Friederike Wissmann

Friederike Wißmann (* 28. June 1973 in Münster ) is a German musicologist with the research areas of music and literature , cultural history of music , musical theater , music of the 20th and 21st centuries and Edition and cellist . Since 2019 she has been professor of musicology at the Rostock University of Music and Theater.

Life

In the winter semester 1993/94, Wißmann began studying musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, as well as general and comparative literature and German studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1997/98 she worked as an assistant in the opera dramaturgy at the Landestheater Magdeburg and advisor at the Federal Press Office, from 1998 to 2002 research assistant for the Hanns Eisler Complete Edition . She completed her studies in 1999 with a master's thesis on Hanns Eisler's Hölderlin fragments, and in 2002 she completed her doctorate with a dissertation ( summa cum laude ) on Faust in 20th Century Music Theater at the Free University of Berlin. As a result, she was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin until 2009 , where she received her habilitation in 2009 with the license to teach musicology. Her habilitation thesis was dedicated to the role constellations in the operas of Georg Friedrich Handel .

In 2009, Wißmann took over the project management of the Languages ​​of Emotion Cluster of Excellence at the Free University of Berlin and held it until 2012. From 2011 to 2013 she took on the position of professor for historical musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , before becoming a professor at the Vienna Conservatory in 2013 , where she also headed the Institute for Science and Research from 2014 . In 2015 the musicologist took over the position of the professor for historical musicology as well as the acting head of the department at the Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In the autumn semester of 2016, she held a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich , before taking on the position of professor for historical musicology at the Technical University of Dresden in 2017 , where she also temporarily headed the musicology department. In 2019 he was offered the W3 professorship for musicology at the Rostock University of Music and Theater.

Friederike Wißmann is married and has two children.

Memberships (selection)

• Member of the professionalization network for women in research and teaching at the Technical University of Berlin
• 1994–1996: Cultural advisor to the General Student Committee of the Free University of Berlin
• 1996: Founding member of the Young Orchestra of the Free University of Berlin
• 1998–1999: as cellist with the Brandenburger Symphoniker
• 2005–2010: as violoncellist in the jazz quintet Melt and float (with Rolf Zielke, among others ) at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin
• 2007–2010: Head of the “Study Course Reform” working group in the field of musicology at the Technical University of Berlin
• 2010–2012: Librarian at the Technical University of Berlin
• 2014–2015: Chair of the Study and Research Commission at the Vienna Conservatory
• since 2016: Spokeswoman for the musicology department in the interdisciplinary context of the Society for Music Research

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Faust in the musical theater of the twentieth century. Mensch und Buch Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-89820-598-6 .
• Hanns Eisler: composer, cosmopolitan, revolutionary. Bertelsmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-570-58029-5 .
• German music. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1180-0 .

Editorships

• with Christian Martin Schmidt : “On recognizing the recognized”: musical analysis and edition philology. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden / Leipzig / Paris 2007, ISBN 978-3-7651-0361-2 .
• with Norbert Abels and Ann Kersting-Meuleman : Richard Strauss - (not) a hero life: traces of the composer in Frankfurt am Main. Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-465-03910-5 .

Web links

• Literature by Friederike Wißmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• The curriculum vitae and bibliography of Friederike Wißmann on the website of the Rostock University of Music and Theater