Групов портрет с дама Мариане Брьокер и немскоезичната етномузикология
Group Portrait of a Lady. Marianne Bröcker and German-speaking Ethnomusicology

Summary/Abstract: The title of this article is borrowed from the well-known novel of the German author Heinrich Böll Gruppenbildmit Dame (Koeln: Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1971). The text is dedicated to the renowned German ethnomusicologist and ethno-choreographer Marianne Bröcker who is celebrating her 70th anniversary and the collection Musik verbindet uns. For Bulgarian ethnomusicology Bröcker is a significant figure especially with her work in the management of The International Council for Traditional Music and its Study Group “Music and Minorities”. As part of the leadership of the Council Bröcker welcomed and encouraged the realization of the fourth meeting of the study group in Varna, which favored the possibility the Institute of Art Studies at Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS) to realize one of its most prestigious international congress activities, covered in the publication The Human World and Musical Diversity (2008). Beside her scholar contributions in the development of European ethno-choreology and the study of traditional music instruments, Marianne Bröcker is a significant figure also with her ability to create a school (a fellowship) and rational (cognitive) field around herself. This is illustrated in the collection Musik verbindet uns, in which Bröcker remained “behind the curtains” (so to speak), to be ideologically present through the writings of her students, followers and friends-colleagues. The authors (by the order of the articles) are Manfred Bartmann (Salzburg), Ines Weinrich (Bamberg), Ralf Martin Jaeger (Muenster), Martina Claus-Bachmann (Giessen), Christoph Anton Lambertz (Bamberg), Karoline Oehme (Basel), Evi Heigi (Krumbach), Gisa Jaehnichen (Berlin), Juergen Schoepf (Frankfurt am Main), Heidi Christ (Uffenheim) and Stefanie Zachmeier (Nuernberg). These articles deal with problems with a broad thematical scope – from ethno-musicological methodology, through cross-cultural phenomenon of cultural transitions in different areas of the world, to historical and anthropological studies of music traditions, cases and practices in Germanspeaking Europe.

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