Albrecht Dümling

Albrecht Dümling (* 1949 in Wuppertal ) is a Berlin-based German musicologist and critic.

After studying inter alia musicology in Essen, Vienna and Berlin he received his doctorate at Carl Dahlhaus with a thesis on Arnold Schoenberg, and Stefan George. In 1985, he published more than Bertolt Brecht and his relations to the composer. As a critic, he wrote for Der Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Musik Zeitung.

"Degenerate Music" is one of the main fields Dümlings. He was co-founder of the International Hanns Eisler Society and Musica reanimata, a non-profit association for the revival, promotion and revival of music ostracized and forgotten composers. For his commitment to this area, he received the well-endowed Kairos Prize in 2007. Scientifically connected is Dümling among other institutions of the Royal Holloway University of London, the University of Melbourne and the Center for Antisemitism Research in Berlin.

Dümling is also curator of the exhibition "Degenerate Music. An annotated reconstruction. " It was created in 1988 for the Tonhalle Dusseldorf and has since been in about 50 places in Europe to see (eg in Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Vienna, Zurich, Amsterdam). U.S. version, 1991, Los created Angeles, has so far been presented in Boston, New York, London, Barcelona, ​​Miami, Chicago and (March 2011) in Tel Aviv. the Spanish version was made in 2007 for the University of Seville and was last shown in Salamanca in 2011. 2007 was created for the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra, the fourth version under the title " the suspect saxophone. ' Degenerate Music ' in the Nazi state ."