Günter Mayer

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Günter Mayer (born November 6, 1930 in Berlin ; † September 2, 2010 ibid) was a German cultural and musicologist .

activity

Mayer dealt with aesthetics , music aesthetics and music sociology , general culture and art theory, media theory and media aesthetics. From 1980 to 1994 he was a professor at Berlin's Humboldt University . He was editor of the collected works of Hanns Eisler , which were published in three volumes, and of the planned historical-critical complete edition of Eisler's works. Mayer was a member of the scientific advisory boards of the historical-critical dictionary of Marxism and the magazine Das Argument and since 2007 deputy chairman of the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory .

effect

Hanns-Werner Heister , with whom Mayer worked for a long time, highlights Mayer's conceptual innovations as the “dialectic of material” of the artistic avant-garde; the "contradiction between use value and design value" in aesthetic valuation; language as a non-technical concept of the mass medium; Mass culture as a dialectical relationship between culture, subject and masses; technical production and reproduction through electrification and digitization as the real revolution of music in the 20th century.

In addition to Georg Knepler , Mayer was one of the first in 1978 in his book Weltbild, Notenbild to call for a differentiated reception of the theories of Theodor W. Adornos, who had long been perceived as an alleged anti-Marxist and therefore rejected .

Publications

  • The category of musical material in Hanns Eisler's aesthetic views. On the development of the theory and history of socialist realism in the field of Marxist musical aesthetics . Berlin 1970
  • About the specifics of the aesthetic relationship. A contribution to ideological and methodological basic questions of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics , 2 volumes. Dissertation B, Humboldt University, 1977
  • Worldview, musical notation. On the dialectic of the musical material . Reclam, Leipzig 1978 (Reclams Universal Library, Volume 767) and Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-87682-452-4 ( Röderberg-Taschenbuch , Volume 75)
  • On the theory of the aesthetic. Music - media - culture - politics , selected writings edited by Hanns-Werner Heister . Weidler, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89693-458-9 (between / tones, new series, volume 5)

Release

  • Hanns Eisler, Collected Works . German publishing house for music, Leipzig
    • Volume 1: Music and Politics, Writings 1924–1948 . 1st edition 1973, 2nd edition 1985
    • Volume 2: Music and Politics, Writings 1948–1962 . 1982
    • Volume 3: Writings, Addenda . 1983
  • on behalf of the German Music Council: Tradition in musical cultures - today and tomorrow. Report on the scientific conference of the International Music Council, 2. – 4. October 1985 in Berlin (capital of the GDR) . Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-370-00083-0 (German, English, French)
  • on behalf of the International Hanns Eisler Society e. V .: Hanns Eisler the contemporary: Positions - Perspectives. Materials on the Eisler festivals 1994/95 . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-370-00359-7
  • with Wolfgang Martin Stroh : A musicological paradigm shift? On the importance of Marxist approaches in music research . BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-8142-0726-2 , also bis.uni-oldenburg.de

literature

  • Hanns-Werner Heister, Günter Mayer, Wolfgang Martin Stroh (eds.): Music avant-garde: on the dialectic of vanguard and rearguard. A collection of thoughts for Günter Mayer for his 75th birthday. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8142-2001-7 (German, English, Italian)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publisher's announcement on On the theory of the aesthetic (2006)
  2. ↑ Gerd Rienäcker : Concepts of Marxist music historeography, achievements and problems . In: G. Mayer, WM Stroh (Ed.): A musicological paradigm shift? Oldenburg 2006
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural scientist, aesthetician, music theorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 2010
Place of death Berlin