Martin Trondle

Martin A. Tröndle (born May 11, 1971 in Schwenningen ) is a German cultural scientist and cultural sociologist who specializes in contemporary forms of teaching classical music .

Martin Tröndle has held the WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen since 2015 . He deals with various subject areas centered around the production and reception of art and culture, such as the management of cultural organizations, topics of cultural policy and cultural funding, and visitors to cultural organizations. One focus is on contemporary forms of teaching classical music .

Life

After graduating from high school, Tröndle briefly studied at the Trossingen University of Music, from which he moved to the Bern University of Music and Theater . Here he studied with Stephan Schmidt, where he obtained a music diploma in 1997. He then studied cultural studies and cultural management at the Ludwigsburg University of Education with Werner Heinrichs and Armin Klein . In 2005 he received his doctorate there on the subject of "Integrated Cultural Management" (summa cum laude).

He initially worked for Südwestrundfunk and was the founding manager (1999–2002) of the Biennale Bern 2001, which dealt with questions of artistic research in over 100 productions across all disciplines. In 2006 he was temporarily head of the department at the Nordkolleg Rendsburg and from 2007 to 2008 he was a speaker at the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture .

From 2004 to 2016 Tröndle also worked as a lecturer at the Cultural Management Study Center at the University of Basel . In 2008 and 2009 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the “art, science & business” program at Akademie Schloss Solitude .

Since 2008 he has been teaching Concerto21, a master class for musicians, music managers and festival organizers, for the Alfred Toepfer Foundation , Hamburg. From 2008 to 2016, Tröndle headed the Swiss National Science Foundation research project "eMotion - mapping museum experience" and, since 2018, the research project "ECR - Experimental Concert Research" funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

In 2009, Tröndle was appointed to the private Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen .

Together with Steffen Höhne, Tröndle is Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed “Journal for Cultural Management: Art, Politics, Economy and Society”.

Stays abroad

With the help of the “Excellence in Teaching” Fellowship of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Baden-Württemberg Foundation , Tröndle was able to stay as a visiting professor at numerous international universities, such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , HEC Montreal and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Ohio State UniversiFty , New York University , University of Warwick and Goldsmiths College London .

Research priorities

Tröndle deals with various aspects of the production and reception of art and culture. His research work is characterized by its interdisciplinary character, in which both interpretive and correlating methods are often used and are often combined with one another on the basis of real problems.

Visitor research, art perception and the effect of presence formats

As part of the “eMotion - mapping museum experience” project, scientific and artistic research was combined to examine questions about art perception in detail and to empirically test several previously untested theories and assumptions from cultural sociology and art psychology. The project is based in the field of applied basic research. For the first time, the research team was able to demonstrate a clear correlation between physiology and phenomenology. The resulting publications received multiple awards and were widely discussed in the media.

Since June 2018 Tröndle has been heading the research project "ECR - Experimental Concert Research", which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, among others. Similar to the research project “eMotion”, an international team of researchers, programmers and artists is trying to find out what it means to “ experience a concert ”. Here, too, various research methods are used and combined with one another (e.g. physiological measurements, measurement of kinetic energy or the facial muscle activity of the concert-goers). In a series of several concerts, different hypotheses about experiencing classical music will be tested experimentally.

The two edited volumes “Das Konzert” and “Das Konzert II” with which Martin Tröndle promotes the establishment of “concert studies”, analogous to the “museums studies”, pursue a cultural studies, not data-driven approach. At the center of both volumes is the question of the future of the classical concert, which the authors discuss from a music , theater and cultural studies as well as acoustic, architectural, sociological , historical and economic perspective.

Non-visitors

The group of “non-visitors”, which so far has received little attention in research, is the focus of the volume “Non-visitor research: Audience development for cultural organizations”. With more than 1200 statistically interviewed and around 60 interviewed non-visitors, the volume edited by Martin Tröndle develops a detailed look at the motivations and preferences of non-visits. Based on the quantitative and qualitative-experimental findings, the volume presents in particular the concept of "proximity" to illuminating different dimensions of the visit.

Cultural policy and the promotion of culture

The cultural production as well as the presentation is framed institutionally and politically. Martin Tröndle illuminates these aspects in various works.

The “Anthologie Kulturpolitik” (together with Claudia Steigerwald) spans a 220-year history of ideas in cultural politics . Eight chapters contain articles on cultural policy and cultural policy research from and on various nations, but also on supranational institutions such as the European Union and UNESCO . The focus is on the question of the motivations and legitimations of state cultural funding .

“Cultural Policy Discourses in the Media” is a discourse-political analysis. The article analyzes the cultural-political positions and legitimations for cultural funding of the actors in the field of classical music.

Organizational work

The volume “Die Kulturkonzeption” develops a multi-methodical, dense description of the medieval city of Ravensburg into a regional cultural theory based on cultural studies for political decision-makers. The cultural conception, which is more bottom-up oriented, thus represents an alternative to the top-down orientation of cultural development planning.

The question of the management of cultural organizations is reflected in the organizational theoretical work of Martin Tröndle. The focus is on the question of what characterizes working in cultural organizations. If cultural organizations are responsible for the production of aesthetic events, what does it mean to “manage” an organization that “produces” aesthetic events?

According to Tröndle - less than in conventional management theories - standardization, repeatability, mass production and cost reduction are in the foreground as monetary measurable characteristics. Rather, the uniqueness, the surprise or the sense of beauty, i.e. the aesthetic experience, would be in the foreground. But how, so his central question, should cultural organizations be organized in order to produce the unforeseen, the unique and the surprising? Various writings have been created on this since 2006.

