Helmut Brenner

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Helmut Brenner (born January 1, 1957 in Mürzzuschlag , Styria ; † February 17, 2017 in Graz , Styria) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist .

Life

Helmut Brenner initially studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts (today University of Music and Performing Arts ) in Graz. Here he obtained the artistic diploma for trumpet in 1981, as well as the state teaching qualification in 1982. He graduated in 1984 with a Magister (Mag. Art.). From 1975 to 1986 he worked as a teacher at music schools.

From 1986 Helmut Brenner studied musicology and history at the universities of Graz and Vienna. In 1995 he completed his studies with the doctorate to Dr. phil. from. Since 1987, Brenner has had lectureships at the universities of Graz, Mexico City, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Innsbruck and Saarbrücken, among others.

In 2000 he undertook a mission as a consultant to various countries in Central and South America on behalf of UNESCO to investigate the history and current situation of the marimba traditions in ten Latin American countries. In 2004 he was awarded the Venia legendi ( habilitation ) for the subjects of ethnomusicology and popular music by the Saarland University in Saarbrücken with a thesis on "Marimbas in Latin America".

Until his death he was a senior scientist at the Institute for Ethnomusicology at the University of Art and Design Graz and also took teaching positions at the inter-university degree in musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, the Karl-Franzens University Graz and at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas UNICACH true in Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico).

Brenner was one of the few ethnomusicologists in German-speaking countries who had a habilitation and who was primarily concerned with Latin America in both research and teaching. Another focus of teaching was folk song research.

Books

  • Corresponds to the song ... The Great Austrian Workers Singer Book . Leykam, Graz 1986, ISBN 3-7011-7177-7 .
  • as publisher: Contributions to the research and maintenance of folk music in Baden-Württemberg: Lectures at the folk music symposium in Ochsenhausen from 23. – 27. May 1990. (= Der Musikant. Special volume). State Music Council Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe 1990, DNB 930294718 .
  • Music as a weapon? Theory and practice of the political use of music, illustrated using the example of Styria 1938 - 1945. 1st edition. Herbert-Weishaupt-Verlag, Graz 1992, ISBN 3-900310-58-0 .
  • with Wolfgang Nagele and Andrea Pühringer: In the shadow of the phoenix. Highs and lows of a dominant industrial company and its effects on the region. 1st edition. Herbert-Weishaupt-Verlag, Graz 1993, ISBN 3-900310-81-5 .
  • Go and see heartache. Archduke Johann song traditions before, in, next to and after “Wo i go and stand” . Ars Styriae cultural area Archduke Johann, Mürzzuschlag 1996, ISBN 3-900970-02-5 .
  • Música ranchera. The Mexican equivalent of country and western music from a historical, musical and commercial point of view . (= Anthology of music, volume 14). Hans Scheider, Tutzing 1996, ISBN 3-7952-0867-X .
  • Juventino Rosas - His Life, His Work, His Time . (= Detroit monographs in musicology, studies in music, Volume 32). Harmonie Park Press, Warren, Michigan, USA 2000, ISBN 0-89990-976-0 .
  • Marimbas in Latin America. Historical facts and status quo of the marimba traditions in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil . Accompanying materials: 1 CD. (= Studies and Materials for Musicology, Volume 43). Georg-Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-12959-4 .
  • as Ed .: So that they are not lost. Singing traditions in the Veitsch. Lichtenstern, Veitsch / Graz / Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-938651-05-6 .
  • as ed. with Daniel Fuchsberger: So that they don't get lost. Singing traditions in Eisenerz, Hieflau, Radmer and Vordernberg. Cool-Dur, Eisenerz 2012, ISBN 978-3-200-02626-1 .
  • as ed. with José Israel Moreno Vázquez and Juan Alberto Bermúdez Molina: Voces de la Sierra. Marimbas sencillas en Chiapas (= Sonidos de la tierra. Estudios de etnomusicología. 1). KUG-UNICACH, Graz / Tuxtla Gutiérrez 2014, ISBN 978-607-8240-59-3 .
  • as ed. with Juan Alberto Bermúdez Molina, Lisa-Christina Fellner and Kurt Schatz: LiedSammlerVolk. Folk song collectors in Styria , Steirisches Volksliedwerk, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-902516-33-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Kleine Zeitung of February 23, 2017, accessed on February 27, 2017
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Suppan : Styrian Music Lexicon. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt , Graz 2009, pp. 61–62.
  3. ↑ Helmut Brenner: The Mexican "música ranchera" with special consideration of the "canción ranchera" and "canción bravía" as well as the historical musical and commercial framework of their development. Dissertation . University of Vienna, Vienna 1995, Permalink Austrian Library Association .
  4. ^ Helmut Brenner: Marimbas in Latin America. Historical facts and status quo of the marimba traditions in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil. Habilitation thesis . Saarland University, 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Brenner, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Mürzzuschlag , Styria , Austria
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2017
Place of death Graz , Styria , Austria