Günter Kleinen

Günter Kleinen (born January 10, 1941 in Cologne ) is a German musicologist and professor of musicology with a focus on music education and systematic musicology as well as music psychology .

Life

After graduating from high school in Cologne in 1960, Kleinen completed a degree in sound engineering between 1960 and 1963 at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music in Düsseldorf , including violin and piano. From 1963 he studied musicology , psychology and philosophy at the University of Hamburg . With a dissertation on the subject of experimental studies on musical expression , Kleinen was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1968 on, Kleinen worked as a research assistant at the Braunschweig University of Education at the time , while at the same time completing a teaching degree for elementary and secondary schools in music, fine arts and English studies, which he had completed with the first teacher examination. From 1974 to 1977 he was an academic advisor at the University of Münster , where he completed his habilitation in the field of music education with a focus on the psychological and acoustic-technical basics of musical didactics . In 1977, Kleinen was appointed to a C3 professorship at the University of Bremen (at the time it was called music education with a focus on functions of musical mass culture , later changed to music education and systematic musicology ). In 1993, 1995 and 1998 he completed several weeks of guest lectureships a. a. at the Chinese Music School in Beijing. In 2003 he went on a lecture tour to China , South Korea and Taiwan . In 2019, Kleinen took part in the First International Symposium on the Music History of the Han and Tan Periods in Xi'an , for which he was appointed visiting professor at the local music college.

For several years, Kleinen was on the board of the professional associations working group for school music and general music education (AfS), working group music education research (AMPF) and the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM). He was co-editor of the yearbook Music Psychology (1984 to 2006). In 2016 the research projects Backdoor (talent and creativity in popular music) and Cream (comparative music-pedagogical research on good music teachers) were completed. Currently, Kleine does free musicological research, u. a. Current development tendencies of Asian music (China, South Korea, Japan), integration of Arabic music culture into the music of the European avant-garde and other music-pedagogical research methods.

Günter Kleinen is married and has three children.

Publications (selection)

• Kleinen, Günter: Experimental studies on musical expression. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1968
• Werner Breckoff, Günter Kleinen, Werner Krützfeldt, Werner S. Nicklis, Lutz Rössner, Wolfgang Rogge and others: Musik aktuell: information, documents, tasks; a music book for secondary and university levels . Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 1971
• Günter Kleinen: On the psychology of musical behavior . Diesterweg, Frankfurt a. M. 1975
• Florian Tennstedt and Günter Kleinen: Rock music and group processes: the rise and fall of the Petards . Fink, Munich 1979
• Günter Kleinen (Ed.): Child and Music . Laaber, 1984.
• Günter Kleinen: The psychological reality of music. Perception and interpretation in everyday life . Bosse, Kassel 1994.
• Günter Kleinen (ed.): Talent and creativity in popular music . Lit, Münster 2003.
• Günter Kleinen (Ed.): Music and Child. Opportunities for talent and creativity in the age of the new media . Laaber Verlag, Laaber 2003.
• Günter Kleinen: Chinese Music and the Cultural Transfer on the Silk Road. Epos, Osnabrück 2011.

literature

• Barbara Barthelmes: German Society for Music Psychology. Annual conference in Hanover from February 22nd to 24th 1985. In: Die Musikforschung . Volume 38, 1985, p. 304.
• Andreas C. Lehmann, Reinhard copyz (ed.): 25 years of the German Society for Music Psychology (1983–2008) (= IfMpF monograph No. 19). University of Music and Theater, Hanover 2008, ISBN 3-931852-79-2 .

Web links

• Homepage of Günter Kleinen
• Literature by and about Günter Kleinen in the catalog of the German National Library