Hella Brock

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Hella Maria Brock (born Siegmund-Schultze, born October 3, 1919 in Schweinitz (Elster) ; † November 30, 2020 in Dippoldiswalde ) was a German music teacher , musicologist and Edvard Grieg researcher.

Life

The daughter of the lawyer and mayor of Schweinitz, Hans Siegmund-Schultze, and his wife, the teacher Ida geb. Böhme, attended elementary schools in Magdeburg (1926–1928) and Liegnitz (1928–1934) and from 1934 to 1939 the Lyceum in Liegnitz, where she graduated from high school in 1939 . Then she was called in to the Reich Labor Service . From 1940 to 1942 she studied musicology, piano and English at the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau , from 1942 to 1944 at the University of Vienna and the Vienna Music Academy , where she passed the state examination in March 1944for the teaching post at secondary schools in musicological and musical practical subjects. She then continued to study English in Wroclaw until the war-related evacuation in 1945.

After fleeing and being expelled, she moved to Wegeleben in February 1945 . At the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , she passed the state examination in English for teaching at secondary schools in March 1945 and, in autumn, the pedagogical examination to become a graduate teacher for music and English. From 1946 she worked as a high school teacher at schools in Halle (Saale) and Merseburg, and from 1947 as a lecturer for English and German at the workers and farmers faculty at Berlin's Humboldt University . 1952 Hella Brock began a postgraduate at the Institute for Music Education of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where they face a thesis on the dramaturgy of the school opera of the 20th century at Fritz Reuter 1955 Dr. paed. received his doctorate.

In 1959 she moved to the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald as founding director of the Institute for Music Education , where she taught the subjects of methodology of music lessons, work analysis and music history. In Greifswald, she completed her habilitation in 1960 with a thesis supervised by Fritz Reuter on the content and function of the German school songbook from the foundation of the German Reich to the end of World War II, and in 1963 she was appointed professor for theory and methodology of music education. In 1972 she appointed the Karl Marx University in Leipzig as a professor in the Cultural Studies and German Studies section. Brock worked for many years in the commission for the development of study programs for the subject of music education in the GDR and was in charge of it at times. At the end of the spring semester 1980 she retired.

From 1967 to 1971 she was a member of the Volkskammer ( 5th electoral term ) in the parliamentary group of the German Cultural Association .

Hella Brock has a daughter (* 1953) and a son (* 1955). Her brother Walther Siegmund-Schultze was also a musicologist. She initially lived in a retirement home in Dresden and died in November 2020 in a nursing home in Dippoldiswalde from the consequences of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Grieg research

Grieg meeting place in Leipzig

Brock first dealt with Edvard Grieg in Greifswald when she invited the Norwegian musicologist Olav Gurvin to give a lecture on Grieg during the Baltic Sea Week . In 1985 she received permission to go to Oslo for research purposes. In the years that followed, she completed her knowledge of the Norwegian language and worked with Grieg researchers from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . Brock published basic German-language works on Grieg.

Hella Brock was heavily involved in maintaining Edvard Grieg's former place of work in Leipzig. In October 1998, the Grieg Meeting Place Leipzig association was founded with the aim of setting up a memorial and meeting place for the composer in the building at Talstrasse 10 built by Otto Brückwald in 1874 for the music publisher CF Peters . Brock was elected the association's first female president. Thanks to the association's initiative, the dilapidated private rooms of the Max Abraham and Henri Hinrichsen publishing families , where Edvard Grieg was often a guest, were renovated and opened in 2005 as a Grieg meeting place.

Under Brock's leadership, the association held two Grieg conferences with international participation in 2004 and 2008. For reasons of age, she resigned as president of the Grieg meeting place in Leipzig in 2008 and was later elected honorary president.

Awards

Works

  • Music theater in school. A school opera dramaturgy. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1960.
  • Teaching aids music. 7th and 8th grade. (together with Herbert Zimpel), Volk und Wissen publishing house, Berlin 1970.
  • Youth lexicon music. (Ed. Together with Christoph Kleinschmidt), Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983.
  • Listen to music - experience music. Verlag Volk und Wissen, Berlin 1985.
  • Edvard Grieg. Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-379-00609-2 .
  • Edvard Grieg in music class. Considerations from intercultural and polyesthetic aspects. Hildegard Junker Verlag, Altenmedingen 1995, ISBN 3-928783-39-4 .
  • Edvard Grieg. Correspondence with the music publisher CF Peters 1863–1907. (together with Finn Benestad), Edition Peters, Frankfurt Main 1997, ISBN 3-87626-010-8 .
  • Edvard Grieg as a music writer. Hildegard Junker Verlag, Altenmedingen 1999, ISBN 3-928783-81-5 .
  • Grieg's music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Enrichment and independence. Hildegard Junker Verlag, Altenmedingen 2001, ISBN 3-928783-91-2 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rolf Richter: Immense lifetime achievement. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 1, 2020, p. 11.
  2. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). P. I-VIII, here: P. VII.
  3. ^ Heinz Wegener: Bibliography Fritz Reuter . In the S. (Red. Ed.): Commemorative publication Fritz Reuter (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Social and linguistic series 15 (1966) 3). S. I-VIII, here: S. VIII.
  4. ↑ Grieg researcher Hella Brock is 95 years old. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 2, 2014, p. 9.
  5. ↑ Website of the Grieg meeting place Leipzig e. V.
  6. ^ Change of board of directors in the Grieg Association. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 16, 2008, p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Brock, Hella
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brock, Hella Maria; Siegmund-Schultze, Hella (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION German music teacher, musicologist and Edvard Grieg researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweinitz (Elster)
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2020
Place of death Dippoldiswalde