Viola Bianka Kießling

Viola-Bianka Kießling, 2012

Viola-Bianka Kießling (born June 5, 1958 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German musicologist and author .

Life

Kießling received piano training at the Georg Friedrich Händel Conservatory in her hometown, as well as choir training in the girls' choir of the August Hermann Francke School (parallel choir to the Halle Stadtsingechor ) and in the Halle Singakademie . At the Halle Opera House she spent a year as an intern as a dresser, assistant director and prompter. From 1978 to 1983 he studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin with assistant director at the Komische Oper Berlin and dramaturgy at the Leipzig Opera House .

From 1983 to 1987 she was engaged as a music theater dramaturge at the Landestheater Altenburg and from 1988 to 1994 as a concert dramaturge for the Staatskapelle Weimar at the German National Theater Weimar . In the same year she moved to the regional music council of Thuringia with responsibility for organizing and supervising regional youth music ensembles. Since 2002 she has been working as a consultant for music and homeland care in the Weimarer Land district . Here, together with Weimar Prize winner Michael von Hintzenstern, she designed the concert series City and Village Church Music in Weimarer Land . She is also responsible for organizing the Bad Sulza Music Days with an integrated youth music solo competition.

Kießling published works on the local history and music history of the Weimarer Land district. Her work as an author focuses on books on the history of bells and organs in the region, in which musical instruments are fundamentally researched and, for the first time, fully inventoried. While the organ inventory Queen of Instruments describes the around 200 organs of the Weimarer Land district and the city of Weimar, the directory of celestial instruments includes around 500 preserved and 1000 lost bells. In 2013 she received the original Krostitzer annual ring for her bell leader .

Fonts (selection)

• On the dramaturgy of Georg Friedrich Handel's opera “Admeto”. Diploma. Humboldt-Univ., Berlin 1983.
• Programs for music theater productions and concerts at the Altenburger Theater and the German National Theater and the Staatskapelle Weimar, 1983–1994.
• Texts in specialist magazines such as opera world , theater heute , mdr-triangel , concerto and daily newspapers. Weimar, Apolda, Altenburg, Leipzig, Berlin undated
• Queen of the instruments. An organ guide through the Weimar region and Weimarer Land. Ed. District Office Weimarer Land. Fagott-Orgelverlag, Friedrichshafen 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021071-6 .
• Heavenly instruments. A bell guide through the Weimar region and Weimarer Land. Edited by the Weimarer Land district in cooperation with the Apolda-Buttstädt church district. Weimar / Apolda 2012.
• Nature, art and architecture - the Holzdorf estate invites you to discover its secrets. / Who sings prays twice - the adjuvant archive in Weimar. / The Luther roses in the Weimar region and around the world. / In: 95 places of the Reformation in Central Germany. ScottyScout, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944912-13-4
• Bells-Bells-Bells - Bell casting in Apolda. In: Places of industrial culture in Thuringia. ScottyScout, 2018, ISBN 978-3-944912-17-2
• Karl Müllerhartung. / Bell casting in Apolda. / The "pig bell" from Daasdorf a. B. In: Kulturelle Entdeckungen-Musikland Thüringen , 2020, ISBN 978-3-7954-3502-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sabine Brandt: Ten concerts in ten churches in the Weimarer Land . In: Thüringer Allgemeine , August 16, 2016, accessed on August 31, 2016.
2. ↑ Sounding lines of tradition. Anniversary: ​​25 years of city and village church music in Weimarer Land. In: Glaube und Heimat , Mitteldeutsche Kirchenzeitung. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
3. ↑ Dirk Lorenz-Bauer: Music Days in Bad Sulza shine with young talents. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , November 12, 2012, accessed on August 31, 2016.
4. ↑ Your research results are consistently included in the more recent specialist literature, for example in Uwe Pape (ed.): Lexikon Norddeutscher Orgelbauer. Vol. 1: Thuringia and the surrounding area. Pape, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-921140-86-4 ; Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 2: Saxony and the surrounding area. Pape, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-921140-92-5 ; Uwe Pape, Wolfram Hackel (Ed.): Lexicon of North German Organ Builders. Vol. 3: Saxony-Anhalt and the surrounding area. Pape, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-921140-98-7 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Jens Lehnert: First bell directory available in Weimar and the region. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , October 26, 2012, accessed on August 31, 2016.
6. ↑ Nikolas von Wysiecki: reward for the effort. Ur-Krostitzer annual ring awarded for hobby historians. info tv leipzig , January 14, 2014, accessed on August 31, 2016.