Susana Zapke

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Susana Zapke

Susana Zapke (born September 15, 1965 in Irún , Province of Gipuzkoa , Autonomous Community of the Basque Country ) is a German-Spanish musicologist . She is a university professor at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna and was Vice Rector and Head of the Institute for Science and Research from 2014 to 2019.

Life

Susana Zapke, the daughter of a Spanish-French mother and a German father, lived in her childhood on the border between Spain and France and grew up trilingual. She completed her studies in music and literature at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau and at the University of Cologne . In 1993 the doctorate at the University of Hamburg followed , in 2009 the habilitation at the University of Salzburg . She studied piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música in San Sebastián and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg im Breisgau, as well as studying double bass at the École Nationale de Musique in Bayonne . She works at the interface between science and artistic research.

Zapke is married to the cultural manager Christian Meyer . The couple lives in Vienna with their four children.

Professional background

Zapke had lectureships at the Universities of Cologne, Stuttgart , Bremen , Salzburg, Salamanca (Associated Prof.) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . In addition, she taught a. a. at Oxford University and Columbia University (New York) and lectures regularly in Europe and the USA. In 2009 she was appointed professor of music history at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna , where she also headed the Master of Arts Education (MAE) course from 2010 to 2013 and the Master of Social Design (MASD) from 2011 to 2013 co-designed and directed in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna . From September 2014 to September 2018, Zapke was Vice-Rector of the MUK under Rector Franz Patay , and from October 2015 to September 2019 she was appointed to the board of the newly founded Institute for Science and Research (IWF) at the university. As a co-founder, she gave the institute its own research profile (mission statement), submitted several successful research proposals (including the interdisciplinary project "Interactive Music Mapping Vienna" - FWF-PEEK AR384-G24) and carried out more than 100 scientific and artistic-scientific events. In addition, she was able to win over the most important Viennese cultural institutions and universities for various cooperation projects with the MUK, as well as acquire around € 500,000 in third-party funding in just under 4 years for the Institute for Science and Research (IWF). The Advisory Board, consisting of Bernhard Leitner (Applied), Ernst Strouhal (Applied), Oliver Rathkolb (Univ. Vienna), Matti Bunzl (Wien Museum), Thomas Macho ( IFK ) and Ingo Zechner (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute), was able to support them win the institute and thereby carry out regular cooperation projects with their respective institutions.

Zapke has been leading third-party funded research projects in Germany and abroad (Germany, Spain, France and Austria) since 1997. From 2003 to 2008 she worked as a senior researcher at the BBVA Cultural Foundation in Madrid, where she carried out the research project Hispania Vetus. Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts. From Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition (9th – 12th Centuries) . From 2009 to 2012 she worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Commission for Music Research with the research project “Urban Music and City Design at the Time of the Early Habsburgs. Vienna in the 14.-15. Century “(Lise Meitner Program of the FWF ).

From 2000 to 2005 Susana Zapke worked in the diplomatic service as director of the Spanish cultural institute Instituto Cervantes in Bremen and as director of the Goethe Foundation in Madrid .

As part of her scientific work, Zapke realized several exhibition projects. She worked as a scientific adviser or as an exhibition curator .

  • “ Bilbao- Bremen. Metamorphoses of a City "(Bremen 2000)
  • "Hispania Vetus. Monuments to Spanish Music from the 10th to 17th centuries Century "(Bremen 2001)
  • " Schönberg , Strindberg , Munch " (Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna 2008)
  • "Notation. The intention to write down the musical idea "(curator, Vienna 2010)

Research priorities

Zapke's main research interests include musical mediaeval studies (Carolingian Renaissance and Visigothic rites, 9th – 12th centuries; Vienna 14th – 15th centuries), the history of notation (9th – 20th centuries) and the intellectual reference systems of the fin de siècle and Viennese Modernism (Second Viennese School, including Gustav Mahler ) as well as music in urban space (use and transformation of urban spaces, soundscapes and their socio-political implications, spatial politics and city images). She is currently head of the research project Interactive Music Mapping Vienna , funded by the FWF-PEEK , which, among other things, deals with the role of music as a social identification tool in the urban context of the City of Vienna.

