Susanne Popp
Professor
Musicology
Max-Reger-Institute
Germany
Biography
Born on 26 November 1944 in Mühlhausen/Thuringia. She read musicology, mathematics and pedagogy from 1963, and obtained her doctorate in 1971 with a thesis on Studies on Robert Schumann’s choral works. Following this, she resided with her husband Professor Dr. Manfred Popp for two years in Israel. After her return to germany she became a member of staff at the Max-Reger-Institute in 1973, and in 1981 she was appointed head of the institute. Under her leadership the institute developed into an internationally renowned centre of research on Max Reger, among others by mounting conferences, expositions, assisting festivals, concert series, Reger nights etc. Susanne Popp is also in great demand as a jury member. Besides her working at the MRI Susanne Popp functions since 1999 on the board of the Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institue e.V. – AsKI and of the International Max Reger Society. In 2002 she became vice-chairwoman of the charitable association Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now e.V. Oberrhein, in April 2003 honorary professor at the Karlsruhe Universtiy of Music. In 2006 she became a board member of the Reger Foundation of America and a member of the council of the Karlsruhe University of Education, and in 2007 a member of the academic board of the Weidener Max-Reger-Tage. For brilliant achievments on the subject of musicology plus longstanding dedication in the artistic-social field Susanne Popp was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Research Interest
Musicology
Publications
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Berufung und Verzicht: Fritz Busch und Richard Wagner, Köln 2013
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Macbeth im Dreiklang: Shakespeare, Verdi und Fritz Busch, in „Die süße Macht der Töne ...“ – Zur Bedeutung der Musik in Shakespeares Werken und ihrer Rezeption, ed. by Ute Jung-Kaiser u. Anette Simonis, Hildesheim u. Zürich u. New York 2014 (= Wegzeichen Musik, Bd. 9), pp. 173–209
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Wechselwirkungen: Max Reger und die Literatur seiner Zeit in Annäherungen an Max Reger, ed. by Martina Sichardt, Hildesheim u.a. 2014 (= Schriften der Hochschule für Musik und Theater »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig, Bd. 8), pp. 77–103
