Freia Hoffmann

Freia Hoffmann (born April 4, 1945 in Lychen / Brandenburg ) is a German musicologist .

biography

Freia Hoffmann grew up in a small town in the northern Black Forest and after graduating from the Hebel-Gymnasium in Pforzheim , she began studying art at the Freiburg University of Music in the master classes of the then leading flautists Gustav Scheck and Aurèle Nicolet . At the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg she studied German, pedagogy and musicology, completing both state examinations for teaching at secondary schools and a doctorate in 1973. Her dissertation “Music textbooks in schools in Germany” was supervised by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Lars Ulrich Abraham, was published by Luchterhand Verlag and provided significant impetus for the ideology-critical review of traditional music education.

After completing her doctorate, Freia Hoffmann worked, partly together with Walter Mossmann, as an author for various radio stations and as a publicist (for example, “Single Mothers” from the Roter Stern publishing house in Frankfurt / M. Comes from this time). She was involved in the women's movement and in the fight against the nuclear power plant in Wyhl and worked in the “Rote Note” marching band. For a short time she worked as a music teacher at various schools. From 1976 to 1980 she taught flute, recorder, chamber music and improvisation at the Bremen Conservatory before moving to the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg as a research assistant and later as a university assistant . The music teacher training there in the model experiment of the single-phase teacher training provided the framework for intensive practice and research-oriented work, for the development of contemporary teacher training courses and a content-related reorientation of the subject.

In 1988 he completed his habilitation with a work that was published by Insel-Verlag in 1991 and is now considered a standard work: “Instrument and Body. The woman making music in bourgeois culture ”. This was followed by four years of teaching at the University of Hildesheim (teaching post, cultural education) before Freia Hoffmann accepted a professorship for music education at the Carl von Ossietzky University in 1992.

The third edition was added to the fields of music education and musicological women's and gender studies: From 1996 to 2006 she was in charge of the 15-volume edition of works by the French composer Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) (Florian Noetzel Verlag Wilhelmshaven), financed by the German Research Foundation . From 1990 to 1997 she was co-editor of the magazine "Musik und Studium", 1993/94 member of the Lower Saxony Women's Research Commission, in 2000 co-founder of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (ZFG) at the University of Oldenburg. In 2001 the Sophie Drinker Institute was founded in Bremen , co-financed by the Mariann Steegmann Foundation . It is a free research institute that specializes in musicological research on women and gender and cooperates with the University of Oldenburg. The institute is housed in an old merchant's villa in Bremen and is headed by Freia Hoffmann. It has already given many young scientists the opportunity to prepare bachelor and master theses, dissertations and habilitation theses and to participate in the institute's projects (bibliography, source collection, library, series of publications, etc.). and 19th century ”, in which numerous external authors are involved in addition to the institute's staff. It currently contains around 750 articles.

The current research project of the Sophie Drinker Institute concerns the history of conservatories in German-speaking countries in the 19th century.

Awards

2007 (for the book Music - Women - Gender). Book index 1780 - 2004 : Pauline Alderman Award

Fonts

Books

Music textbooks in schools in the FRG, diss. Phil. Freiburg 1973, Neuwied 1974
The woman who wants to go to the pub. Women's folk song book , ed. in collaboration with Ursula Bartholl-Müri, Helga Ussat and Christiane Nicolmann, Frankfurt / M. 1981
(with Mechthild Fuchs and Barbara James) German folk song. The all-too-known unknown. Workbook for secondary level II , with music cassette, Stuttgart 1983
Instrument and body. The woman making music and her perception in bourgeois culture 1750 - 1850 , Habilitation paper Oldenburg 1988, Frankfurt / M. and Leipzig 1991
(with Eva Rieger, ed.) From minstrel to performance artist. In search of a music history for women , Kassel 1993
(Co-author) The advancement of women is higher education reform - women's research is science criticism. Report of the Lower Saxony Commission for the Promotion of Women's Research and the Promotion of Women in Teaching and Research , ed. from the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture, Hanover 1994
(with Franziska Eber) List of books Woman and Music. 1800-1993 , Oldenburg 1995
(with Rebecca Grotjahn, ed.) Gender polarities in the history of music from the 18th to the 20th century
Japanese edition of Instrument and Body (see above), translated by Yuko Tamagawa and Yoko Sakai, Tokyo 2004
(with Marion Gerards) Music - Women - Gender. Book index 1780 - 2004 (= series of publications by the Sophie Drinker Institute, Vol. 4), Oldenburg 2006
Panic feelings. Sexual assaults in instrumental lessons (= practicing & making music. Texts on instrumental pedagogy, vol. 1), Mainz etc. 2006
Travel reports by female musicians of the 19th century. Sources, biographies, commentaries , Hildesheim etc. 2011
Since 2007 Internet encyclopedia of European instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries (see www.sophie-drinker-institut.de under web links , publication in book form planned)
(with Markus Gärtner and Axel Weidenfeld) "Music in social space. Festschrift for Peter Schleuning on his 70th birthday", Munich 2011
(with Volker Timmermann, ed.) "Source texts on the history of the instrumentalist in the 19th century", Hildesheim 2013

