Hartmut Hein

Hartmut Hein (born March 28, 1966 in Bonn ) is a German musicologist .

Life

After graduating from the Collegium Josephinum Bonn in 1985, he began studying musicology , German and modern German literature at the University of Bonn . In the latter subject, which was his main subject, he wrote his master's thesis on "Studies on Carl Sternheim's Prose " in 1991.

Between 1991 and 1996 he worked as a tutor in the field of German studies for the International Office and pursued postgraduate studies in musicology; In addition, during this period he was in the fields of fencing (after an active career as a competitive athlete, now an internationally appointed referee by the German Fencing Association, as well as management, press work and tournament organization at OFC Bonn) and in journalism ("RheinArt" magazine). In 1996/97 Hartmut Hein was a research assistant for two semesters at the musicological seminar at the University of Bonn. In 1997 he became a scientist there. Appointed employee (1999 scientific assistant) and held this position in Bonn until 2001. In 1999 he received his doctorate at the University of Bonn with a dissertation on “Beethoven's piano concertos”.

From the 2001/2002 winter semester to the 2007/2008 winter semester he was a research assistant / employee at the University of Cologne . He then became a research assistant in the DFG project “The Karajan Discourse - On the Social and Musical Staging of a Conductor Myth” and was employed there until 2011. During this time he completed his habilitation with venia legendi in the field of musicology. The topic of the work was "Music interpretation as tour de force: discourse formations and performance-aesthetic positions according to Adorno". In 2011 and 2012 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Münster . From 2013 to January 2016, Hartmut Hein worked on the research project “The Concert Overture in the Age of Mendelssohn” at the Philipps University of Marburg . In April 2016 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Cologne. From February 2017 to January 2018 he taught music and German as a substitute at the Gymnasium am Geroweiher in Mönchengladbach.

His research areas so far have mainly been: Gustav Mahler , Ludwig van Beethoven , Viennese classical music , orchestral music from the 18th to 20th centuries, keyboard music from the 17th to 20th centuries, genre history and aesthetics, methods and problems of musical analysis, philosophy of music ( Aesthetics, semiotics, performance) and musical interpretation (history, discourses, analysis).

Publications (as author or editor, selection)

• with Julian Caskel (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits. Bärenreiter, Kassel / Metzler, Stuttgart 2015. [Own contributions: Essay on the aesthetics of interpretation, approx. 40 portraits]
• Musical interpretation as a »tour de force«: positions from Adorno to historical performance practice. Universal Edition, Vienna / London / New York 2014. (= Studies on Valuation Research 56).
• with Wolfram Steinbeck (Ed.): Beethoven's piano works. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2012. (= The Beethoven Handbook, 2.)
• with Fabian Kolb (Ed.): Music and Humor. Joke, satire, irony and deeper meaning in music. [Congress report Cologne 2005]. Laaber-Verlag, Laaber 2010. (= Spectrum of Music, 9.)
• with Wolfram Steinbeck (Ed.): Shostakovich and the Symphony. Lectures at the Bonn Symposium 2004. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007. (= Bonner Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft, 7.)

Web links

• Hartmut Hein on the website of the University of Cologne .