Tel.: +49 (0)5231 / 975 661
Mobil: +49 (0)179 / 466 1571
Email: grotjahn[at]mail.uni-paderborn.de
Office hours:
Thursday, the 16th of february, 5-6 pm
Monday, the 5th of march, 11-12 am
Monday, the 19th of march, 11-12 am
(Office hour during the summer term: Tuesday, 5:15-6:30 pm)
Other appointments are possible per arrangement.
Professor for Musicology with the focus on gender research - Music of women
Executive director of the Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn
Main Research and working areas
Musicological women and gender studies
History of Singing and the musical theatre-production
Singers (male/ female)
History of the music star
History of musical socialisation, institutions and everyday life
History of musical education
History of the institution concert in 19th century
Symphonies in 19th century
Operas in the NS-time
Song cycles by Robert Schumann
Operas by Mozart
Olivier Messiaen
Vita
Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grotjahn, born in 1961, first studied music, German and philosophy (for a teaching degree in comprehensive schools), afterwards singing as well as musicology and music education. In 1997 she received a doctor’s degree at the Hanover Academy of Music and Theatre with the topic Die Sinfonie im deutschen Kulturgebiet 1850 bis 1875. Ein Beitrag zur Gattungs- und Institutionengeschichte. She completed her postdoctoral dissertation (Habilitation) in 2004 at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg (Studien zur Kulturgeschichte der Musik).
After working as a student and graduate assistant as well as holding teaching assignments in music theory and musicology Rebecca Grotjahn was research assistant at the Hanover Academy of Music and Theatre from 1991 till 1997. She then taught at the Academies of Music in Essen, Duesseldorf and Cologne. From 2001 to 2004 she worked on her own research project„Female Singers and their images“, sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG), at the Cologne Academy of Music. In 2005 she was scholarship holder of the Sophie Drinker Institute for musicological women and gender research Bremen and private lecturer at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. In April 2006 she was appointed professor for musicology with the main focus on gender research – music by women at the Musicology Seminar.
Rebecca Grotjahn is speaker of the section women and gender studies in the society of musical research, member in the forum of gender research (FfG) of the University of Paderborn and in the women’s research network North Rhine-Westphalia.
PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH REPORT
Supervised PhD thesis
Stephan Reinke: Die Orgelbewegung.
Margarethe Fischer: Die Sängerin Miliza Korjus.
