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Folkwang University of the Arts

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Folkwang University of the Arts
Folkwang Universität der Künste
Former names
  • Folkwangschule für Musik, Tanz und Sprechen (1927–63)
  • Folkwang-Hochschule (1963–2010)
TypePublic
Established1927 (1927)
Founder
RectorHolger Zebu Kluth[1]
Students1627 (SoSe 2022)[2]
Location
Essen
,
North Rhine-Westphalia
,
Germany

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CampusMulti-site
Websitefolkwang-uni.de
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The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in Essen in the Ruhr area, with additional facilities in Duisburg, Bochum, and Dortmund, and, since 2010, at the Zeche Zollverein, a World Heritage Site also in Essen.[3] The Folkwang University is home to the international dance company Folkwang Tanz Studio (FTS). Founded as Folkwangschule, its name was Folkwang Hochschule (Folkwang Academy) from 1963 until 2009.

Main building of the Folkwang University in Essen-Werden

History

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Folkwang-Hochschule

The university shares its unusual name with the Museum Folkwang founded in 1902 by arts patron Karl Ernst Osthaus. The term Folkwang derives from Fólkvangr, the Old Norse name of a mythical meadow where the dead gather who are chosen by Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and beauty, to spend the afterlife with her.[4] The school's founders, opera director Rudolf Schulz-Dornburg (de), stage designer Hein Heckroth and choreographer Kurt Jooss, regarded this Folkwang as a symbol for the arts as a unified whole, rather than divided into separate classes. The Folkwangschule für Musik, Tanz und Sprechen (Folkwang School for Music, Dance, and Speech) opened in 1927 in Essen, and in 1928 a previously established school of design merged with the institution.

In 1963 the Folkwang school was renamed Folkwang-Hochschule (Folkwang Academy). In 2010 the institution began offering graduate studies and was renamed Folkwang University of the Arts. This coincided with Ruhr.2010, the festival in which the Ruhr district was designated the European Capital of Culture for the year 2010.

Activities

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SANAA building at Zeche Zollverein; since 2010, location of the design faculty

The Folkwang University unites training in music, theatre, dance, design, and scholarship, in order to encourage collaboration among the arts.[5] Public events take place at the Folkwang University on its six in-house stages and in collaboration with cultural institutions of the region, such as the Philharmonie Essen (de), the Schauspiel Bochum, Musiktheater im Revier, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Wuppertaler Bühnen and the Ruhrfestspiele.

Folkwang University of the Arts is structured into four distinct faculties, each specializing in various artistic and academic disciplines:[6]

  • Faculty 1: Focuses on practical artistic and musical courses, including instrumental training, jazz, composition, professional performance, orchestral playing, and popular music.
  • Faculty 2: Offers artistic, artistic-academic, artistic-pedagogical, and academic courses such as music teaching, music pedagogy, musicology, integrative music theory, vocal ensemble direction, and music of the Middle Ages.
  • Faculty 3: Dedicated to performing arts, this faculty encompasses programs in voice and music theatre, musical, physical theatre, acting, directing, dance, dance composition, and dance pedagogy.
  • Faculty 4: Centres on design disciplines, providing courses in photography, industrial design, communication design, and art and design science.

Undergraduate courses:[7]

  • Instrumental training for different musical instruments (accordion, bassoon, cello, clarinet, double bass, flute, guitar, harp, harpsichord, horn, oboe, organ, percussion, piano, recorder, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin)
  • Jazz / Performing Artist
  • Integrative composition (instrumental composition, electronic composition, jazz composition, pop composition, composition and visualisation)
  • Church music
  • Voice (concert performance, Lieder, oratorio and music theatre)
  • School Music
  • Music pedagogy
  • Musicology in combination with an artistic subject
  • Musicals
  • Acting
  • Physical Theatre
  • Directing
  • Dance
  • Industrial Design
  • Communication Design
  • Photography

Advanced programs:

  • Orchestral playing
  • Conducting (orchestral/choir)
  • Vocal Ensemble Direction
  • Musicology in combination with an artistic discipline
  • Chamber music
  • Composition (electronic composition, instrumental composition, instrumental/electronic composition)
  • Concert Performance
  • Solo Dance
  • Choreography
  • Labanotation
  • Dance Pedagogy

Faculty

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Faculty have included:[8]

See also: Category:Academic staff of the Folkwang University of the Arts

Alumni

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Alumni include:

See also: Category:Folkwang University of the Arts alumni

See also

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References

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Further reading

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