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Linda Maria Koldau (born October 28, 1971) is a German musicologist and was Chair of Musicology and Cultural History (formerly Knud Jeppesen's Chair of Musicology) at Aarhus University in Denmark. Since 2013 she has been director of the Coastal Academy (Akademie an der Steilkueste) in Northern Germany, focusing on efficiency, conciseness and perfection in business language and communication.
Born in Munich, Linda Maria Koldau studied Musicology, American Literature, and Italian Literature at Reading University in England and Mainz University in Germany. In 2000 she finished her PhD at Bonn University with a thesis on the Venetian sacred music by Claudio Monteverdi. In 2005 she received her "Habilitation" at Frankfurt University with a handbook on women in the musical culture of the Early Modern Period. In 2006-2008 she was chair of Musicology and director of the Institute of Musicology at Frankfurt University; in 2009 she was appointed Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at Aarhus University. She is member of several international research groups and interdisciplinary networks and has published widely in several fields of musicology and cultural history. Besides her academic work, she worked as a freelance cultural journalist for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the period 1992-2002; since 1995 she has been author of radio programs for various German channels.
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In 2012, Koldau resigned from her chair in protest against the low quality of education that had been enforced by the management of her department, and against the general management policies at Aarhus University, which contradicted basic principles of academic research and teaching. [1] Koldau's protest and the disciplinary measures Aarhus University took against her led to several months of protest, numerous articles and letters to the editor in the Danish media, in which Danish and foreign academics and teachers decried the deplorable deterioration of quality and standards in the Danish educational system. [2] Koldau documented her experiences at a later stage in her three-volume documentary novel "Jante University", which is simultaneously designed as a handbook on the general consequences of New Public Management measures for a country’s education and its economy. [3] In 2013 Koldau was awarded a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, which she used for a two-year research project on the social and political consequences of major flood disasters in the 20th and early 21st centuries. From 2013 to 2017, Koldau was associated Research Professor for Cultural History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
In 2015-2018 Koldau trained as a veterinary practitioner (Tierheilpraktiker) and veterinary physiotherapist, specializing on veterinarian anatomy and the behaviour and medical treatment of guinea pigs. She has published several textbooks on guinea pigs and issued a number of easy-to-read handbooks and children's books on guinea pigs under the label "Cavia Publishing".
Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately 187 kilometres (116 mi) northwest of Copenhagen.
Knud Jeppesen was a Danish musicologist and composer. He was the leading scholar of the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, about whose life and music he wrote numerous studies.
The Law of Jante is a code of conduct originating in fiction and now used colloquially to denote a social attitude of disapproval towards expressions of individuality and personal success. Coined by the Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose, it has also come to represent the egalitarian nature of Scandinavian countries.
Alfred Kerr was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst.
Reimar Oltmanns is a well-known journalist and author in Germany.
Lüne Monastery is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. Today it is a Protestant Lutheran convent and is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover. The current abbess is Reinhild Freifrau von der Goltz.
"Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende" is a Lutheran hymn in German with lyrics by Ämilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, written in 1686. The hymn reflects the preparation for a good death. It is sung to the melody of "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten", and is often used for funerals. It appears in the current German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG), but with a different melody.
Margit Warburg is a Danish sociologist of religion. Since 2004, she has been professor of Sociology of Religion in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She was an associate professor at the same university from 1979 to 2004.
Walter Rudolph Niemann was a German composer, arranger, and music critic.
Bente Christina Brønnum Scavenius is a Danish art historian, art critic and author. She has taught at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, and has written more than 20 books. She has also been a member of numerous public and private committees and boards of directors of cultural institutions in Denmark.
Dorte Dahlin is a Danish artist who entered the art scene in the early 1980s as part of the Wild Youth trend. She gained recognition from her participation in the 1982 exhibition Kniven på hovedet held at Tranegården in Gentofte. More recently, she has created decorative objects for churches.
Hans Adolf Karl Wilhelm Grischkat was a German conductor, especially a choral conductor, also a church musician and academic teacher. He founded the choir Schwäbischer Singkreis for pioneering concerts and recordings of works by Bach and Monteverdi in the spirit of historically informed performance. He was the church musician of the Christuskirche in Reutlingen, published Bach cantatas for Hänssler, and was from 1950 a professor of choral conducting at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
Beatrix Borchard is a German musicologist and author. The focus of her publications is the life and work of female and male musicians, such as Clara and Robert Schumann, Amalie and Joseph Joachim, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Adriana Hölszky. Also among her topics are the role of music in the process of Jewish assimilation, the history of musical interpretation, and strategies of Kulturvermittlung.
Gisela Kraft was a German author and poet. She also undertook extensive work as a literary translator from Turkish to German.
Silke Urbanski is an historian, an author and a former politician (SPD). For many years she held a teaching position for Middle-ages history at the Historisches Seminar at the University of Hamburg, but she resigned in 2005 as a protest against the decision by the Hamburg Senate to introduce student tuition fees.
Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke was a German writer who focused on memoirs of her time as the wife of the expressionist painter August Macke, who had portrayed her more than 200 times. He died in World War I. Later, she lived in Berlin with her second husband, Lothar Erdmann, who died in a concentration camp during World War II. She saved Macke's paintings and copies of his letters by moving them from her house in Berlin before it was bombed in 1943.
Silke Leopold is a German musicologist and university lecturer.
Fritz Hennenberg is a German musicologist and dramaturg.
Ilma Rakusa is a Swiss writer and translator. She translates French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian into German.
Heinz Strelow was a German journalist, soldier and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.
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