Norbert Schläbitz

Norbert Schläbitz (* 1959 in Essen ) is a German music teacher, musicologist, media philosopher and musician.

Norbert Schläbitz (2014)

Career

Schläbitz is professor for music education at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He completed a teaching degree (secondary level II / I) at the comprehensive university in Essen and studied music and German. The profession as a teacher z. He followed A. at a comprehensive school for almost ten years. As a former film music composer, he also composed music for many broadcasters and companies (e.g. IBM, Schott, various well-known car companies, etc.).

In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of Essen with the award-winning thesis "The discrete charm of the new media". phil. with Werner Pütz and Norbert Bolz (second reviewer). In 2003 Schläbitz completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Braunschweig in the field of music education with the thesis “With system into mess. Music communication and youth socialization between Hardnet and Softnet ”.

In 2001 he was appointed to the Federal Technical Committee “Music and Media” of the German Music Council, of which he was a member until 2004. Since the summer semester 2004 he has been professor for music didactics and head of the music education department. From 2004–2007 and 2009–2012 he was also Managing Director of the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He was a member of the board of the working group for music education research (AMPF) from 2005–2010. Since 2016 he has been managing director of the Institute for Music Education at the Westphalian Wilhelms University.

His main research interests include dealing with “new media and music”, “popular music”, “youth cultures” and “new forms of learning in the classroom”. Numerous publications on the topics mentioned are available. In addition to his academic research, he is the author of numerous didactic handouts in German and music. Lesson models on G. Büchner, G. Hauptmann (together with K. Pappas), F. Kafka, Bertolt Brecht on expressionism, language, thinking, media reality or poetry after 1945 (Schöningh / Paderborn) are partly standard reading in German lessons. He is also the author and editor of the series “EinFach Musik” (Schöningh / Paderborn) and author and editor (together with Bernd Clausen) of the music school book “O-Ton” (Schöningh / Paderborn).

To the work

Schläbitz operates from the horizon of media-theoretical theoretical structures (McLuhan, Kittler, Bolz and others) as well as from the horizon of systems theory according to Luhmann and other constructivist approaches. He takes up traditional ideas and questions them about their backgrounds, deconstructing them again and again. The Humboldtian conception of new humanist education is being questioned just as critically as ideas about culture that give it a high priority. Culture, raised to the status of a monument, does not serve people, but promotes a dubious canon formation that freezes culture, takes its life and displaces people in the orbit of culture. Culture, elevated to canon, seduces to uncritical idolatry. On the other hand, there is the position of thinking about culture in a contemporary way, of considering where it can be connected to general social communication. In this way, culture becomes flexible and valuations are relativized. According to this, culture has no value in itself, but value is created solely from communication relationships. This also results in music-pedagogical consequences that focus on (young) people and work towards today's learning culture (keyword: learning to learn).

The musician and writing sportsman

Norbert Schläbitz not only illuminates music, music reception and music reflection from a theory-based level, he also works artistically. On the CD "Different Stories - different Tracks" from "The Wise men project", released in 2018, he plays all the instruments and, as the composer, is responsible for all the songs. The songs are refined by the voice of his brother Achim Schläbitz, who contributes all the lyrics. Together the duo form "The Wise men project".

Norbert Schläbitz has laid down his years of experience as a marathon runner in the book "If I run, then I run", in which he presents himself as an "average" marathon runner who writes for other marathon runners who are also not part of the elite and yet all of them make their experiences worth writing down. Tenor of the book: You don't run, love and suffer just on the 42.195 km. There is a lot in common in this individual sport that connects.

Publications (selection)

A selection of monographs and teaching models

Succumb to the dream of education (a) as music and art. From neo-humanism as a dominant culture, from the "science" of music and from other misunderstandings. Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 2016

Critical analysis of educational humanism and musicology

The discrete charm of the new media: digital music in a media-theoretical context and its music-pedagogical evaluation. 1997/2011
A systematic mess: music communication and (youth) socialization between “hard-net” and “soft-net”. Osnabrück (epOs) 2004
Teaching model for Bertolt Brecht. The good man from Sezuan. With a chapter on music from Brecht. In: EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans . Paderborn (Schöningh) (2010)
Schläbitz, Norbert: Franz Kafka: The process (text edition). EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2001
Teaching model for Franz Kafka: The process. (Complete revision and expansion) EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2013
Schläbitz, Norbert: Georg Büchner: Dantons Tod (text edition). In: EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2008 (meanwhile 4th edition 2008)
Teaching model for Georg Büchner. Danton's death. EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2008
Schläbitz, Norbert: Georg Büchner: Woyzeck (text edition) with a chapter on the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg. In. EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 1999 (meanwhile 15th edition / 2011)
Teaching model for Georg Büchner. Woyzeck (drama) / Wozzeck (opera). In: EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2000 (13th edition 2013)
Lesson model for lit. Expressionism taking into account the music in expressionism. In: EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2003
Lesson model for lit. Expressionism taking into account the music in expressionism. (Complete revision and expansion) In: EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2016
Teaching model for poetry after 1945, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2007 (meanwhile 3rd edition 2009)
(together with Melanie Prenting ): Teaching model on language - thinking - (media) reality. EinFach Deutsch, ed. by Johannes Diekhans. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2008 (meanwhile 3rd edition 2009)

