Hanns-Werner Heister

Hanns-Werner Heister, Prof. Dr. phil., received his university education in Musicology, German Studies, Indo-European Studies and Linguistic, in T�bingen, Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin (Technische Universit�t Berlin). In 1977, he received his Dr. phil in Musicology at the Technische Universit�t Berlin, under the supervision of Carl Dahlhaus; in 1993, he received his Habilitation from the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universit�t Oldenburg; 1992-1998, he served as a Professor for Musical...See more

Hanns-Werner Heister, Prof. Dr. phil., received his university education in Musicology, German Studies, Indo-European Studies and Linguistic, in T�bingen, Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin (Technische Universit�t Berlin). In 1977, he received his Dr. phil in Musicology at the Technische Universit�t Berlin, under the supervision of Carl Dahlhaus; in 1993, he received his Habilitation from the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universit�t Oldenburg; 1992-1998, he served as a Professor for Musical communication and History of Music at the Musikhochschule "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden; 1998-2011, he served as a Professor for Musicology at the Hochschule f�r Musik und Theater Hamburg. Furthermore, he worked as a freelancer for various radio stations, journals and newspapers and has been teaching at various Schools of Music and Arts, such as the Musikhochschule in Berlin, the Universit�t Hamburg , the Hochschule der K�nste in Berlin, at the Technische Universit�t Dresden and at the Universit�t Wien . He also was a Visiting Professor at the Musikhochschule Weimar. He held seminars on musicology in Schools of different countries, such as the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica , in Heredia, Costa Rica (in 2012), the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (in 2013), the Conservatorio "Arrigo Boito" , in Parma, Italy (in 2014), and at the Hochschule f�r Musik Saar, in Saarbr�cken , Germany (in 2016). Author of different books in the field of music history and musicology, his research has been dealing with various topics, such as: methodology of musicology; aesthetics, sociology, history, and anthropology of music; political, popular music, new music and jazz; music and musical culture in Nazism, resistance movement and exile. Further topics include: aesthetics and history of music theatre; media/technology and institutions of music culture; music analysis; fuzzy logic and cybernetics; and gardening. See less