Hedwig Mueller

Hedwig Müller (* 1953 in Bitburg ) is a German dance historian and theater scholar .

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Hedwig Müller completed her studies in theater, film and television studies , English and pedagogy in 1978 at the University of Cologne a . a. at Günther Erken with the academic degree of a Magister . In 1974/75 she studied for one semester as a DAAD scholarship holder at the University of Bristol in England. She received her doctorate in 1986 under Renate Möhrmann with a thesis on the foundation of expressive dance by Mary Wigman . Hedwig Müller has worked at the University of Cologne since 1979, from 1979 to 1981 as a research assistant in the research project Theater at the Turn of the Century of the German Research Foundation , from 1993 as Academic Adviser and Deputy Director of the Theater Studies Collection (TWS) and from 2003 to 2018 in the position of one Academic Senior Councilor. She directed u. a. the photographic collection of the TWS and was responsible for archives, library and administration of the collection. Müller researches and publishes primarily on German dance history in the 20th century, in particular on Mary Wigman, expressive dance and dance theater .

Hedwig Müller co-founded the magazines Ballett International and Tanzdrama and the Mary Wigman Society (today: Mary Wigman Foundation). She is the biographer of Mary Wigman and was u. a. Research assistant on the reconstruction of Wigman's "Totentanz I" (1917) and "Totentanz II" (1926) by the dance company of the Osnabrück Theater .

Publications

as an author (monographs)

• with Torsten Schmidt: Signs of life: Therese Rothauser 1865, Budapest - 1943, Theresienstadt , Ed. Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies. Theater studies collection of the university, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-931691-46-2 .
• with Ralf Stabel and Patricia Stöckemann: Krokodil Im Schwanensee: Tanz in Deutschland Since 1945 , Ed. Jan Käseberg and Akademie der Künste Berlin, Anabas-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-87038-353-4 .
• with Patricia Stöckemann: "... everyone is a dancer". Expressive dance in Germany between 1900 and 1945, Anabas-Verl, Gießen 1993, ISBN 3-87038-250-3 .
• with Frank-Manuel Peter and Garnet Schuldt: Dore Hoyer. Dancer. Edited by the German Dance Archive Cologne . Ed. Hentrich Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89468-012-1 .
• Mary Wigman. Life and work of the great dancer. Edited by the Academy of Arts (Berlin) . Quadriga, Weinheim 1986 and 1992, ISBN 3-88679-148-3 , ISBN 978-3-7272-7937-9 .
• The foundation of expressive dance by Mary Wigman. Phil.-Diss., Cologne 1986.
• with Norbert Servos: Pina Bausch. Wuppertal dance theater. Garske , Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-922224-01-6 .

as editor

• Valeska Gert . Dance photographs , Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-194-4 .

Web links

• Employee page on the website of the University of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hedwig Müller: The foundation of expressive dance by Mary Wigman. Phil.-Diss., Cologne 1986, p. 234.
2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae, in: Hubertus Adam, Sally Schöne (Ed.): Expression dance and Bauhaus stage . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0852-4 , p. 187.