Olms, 2016, ISBN 978-3-487-08579-1
literature
- Freia Hoffmann , Jane Bowers, Ruth Heckmann (eds.): Images of women and men in music. Festschrift for Eva Rieger on her 60th birthday . Bis, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 978-3-8142-0715-5 .
- Nina Noeske, Susanne Rode-Breymann , Annette Kreutziger-Herr u. a. (Ed.): Yearbook Music and Gender , Volume 3, Gender Studies in Musicology. Quo vadis? Festschrift for Eva Rieger . Olms, Hildesheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-487-14494-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Rieger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Eva Rieger at perlentaucher.de
- Personal homepage
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rieger, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Isle of Man |