University of the Arts Bremen
| University of the Arts Bremen | |
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| founding | 1873 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Bremen |
| state | Bremen |
| country | Germany |
| Rector | Roland Lambrette |
| Students | 903 WS 2012/13 (approx. 30% foreign students) |
| Employee | around 300 |
| including professors | 65 |
| Website | www.hfk-bremen.de |
The University of the Arts Bremen ( HfK Bremen for short , English University of the Arts Bremen ) is a state-run art and music college in Bremen . The oldest forerunner institution was founded in 1873.
There are two departments : the art and design department is located in Speicher XI in Bremen's Überseestadt , the music department is located in the former school building of the old grammar school on Dechanatstraße in the old town . This makes the HfK Bremen, along with the Berlin University of the Arts and the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, one of the few art colleges in Germany in which the two fields of visual arts and music are represented together.
courses
The prerequisites for the course are usually the Abitur and the passed artistic entrance examination.
Department of Art and Design
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Digital media ( Bachelor and Master ), cooperation course with the University of Bremen , subject areas:
- AV media
- Electroacoustic composition
- Basics of designing digital media
- Interaction design
- Interaction and space
- Interface design
- Intermedial design
- Culture and media history / theory
- Sound studies
- Still picture
- Temporary architecture
- Media informatics offers [university]
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Fine arts ( diploma and master class degree ), major fields of study or classes:
- painting
- Drawing, printmaking
- Figurative painting
- plastic
- Sculpture, plastic
- Sculpture with classical materials
- Intermedial photography
- Artistic space and body concepts
- Time media
- general sciences
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Integrated design ( Bachelor and Master ), major fields of study:
- Basics of design
- Communication design / corporate design
- Interaction design
- Typography - illustration
- To draw
- Still picture - analog and digital
- Moving picture
- Interface design
- Product design / CAD
- 3-D design / products and systems
- Constructive geometry
- Temporary architecture
- Fashion display
- Fashion design / experimental design
- Model design / pattern design / CAD
- Fashion design / unique items and programs
Department of Music
The music department emerged from the conservatory of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the Academy for Early Music and offers courses in instrumental and vocal training, music education and church music. The music department has concert and music halls, ensemble and classrooms, modern practice rooms and a cafeteria. The music department also has a recording studio and an electronic studio, as well as a jazz cellar, which is the venue for the “Jazzclub Bremen”. Every Tuesday in the semester, concerts and sessions with musicians from the university and local and national musicians take place in the cellar vault. A total of around 300 public concerts of all genres take place every year.
Bachelor of Music (BM)
- artistic education
- Instrumental major
- singing
- Old music
- jazz
- composition
- Artistic and educational training
- Instrumental
- singing
- jazz
- Elementary music education
- Music theory (instrumental and vocal pedagogy / composition)
Master of Music (MM)
- artistic education
- Instrumental major
- singing
- Choir direction
- Composition / electroacoustic composition
- Old music
- jazz
- Artistic and educational training
- Instrumental / vocal pedagogy
- Elementary music education
- Music theory
- Church music (focus: early music)
- Protestant church music
- Catholic church music
Other courses
- Music teaching degree (Bachelor and Master of Education MEd)
- Training opportunities for young students for highly talented pupils in general schools
- Continuing education
history
Before the merger to form the University of Art and Music as a university of applied sciences in 1979, which was transformed into the Artistic and Scientific University of the Arts in 1988 , several institutions had developed independently of one another:
Forerunner department of art and design
Since 1823 there was a drawing school for artists and craftsmen in Bremen . The trade school that followed in 1855 only existed until 1857. In the 1860s there was a drawing school for budding artists and craftsmen in Grossenstrasse, which was called the trade drawing school from 1866 .
In the heyday of historicism , the technical institute for tradespeople in Bremen was founded in 1873 under the direction of August Töpfer and thus the actual forerunner of today's University of the Arts. The institution was located in the commercial bank building on Kaiserstraße (today Mayor-Smidt-Straße ). Since 1878, the institute also had a sample collection, as well as the Bremen Trade Museum from 1880 to 1916. The technical institute developed into the State School of Applied Arts and was housed in a new building at Am Wandrahm 23 based on plans by Rudolf Jacobs in 1922 together with the Higher Technical School for Crafts . The arts and crafts school has been headed by Erich Kleinhempel for many years since 1912 . Wilhelm Wagenfeld , a protagonist of modern industrial design and later Bauhaus student, received his first artistic training here from 1916 to 1919.
