Klaus-Ernst Behne

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Klaus-Ernst Behne (born June 29, 1940 in Uelzen ; † August 9, 2013 in Hanover ) was a German professor of musicology with a focus on music psychology .

Life

Klaus-Ernst Behne studied school music , musicology, psychology and physics in Freiburg im Breisgau , Bonn and Hamburg . He belonged to a group of young musicologists around Hans-Peter Reinecke (1927–2003) - alongside Klaus-Ernst Behne, Helga de la Motte-Haber , Ekkehard Jost , Günter Kleinen and Eberhard Kötter. When Reinecke received the order in 1964 to set up the department for musical acoustics at the State Institute for Music Research of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , he took four of the above, including Klaus-Ernst Behne (from 1967), with him to West Berlin as scientific assistants or employees . Behne founded the (West) German editorial team of the International Repertory of Music Literature ( RILM ) there.

In 1972 Klaus-Ernst Behne received his doctorate with his empirical study The Influence of Tempo on the Assessment of Music in Hamburg . 

From 1972 to 1975 he was a research assistant at the Bielefeld University of Education and then for two years professor for systematic musicology at the Detmold University of Music . In 1977 he accepted a call to the first and so far only professorship for music psychology in Germany at the Hanover University of Music and Drama , which he held until 2004. From 1997 to 2003 he was also president of the same university.

Behne died in Hanover in August 2013 after a long illness and was buried in the cemetery in Ricklingen Castle. He left behind his wife and a son and daughter.

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Klaus-Ernst Behne is, together with Helga de la Motte-Haber and Günter Kleinen, co-founder of the “ German Society for Music Psychology ” (DGM) and from 1984 was co-editor of the yearbook of music psychology for volumes 1 to 18; he was also chairman of this non-profit association for many years. He previously held this position at the “Working Group on Music Education Research” (AMPF). In particular, his research interests focused on musical tastes, the experience of music and the everyday use of music. His cross-sectional study Listener Typologie , published in 1986 as a book, is viewed by many researchers as a milestone in researching music preferences and the diverse functions of music in everyday life. Immediately afterwards, from 1991 to 1997, he carried out the world's only long-term study on the development of musical preferences among young people. This was published in 2009 under the title Musical Life in Adolescence. A longitudinal study published in book form.

He was also interested in researching the special perceptual requirements of contemporary music as well as musical creativity, synaesthesia and audio-visual music perception . His educational films on influencing the hearing judgment through the visible performance behavior of musicians ( musicians on the screen ), in which he made use of the double method, as well as those on perceiving and remembering music in (classical) music videos or on change The visual perception through different film music versions was accompanied by a large number of empirical studies and theoretical models, documented for example in the books Film - Music - Video or the competition of eye and ear (1987), Heard - thought - seen. Ten essays on the visual, creative and theoretical handling of music (1994) as well as music for the eye - a decade of research on (piano) music on the screen (2010).

In 1993, together with his professorial college colleagues Franz Amrhein (1935–2012) and Karl-Jürgen Kemmelmeyer (born 1943), he founded the "Institute for Music Education Research" (ifmpf) at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH), starting with an experimental laboratory for music psychology . In 1994 he was the author of the series of IfMpF research reports, which he co-founded. In addition, in 2000, as the university president at the time, he supported the establishment of the “Institute for Early Support for the Musically Gifted”, and after his retirement he worked on the board of the university's alumni association.

Colleagues describe Klaus-Ernst Behne as a highly committed, open, but sometimes overly correct scientist, but always a humorous, lovable person and great philanthropist: It was in keeping with his thoroughly humane attitude towards culture and people, giving impulses to people and their perception and Promote development, inviting everyone to take responsibility for culture.

