Ingrid Kuntze

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Ingrid Kuntze

Ingrid Kuntze (* 27. July 1935 in Moenchengladbach as Ingrid Gestermann ) is a German musician and music teacher . Under her leadership, the Meerbusch Municipal Music School developed into one of the most innovative music schools in Germany. Numerous programs that are now firmly anchored in the curriculum of the Federal Association of German Music Schools (VdM) were initiated by Ingrid Kuntze.

Live and act

Ingrid Kuntze grew up in Büderich as the daughter of the artist couple Gestermann; the father Hans Paul Gestermann (1903–1989) was a graduate economist and painter, the mother Anneliese Gestermann (1912–1999) a musician. Ingrid Kuntze completed her music studies in Berlin and Düsseldorf: piano with Franzpeter Goebels and Heinrich Elter, cello with Kurt Herzbruch. In 1959 she married the lawyer Eberhard Kuntze (1931–2005) and in 1963 they both moved to Osterath , where Ingrid Kuntze lives and works to this day. She has two children: Andreas Kuntze (* 1962), director of the Northwest German Philharmonic, and Inken Kuntze-Osterwind (* 1965), photographer.

In 1967, Kuntze founded the Osterath Music School, which was later merged with the Büderich Music School and became the Meerbusch Municipal Music School in 1970 as part of the municipal reorganization. She headed this until her retirement in 1995. Her modern management style and creativity shaped both music school work and the music image of the city of Meerbusch. Kuntze's innovations set German standards and are now among the standards of music education: instrumental lessons in all subjects and genres, early musical education, group lessons, music for the disabled, music lessons for adults as well as regular international music encounters and exchange programs.

Ingrid Kuntze has been working on a voluntary basis in the cultural sector since 1997, organizing exhibitions and supporting the Meerbuscher Kulturkreis (founded on April 29, 1980) in numerous projects.

In 2000 she founded the Anneliese Gestermann Foundation in memory of her mother. The funding primarily includes the music school's ensemble work, but support for other music school areas has also been agreed.

Awards

On January 22, 1997, the district administrator of the Neuss district, Dieter Patt , presented her with the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (proposed by the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Johannes Rau ) for her exceptional achievements in the field of musical youth education and her numerous honorary positions associated with it. A year later she was awarded the Golden Tuning Fork by the Association of German Music Schools for meritorious voluntary work, and in 1985 she received the Franz Schütz plaque.

In her era as a music school director, numerous music students and music ensembles from the Meerbusch Municipal Music School won top-class music prizes, especially at the Jugend musiziert competitions , both at state and federal level. Many of the laureates at the time later embarked on a professional career in music and became orchestral musicians, music teachers, conductors or composers. A particularly great success were:

  • 1972 first prize at the national youth music competition for the Meerbusch string quartet ( Petra Müllejans , Martin Blomenkamp, ​​Axel Breuch and Walter Gödde), conducted by Reinhart von Gutzeit
  • 1974 first prize at the national youth music competition for the Meerbuscher piano quartet (Christian Schulte-Uentrop, Susanne Mix, Ulrike Mix and Thomas Blomenkamp), conducted by Wolfgang Richter
  • 1975 First Prize with special commendation from the Belgian Minister of Culture for the Meerbuscher Orchestra and first prize for the folklore group of Helga Romberg at the music festival in Neerpelt (Belgium)

Innovations

Numerous musical initiatives of the Meerbusch Municipal Music School were groundbreaking for the German music school system and music education in the 1970s and 1980s. Ingrid Kuntze made it possible for her music students and music school teachers to have intensive rehearsals outside of school and in 1971 initiated a week of work and encounters for the first time during the summer holidays in Tiengen, Baden . In addition to the Meerbusch teachers Ingrid Kuntze, Reinhart von Gutzeit, Walter Jordans, Wolfgang Richter, Reinhardt Roebers and Helga Romberg, the team of lecturers also included the violinist Axel Gerhardt from the Berliner Philharmoniker .

As a networker, Kuntze always ensured that all initiatives of her music school were integrated into the general life of the city of Meerbusch. Public relations work , cooperation with a wide variety of municipal partners and strategically planned major events in the service of music were still rare in Germany at that time - in Meerbusch, however, daily music practice. So it was

  • 1978 for the initial spark and organization of the children's culture week for all areas of youth activities related to “culture” in Meerbusch
  • 1979 for the establishment of the Meerbuscher Camerata (directed by Walter Jordans) and the Meerbuscher Chamber Orchestra (directed by Wolfgang Richter) as ensembles for teachers, former music students and pupils
  • 1980 for the first state competition NRW Youth & Folklore in Meerbusch, patronage of the Minister of Culture Girgensohn
  • from 1983 on advanced training courses for lecturers in the municipal music school. It all started with Professor Siegfried Pank (cello, viol), Joan Dickson (cello) and Inge Henderson ( Alexander technique )
  • since 1985 to music with handicapped people and people threatened by handicaps
  • since 1988 for offers in musical adult education

