1978 - 2004

Inspire - Think ahead - Open up

With Hermann Rauhe, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama is growing - in both a concrete and figurative sense. With the Forum, a central and interdisciplinary event center is being created on the Alster, in which concerts, opera and drama productions take place under acoustically and technically professional conditions, allowing students to present their art directly to an interested audience. Rauhe has established the maxim "practical relevance as a defining profile" and puts it into practice. With the "junges forum Musiktheater" series, Rauhe has established Hamburg's second and, as he likes to say, "largest" opera house, which produces up to eight premieres per season. As a vibrant venue, the university radiates far into the city, where it is also very present with its "external event series", for example in the Botanical Garden with the "Music & Poetry" series, which goes back to an idea by Loki Schmidt, or in the Ernst Barlach Haus with the "Klang & FORM" series.

New degree programs and courses

And the university is growing internally: President Hermann Rauhe is initiating new degree courses and course offerings that will soon set a precedent throughout Germany. Under his presidency, the HfMT becomes a pioneer of innovative subjects. These include the Culture and Media Management course, which Hermann Rauhe himself heads for a long time, the Institute for Music Therapy and the compact courses for popular music and at Studio Hamburg, where up-and-coming artists and budding cultural managers learn the skillful use of audiovisual media. Among the pioneering appointments of professors are such important artistic personalities as György Ligeti, Gyula Trebitsch and Peter Ruzicka.

Hermann Rauhe - scholar, teacher and networker

The musicologist, music teacher, composer and cultural manager Hermann Rauhe thinks and works in personal and fruitful networks of relationships in which he involves the university and from which important initiatives are subsequently launched, be it the New Generation Association, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival or Il canto del mondo.
After studying music and music education (piano, composition and conducting) at the HfMT and musicology, literature, education, philosophy, sociology, theology and phonetics at the University of Hamburg, Hermann Rauhe took his state examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools (music and German) in 1955 and his second state examination and doctorate in philosophy in musicology in 1959. In 1960 he became an assistant, in 1963 a lecturer and in 1965 a professor of musicology and music education at the Hamburg University of Music. In 1970, he was appointed full professor of educational science with a focus on music education at the University of Hamburg, before taking over the presidency of the university where he had once studied himself in 1978. As a member, board member, jury representative, chairman or patron of the German Music Council, "Jugend kulturell", the ZDF Television Council, the Berteismann Foundation's international singing competition "Neue Stimmen", the German Phono Academy, the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and many other foundations and societies, Hermann Rauhe continues to be a tireless instigator, promoter and mediator of music to this day.

Honorary President with the Federal Cross of Merit

As Honorary President, Hermann Rauhe has remained closely associated with the Hamburg University of Music and Drama since 2004 and continues to tirelessly contribute his experience and contacts as a tireless networker and innovator in the service of music.
Hermann Rauhe is awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2006.