Announcement of the Krista and Rüdiger Warnke Award 2018

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Writing about music: This year's sponsorship award is intended to encourage students at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama to write about music, music history(ies), forms of mediation or performance practice of music.

This year’s incentive award is intended to encourage students at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama to write about music, music history(ies), forms of musical education, or performance practice. It is intended to encourage students to find words to describe the experience of music, the impact of artistic and theoretical communication, and, in the broadest sense, “music as the art of connection.”

Entries may include essays or scholarly texts written specifically for this award, as well as recent seminar papers, program notes, concert reviews, booklet texts, and similar works.

A jury will select a maximum of three texts from the submitted entries, each of which will be awarded prize money of 2,000 euros.

At a festive awards ceremony in December 2019, the winners will present their texts in a musical and artistic format. For this purpose, up to 1,300 euros will be made available to each winner.

Call for entries begins: December 12, 2018
Submission deadline: June 30, 2019

Announcement of winners: September 30, 2019
Award ceremony at the university’s Forum: in December 2019

About the Award

This is the seventh time the award has been presented since 2005.
Objective of the award:

The awarding of the prize is guided by the conviction that engaging with the arts—especially Music and Drama—sharpens perception while uniquely bringing together thought and emotion—an essential prerequisite for the committed, holistic shaping of reality. The award is intended to encourage outstanding young people to seek out roles in society and to empower them to foster awareness through their commitment and to get involved in shaping social processes in a sustainable way.

Texts should be up to ten pages in length. Only texts written in German or translated into German will be considered.

Please submit texts to: krista-warnke@web.de,
, or: Prof. Dr. Krista Warnke, Saseler Kamp 25 a, 22393 Hamburg