Folker Schramm

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Folker Schramm (born March 29, 1947 in Mittweida ) is a German music psychologist and music teacher . He was director of the Osnabrück Municipal Conservatory since 1992 and then founding dean and director of the Institute for Music Education at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (today the Institute for Music at the University of Osnabrück).

Life

After graduating from high school (1965) Schramm studied music education, musicology and psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin and graduated in 1969 with a diploma. Afterwards he was a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Higher Education at Humboldt University, where he received his Dr. paed. doctorate and until 1975 worked as an assistant in the context of further education for university teachers. In 1975 Schramm moved to the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin as senior assistant for psychology and pedagogy, and in 1979 acquired the Facultas Docendi for both subjects .

Schramm had also been a member of the Humboldt University Symphony Orchestra since 1965, of which he took over as University Music Director in 1975 and - in addition to his lectures - at the University of Music from 1976–1978 - he completed a music director's degree with Heinz Fricke . In 1984, on the recommendation of Herbert von Karajan , whom he had met in Leipzig in 1981, he was invited to speak at the 2nd International Herbert von Karajan Symposium in Vienna. He used this lecture tour for his escape from the GDR . Folker Schramm initially took on teaching positions at the Hamburg and Mainz Conservatories in the subjects of educational psychology and conducting. In 1986 he became head of the study department at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and one year later he became the deputy director. In 1992 he followed a call as director of the Osnabrück Municipal Conservatory. From 1994, in this role, he was responsible for preparing the transfer of the study department of the municipal conservatory to the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, with the aim of founding an institute for music education (today the Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences). In 2000 he was appointed professor and entrusted by the university senate as the founding dean and chairman of the establishment commission with the organizational management of the institute's founding. From 2001 to 2006 Folker Schramm was the first director of the Institute for Music. In teaching, he represented the subjects of educational psychology and conducting. Schramm has been a member of the German Society for Music Psychology since 1986 and a member of the Scientific Society of the University of Osnabrück since 1999. Folker Schramm has been retired since 2015 .

Selected lectures and publications

  • On some psychophysiological developmental and impact factors of musical experience (2nd Herbert von Karajan Symposium of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Vienna 1984)
  • The computer - hope or dead end for the future of music (Vienna Symposium for Electronic Music, Vienna 1986)
  • Is my child musical? The cap of brain research for music education practice (Herbert von Karajan Center Vienna; lecture in the series "Music-Medicine-Brain" 2000)
  • Impulses from brain research for necessary changes in educational practice and study training (Osnabrück Scientific Society 2002)
  • Sound spaces - spatial sounds, or why we also build palaces for music (Medial Presentation - University of Osnabrück 2017)
  • Psychological foundations of behavior and consequences for the design of (music) educational activities (lecture script, Institute for Music at the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences 1994)
  • On the problem of motivational development in the educational-psychological training of qualified music educators (writings of the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin, issue 1 1980)
  • Education for music - conversation with Daniel Schaffran (Ztschr. Üben und Musiegen, Heft 6 1987) "Insufficiently prepared for future professional practice? On the problem of professional orientation during the studies of qualified music school teachers (Ztschr.:Üben und Musiegen, Heft 2, 1997 )