Ute Büchter-Römer

Ute Büchter-Römer (born June 5, 1946 in Ahrweiler ) has been a professor at the Institute for Music Education at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne since 2004 .

Career

She studied school music at the Cologne University of Music and German at the University of Cologne. She also completed her vocal studies with Hilde Wesselmann in Essen , performed as a soprano with programs for new music and was senior teacher at the Fabritianum grammar school . In 1989 she received her doctorate from Ilse Storb at the University of Duisburg-Essen with a dissertation on new vocal jazz, studies on contemporary improvised music with the voice , and had teaching assignments in Duisburg and Cologne. With a Lise Meitner habilitation grant, she wrote and published her habilitation thesis on aspects of new music theater and strategies for communicating it in 1995.

Ute Büchter-Römer made programs about new music for WDR, SWF, BR and DLF . She also went on several lecture tours.

Works (selection)

as an author

• New vocal jazz. Studies on contemporary improvised music with the voice on the basis of selected examples . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-631-43979-2 (also dissertation, University of Duisburg 1989).
• Aspects of the new music theater and strategies for its communication . Wissner, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89639-005-8 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Cologne 1995).
• Fanny Mendelsohn-Hensel . 3rd edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 3-499-50619-X .
• Reflexes of the homeless. An introduction to contemporary music theater . Ricordi Munich 2007, ISBN 3980751562
• Top careers of women in music . Ricordi Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3980751599
• Top careers of men in music . Ricordi Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-938809-87-7

as editor

• Approaching seven female composers . Furore Verlag , Kassel 2003, ISBN 978-3-927327-56-6 ( Luise Adolpha Le Beau , Franziska Lebrun , Maria Rosa Coccia , Gloria Coates , Agathe Backer-Grøndahl , Karin Hausmann , Annette Schlünz ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Ute Büchter-Römer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in NRW literature on the net