Editing

Interculturality as an object of music education. Essen (Blue Owl) 2007
Interdisciplinarity as a challenge in music education research. Essen (Blue Owl) 2009
Just music. (Teaching models). Paderborn (Schöningh) since 2007 (series)
(together with Bernd Clausen ) Editor of the music school book O-TON 1. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2011
(together with Bernd Clausen) Editor of the music school book O-TON 2. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2013
(together with Michael Ahlers and Robert Lang) Editor of the music school book O-TON Oberstufe. Paderborn (Schöningh) 2017

Selection of essays

Say goodbye to the beautiful sound. In: Loritz, Martin D. / Becker, Andreas / Eberhard, Daniel Mark / Schlegel, Clemens M .: (Ed.): Music - Pedagogical - Thought. Reflections, research. and fields of practice. Festschrift for Rudolf-Dieter Kraemer on his 65th birthday. Augsburg (Wissner) 2011
Aesthetic education. In: Einsiedler, Wolfgang / Götz, Margarete / Heinzel, Friederike / Hartinger, Andreas / Kahlert, Joachim / Sandfuchs, Uwe (eds.): Handbuch Grundschulpädagogik und Grundschuldidaktik. Bad Heilbrunn (Klinkhardt) 2011
Aesthetic education. In: Dühlmeier, Bernd / Melzer, Wolfgang / Rausch, Adly / Sandfuchs, Uwe (eds.): Handbook Education. Bad Heilbrunn (Klinkhardt) 2012
Historical musicology. Swan song of discipline and a plea for a fundamental reform. In: Discussion Music Education, Issue 44, 4th quarter 2009, ed. by Hildegard Junker Verlag / Christoph Richter
Historical musicology, a post-factual discipline. 2017, http://www.dennisschuetze.de/blog/2017/02/01/historische-musikwissenschaft-eine-post Faktische-disverbind/#more-4385
Ex machina. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 157, issue 5/96 (September / October)
For a musicology relevant to music education. In: Journal Discussion Music Education, Issue 41, 1st quarter 2009, ed. by Hildegard Junker Verlag / Christoph Richter
Mashup and the end of all time. In: Zeitschrift KulturPoetik, ed. v. Manfred Engel / Bernard Dieterle / Monika Ritzet / Benjamin Specht. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Vol. 15, issue 1. 2015
Music theory and changed practice. To be different from who you are. In: Folker Froebe / Michael Polth / Stefan Rohringer / Jan Philipp Sprick (eds.): Journal of the Society for Music Theory (ZGMTH). Hildesheim (Georg Olms) 2013
Network - work - music. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 159, issue 2/98 (March / April)
Do not isolate. Integrate! Critique of monocausal music lessons. In: Kampe, Friedrich / Oberschmidt, Jürgen / Riemer, Franz (eds.): Report from the 1st Lower Saxony State Congress on Music Education. Hanover (ifmpf) 2014
Popular music and the redemption from the Adam & Eve principle in music education. In: Ahlers, Michael (ed.): Pop music mediation. Between school, university and work. Berlin (LIT-Verlag) 2015
Social systems, communication and music therapy. In: Rosemarie Tüpker (ed.): Reader music therapy. Institute for Musicology and Music Education Münster. Norderstedt (Book on demand) 2008
Language games in music education - modern? In: Hermann Josef Kaiser (ed.): Music educational research in Germany. Essen (Blue Owl) 2004
The "winAmp" takes it all - taking time for a timely music lesson. In: Kraemer, Rudolf-Dieter: Multimedia as an object of music educational research. Essen (The Blue Owl) 2002

CD: The wise men project: Different stories - different tracks

Switching from origin to future or giving education and culture a future. In: Bailer, Noraldine / Enser, Gabriele (eds.): Inselbilder. Music didactic concepts in discourse. Rum / Innsbruck / Esslingen (Helbling) 2017
From conducting to moderating. Learning environments in flexible knowledge worlds. In: Reinhard Voss (ed.): LernLust und EigenSinn. Heidelberg (Carl Auer) 2005
How everything “lights up” and “maintains”. About the music of the thousand plateaus or their construction. In: Szepanski, Achim / Kleiner, Markus S. (ed.): Soundcultures (with CD). Frankfurt / M. (Suhrkamp) 2003

More fonts

If I run, then I run. About pleasure and pain in the marathon. Munich (Copress) 2015

Discography

The wise men project: Different stories - different tracks. Lindeland label Wendisch Evern. 2018. LC 83738

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personal data
SURNAME	Schläbitz, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music educator, musicologist, media philosopher and musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1959
PLACE OF BIRTH	eat