As a scientist at a music school he was always connected to the vibrant art production, especially enjoyed for jazz and musical avant-garde , put himself at times even on his main instrument piano, as documented in his educational films (there, however, as a double!), Served as photographer most productive and original and learned a new instrument even after his retirement . Behne organized concerts for and with the "Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik" (HGNM) and played a key role in the design of the program booklet, whereby neither a mixture of the arts nor new forms of performance beyond the traditional concert such as concerts in a completely darkened room ( Concert surprise noir ), the dubbing of a silent film in several versions ( Meshes of the Afternoon [1943] by Maya Deren) or sound installations were terrifying (e.g. the sound installation Sound Movement Room by Walter Fähndrich in the summer of 1990 in the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover ). In his long-term residence at Schloß Ricklingen ( Garbsen ), he co-founded a chamber choir in 1984 and was its choirmaster for many years . He also campaigned for the construction of a new organ .

His doctoral students include Andreas C. Lehmann, currently professor at the University of Music Würzburg , Claudia Bullerjahn, currently professor at the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen , Jörg Langner, founder of the AudioProfiling company as a spin-off from Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin , and Johannes Barkowsky, currently music teacher at a Bavarian secondary school, but he was also influential for his former Detmold school music student Heiner Gembris , currently professor for empirical and psychological music education and head of the institute for talent research in music at the University of Paderborn , and Josef Kloppenburg , currently professor for music and its didactics at the Karlsruhe University of Education .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • The influence of tempo on the assessment of music (diss.). Verlag Arno Volk, Cologne 1972 (= publications of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage, Vol. 7)
  • Musical socialization (ed.). Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1981 (music pedagogical research, 2).
  • Klaus-Ernst Behne, Günter Kleinen, Helga de la Motte-Haber (eds.): Music psychology . Yearbook of the German Society for Music Psychology, Vol. 1–12, Wilhelmshaven: Noetzel 1984–1995, Vol. 13–18, Göttingen: Hogrefe 1998 ff. (Since Vol. 19 edited by W. Auhagen, C. Bullerjahn & R. by Georgi and C. Louven)
  • Listener typologies - On the psychology of adolescent musical tastes . Gustav Bosse Verlag, Regensburg 1986 (= Perspectives on Music Education and Musicology Vol. 10), ISBN 978-3-7649-2324-2
  • Musician life in adolescence. A longitudinal study . Con Brio Verlag, Regensburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-932581-96-0

literature

  • Claudia Bullerjahn, Heiner Gembris, Andreas C. Lehmann (eds.): Music: heard, seen and experienced. Festschrift Klaus-Ernst Behne for his 65th birthday . Hannover: Institute for Music Education Research 2005 (= IfMpF monograph No. 12), ISBN 978-3931852696 .
  • Franz Riemer (Ed.) (2010): Music for the Eye - a decade of research on (piano) music on the screen. Essays by Klaus-Ernst Behne (with the help of Ulf Endewardt, Renate Müller & Lothar Prox) (= IfMpF monograph No. 21). Hanover: University of Music and Theater, ISBN 978-3-931852-81-8 .
  • Claudia Bullerjahn (2014): “What if ...?” An obituary for Klaus-Ernst Behne (1940–2013). In: W. Auhagen, C. Bullerjahn, R. von Georgi (Hrsg.): Offenohrigkeit. A postulate in focus (music psychology . Yearbook of the German Society for Music Psychology, Vol. 24, pp. 223-225). Göttingen: Hogrefe, ISBN 978-3-8017-2636-2 .
  • Barbara Barthelmes (1985): German Society for Music Psychology. Annual conference in Hanover from February 22nd to 24th 1985. In: Die Musikforschung . Volume 38, p. 304.
  • Andreas C. Lehmann, Reinhard copyz (ed.) (2008): 25 years of the German Society for Music Psychology (1983-2008) (= IfMpF monograph No. 19). Hanover: University of Music and Theater, ISBN 3-931852-79-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Mourning for Prof. Dr. Klaus-Ernst Behne. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The ifmpf Hannover - development. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Claudia Bullerjahn, Heiner Gembris, Andreas C. Lehmann (Eds.): Music: heard, seen and experienced. Festschrift Klaus-Ernst Behne for his 65th birthday . Institute for Music Education Research, Hanover 2005, ISBN 978-3-931852-69-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Behne, Klaus-Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university lecturer, professor of musicology with a focus on music psychology
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Uelzen
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2013
Place of death Hanover