During the time of National Socialism in 1934 the School of Applied Arts became the Nordic Art College (NKH) with the Worpswede painter Fritz Mackensen as the founding rector. After 1946, this institution then operated as the State Art School with the addition of a master school for the creative craft . It had around 300 students. From 1946 to 1952 Willy Menz was the head of the school until he resigned after differences with the senatorial authority. In 1968 the art school received an extension. In 1969 it became the Academy for Design . In 1970, when the university framework law was implemented as the new Bremen university law, it was transformed into a university for design with the rank of a technical college .
Forerunner of the music department
The music department in its current structure originates from the Conservatory of the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen , which has been holding independently since 1973 the North German Music Care Society and directed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt , the North German Summer Academy for Early Music and the Academy developed from the latter by Thomas Albert and institutionalized in 1986 for early music .
Conservatory of the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen
Professional music education was established in Bremen in 1878 - initially in a private setting and from 1893 as the Conservatory of Music . In 1942, the municipal singing school was renamed the Nordic Music School , which should represent a parallel to the Nordic Art Academy. In 1948 the Bremen Music School was established .
In 1965 the Bremen Music School became the Conservatory of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen eV , a state-funded private substitute school with the rank of a technical school under the supervision of a board of trustees made up of representatives of the Senate Administration, the general music director (technical supervision), association members and the director. The directors of the conservatory were from 1946 Paul Zingel , Hermann Grevesmühl , Hellmut Schnackenburg and until 1979 Hans Joachim Kauffmann . Unlike the State Academy for Design in 1970, the Conservatory did not become a university of applied sciences with the first Bremen Higher Education Act, because Director Kauffmann rejected both the status of the university as inadequate and the associated self-administration within the framework of a democratic rectoral constitution. His position, represented vis-à-vis the Board of Trustees and thus also vis-à-vis the Senate and the Science Deputation, as the only conceivable “fruitful final solution” to convert the Conservatory into a singular music academy with a directorate without democratic self-administration, found no support in the committees, so that the Conservatory in the amendments to the Bremen Higher Education Act until 1978 were ignored and not mentioned.
In the context of the university development operated by Horst Werner Franke (including the university), the question of future music teacher training in Bremen arose in 1976. On behalf of Franke, State Councilor Reinhard Hoffmann had a group of experts from the German Music Council appraise the conservatory. A first expert opinion had to be discarded due to incorrect basic data. The second report confirmed that the conservatory was, with few restrictions, a technical college level.
The University Act, which is currently being amended, was then expanded to include the passage "... and the Conservatory", whereby the Conservatory was incorporated into the University of Design in 1979 as a music department and was one of the last conservatories in Germany to receive (technical) university status while it was in previously only had the status of a private technical school.
Academy for Early Music
Broadcasters of the ARD were pioneers of early music . Above all, Wolfgang Buchner as the editor in charge at Radio Bremen discovered and promoted important pioneers of this genre since the 1960s, among them Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Gustav Leonhardt and the Berlin-based Musicalische Compagney under the direction of Holger Eichhorn . With the founding of Pro Musiqua Antiqua by Hans Otte in 1960, the early music station prepared a festival stage (since 2009 musicadia - days for early music in the broadcasting hall ).
The North German Music Care Society then organized the first North German Summer Academy for early music in Bremen in September 1973 at Schönebeck Palace under the overall direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the director of the Vienna Concentus Musicus . At a senate reception in the chimney hall of the town hall for the almost 100 participants from 12 nations, the Senator for Education, Science and Art Moritz Thape - who was also responsible for university development in Bremen during this period - expressly welcomed the work done by the participants to care for the elderly Music .
With this event of high protocol level, Thape strengthened the cultural foundation formed by the activities of Radio Bremen for the training institute Academy for Early Music , which was then founded in 1986 by Thomas Albert , also in a forward-looking way through its political anchoring.
The summer academy for early music, the efforts of the Society of North German Music Care and the North German Orgelakademie , courses and other activities of the “ Forum Alte Musik Bremen ” meant that the Academy for Early Music Bremen was founded in 1986. In a press conference, Thomas Albert. and Elisabeth Hahn, professor at the Bremen University of Art and Music, introduced the project and announced its establishment as an independent association - ideally and practically but not financially supported by the Senator for Education, Science and Art.
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The Academy for Old Music began its work on April 3, 1986 with a public lecture by Gisela Jaacks in the fireplace hall of the new town hall . The rooms of the academy at Schleswiger Straße 4 were presented to the public on April 4th with a lecture by Nicolas Schalz . The presentation concluded with an organ excursion with Harald Vogel to Rysum , Ottum and the north on April 5th.
One of the founding members is Manfred Cordes , who took over the vocal ensemble of the Forum Alte Musik Bremen in 1983 , with whom he began extensive concert activities and who later represented the music department as dean and the university of the arts as rector.
