Rainer Herberger

Rainer Herberger (born July 10, 1939 in Frankenberg / Sa .; † June 3, 2013 in Leipzig ) was a German music teacher .

Life

Rainer Herberger attended elementary school and then high school in Frankenberg / Sa. After graduating from high school in 1957, he studied music education and German at the Philosophical Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig (KMU). With the state examination in 1962 for teaching at the ten-class polytechnic high schools , he began his work as a music and German teacher and as a choir director at Oberschule III in Annaberg-Buchholz . With the state examination (external) in 1962, the teaching qualification for music education at the 12-class high schools was expanded. In 1965, Rainer Herberger began working as a research assistant at the Institute for Musicology in the Philological Faculty at KMU Leipzig. The appointment as a university lecturer in 1980 was followed on September 1, 1988 by the appointment as full professor for theory and methodology of music education at the cultural and art studies section of the KMU Leipzig.

After the return of the University of Leipzig to the classical structure with faculties and institutes at the end of 1993, Rainer Herberger taught until 1999 as a professor for theory and methodology of music education at the Institute for Music Education at the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies. His university teaching activities were supplemented by study and lecture trips to Switzerland (1988) and the United States of America (1996). When he was transferred to the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig , from 1999 to 2001 he was head of the school music department . The dismissal on August 31, 2001 took place at his own request with the transfer to early retirement.

Rainer Herberger died on June 3, 2013 after a long illness at the age of 73 in Leipzig.

Qualifications

• Promotion A to Dr. phil. on March 25, 1970 at the Cultural Studies and German Studies Section of the KMU Leipzig.
• Facultas Docendi on April 1, 1978 for the field of theory and methodology of music education.
• Doctorate B to Dr. sc. paed. on July 4, 1979 by decision of the Senate of the KMU Leipzig.
• Conversion of the graduation to Dr. paed. habil. by the Senate of the University of Leipzig with a certificate dated April 1, 1991.

Memberships / functions

• 1975–1990 member of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR
• 1980–1990 member of the Presidium of the National Center for Music Education in the GDR
• from 1981 member of the Council for Research in Music (CRME)
• 1986–1990 member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR in Berlin
• from 1990 member and co-founder of the Association of Music Pedagogues (VMP)
• from 1991 member of the working group for music education research (AMPF), federal specialist group for music education
• 1993–1999 Managing Director of the Institute for Music Education at the Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies at the University of Leipzig
• 1999–2001 head of school music at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig

Publications

• Attempts to make music lessons intensive and effective. In: Musik in der Schule 1968 (19) H. 9, pp. 381–382.
• Some aspects for the educational management of student activities in the musical reception process on the basis of an empirical study in grades 5 to 10. In: Hella Brock (Ed.): Schülertätigungen - musical reception process. Leipzig: KMU Leipzig, FG “Student Activity”, Music Education Research Group, 1977, pp. 27–56.
• Process knowledge to enable students to distinguish between art and kitsch in the field of music. In: Hella Brock (Hrsg.): Process knowledge to develop the content of music. Leipzig: KMU Leipzig, FG “Student Activity”, Music Education Research Group, 1980, pp. 35–50.
• with Siegfried Bimberg, Anita Zuna-Kober and others. Music: Grade 9 and 10. Textbook for Grade 9 and 10. Berlin: Verlag Volk und Wissen 1992 and 1996.
• Thoughts on music teacher training at university. In: Hans-Jürgen Feurich and Gerd Stiehler (eds.): Music education in the new federal states. Processing and a new beginning (symposium from May 2-4, 1996 at the TU Chemnitz-Zwickau). Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 1996.

literature

• Short biography on: Rainer Herberger In: Association of composers and musicologists of the GDR (VDK), Leipzig district association (publisher): composers, musicologists, interpreters, music educators. Leipzig: Leipzig District Association of the Association of Composers and Musicologists, 1982, p. 28.
• Short biography for: Rainer Herberger. In: Who is Who in the Federal Republic of Germany 2002 (9th edition), p. 1864. Zug (Switzerland).
• Hans-Jürgen Fenrich: Music Education. In: History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 (5 vols.): Vol. 4/1: Faculties, institutes, central facilities, pp. 270–281. Leipziger Universitätsverlag , 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-310-5 (complete edition).
• Short biography for: Herberger, Rainer . In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2011 (23) Vol. 2: H – L, p. 1599. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG.

Web links

• Biography in the Wiki of the Institute for Musicology at the University of Leipzig
• Literature by and about Rainer Herberger in the Saxon Bibliography