Anno Mungen
Anno Mungen (* 13. October 1961 in Cologne) is a German theater scholar and musicologist. He is the Director of the Research Institute for Music Theater and is Chair of Theatrical Studies with a focus on Music Theater at the University of Bayreuth.
Career Path
Mungen took up a musical specialization at Humboldtgymnasium (Humboldt Grammar School) in Cologne, where he was taught by Werner Klüppleholz among others. From 1982–1986 he studied the flute at Musikhochschule Duisburg with Walter Jeschke (examination as a state-approved music school teacher). From 1986–1995 he studied musicology and art history with Carl Dahlhaus, Sieghart Döhring, Helga de la Motte-Haber, as well as Wolfgang Wolters and Bernd Nicolai at Technische Universität Berlin (Magister Artium and doctorate). In 1999, a research stay led him to the USA as part of the DFG (German Research Foundation) project "Theatre Images and Music", conducted in the priority programme "Theatricality" headed by Erika Fischer-Lichte. From 1995–2000, Mungen was a research assistant at the Institute of Musicology at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, at the insistence of Christoph-Hellmut Mahling. In 2002 he was awarded his habilitation there. In 2004–2005 he took on an adjunct professorship in musicology at Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and was also professor of musicology there from 2005–2006. Since 2006, he has been working as Sieghart Döhring's successor in Thurnau and Bayreuth, where he represents a broad concept of music theatre in research and teaching, which, in addition to classical genres such as opera, operetta, musical, and dance theatre, can also include formats involving everyday performance with music (such as in carnival parades).
Research and Teaching
At the centre of his academic work is the approach of analysing music theatre and music through their performance, including important perspectives such as gender and mediality. The teaching programmes that Mungen has created and supervises (the doctorate/master's degree in Music & Performance as well as the master's degree in Opera & Performance) refer to this maxim, as does the online journal ACT, which he created and edits. The Institute's publication series Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater also primarily addresses such phenomena. It will be published by Utz-Verlag from 2022.
Research at the Thurnau Institute has included larger projects, some of them funded by DFG, such as on the topic of "Music - Voice - Gender", on the topic of carnival and music, and on the Wagner anniversary in 2013 under the title "WagnerWorldWide".
More recent research includes the topic of opera under National Socialism, on which Mungen, together with Hermann Feuchter, Johannes Eule, Silvia Bier, Tobias Reichard, and Daniel Reupke, conceived the exhibition "Hitler.Macht.Oper" in 2018[1], which was shown there in cooperation with the State Theatre and the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds of the City of Nuremberg. Another result of this work will be a monograph on Wieland Wagner's career from 1941–1945, which will be published by Westend-Verlag, Frankfurt, in summer 2021. Work has also begun on a collaborative project with Concerto Köln and Kent Nagano, dedicated to historically informed performance practice in Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen with regard to the vocal[2]. Within the research group "Crisis Structures of the Arts", Mungen is leading a project on music theatre[3].
Publications (selection)
- Musiktheater als Historienbild. Gaspare Spontinis „Agnes von Hohenstaufen“ als Beitrag zur deutschen Oper (= Mainzer Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 38), Tutzing 1997.
- The Music is the Message: The Day Jimi Hendrix Burned his Guitar – Film, Musical Instrument, and Performance as Music Media, in: Ian Inglis (Ed.), Popular Music and Film, London 2003, S. 60–76 (this article also appeared in: Pauline Reay [Ed.], Music in Film. Soundtracks and Synergy, New York 2004).
- „BilderMusik“ – Panoramen, Tableaux vivants und Lichtbilder als multimediale Darstellungsformen in Theater- und Musikaufführungen vom 19. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert, 2 volumes (= Filmstudien 45/46), Remscheid 2006.
- Das Wagner-Lexikon. Hrsg. edited on behalf of the Research Institute for Music Theater, by Daniel Brandenburg, Rainer Franke and Anno Mungen. Laaber-Verlag
- Anno Mungen (Ed.), Mitten im Leben. Musiktheater von der Oper zur Everyday Performance (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater 23), Würzburg 2011.
- Singstimmen: Ästhetik – Geschlecht – Vokalprofil, report on the May 2012 symposium, Thurnau, Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater 28, Würzburg 2017 (in cooperation with Saskia Woyke, Katrin Losleben and Stephan Mösch).
- Feiern – Singen – Schunkeln. Karnevalsaufführungen vom Mittelalter bis heute (= Beiträge zur Rheinischen Musikgeschichte 175), Kassel 2017 (in cooperation with Maren Butte and Dominic Larue).
- Music Theater as Global Culture. Wagner’s Legacy Today, (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater 25), Würzburg 2017 (in cooperation with Nicholas Vazsonyi, Julie Hubbert, Ivana Rentsch, Arne Stollberg).
- Hitler.Macht.Oper., Catalogue for the exhibition of the research project 'Nürnberger Musiktheater 1920 bis 1950. Ein Erkenntnistransferprojekt der Universität Bayreuth', in cooperation with Staatstheater Nürnberg and Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände der Stadt Nürnberg, 15 June 2018 to 3 February 2019, Petersberg 2018 (in cooperation with Tobias Reichard and Alexander Schmidt).
- Musiktheater in der Krise? Positionen zwischen Institution und Ästhetik, ACT, Heft 9, Turnau 2020 (in cooperation with Ulrike Hartung).
- Hitler.Macht.Oper. Propaganda und Musiktheater in Nürnberg 1920–1950, volume on the research projectNürnberger Musiktheater 1920 bis 1950. Ein Erkenntnistransferprojekt der Universität Bayreuth, in cooperation with Staatstheater Nürnberg and Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände der Stadt Nürnberg, (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater 40) Würzburg 2020 (in cooperation with Silvia Bier, Tobias Reichard and Daniel Reupke).
- Die dramatische Sängerin Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient: Stimme Medialität, Kunstleistung (= Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater 37), Würzburg 2021.
- Hier gilt der Kunst! Wieland Wagner 1941–1945, Frankfurt 2021.
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