Musica femina munich

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The association musica femina münchen eV (mfm) ​​is a non-profit society for the promotion and presence of female composers in concert life and music culture in the Munich area. The association is supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich , the Bavarian Music Fund Foundation and, in the past, also by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Science, Research and Art .

Logo of the association musica femina münchen eV

founding

In the early summer of 1987, Munich musicians and journalists decided "If no one cares about the works of women composers, digs them up, rehearses and performs them, we have to take it into our own hands" in order to draw attention to the precarious situation of women making music. On December 10, 1988 this union became an association (registered in June 1989). To this day, there are musicologists, a conductor, performing musicians and other organizational experts on the board and advisory board.

In 1995, mfm's voluntary work resulted in the Munich Composers Archive (KAM). All available data on female composers and the locations of their works in Munich (sheet music, biographical items, sound carriers, pictures, programs) from the mfm holdings and from the Munich libraries were recorded. In December 2001, the KAM was handed over to the Woman and Music Archive of the International Working Group Woman and Music eV in Frankfurt am Main , where it was entered as a special collection and made accessible.

On March 3, 2013, the association celebrated its 25th anniversary in Munich's Gasteig with four world premieres by Dijana Boskovic ( Lichtspiele I | Spiegelungen-Finsternis and Lichtspiele II | Fire Dances ), Dorothee Eberhardt ( Neon ), Elina Goto ( The Treasure Hunt , Suite for violoncello and marimba No. 2), Helga Pogatschar ( almost jazz ) and a panel of experts on the situation of female composers in the past and present.

In 2018, the association celebrated its 30th anniversary on April 29, 2018 with works by Dijana Boskovic, Michaela Dietl, Barbara Heller , Narine Khatschatryan, Laura Konjetzky, Katharina Schmauder, Julia Schwartz, Katrin Schweiger, Diana Syrse and Violeta Dinescu . Under the title “30 years of musica femina munich: 'We want to make ourselves unemployed'”, the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation pointed out the actual intention of the association in a three-minute contribution.

aims

The aim of the association is to bring women composers of the past to light and to support women composers in their work and to make the public aware of them - until the music of women in the established concert business is played on an equal footing with the music of men becomes.

Founding members and board

  • 1988: Initiator Margaret Minker, Dr. Helga Kästner, Inge Köhle, Anni Kraus, Renate Lettenbauer, Elisabeth Prossel, Bettina Rumpler
  • 1989: Margaret Minker (1st Chair), Bettina Rumpler (2nd Chair), Renate Lettenbauer (3rd Chair), Anni Kraus (Treasurer)
  • since 2012: Marie-Pierre Beckius, Elina Goto, Anne Holler-Kuthe, Andrea Lässig, Susanne Wosnitzka

Concerts

The first concert took place on March 8, 1988 in the Carl Orff Hall in Munich's Gasteig under the patronage of Mayor Georg Kronawitter , sponsored by the cultural department of the state capital of Munich. Around 400 listeners attended the four-hour program.

In the first few years, the club's concert programs presented a balanced mix of older compositions, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries. Despite their age, some of these compositions by women were premieres or German and Munich premieres . In 1992, a concert was given exclusively with two contemporary composers for the first time . A specialty of the mfm concerts are their arrangement as discussion concerts, often with the personal presence of the composers.

From 1988 to 2001 the association organized two concerts in a separate series of female composers in Munich and the surrounding area and, at the invitation of other organizations, made musical contributions to events. After 25 female composer concerts in 13 years with works exclusively by women, mfm decided to implement the association's goals with a new strategy. The concerts in the series of female composers will continue to a limited extent, but from the 2002/2003 season onwards, a composition commission will be awarded every two years.

Composition order

World premiere of "bandes dessinées" by Helena Winkelman with the Munich Chamber Orchestra on December 13, 2012 in the Munich Prinzregententheater as a commissioned work by mfm

Since 2003, mfm has been awarding composition commissions to contemporary female composers every two years by a jury of experts, endowed with € 7,500. These works have been premiered by the Munich Chamber Orchestra (MKO) since the 2003/2004 season as part of a subscription concert under the direction of Christoph Poppen and, in his successor, Alexander Liebreich .

