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Hamburg's future needs strong universities
The Hamburg State Higher Education Conference (LHK) has issued a recent press release on the future of Hamburg as a center of science:
“Hamburg’s public…
HfMT Composer Selected for NDR Workshop
Haonan Guo, a concert exam student in Prof. Gordon Kampe’s composition class, was selected from among numerous applicants for the NDR Composers’…
Successful Organ Alumni
Two prestigious organ awards were recently presented to former organ students at the HfMT.
Narae Ahn won second prize in the Maria Hofer Competition Narae Ahn .…
HfMT Success at the Hanseatic Chamber Music Competition
The first Hanseatic Chamber Music Competition, organized jointly for the first time by the conservatories of Hamburg, Lübeck, and Rostock in Rostock, was a…
Successful Cello Class
In the 2025–26 academic year, Prof. Sebastian Klinger’s cello class has already achieved numerous notable successes and career milestones.
Here is a brief…
Congratulations on your scholarship!
Harpist Dariia Ahapova, a master’s student at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, has been awarded the 2026 Erna Mögenburg Scholarship. The scholarship,…
zwoelf - the university magazine
“che contrasto d’affetti”– Ambivalence and ambiguity as the central theme of the newly published twelfthissue No. 38 of the summer semester 2026
Torn between love and hate for the dazzling monster named Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira sings a recitative bursting with inner tension before her aria “Mi tradì” in Mozart’s “opera of all operas.” It reads: “che contrasto d’affetti in sen ti nasce!” A stark conflict of emotions rages within her. This psychologically ambiguous turmoil raging within a single human heart can, however, also be rediscovered in broader contexts, not least in the study of Music and Drama. Time and again, it is precisely from friction that the most relevant insights emerge. Given the complexity of our present age, it is therefore no coincidence that this issue of zwoelf, our No. 38, is dedicated to a pair of concepts that describe tensions and ambiguities with particular precision: ambivalence and ambiguity. Both phenomena play a central role in the arts. They reveal a particular strength of artistic forms of expression: the ability to facilitate experiences that cannot be reduced to a single perspective.
This issue of the university newspaper zwoelf features a special section on the potential of ambiguity. We hope you find zwoelf No. 38 an inspiring read; copies are available for free in the lobbies of the HfMT.
The e-paper of *zwoelf* is ready for you to explore!
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