Marianne Steffen-Wittek

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Marianne Steffen-Wittek (* 1952 as Marianne Steffen ) is a German (jazz) drummer, vibraphonist , music teacher and composer.

In 1972, Steffen-Wittek began studying rhythm at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen . She continued her studies at the Cologne University of Music , with Christoph Caskel , among others . Since 1981 she has been the drummer and composer in the women's jazz group "F", with whom she performed at the Leverkusen Jazz Days , the festivals in Grenoble and Basel and the Enschede Women's Music Festival. She also played in the Struz Trio, in the Scordatura drum duo (with Fritz Wittek ) and in several improvisation ensembles. Between 1982 and 1995 she was a lecturer at the Cologne University of Music as well as lecturer and deputy director of the Open Jazz House School Cologne, on whose board she is still today. She also worked for the WDR school radio . From 1996 to 2018 she was professor for rhythm and elementary music education at the Liszt School of Music Weimar and also made a significant contribution to the Thuringian education plan. She has also emerged as a composer of children's songs (such as "Monsterband & Co"). In 2004 she won the 1st International Music Education Competition of the Music Academy for Generations .

Fonts

  • with Eckart Lange (Ed.): Music is movement is music. Perception and movement in a music educational context. Documentation of the Weimar Rhythmic Symposium 2004 (= series of publications by the Institute for Music Education and Music Theory of the Liszt School of Music Weimar. Volume 3). Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-932789-11-3 (book and CD).
  • with Manfred Polzin, Reinhard Schneider (ed.): Music in the elementary school (= contributions to the reform of the elementary school. Volume 102). Primary School Working Group - The Primary School Association, Frankfurt am Main 1998 (book and CD).

Discographic notes

  • F: "Schwarzwaldmädel" (1986, with Monika Haas, Heike Röllig, Heike Beckmann, Ulla Oster )
  • Trio Struz: "Hommage á Jiri Kolár" (1995, with Markus Zaja, Klaus Runze)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor with a lot of rhythm in her blood
personal data
SURNAME Steffen-Wittek, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steffen, Marianne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz drummer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1952