Ulrike Liedtke (''née'' Nehrdich,
[''Musikakademie Rheinsberg Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Rheinsberg''. In ''Handelsregister-Bekanntmachungen'' dated 4 February 1995.] 17 November 1958) is a German
musicologist
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
and politician (
SPD
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been the ...
). From 1991 to 2014 she was founding director of the
Musikakademie Rheinsberg. Since 2014 she has been a member of the
Landtag of Brandenburg
The Landtag of Brandenburg is the unicameral legislature of the state of Brandenburg in Germany.
Its 88 members of parliament are usually elected every 5 years.
It is responsible for deciding on state laws, controlling the state government an ...
. After her re-election in 2019 she was elected President of the Landtag.
Career
Liedtke was born in
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...
in 1958, the daughter of a conductor and a musicologist. She attended six schools
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In ''moz.de / Märkische Oderzeitung
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The circulation area of the MOZ is largely identical to the former Bezirk Frankfurt, a region with around 600,000 inhab ...
'', 1 May 2011. and studied
musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
after her
Abitur
''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...
in
Stralsund
Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub ...
in 1977 at the
Karl-Marx-University Leipzig.
During her studies in 1980 she became a member of the and the extra choir of the
Oper Leipzig
The Leipzig Opera (in German: ) is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany.
History
Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Singspi ...
.
[Lebenslauf of Ulrike Liedtke](_blank)
ulrike-liedtke.de, retrieved 13 May 2020. From 1978 to 1985, she worked as a dramaturgical freelancer in the field of
booklets and introductions for the
Gewandhaus
Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
History
The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'')
The fi ...
in Leipzig.
She also wrote numerous reviews for the Leipzig and Magdeburg regional press.
She completed her studies in 1982 with a diploma.
In 1985 she was awarded the
Promotion A with a thesis ''Siegfried Matthus – Tendenzen im Schaffen eines Komponisten der DDR'' (''
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as '' Judith'', were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the ...
– Tendencies in the Work of a Composer of the GDR'').
In 1985 and 1986, Liedtke was music editor for festival and opera broadcasts at the
Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF; German for "German Television Broadcasting") was the state television broadcaster in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) from 1952 to 1991.
DFF produced free-to-air terrestrial television programming ...
in Berlin.
She was responsible for the concept and editing and presented a series of broadcasts on
Neue Musik
Neue Musik (English ''new music'', French ''nouvelle musique'') is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is char ...
(21 broadcasts until 1997).
In 1986 she moved to the
Akademie der Künste der DDR
The Akademie der Künste der DDR was the central art academy of the German Democratic Republic (DDR). It existed under different names from 1950 to 1993. Then it merged with the "Akademie der Künste Berlin (West)" to become the Academy of Arts, ...
.
[Mitarbeiterprofil von Ulrike Liedtke bei der Universität Potsdam](_blank)
uni-potsdam.de, Zugriff: 13. Oktober 2019.
After the , she became head of the department for music, theatre, museums and film of the city council.
From 1991 to 1993, she worked in the of Brandenburg, responsible for
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg () is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of Berlin.
History
Fre ...
from September 1991.
From 1991 to 2014 she was founding director of the
Musikakademie Rheinsberg.
From 1993 she was also managing director
and artistic director of the Musikakademie Rheinsberg, also running its Schlosstheater from 2000, with music theatre,
ballet
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...
and concerts. A focus on works from the 18th century and contemporary music also enabled formats such as
performance art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
. In 2001, the academy was named a "Federal and State Academy". The institution was awarded the critics' prize for music of the Association of German Critics in 2004.
In 2006, it received a place of honour at the further education award of the state of Brandenburg.
Liedtke lectured about music theatre, including in 1998/99 at the
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar
The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany.
The Hochschule
Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of ...
, and the
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
' (, plural: ') is the generic term in German for institutions of higher education, corresponding to ''universities'' and ''colleges'' in English. The term ''Universität'' (plural: ''Universitäten'') is reserved for institutions with the right to ...
in Berlin. In 2017, she was appointed professor of musicology at the
University of Potsdam
The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...
.
Her research is focused on music of the 18th century and contemporary music, also
opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...
and
opéra comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a l ...
, Brandenburg regional music history, and critical editing.
She wrote contributions to standard works including ''
Komponisten der Gegenwart
The ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'' (KDG) is a music encyclopedia in German language about composers of the 20th and 21st century. It is a looseleaf service with information on currently about 900 composers.
Editors
Hanns-Werner Heister and Walter ...
'', ''
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theo ...
'' and ''
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (MGG)'' is one of the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference t ...
''. She has been a member of the
Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller
The Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (Association of German Writers) represents the interests of professional authors and writers in Germany and is part of the service sector trade union ver.di (former Printing and Paper ...
since 1999.
Liedtke is the mother of two children.
Her son was a member of the Leipzig
Thomanerchor
The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about 90 boys from 9 to 18 years of age. The members, called ''Thomaner'', reside in a boarding scho ...