International musical encounters

The fact that music as a world language can transcend geographical, political or cultural borders is now a matter of course, especially in the professional music business. In the field of broad-based work with laypeople, the Meerbusch Music School did pioneering work in this area during Ingrid Kuntze's time and initiated intercultural music encounters for music students and lovers since 1975. For the first time, a folklore group led by Helga Romberg performed at the invitation of the Federal Association of Children's and Cultural Youth education in Japan . In exchange, 25 young Japanese made music in Meerbusch and lived in Meerbusch host families.

In 1981, at the instigation of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Ingrid Kuntze traveled with a delegation of selected cultural representatives to several Finnish cities with the aim of reconnecting with the German-Finnish cultural agreement. A year later Finland was a guest in Meerbusch (with concerts and exhibitions), and the folklore group Bon-Bon went on a concert tour to Finland . In 1985, the European Year of Music and the International Year of Youth, several Meerbusch music school groups and their Finnish music friends from Kaustinen took part in the First European Youth Music Festival in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

In 1990 the partnership agreement between the Meerbusch Municipal Music School and the Kaustinen Music School was signed by the two mayors, Dr. Lothar Beseler (Meerbusch) and Altti Seikkula (Kaustinen) signed in the presence of the Meerbusch Chamber Orchestra and the woodwinds in Finland. In the following years, music students from Meerbusch alternately traveled to Finland and those from Finland to Meerbusch. Many friendships developed over generations. A highlight was the performance of the musical Hair by Finnish students in Meerbusch and the performance of the Prague Symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with German and Finnish youth in Kaustinen. Other milestones in international music encounters were:

  • 1979 an exchange concert with the Belgian city of Vilvoorde
  • 1979 the third state youth & folklore competition in Meerbusch. Three Breton folk groups (from Morlaix , Port l'Abbé and Fouesnant ) performed in Meerbusch
  • 1979 a guest concert by the Hallimasch group , conducted by Hans Engstfeld, at the invitation of the Federal Association for Cultural Education for Children and Young People in Moscow
  • 1988 a trip by the Häns Fäns group , led by Hans Engstfeld, to Paris at the invitation of Jeunesses Musicales
  • a USA guest tour of the Meerbuscher woodwinds and the folklore group Chac with their teachers Walter Jordans and Helga Romberg at the invitation of the German-American National Congress

Association of German Music Schools (VdM)

In 1976 Ingrid Kuntze was elected to the board of the regional association of music schools in North Rhine-Westphalia and specifically supported both the association's lobbying work and innovations in music education. In 1977, for example, she and her music school in Meerbusch took part in the VdM's nationwide model test for group lessons . Long before the pilot project Music with Disabled People was carried out by the VdM on a federal level, it integrated disabled children into music groups with non-disabled people and encouraged their music school teachers to take new pedagogical approaches. From 1991 to 2002 she took over the press department of the Association of German Music Schools in Bonn in order to further anchor the importance and radiance of music education for children in this way in the public.

Meerbusch culture area

On the initiative of the head of cultural affairs in Meerbusch, Stephan Grüter, the Meerbuscher Kulturkreis was established in 1980; Ingrid Kuntze was one of the founding members together with her husband, who was interested in cultural policy. Since 1995 she has been mainly responsible for the music sector. She installed the Young Window concert series for musicians of all categories, with 23 concerts in four years. The musical highlights also included a benefit concert by the youth choir of the Dresden Philharmonic to rebuild the Dresden Frauenkirche as well as the implementation of a district week for cultural and culinary matters in 2001 with the involvement of the entire citizenry with countless events.

In 2006, Peter and the Wolf by S. Prokofiew was created as a picture book (illustrations by Andrea Vogt) with CD (in a recording by the Meerbusch Orchestra conducted by Reinhart von Gutzeit in 1974). Speaker: Ingrid Kuntze. The small edition was sold out immediately.

In 2007 Kuntze initiated and supervised the printing of the Finnish Folk Tunes op. 27 for the 140th birthday of Ferruccio Busoni in the version for chamber orchestra by Franzpeter Goebels. This first printing (score and part material) was funded by the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the Meerbuscher Kulturkreis. Editing: Wolfgang Richter.

Ingrid Kuntze has also been active as a curator since 2003 . She organized several exhibitions with works by Hans Paul Gestermann ( Stations of a Life. 100th birthday of the late artist Gestermann , February 15 to 23, 2003, Teloy-Mühle Meerbusch or Life Pictures - exhibition by Hans Paul Gestermann , May 29 to July 1 2017, Haus Lörick) as well as with works by Edith Strauch (2004) and Will Hanebal (2005) and publishes a catalog raisonné by the sculptor Wilhelm Hable.