Awards and research grants

Zapke was able to realize numerous research projects with the support of renowned national and international funding funds:

  • Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research - FWF (Program for the Development and Accessibility of the Arts - PEEK): Interactive Music Mapping Vienna - Exploring a City. 1945 up to the Present Day (project number: AR 384 – G24), 2017–2020, project management
  • Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research FWF, Lise Meitner Program, Vienna: Urban Music and City Design at the Time of the Early Habsburgs. Vienna in the 14.-15. Century. (2009–2012), project manager
  • BBVA-Cultural Foundation, Madrid, Senior Researcher: Hispania Vetus. From Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition. (2004–2008), project manager
  • Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lise Meitner Program: Habilitation grant (1997–99) on the subject of the Visigothic Rite and Carolingian Reform .
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1997 on music in Spain after 1939. Germany as a reference .
  • German Research Foundation DFG: Post-doctoral scholarship (1994–1997) on the subject of music-liturgical repertoire of the Franconian-Roman tradition in northern Spain .
  • Institución Fernando el Católico (IFC / CSIC: Supreme Council for Scientific Research / The Spanish National Research Council ), research grant for research at Dutch archives and libraries (1994)
  • Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses (IEA / CSIC: Supreme Council for Scientific Research / The Spanish National Research Council ): Research grant for research at the Biblioteca Nacional Madrid (1993–1994)
  • German Academic Exchange Service DAAD: Research project at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (1990)

Fonts (selection)