.
Politics
Liedtke was an independent until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1989 she was then co-founder of the
Social Democratic Party in the GDR
The Social Democratic Party in the GDR (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei in der DDR) was a reconstituted Social Democratic Party existing during the final phase of East Germany. Slightly less than a year after its creation it merged with its Wes ...
in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. Since 1990 she has been a member of the
Social Democratic Party of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany.
Saskia Esken has been the ...
and was a member of the board in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, ,
Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg () is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on lake and the river Rhin, approximately 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of Berlin.
History
Fre ...
. From 2016 to 2019 she was chairman of the SPD of
Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Ostprignitz-Ruppin is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the northwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are (from north clockwise) the districts Müritz and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the districts
Oberhavel and Have ...
. She is also the spokeswoman of the cultural forum of the .
From 1990 to 2002 she was a member, and temporarily head, of the ,
Bezirk Hohenschönhausen and
Bezirk Lichtenberg, respectively. In May 2019 she became a city councillor in Rheinsberg. She is the leader of the SPD parliamentary group.
In the
2014 Brandenburg state elections she won a direct mandate in the (Constituency 3).
She defended her mandate with 23.6 percent of the first votes in the 2019 state elections, and on 25 September 2019 was elected president of the state parliament with 77 of 88 votes at the constituent session.
Memberships
From 1995 to 1997 Liedtke was a member of the National Committee of the
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...
Cultural Decade. From 1997 until the rotation in 2009 she was a member and (temporarily) chairperson of the of the
Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg
Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB; ''East German Broadcasting Brandenburg''), based in Potsdam, was the public broadcaster for the German federal state of Brandenburg from 12 October 1991 until 30 April 2003. It was a member organization of ...
and the
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (; "Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting"; abbreviated: RBB , stylized as rbb) is an institution under public law (national broadcaster) for the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg, based in Berlin and Potsdam. RBB ...
. After having been vice-president of the e.V. since 1995, she was elected as its president in 2016. From 2000 to 2002 she was the spokeswoman of the Arbeitskreis der Musikbildungsstätten in Deutschland. In 2000 she became a member of the executive committee, and in 2005 also a member of the supervisory board, of the Deutscher Musikrat.
[Profile of Ulrike Liedtke at the DMR](_blank)
musikrat.de, retrieved 13 May 2020. From 2000 to 2005 she was an expert for the
Culture 2000
Culture 2000 was a seven-year European Union (EU) programme, which had among its key objectives to preserve and enhance Europe's cultural heritage. Its duration was from 2000 to 2006, and it had a budget of €236.5 million.
Culture 2000 provided ...
funding programme of the
European Commission
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. From 2000 to 2017 she was an author and chairperson of the advisory board of the CD documentation ' of the DMR.
From 2001 to 2017 she was an author and member of the editorial board of the music magazine '.
In addition, since 2009 she has been the chairperson of the conference of the state music councils in the
Deutscher Musikrat
The Deutscher Musikrat (DMR, ''German Music Council''; ) is an umbrella organization for music associations and the 16 music councils of the German federal states.musikrat.deÜberblick über Organisationsstruktur des DMR(retrieved on 10 May 2019) ...
(DMR) and since 2013 vice president and member of the supervisory board of the DMR.
Liedtke was a member of the board of trustees of Musikfonds e.V. from 2016 until 2020, for which she did the conceptual groundwork. The German Council of Cultural Advisors elected Liedtke in 2019 as one of two vice presidents of the
Deutscher Kulturrat. She is an individual member of the Brandenburgischer Chorverband, as well as chairwoman of Tanz & Art Rheinsberg and the
Ferdinand Möhring
Ferdinand Möhring (18 January 1816 – 1 May 1887) was a German composer, poet, conductor and organist.
Personal life
Möhring was born in Alt Ruppin as the son of the master carpenter Johann Friedrich Möhring and spent his childhood and yo ...
Gesellschaft.
Honours
*
Hans Stieber Prize (1988)
*
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...
am Bande (2001)
* Kunstpreis des Landes Brandenburg (main prize) (2001)
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University of Potsdam
The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...
, retrieved 28 June 2020
* Leo-Wistuba-Medaille of the Brandenburgischer Chorverband (2001)
* Ehrennadel of the Landesmusikrat Brandenburg (2003)
* "Kritikerpreis für Musik 2004" for the Rheinsberg Music Academy of the Association of German Critics
* Place of Honour "Further Education Prize of the State of Brandenburg" for the Rheinsberg Music Academy (2006)
* Integrationspreis of the Landrat Ostprignitz-Ruppin for Tanz & Art Rheinsberg (2016)
* Integrationspreis of the Bundespräsident for the Rheinsberg model (2017)
Publications
Liedtke wrote composers' biographies for encyclopedias, including those of
Gerd Domhardt,
Siegfried Matthus
Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as '' Judith'', were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the ...
,
Günter Neubert
Günter Neubert (born 11 March 1936) is a German composer and tonmeister.
