Susanne Rode-Breymann

Susanne Rode-Breymann (born 29 May 1958 in Hamburg) is a German musicologist. She was the president of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover from 2010 until March 2024.

Biography Rode-Breymann studied Early music and music education at the Hamburg Conservatory and musicology, art history and literature at the University of Hamburg. She received her doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on Alban Berg and Karl Kraus. From 1988 to 1992, Rode-Breymann was a researcher at the University of Bayreuth. As a research fellow at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel in 1989, she researched Anton Webern and other composers. From 1992 to 1996, Rode-Breymann was a researcher at the University of Bonn. From 1996 to 1999 she taught as a university lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and was a professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1999 to 2004.

Rode-Breymann was appointed professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover in October 2004, She began serving as a guest professor at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg in 2024.

Rode-Breymann is editor and author of numerous publications in the fields of gender studies, music history, early modern, contemporary music and the music of the turn of the century.