  • Beethoven visually. The composer in the mirror of pictorial worlds of imagination . Werner Telesko, Susana Zapke, Stefan Schmidl, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-99012-790-2
  • Attempts at a musical proletarian culture. The Beethoven Zentenarfeier 1927. In: Werner Michael Schwarz, Georg Spitaler and Elke Wikidal (eds.), Das Rote Wien 1919-1934. Ideen, Debatten, Praxis , Basel 2019, pp. 352–357.
  • At the epicenter of the nation. The State Opera as a projection surface and catalyst for post-war debates. In: Dominique Meyer, Oliver Rathkolb, Andreas Lang and Oliver Lang (ed.), History of the Opera in Vienna , Vol. II: From 1869 to the present (edited by B. Boisits, C. Heilsberg, Ph. Ther and S . Zapke with the collaboration of Ch. Glanz), Vienna / Graz 2019, pp. 242–255.
  • Red Vienna. To the music of the proletarians. In: Susana Zapke (ed . ), Urbane Polyphonie. Lebens (t) raus Stadt , series for ecology and ethology 42, Facultas Verlag, Vienna 2018, pp. 63–74, ISBN 978-3-7089-1249-3
  • Beethoven and the oppressed. Revolutionary art and art politics of the first republic. In: William Kinderman (ed.): Utopian visions and visionary art: Beethovens 'Geistiges Reich' Revisited , Vienna 2017, pp. 154–175.
  • Music. In: Jan-Hendryk de Boer, Marian Füssel , Maximilian Schuh (eds.): University scholarly culture from 13.-16. Century. An interdisciplinary handbook of sources and methods , Göttingen 2017, pp. 491–509.
  • Book directories as an image of urban networks of relationships . In: Elisabeth Gruber, Christina Lutter, Oliver Schmitt (eds.): Cultural history of tradition in the Middle Ages. Sources and methods for the history of Central and Southeast Europe. Vienna 2017, pp. 405–411.
  • On the gentle violence of processions and art parades in Vienna's urban space - the city as a stage. In: Elisabeth Gruber, Andreas Weigl (eds.): City and violence (= communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research), Vienna 2016, pp. 87–108.
  • The city as a score. A Viennese composition. In: Scores of the Cities. Urban awareness and artistic expression. , ed. according to with Stefan Schmdl. Transcript Verlag, Edition Urban Studies, Urbane Polyphonie series, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2577-6
  • Presentation of the university in public space. Processions and plays in late medieval Vienna. In: Thomas Maisel, Meta Niederkorn-Bruck, Christian host, Elisabeth Klecker (ed.): Artes - Artists - Science. The University of Vienna in the Late Middle Ages and Humanism. Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2015, pp. 85–101.
  • The Weitra Fragment: A Central European Source of Late Medieval Polyphony. In cooperation with Peter Wright. In: Music & Letters, 96/3 (August 2015), pp. 323–343.
  • La tradition viennoise s'est toujours réeinventée en musique. In: Alexia Gerhardus (ed.): Vienne. Si impériale, si sociale. Nevicata, Brussels 2015, pp. 73–81.
  • Thought fragments on the crises of notation. In: Christoph Herndler , Florian Neuner (ed.): The unbelievable sound. Notation Concepts Today. Klever Verlag, Vienna 2014, pp. 164–172.
  • Musical education and training profiles in the knowledge space of Vienna, 15th century. In: Alexander Rausch , Björn Tammen: (Ed.): Musical repertoires in Central Europe (1420-1450). Processes & Practices. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2014, pp. 347–375.
  • “In this great time ...” Modern and national identification around 1914. In collaboration with Stefan Schmidl. In: ÖMZ (1/2014), 1914 Before the steel bath , pp. 14–21.
  • For the 650th anniversary of the public inspection of the Corpus Christi procession in Vienna (1363–2013). A preliminary report. In: Codices Manuscripti & Impressi, Zeitschrift für Buchgeschichte , 91/92 (2013), pp. 33–37.
  • A Viennese sound space based on the spirit of bourgeois-liberal ideology (advance notice). In: ÖMZ (5/2013), Sound Spaces for Everyone. 100 years of the Wiener Konzerthaus , p. 9.
  • The Imprinted Spirit. Towards Understanding the Viennese School's Framework of Intellectual Reference. In: Christian Meyer (ed.): Strindberg, Schönberg, Munch. Nordic Modernism in Schönberg's Vienna around 1900. Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna 2008, pp. 71–107.
  • Hispania Vetus. Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts: From Visigothic Origins to the Franco-Roman Transition, 9th – 12th Centuries. Fundación BBVA, Bilbao 2007, (editor and main author). ISBN 978-84-96515-50-5
  • Fragmentos litúrgico-musicales de la edad media en archivos de Aragón (siglos XI ex. - XIV ex.) Catalogus codicum mutilorum Aragoniensis. Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, Huesca 2007.
  • The antiphonary of Sta. Cruz de la Serós (12th century) , Neuried 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in the biographical note in the Cervantes Institute, Bremen
  2. ↑ Zapke becomes Vice-Rector of the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna
  3. ↑ Inst. For Science and Research at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna ( Memento from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ FACULTY OFMUSICAutumn / Winter Events 2014/5. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ New master's degree in Vienna: “Social Design”. In: DiePresse.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Rectorate of the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna ( Memento from June 14, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ a b Lecturers - CV Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susana Zapke. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  8. ^ Hispania Vetus. Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  9. ^ Vienna at the time of the early Habsburgs, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ ÖNB MAGAZINE: Ad fontes! * - The signature of music. (Short portrait of Susana Zapke), page 33 ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Sigrid Schuer: With charm, intellect and a lot of enthusiasm . In: Welt Online . July 31, 2000 ( welt.de [accessed May 3, 2016]).
  12. ^ Hispania Vetus
  13. ↑ in counterpoint: Urban Music and Urban Design at the time of the first Habsburgs. Vienna in the 14.-15. Century. Page 22
  14. ↑ Urban music and urban design during the early Habsburg era. Vienna in the 14th and 15th centuries.
  15. ↑ Music in Vienna around the university and early humanism in the 14th – 15th centuries Century. Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Interactive Music Mapping Vienna , on .muk.ac.at
  17. ↑ Interactive Music Mapping Vienna: Exploring a City. 1945 up to the present day (FWF research database)
  18. ^ FWF research funding for "Interactive Music Mapping Vienna". Retrieved January 20, 2020 .
  19. ^ Hispania Vetus. Musical-Liturgical Manuscripts
personal data
SURNAME Zapke, Susana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zapke-Meyer, Susana (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Spanish musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Irun