With the summer semester of 1986, the academy began studying with 33 students as the first specialist academy of its kind in the Federal Republic of Germany (in the building made available by the Senate of the former Bremen reform school in Schleswiger Strasse in Bremen Walle).
From this core of the unique position, Henning Scherf (Senator for Education, Science and Art), Reinhard Hoffmann (State Councilor) and Thomas Albert (Consultant) developed the restructuring of academic music education in Bremen as an integrated element of Bremen's cultural policy with an effect beyond the national borders.
As an institution, the Akademie für Alte Musik continues to exist as an institute under the responsibility of the Music Department at the Hochschule für Künst under the direction of Thomas Albert.
University of the Arts and Music (Association of the Arts)
On the basis of the third amendment to the Bremen University Act (under the responsibility of State Councilor Reinhard Hoffmann ), the vocational department of the Conservatory was incorporated into the University of Design as the music department in 1979 and thus nationalized. As part of this expansion, the College of Design was renamed the College of Fine Arts and Music (while retaining its college status) . The director of the Kauffmann Conservatory became the new head of the music department.
The future rector Jürgen Waller was appointed in 1977.
In 1984 Karl-August Welp succeeded Felix Müller. Welp took over from the Senator for Science Horst Werner Franke the task of developing the University of Fine Arts and Music, up to now a technical college, according to the development mandate anchored in the Bremen University Act to a general university level. When he took office, this status had already been achieved for the plastic and painting courses; five further courses had to be further adapted. In order to make the corresponding impulses recognizable to the outside world and at the same time to incorporate impulses from outside into this development, Welp engaged Luigi Colani and Philip Rosenthal as honorary professors. With the obligation of Senate Director a. D. Eberhard Kulenkampff as honorary professor, the contact to politics for a "free path for creativity" was made by Welp.
However, the music department remained relatively isolated at the old location at Osterdeich 17 and developed little in the following years, partly due to inadequate facilities. However, the rector's constitution and the rector's credo “Free rein for creativity” gave the teachers more leeway, which was also used creatively, for example for an autumn academy and a jazz class.
University of the Arts (development to date)
Under the rectorate of Welp, the University of Art and Music became the University of the Arts (artistic and scientific university) in 1988 . In the elections for university management in 1990, Welp no longer stood for election and Jürgen Waller succeeded him as the new rector. Waller appointed Michael Schirner as honorary professor for communication design in the art department.
Kurt Seibert was elected head of the music department, replacing the incumbent dean Hans-Joachim Kauffmann, who retired in 1991. Like his predecessor , Seibert continued to reject the integration of the Academy of Early Music into the University of the Arts. He constituted a phalanx against corresponding efforts of the Bremen Senate Administration over the instruments of self-administration at the university and in the Bremen cultural institutions, in which he had a seat and a vote.
Waller de-institutionalized the rectorate and, with a small advisory committee, developed the strategic cornerstones of future development from the various courses with the general goal of improving the city's entire cultural working atmosphere and the fundamental demand on politicians to double the cultural budget.
The focal points of the internal development, also through overriding action, mainly concerned the music department, which has stagnated since the merger of the arts, by working even more on a receptive basis from classical music to Hindemith, for example by expanding in the direction of jazz and popular music, through the placement of composers of the 20th century, through additional professorships and their strict occupation from outside and through visiting professorships with changing occupations in order to initiate a certain retirement with the consequent refreshment of the department.
In the field of design, Waller planned to introduce postgraduate studies for artists who have completed their training. These should then be used as cultural mediators in the leisure sector - similar to the maisons culturelles in France. Unlike his predecessor, Waller rejected “Nutzkunstkunst” on behalf of the economy. For Waller, art must be and remain independent, because it must act as if it were floating in a vacuum.
Until 1991, music education in Bremen led a shadowy existence due to the inadequate learning conditions, so that the music department of the university was still refused admission to the circle of the rectors' conference of the German music universities .
The development concept, namely the transition from the Academy for Early Music to the HFK, to establish music training with a focus on old and new music, was confirmed by a group of experts from the music academies in Hamburg , Berlin , Bern and the Hanover University of Music and Drama .
Against the background of the threatened closure of the music department while maintaining the traditional structure, the HFK Academic Senate unanimously approved the plan negotiated between the education authority and the university to restructure the music department at the beginning of July 1992.
With the approval of the Faculty Council and the Academic Senate to the proposals of the Appointment Committee for filling eleven new professorships and the approval of the Bremen Senate, the transition of the Academy for Early Music to the HFK was effectively completed in July 1993, with ongoing protests from the State Music Council and the opposition .
From 1993 to 1998 Waller was also chairman of the conference of presidents and rectors of the German art academies and during this period he also represented the art and music academies in the senate of the university rectors' conference .