Composers listed by the association

Further projects and support

  • Action choir composers listen : 300 choirs in Munich were invited to perform choral works by women in 2013. As an aid, the association gave the choir directors a research document with composition proposals for several levels of difficulty, as a targeted search for female composers and their works is difficult due to the technical settings of search engines.
  • In May 2013 the association supported the street piano action Play Me, I'm Yours by the artist Luke Jerram, which took place for the first time in a German city . A total of 19 used pianos were designed by Munich artists, one of them by graphic designer Irmgard Voigt on behalf of mfm, who created a composer's piano that stood on Hohenzollernplatz for 10 days . With the help of the Woman and Music Archive, around 40 names of active female composers from the Munich area were identified and used. This piano was bought by an mfm member and is supposed to be used as a traveling piece of art in schools in Munich. a. Sensitize children to women composers.
  • Women's orchestra project south: works by female composers will be performed by amateur musicians (men welcome).
  • Music advice, lectures and research tasks for the big exhibition Off to Munich! - Artists around 1900 at the Münchner Stadtmuseum (September 11, 2014 to the end of February 2015) with an extensive supporting program, including a musical one.
  • Conference And they compose, but conduct! (January 31 / February 1, 2016) in cooperation with the Archive Frau und Musik Frankfurt / Main and musikerlebnis (Tonicale Event GmbH)

Awards

  • On March 8, 1998, for its 10th anniversary, the association was awarded the Anita Augspurg Prize by the City of Munich for its "unique pioneering work in the unknown world of artistic creativity by women in music" .
  • In 2004 musica femina munich received the Federal Cross of Merit for its services. The honor was presented on behalf of Dr. Helga Kästner accepted.

Reviews (selection)

  • Julian Nida-Rümelin 1998 (as cultural advisor of the state capital Munich): "musica femina münchen, meanwhile become a permanent fixture in the cultural life of the state capital, has made a significant contribution in the past ten years to making women composing more aware of the music organizers and the This is an exemplary contribution to promoting equal rights for women. "
  • Hans Zehetmair 1998 (as Bavarian State Minister for Education, Culture, Science and Sport): "With instinct, professional competence and strong personal commitment, they have found a wealth of works by female composers from the past, prepared them for the performances and in a special one On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, musica femina münchen can look back on considerable successes. A large repertoire of hitherto unknown music by female composers has been developed and presented in concerts to a growing audience. Numerous contemporary composers have been presented opens up the possibility of introducing yourself and your work in portrait concerts. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.musica-femina-muenchen.de/?page_id=7 (as of October 24, 2013).
  2. ↑ 7-minute podcast by BR ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Program review | musica femina münchen eV Accessed on November 12, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: BR Podcast - 30 years of musica femina munich: "We want to make ourselves unemployed". Retrieved November 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://www.nmz.de/kiz/nachrichten/preis-fuer-bestes-konzertprogramm-an-muenchener-kammerorchester-verliehen (as of October 23, 2013).
  6. ↑ Susanne Wosnitzka: Eating and being eaten - Conversation with Helena Winkelman , in: Archive Woman and Music / International Work Group Woman and Music eV (ed.), VivaVoce , No. 95 (spring 2013), pp. 7-12.
  7. ↑ LISA STREICH NEW CONTRACT COMPOSER 2018 | musica femina münchen eV Accessed on November 12, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Cf. Irmgard Voigt / Susanne Wosnitzka: The female composer - a cheerful encounter in Fem major , in: Archive Woman and Music / International Working Group Woman and Music eV (ed.), VivaVoce , No. 96 (summer 2013), P. 25f.
  9. ↑ Extract from the award document or the ceremonial speech.
  10. ↑ Program for the 10th anniversary of mfm 1998.