In 2013 the CD Behind the Sky Sleeping Fairy Tales was released , with the storyteller Elisabeth Beckmann, coordination and texts: Ingrid Kuntze.

Movies

  • 1974 From the work of a music school using the example of Meerbusch - a 30-minute television broadcast by Ulrich Böhm on WDR III
  • 1978 Eight programs with music school groups in the ZDF leisure magazine
  • 1979 Broadcast on WDR: Music schools in our country introduce themselves
  • Participation of several ensembles in the music school film of the Association of German Music Schools (VdM)

Broadcasts

  • 1974 WDR radio recordings in Meerbusch: The Meerbuscher Music School Orchestra under the direction of Reinhart von Gutzeit plays the London Symphony by Joseph Haydn. World premiere of Wolfgang Richter's Mixed on WDR
  • 1985 The WDR / School Radio Department reports on the Meerbusch Music School
  • 1986 Half-hour radio broadcast on the topic of folklore in Meerbusch, WDR 3
  • 1987 Recording of a concert by the Meerbuscher Chamber Orchestra with Tabea Zimmermann , viola (conducted by Wolfgang Richter)
  • 1992 Broadcast and interview with Ingrid Kuntze on the situation of the Meerbusch Music School and the music school work in North Rhine-Westphalia in the West Music Scene , WDR

Discography

  • 1985 Performance and recording of a record of The Creation by Joseph Haydn , conducted by Reinhardt Roebers with the participation of several choirs
  • 1991 edition of a double CD in preparation for the music school anniversary year 1992
  • In the previous years seven records were made from music school work, including a. Peter and the Wolf . On October 23, 1972, during the festival concert to mark the 10th anniversary of the Meerbusch Music School, Carnival of the Animals was recorded and re-pressed as a CD for Christmas 2018.

Publications

  • Numerous articles in music magazines (NMZ, Das Orchester, Üben & Musiegen, etc.)
  • Author of the article “Youth and Folklore” in “Folk and songwriters on the Rhine and Ruhr”, 2002, Agenda Verlag, Musikland NRW series, ISBN 3-89688-125-6
  • Editing of the brochure “Treffpunkt Musikschule”, VdM series of publications, Vol. 20, ISBN 3-925574-16-6
  • Numerous documentations on the work of the Meerbusch Music School, on anniversaries, special events, working weeks, as well as programs
  • Editing of the documentation “Building bridges. Hans Paul Gestermann 1903 - 1989 “, Meerbusch 2018
  • 50 years of the Meerbusch Music School. Small Chronicle 1962 to 1995
  • Editorial assistance with the documentation "40 years of Meerbuscher Kulturkreis eV, 40 years of commitment to art and culture, 1980 - 2020", Meerbusch 2020

Web links

Press

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Städtische Musikschule Meerbusch ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meerbusch.de
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Exhibition: On the Rhine, Ruhr and Sieg. Industrial watercolors by Hans Paul Gestermann , January 15 - April 12, 2015, LVR-Industriemuseum Zinkfabrik Altenberg, gallery @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industriemuseum.lvr.de
  3. ↑ a b Archived copy ( memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meerbusch.de
  4. ↑ http://www.nwd-philharmonie.de/
  5. ↑ http://www.kuntze-osterwind.de/
  6. ↑ http://www.meerbuscher-kulturkreis.de/
  7. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  8. ↑ http://www.jugend-musiziert.org/
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburgische-staatsoper.de
  10. ↑ http://www.thomas-blomenkamp.de/
  11. ↑ http://www.ensemble-rossi.de/lösungen.html
  12. ↑ http://www.kultiversum.de/Musik-Partituren/BLIND-GEHOERT-Die-Hoerprobe-11.html?p=2
  13. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/meerbusch/musiker-statt-handwerker-aid-1.921987
  14. ↑ http://www.musikschulen.de/partner/emu/fest/index.html
  15. ↑ http://www.jmd.info/
  16. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/ Abschlieender-bericht-uber-die-results-der-wissenschaftlichen-begleitung-zum-modellversuch-instrumentaler-gruppenunterricht-des-verbandes-deutscher-musikschulen/oclc/ 256177468 Final report on the results of the scientific support for the model test of instrumental group lessons by the Association of German Music Schools
  17. ↑ http://www.dohr.de/autor/busoni.htm
  18. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/stadtteile/loerick/lebensbilder-eines-malers-aid-1.6859001
personal data
SURNAME Kuntze, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gestermann, Ingrid (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchengladbach