Susanne Rode-Breymann

Susanne Rode-Breymann in 2014

Susanne Rode-Breymann (born 29 May 1958 in Hamburg) is a German musicologist. She was the president of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover from 2010 until March 2024.[1]

Biography

Rode-Breymann studied Early music and music education at the Hamburg Conservatory and musicology, art history and literature at the University of Hamburg. She received her doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on Alban Berg and Karl Kraus. From 1988 to 1992, Rode-Breymann was a researcher at the University of Bayreuth. As a research fellow at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel in 1989, she researched Anton Webern and other composers. From 1992 to 1996, Rode-Breymann was a researcher at the University of Bonn.[2] From 1996 to 1999 she taught as a university lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and was a professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1999 to 2004.

Rode-Breymann was appointed professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in October 2004,[2] serving as vice president from July 2006 to July 2008. In February 2010, she was elected president of the university.[3] She began serving as a guest professor at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg in 2024.[4]

Rode-Breymann is editor and author of numerous publications in the fields of gender studies, music history, early modern, contemporary music and the music of the turn of the century.

References

  1. ↑ Arndt, Stefan (29 June 2024). "Musikhochschule Hannover: Ministerium setzt Präsidium ab und Staatskommissar ein". Hannoversche Allgemeine (in German). Archived from the original on 29 June 2024. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  2. 1 2 Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover (2007). Rode-Breymann, Susanne (ed.). Orte der Musik: kulturelles Handeln von Frauen in der Stadt (in German). Böhlau. p. 289. ISBN 9783412200084. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Chronik der HMTMH: Hochschulgeschichte von 1897 bis heute". HMTMH (Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien Hannover) (in German). 30 August 2011. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  4. ↑ The Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Art (29 July 2024). The Bavarian Top Professorship Programme: Prof. Dr Susanne Rode-Breymann (in German). Retrieved 19 May 2026 – via YouTube.

Literature by and about Susanne Rode-Breymann in the German National Library catalogue