Werner Danckert

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Werner Danckert (born June 22, 1900 in Erfurt , † March 5, 1970 in Krefeld ) was a German folk song researcher.

After graduating from high school in 1917, Danckert trained as a concert pianist. He completed a degree in musicology with a minor in philosophy and physics . In 1923 he received his doctorate summa cum laude in Erlangen ; the habilitation followed in 1926 at the University of Jena .

In 1937 Danckert became a member of the NSDAP and professor at the Weimar Academy of Music . Was Danckert staff headquarters music in the Rosenberg office . At the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf in 1938 he gave a lecture on ethnicity, tribal type, race in the light of ethnicity research . In 1939 he published the book The oldest traces of Germanic folk music . In 1943, as successor to Herbert Birtner, he received a chair in Graz and an adjunct professorship in Berlin.

After the end of the Second World War he did not return to any university, but published other books on folk music and other musical topics.

Works (selection)

  • History of the Gigue , Leipzig 1924
  • Ancient symbols of melodic design , Kassel 1932
  • Contributions to the Bach criticism , Kassel 1934
  • Ground plan of folk song studies , Berlin 1939
  • The European folk song , Berlin 1939, dto., 2nd improved and expanded edition Bonn 1970
  • Claude Debussy , Berlin 1950
  • Goethe, the mystical source of his Weltschau , Berlin 1951
  • Open and closed life, two aspects of existence in Goethe's Weltschau , Bonn 1963
  • Dishonest people. The ostracized professions , Bern and Munich 1963
  • The Volkslied im Abendland , Bern and Munich 1960
  • Tonal richness and number of symbols in high cultures and primitive world , Bonn 1966
  • Symbol, metaphor and allegory in the song of the peoples , four volumes, from the estate edited by Hannelore Vogel, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976–78
  • Music and worldview

Restored volumes

  • Bach and Handel
  • Music and musical styles of Polynesia
  • Studies on the prehistory and early history of East Asian music
  • Music in the Indo-Pacific region
  • Musicology and cultural studies

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 106.
  2. ↑ Thomas Phleps: A quiet, dogged and tenacious struggle for continuity - musicology in Nazi Germany and its past-political coping. In: Isolde v. Foerster et al. (Ed.), Music Research - National Socialism - Faschismus , Mainz 2001, pp. 471–488. online Uni Giessen
personal data
SURNAME Danckert, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk song researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1970
Place of death Krefeld