Josef Kloppenburg

Born in Paderborn, Kloppenburg was a choirboy and soloist (responsorial singer) in the Paderborn Cathedral Choir, passed his Abitur in 1973 at the Staatliches Altsprachliches Gymnasium Theodorianum Paderborn and, after his civil service, studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1975. School music. He continued his school music studies at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and studied musicology at the Technische Universität Berlin as well as sports at the Freie Universität Berlin. He passed the school music exam in 1979, the first state exam in 1982 and the second state exam in 1988 for the teaching profession at grammar schools, both with the grade "good". Kloppenburg received his doctorate from Technische Universität Berlin in 1985 with a dissertation on film scores in films by Alfred Hitchcock with a grade of very good (first report: Helga de la Motte-Haber, second report: Carl Dahlhaus). He stayed in Berlin, and from 1980 to 1982, he was a music teacher at the Freiherr-vom-Stein Oberschule in Spandau. From 1982 to 1986 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig (H. Segler). He was also an assistant to Herbert von Karajan in 1983/84. From 1986 to 1988, he was a student teacher in Berlin, and from 1988 to 1994, he taught as a student councilor at the Fritz-Karsen-Gesamtschule in Neukölln. At the same time, he was a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts, at the University of Greifswald and at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where he habilitated in 2001 with a thesis on educational music as an aesthetic concept. In 1994, he accepted the offer of a professorship for music at the Karlsruhe University of Education. From 1999 to 2004, he was head of the Academic Examination Office at the Karlsruhe University of Education. He is a consultant for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the evaluation agency Acquin. In 2016/2017, Kloppenburg was president of the Rotary Club Karlsruhe.^[1]