Essays

"Lots of notes, dear Mozart!" About the social function of musicians anecdotes, in: Peter Schleuning (ed.), Why we are shaken by Beethoven and other essays about music, Frankfurt / M. 1978
(with Walter Mossmann) Freinet pedagogy. Combining learning and life, in: Klaus Breslauer and Wolf Engelhardt (eds.), School life - Chance or Alibi ?, Hanover 1979
Annabelle or the pig Monika. About the image of women among German songwriters, in: Attacks. Journal of the Archives for Popular Music Bremen II 1979, no.5
From today on there is my program. Songs from the women's movement, in: attacks. Journal of the Archives for Popular Music Bremen II 1979, no.5
"In the field, the man is still worth something". Psychological war preparation, hero socialization and the Bundeswehr songbook, in: Gerhard Bolm u. a. (Ed.), Awareness of Peace, 1st Peace Congress of Psychosocial Professions, Weinheim and Basel 1983
Miniature virtuosos, cupids and angels. Female child prodigies in the early middle class, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik CXLV 1984, no.3
Sound and gender. Instrumental practice of women in the ideology of the early bourgeoisie, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik CXLV 1984, no.12
The instrumentalist and the ruling gaze, in: Insights. Research at the University of Oldenburg 1988, No. 8
Music for practical use. Hanns Eisler on his 90th birthday, in: kontrapunkt 1988, no.5
On the Road to Emancipation: Traveling Musicians around 1800, in: Reisekultur 1648–1848, ed. by Hermann Bausinger, Gottfried Korff, Klaus Beyrer and Wolfgang Griep, Munich 1991
"... she took the sword instead of the flute". About the connection between the bourgeois revolution and the musical freedom of movement of women, in: Helga Brandes (ed.): "Half of mankind was still without rights". Women and the French Revolution, Wiesbaden 1991
Female art production as visual staging, in: Wolfgang Zacharias (ed.), Schöne Aussichten? Aesthetic education in the technical and media world (= edition hermes. Aesthetics, culture & politics vol. 2), Essen 1991
"... to dream of eternity with half-closed eyes"? The musician Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the problem of professionalization, archive for musicology . XLVIX, H. 1, 1992.
Institutional training opportunities for female musicians in the first half of the 19th century, in: Freia Hoffmann and Eva Rieger (eds.), From the musician to the performance artist. In search of a music history for women, Kassel 1993
Between “German cultural assets” and rock musical. Music lessons at the German School in Milan, in: Music and Teaching 1993, no.22
Music in the music schools? School music in the dilemma between austerity measures and the false ideal of a musically successful child, in: Musik und Studium 1993, H. 23
"Some trouble". On dealing with biographies in music didactics, in: Musik und Studium 1994, H. 26
Twenty years of university music teacher training. Attempt a critical balance in: Revision of teacher training. New considerations on the occasion of the congress on 200 years of teacher training in Oldenburg [1993], ed. by Hilke Günther-Arndt u. Hans-Dietrich Raapke , Oldenburg 1995
"Germania" for bass, choir and orchestra WoO 94, in: Albrecht Riethmüller, Carl Dahlhaus u. Alexander L. Ringer (ed.), Beethoven. Interpretations of his works, 2 vols., Laaber 1994. Vol. 2
(with Peter Schleuning) "The torments and bliss of love". Tchaikovsky as a homosexual composer and his 4th symphony, in: Musik und Studium 1995, h.32
Separations, incorporations, conquests. Musicology before and after 1945, in: Women and National Socialism. Historical and cultural-historical positions, ed. by Ortrun Niethammer, Osnabrück 1996
Grete Sehlmeyer, in: Women make politics. Parliamentarians in Lower Saxony, ed. by Bärbel Clemens, Hannover 1996
The Viennese composer and pianist Leopoldine Blahetka (1809–1885). Between classical tradition and virtuosity in line with the market, in: I'm going to my dear Vienna. Clara Schumann: facts, pictures, projections, congress report Vienna 1996, ed. by Elena Ostleitner and Ursula Simek (= music publication series Frauentöne Vol. 3), Vienna 1996
Strong women, dubious heroes: Mozart's Don Giovanni, in: Ilse Dröge-Modelmog et al. (Ed.), Women and Gender Studies. Positioning and perspective. Documentation of the women's studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg from 17. – 21. June 1996, Oldenburg 1997
Courtly representation and individual expression. The music of Margravine Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, in: Musik und Studium 1998, H. 48
(with Christin Heitmann and Katharina Herwig) The Louise Farrenc work edition, in: Insights. Research magazine of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg 1998, No. 27
Traditions, obstacles, dissonances - 200 years of women's music studies, in: Frauentöne - Contributions to an unwritten music history, ed. by Alenka Barber-Kersovan, Annette Kreutziger-Herr and Melanie Unseld (= Forum Jazz Rock Pop Vol. 4), Karben 2000
Food for thought, objections, alternatives. Eva Rieger's contribution to a feminist musicology, in: Freia Hoffmann, Jane Bowers and Ruth Heckmann (eds.): Images of women and men in music. Festschrift for Eva Rieger on her 60th birthday, Oldenburg 2000, pp. 11–20
Musicians around Mozart. A new look at an old subject, in: Music and Life. Gift of friend for Sabine Giesbrecht on retirement, ed. by Hartmut Kinzler (= series of publications of the Faculty of Education and Cultural Studies at the University of Osnabrück, Vol. 18), Osnabrück 2003
“Art under the optics of life”. Sabine Giesbrecht's writings on music history and music education, in: Music and Life. Gift of friend for Sabine Giesbrecht on retirement, ed. by Hartmut Kinzler
Louise Farrenc. History of a discovery, in: clingKlong Winter 2003, no.50
The piano teacher. Caroline Krähmer and a literary stereotype, in: Music and Biography. Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbach, ed. by Cordula Heymann-Wentzel and Johannes Laas, Würzburg 2004
Integration as a matter of course: Training of music teachers at the University of Oldenburg, in: The future of teacher training. Documentation of a conference of the Evangelical Academy Loccum from March 14 to 16, 2003, ed. by Andrea Grimm (= Loccumer Protocols 11/03), Loccum 2004
Promotion of young talent at the Sophie Drinker Institute, in: How useful are artist networks TODAY? Congress documentation 22./23. September 2003 at the Hanover University of Music and Theater, ed. by Kathrin Beyer and Birgit Fritzen, Hannover [2004]
Amazons with brass instruments. Adolphe Sax and the beneficial influence of pulmonary gymnastics, in: practicing & making music H. 5 Oct./Nov. 2008
(with Jannis Wichmann) Careers with obstacles. Professional harp and guitar players in the 19th century, in: phoibos issue 2/2012
(with Christine Fornoff) "No Lady need apply" or "You can't use the pedals in rock" - female organists on the path to professionalization, in: Freiburg Journal for Gender Studies 18-1 / 2012
Up close? Reflections on biography, in: auf / be / zu / ein / write. Practices of Knowledge and Art, ed. by Juri Giannini, Katharina Bleier, Michael Gerzabek u. Annegret Huber, Vienna 2014

