Ursula Kramer

Ursula Kramer (* 1960 in Darmstadt ) is a German musicologist . She has been teaching at Mainz University since 2001 , and has been a professor since 2007.

Career

From 1980 to 1987 Kramer studied musicology, German , English and Romance studies as well as school music in Mainz. Until 1986 she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1987 she passed the first state examination in school music and obtained a Magister Artium in musicology. She also studied the bassoon . In 1992 she became involved with the work Correct Light and Appropriate Perspective. PhD studies on the function of the orchestra in 19th century opera in musicology. From 1991 to 1995 she worked at the Mainz State Theater as a music dramaturge and from 1992 to 1995 as the orchestra manager and personal assistant to the general music director Peter Erckens (1953–2001). From 1995 to 2001, Kramer was a university assistant and completed her habilitation in 2001 .

Fonts (selection)

• The right light and the right perspective - studies on the function of the orchestra in 19th century opera (dissertation). Tutzing 1992 (= Mainz Studies in Musicology, founded by Hellmut Federhofer and continued by Christoph-Hellmut Mahling , Volume 28).
• Studies on the history of wind chamber music from the beginning of the 19th century to the Second World War. Habilitation thesis, Mainz 2000 (not published)
• Goethe e lo Sturm und Drang. Como 2003
• Dramatic music at the court theater in Darmstadt 1810-1918. Play types of a natural theater practice. Mainz 2008
• (Ed.): 'Theater' with 'music'. 400 years of incidental music in European theater. Conditions - strategies - perceptions . Bielefeld 2014

Web links

• Ursula Kramer, on the website of the University of Mainz (with list of publications)