Organizational theory is also an attempt to ask what organizational theorists could learn from the organization of the arts. These works can be subsumed under the heading of economic aesthetics.

Fonts (selection)

• Decision-making in the cultural sector: Integrated art and culture management , Bern: hep, Ott-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7225-0041-9
• The concert. New performance concepts for a classical form (ed.), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1617-0
• Art research as an aesthetic science. On the transdisciplinary hybridization of science and art (Ed., With Julia Warmers), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1688-0
• The cultural conception: urban development and cultural policy using the example of the city of Ravensburg (ed.), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-16300-6
• Das Konzert II. Contributions to the research field of Concert Studies (ed.), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4315-2
• Toward a practical theory of managing the arts. In: Constance DeVereaux (Ed.): Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field. Oxon: Routledge, 2018, pp. 247–266, with Julian Stahl
• Anthology cultural policy. Introductory articles on the history, functions and discourses of cultural policy research (Ed., With Claudia Steigerwald), Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-3732-8
• Non-visitor research. Audience Development for Cultural Institutions (Ed.), Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-25828-3

Web links

• Short biography
• Interview on the Zeppelin University website
• Literature by and about Martin Tröndle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Akademie Schloss Solitude
• eMotion - mapping museum experience ECR - Experimental Concert Research
• Zeppelin University, WÜRTH Chair of Cultural Production

Individual evidence

1. ↑ transcript: Journal for Cultural Management. Retrieved May 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ https://www.mapping-museum-experience.com/
3. ↑ Wolfgang Tschacher , Steven Greenwood, Volker Kirchberg, Stéphanie Wintzerith, Karen van den Berg , Martin Tröndle: Physiological correlates of aesthetic perception in a museum, In: Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts , 6 (1), 2012 , Pp. 96-103. doi: 10.1037 / a0023845
4. ^ Martin Tröndle, Wolfgang Tschacher: The Physiology of Phenomenology: the Effects of Artworks. Journal of Empirical Studies of the Arts , Vol. 30 (1), 2012, pp. 75-113. doi: 10.2190 / EM.30.1.g
5. ↑ e-motion - Art Perception , in: Kulturzeit, 3sat .
6. ↑ And hearts beat faster. What is going on in us when we see art? A new study could seriously shake the museum world , in: DIE ZEIT from April 19, 2012.
7. ↑ Ways to Art , in: ZEITMagazin , No. 24 of June 6, 2012.
8. ↑ Sweat and Games , in: DER SPIEGEL of July 20, 2009.
9. ↑ Heart-Pounding Art , Seen Solo, in: New York Times Magazine, October 28, 2012.
10. ↑ ECR - Experimental Concert Research [1]
11. ↑ The concert. New Performance Concepts for a Classical Form , ed. by Martin Tröndle, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1617-0 .
12. ↑ Das Konzert II. Contributions to the research field of concert studies , ed. by Martin Tröndle, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4315-2 .
13. ↑ Non-visitor research: Audience Development for cultural organizations , ed. by Martin Tröndle, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-25828-3 .
14. ↑ Anthology Cultural Policy. Introductory contributions to the history, functions and discourses of cultural policy research , ed. by Martin Tröndle and Claudia Steigerwald, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-3732-8 .
15. ↑ Martin Tröndle and Markus Rhomberg: The creation of cultural policy in the media: a field research of cultural discourses in Germany. International Journal of Cultural Policy , 17 (5), pp. 538-554, doi: 10.1080 / 10286632.2010.542239 .
16. ^ The cultural conception: urban development and cultural policy using the example of the city of Ravensburg , ed. by Martin Tröndle, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-16300-6 .
17. ↑ Martin Tröndle: Deciding in the cultural sector: Integrated art and culture management. Bern: hep, Ott-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7225-0041-9 .
18. ^ Martin Tröndle and Julian Stahl: Toward a practical theory of managing the arts. In: Constance DeVereaux (Ed.): Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field. Oxon: Routledge, 2018, pp. 247-266, doi: 10.4324 / 9781315164205 .
19. ↑ Martin Tröndle: Restart. Paradigms and paradigm shifts in art and culture management. In: Christine Hatz et al .: fixtures: Swiss Yearbook of Cultural Management in 2007 / 08 . Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna: Haupt, 2008, pp. 61–74.
20. ↑ Labaronne, Leticia / Tröndle, Martin (2019): Managing and Evaluating the Performing Arts: Value Creation through Resource Transformation. Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society.
21. ^ Martin Tröndle: The orchestra as an organization: Excellence and culture. In: Timo Meynhardt and Ewald Brunner (eds.): Management and Synergetik , Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin: Waxmann, 2005, pp. 153–170.
22. ↑ Wolfgang Tschacher and Martin Tröndle: The functional logic of the art system: a model for corporate organization? In: Timo Meynhardt and Ewald Brunner (eds.): Management and Synergetics . Münster, New York, Munich, Berlin: Waxmann, 2005, pp. 135–172.
23. ↑ Martin Tröndle and Armin Chodzinski: For the introduction: Wirtschaftsästhetik. Journal for cultural management: art, politics, economy and society. / Journal of Cultural Management: Arts, Economics, Policy, Special issue: Wirtschaftsästhetik / Organizational Aesthetics, 2018 (4) 2, Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 9–26. Doi: 10.14361 / zkmm-2018-0201 .