Reviews Freia Hoffmann reviewed Das Argument, the yearbook for folk song research, the orchestra, Neue Musikzeitung, magazine for music education, music and teaching, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Forum Musikbibliothek, netzwerk musik and others

Lexicon article

Art. Gender-specific music education, in: New Lexicon of Music Education. Material part, ed. by Siegmund Helms, Reinhard Schneider, Rudolf Weber, Kassel 1994
Art. Kinkel, Johanna, in: New Lexicon of Music Education. Person part, ed. by Siegmund Helms, Reinhard Schneider, Rudolf Weber, Kassel 1994
Art. Blahetka, Leopoldine, for The New Grove. Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Second edition, ed. by Stanley Sadie, Vol. 3, London 2001
Art. Blahetka, Leopoldine, for music in the past and present. Second edition, ed. by Ludwig Finscher, Person Teil Vol. 3, Kassel etc./Stuttgart/Weimar 2000
Art. Cristiani, Lise, for music in the past and present. Second edition, ed. by Ludwig Finscher, Person Teil Vol. 5, Kassel etc./Stuttgart/Weimar 2001
numerous articles in the online lexicon "European female instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries", Bremen 2006ff.

Editorial activity

1990–1997: Co-editor of Music and Teaching , Friedrich Verlag Velber
since 2005 series of publications by the Sophie Drinker Institute published by BIS Verlag Oldenburg

Editor of sheet music editions

Louise Farrenc. Critical edition . Orchestra and chamber music as well as selected piano works
Louise Farrenc, Piano Trios No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 44 and No. 4 in E minor, Op. 45
Louise Farrenc, Piano Trios No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 33 and No. 2 in D minor, Op. 34

literature

New lexicon of music education. Person part , ed. by Siegmund Helms, Reinhard Schneider and Rudolf Weber, Kassel 1994, Art. Hoffmann, Freia
The music in the past and present. Person part , 2nd ed. Ed. by Ludwig Finscher Vol. 9, Kassel etc. 2003, Art. Hoffmann, Freia
Music and Emancipation. Festschrift for Freia Hoffmann on the occasion of her 65th birthday (= Oldenburg Contributions to Gender Research, Vol. 12), Oldenburg 2010

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personal data
SURNAME	Hoffmann, Freia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 4, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lychen