A year later, the building for the music department in Dechanatstraße, which was formerly the old grammar school, was expanded. The building also houses the Klaus Kuhnke Archive for Popular Music , an institute at the University of the Arts.
In 2003, the Department of Art and Design and the university management moved from the building at Am Wandrahm 23 to Speicher XI, a former cotton warehouse in Überseestadt .
In February 2011, the University of the Arts published the story “Bis zur Scar” by the historian Hans Hesse. It presents the case of the NKH student Kurt Elvers , who was executed in Hamburg-Höltigbaum on February 20, 1945 following a denunciation. This was a step towards coming to terms with its own history as a "Nordic Art College" from 1934 to 1945.
Well-known teachers and graduates
Professors and lecturers
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literature
- University of the Arts Bremen (Ed.): Ten years of the University of the Arts Bremen and some of their previous histories . Achilla Presse, Hamburg / Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-928398-58-X .
- University of the Arts Bremen (ed.): From storage for goods to storage of the arts / University of the arts Bremen. Hauschild, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-89757-282-6 .
- University of the Arts Bremen (Ed.): In the center: Music. The Bremen University of the Arts in Dechanatstrasse. Hauschild, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-89757-340-7 .
- Stefan Brück, Peter Rautmann, University of the Arts Bremen (ed.): Building bridges, building bridges. The University of the Arts Bremen from 2002 to 2007. Hauschild, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89757-383-3 .
- Manfred Cordes (Ed.): Pian e forte. 10 years in the music department at the Bremen University of the Arts . Hauschild, Bremen 1998, ISBN 3-931785-78-5 .
- Fritz Haase (author); University of the Arts Bremen (Ed.): Wall cream. 4 decades of photography at the Bremen University of the Arts. Hauschild, Bremen 2002, ISBN 3-89757-160-9 .
- Hans Hesse: To the scar. A story. 1st edition. University of the Arts Bremen, Bremen 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033578-5 .
- FOUR ; The magazine of the University of the Arts Bremen.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ University of the Arts Bremen: Rectorate. 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal Statistical Office: Number of students by type of university, state and university, WS 2012/13, pp. 66–113 (accessed on November 3, 2013)
- ↑ Digital media cooperative courses at the University of Bremen and the HFK Bremen
- ↑ In August 2014, the church music course was included in the Red List of the German Cultural Council and classified in Category 1 threatened with closure . Politics & Culture No. 5/14 | September - October 2014 Page 15 Cultural Life: The Red List ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 31, 2014.
- ^ Wilhelm Wagenfeld Foundation
- ↑ North German Summer Academy . In: Weser-Kurier of May 23, 1973 page 17
- ↑ Neue Akademie introduces itself . In: Kurier am Sonntag of March 30, 1986 page 6
- ↑ a b A vital alternative - a look at 40 years of early music in Germany - Goethe-Institut
- ↑ North German Summer Academy . In: Weser-Kurier from May 23, 1973
- ↑ History ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), on www.alte-musik-bremen.de (Engl.)
- ↑ Aim for comprehensive training . In: Weser-Kurier of January 30, 1986 page 18
- ↑ fr: Introducing the new academy . In: Weser-Kurier , March 30, 1986, p. 4
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Manfred Cordes , on hfk-bremen.de
- ^ Academy for Early Music , on hfk-bremen.de
- ↑ New rector and soon new status . In: Weser-Kurier , November 10, 1984
- ↑ The future belongs to ideas . In Weser-Kurier , November 20, 1987
- ↑ Tight skirts poison for fat people . In: Weser-Kurier , October 18, 1988
- ↑ Free path for creativity . In: Weser-Kurier , December 3, 1987
- ↑ Michael Schirner appointed honorary professor. In: Weser-Kurier, March 2, 1990, page 31
- ^ Weser-Kurier : Reporting from 1991-1993
- ↑ Bremen artist without a chance . In: Weser-Kurier of July 9, 1989
- ^ Justified interference in cultural policy . In: Weser-Kurier of October 12, 1989
- ↑ The musicians are in the shadows, Bremer is undesirable in the university rectors' conference . In: Weser-Kurier , November 2, 1991, number 256, page 13
- ↑ Important for Bremen's university location . In: Weser-Kurier , March 9, 1993, p. 7
- ↑ a b University approves academy integration . In: Weser-Kurier , July 8, 1992 or 1993, p. 9
- ↑ Committees ( Memento from August 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), at www.hrk.de
- ↑ Hans Hesse: Up to the scar. A story. ISBN 978-3-00-033578-5
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 53 ″ N , 8 ° 46 ′ 3 ″ E