Life
Born in Crimmitschau, Saxony, after his Abitur at a secondary school in Crimmitschau in 1954, Neubert studied school music at the University of Music and Theatre ...
and
Karl Ottomar Treibmann
Karl Ottomar Treibmann (14 January 1936 – 13 February 2017) was a German composer and music educator. From 1981 until his retirement in 2001, he was professor of music theory and at the Leipzig University. He was one of the representatives of ...
'':
* With Gert Belkius (ed.): ''Musik für die Oper? Mit Komponisten im Gespräch''. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1990, .
* With Helge Bartholomäus (ed.): ''Festschrift 10 Jahre Berliner Fagottquartett, 5 Jahre Meisterkurse der Musikakademie Rheinsberg''. Musik- und Buchverlag Feja, Berlin 1996, .
* ''Matthus, Siegfried'', in ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'', edited by Hans-Werner Heister and Wolfgang Sparrer, edition text + kritik, München 1996
* (Ed.): ''Jeder nach seiner Fasson. Musikalische Neuansätze heute. Eine Veröffentlichung der Musikakademie Rheinsberg''. Pfau, Saarbrücken 1997, .
* ''Landesmusikplan Brandenburg''. Landesmusikrat Brandenburg, Senftenberg 1997/2000.
* ''Domhardt, Gerd, Siegfried'', in ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'', edited by Hans-Werner Heister and Wolfgang Sparrer, edition text + kritik, Munich 1996
* ''Karl Ottomar Treibmann'', in ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'', ed. by Hans-Werner Heister and Wolfgang Sparrer, edition text + kritik, Munich 1998
* ''Treibmann, Karl Ottomar'', in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 1998
* ''Domhardt, Gerd'', in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 1998
* With Claudia Schurz (ed.): ''Das Theater des Prinzen Heinrich. Ein Lesebuch zum Schloßtheater Rheinsberg''. Hofmeister, Leipzig 2000, .
* ''Günter Neubert'', in ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'', ed. by Hans-Werner Heister and Wolfgang Sparrer, edition text + kritik, München 2003
* ''Thomas Heyn, in ''Komponisten der Gegenwart'', ed. by Hans-Werner Heister and Wolfgang Sparrer, edition text + kritik, Munich 2004''
Thomas Heyn
nachschlage.net
* ''Karl Ottomar Treibmann: Klangwanderungen''. Kamprad, Altenburg 2004, .
* (ed.): ''Die Rheinsberger Hofkapelle von Friedrich II. Musiker auf dem Weg zum Berliner „Capell-Bedienten“. Veröffentlichung der Musikakademie Rheinsberg GmbH''. 2nd revised edition, Hofmeister, Leipzig
Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag (abbreviated to Hofmeister) is a publisher of classical music, founded by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1807. Early listings included composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. Hofmeist ...
, 2005, .
* (ed.): ''Frau Musica heute. Konzepte für Kompositionen. Veröffentlichung der Musikakademie Rheinsberg gGmbh''. Hofmeister, Leipzig 2005, .
* Contributions to Lothar Voigtländer
Lothar Voigtländer (born 3 September 1943) is a German composer.
Life
Voigtländer was born in Leisnig. He received his formative musical education between 1954 and 1962 as a choirboy and later as choir prefect in the Dresdner Kreuzchor under ...
, Wilhelm Weismann, Walter Zimmermann: ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'' (MGG), Bärenreiter
Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it also ...
, Kassel 2007
* Contributions to Romely Pfund, Annette Schlünz, Juliane Klein, ''Genderhandbuch'', ed. by Annette Kreutziger-Herr and Melanie Unseld, Bärenreiter Kassel, 2010, .
* ''Ich bin Komponist. Friedrich II. als Musiker''. Ries & Erler, Berlin 2012, .
* ''Leidenschaftliche Bekenntnisse, Erlebnisse mit Musik von Lothar Voigtländer'', in: ''Ein Prisma Ostdeutscher Musik'', ed. by Albrecht von Massow, Thomas Grysko and Josephine Orkno, Böhlau-Verlag Cologne, Weimar, Vienna, 2015, , .
* ''hören: multisensorial'', in ''Internationales Klangkunstfest Berlin 2014'', Jubiläumsausgabe with DVD 2004–2014, ed. by Thomas Gerwin, Berlin 2015, .
* ''Musik von Anfang an'', in Wolfgang Kurth: ''Musikerziehung. Lehrbuch für Staatlich anerkannte Erzieher, Facherzieher für Musik und andere Sozialpädagogische Berufe in Ausbildung und Studium'', Westermann Braunschweig 2019, .
* ''Rheinsberg ist schön, Das Auf und Ab und neue Aufmerksamkeit für den ländlichen Raum'', in ''Ein schöner Land'', Loccumer Protokolle 13/2018, ed. by Albert Drews, Rehburg-Loccum 2019, . .
References
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Bibliography of Music Literature
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