Liesel Markowski
Liesel Markowski (born Carow , born July 1, 1928 in Rostock ; † January 23, 2019 in Berlin-Pankow ) was a German musicologist .
Life
Markowski was the daughter of a doctor of economics and entrepreneur. He died as a soldier at the end of the Second World War. She attended the Lyceum in Rostock and graduated from high school there in 1947. Then she learned to be a seamstress . At the same time she sang in the Bach choir and later studied singing and musicology at the German University of Music and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1956 she became a member of the SED .
In 1959 she became editor of the magazine Musik und Gesellschaft , which she was editor-in-chief from 1973 to 1990. In the 1980s she did her doctorate with Günter Mayer on the subject of "Mass media and music in the practice of composing and in the theoretical thinking of Hanns Eisler" at the Academy for Social Sciences . In 1978 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and in 1988 in silver.
Her husband was the politician Paul Markowski , who died in a helicopter crash in Libya in 1978.
Web links
- Liesel Markowski on the spirit of optimism in the young GDR and the community-creating role of the music by Hanns Eisler and Ernst Busch at www.erinnerorte.de (accessed on February 21, 2019).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview Liesel Markowski at www.erinnerorte.de (accessed on November 23, 2019).
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 4, 1978, p. 5
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung, October 6, 1988, p. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Markowski, Liesel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carow, Liesel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Pankow |