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Marion Haak-Schulenburg

Musikpädagogin im Projekt Bridges

Office hours Mo 11:00 - 12:00
E-Mail: [email protected]
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About me

About me

Music teacher in the Bridges project at SRH University
  • As a community musician/music teacher, I am actively involved in group music lessons as well as instrumental and vocal instruction for the Bridges project, which offers music programs for refugee children. 
Freelance trainer and lecturer in the field of community music

Since 2016, I have been teaching and training in the field of community music with a focus on vocal work and body percussion. The institutions I work with include colleges and universities, state music academies in various federal states, and providers of musical training and continuing education. 

freelance community musician in music projects with refugee children

Conducting music groups in various accommodations in Berlin for three projects between 2017 and 2020: 
- MitMachMusik
- Al Farabi Music Academy
- Prélude e.V.

as well as choir conducting for various Berlin choirs between 2011 and 2020: 
- Children's choirs of the Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg music schools
- Church choir and children's choir of the Johann Sebastian Bach Parish Berlin Lichterfelde
- Absolutely Unterhaltsam e.V.
- Afterwork choir of the Böll Foundation
- Hidden Voices (choir for people who believe they cannot sing)

Scholarship holder in the graduate program “The Knowledge of the Arts,” Berlin University of the Arts
  • Doctoral thesis on the topic “Musicking: Musical Concepts and Their Impact on the Practice of Music Projects in Palestine,” supervised by Prof. Dr. Ursula Brandstätter
Choir conducting and elementary music practice for the Barenboim-Said Foundation, Ramallah
  • Establishment and management of children's choirs and music groups in Ramallah, Nablus, and villages in the West Bank, Palestine, for the Barenboim-Said Foundation. Further training of educators in elementary music practice. 
Teacher training in music and English in Berlin
  • Universität der Künste, Berlin
    Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
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I have contributed to these publications


Non Peer-Review

De Banffy-Hall, Alicia,  Haak-Schulenburg, Marion (2021) Whose words, whose values? The tension between idealism and realism in Community Music. In: Honnens, Johann und Heß, Carmen (Hrsg), Zeitschrift für kritische Musikpädagogik.

  • Haak-Schulenburg, Marion (2020): "Eine Frage des „Wie“ und nicht des „Was“. Prinzipien und Arbeitsweisen der ‚Musicians without Borders‘ aus der Perspektive der Community Music." In: Diskussion Musikpädagogik 87/20, S. 27-32.
  • Haak-Schulenburg, Marion (2018): "'This is who you should be!' Normative Botschaften von klassischen Musikprojekten an Geflüchtete." In: Diskussion Musikpädagogik 80/18. S. 24-30


book chapter

  • Marion Haak-Schulenburg und Felicity Laurence (2021): "Art-Music-Pedagogy: a view from a geopolitical cauldron" In: Wright, Ruth; Johansen, Geir; Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis and Schmidt, Patrick (Hg.): The Routledge Handbook of Sociology of Music Education, Oxford, Routledge 2021

  • Haak-Schulenburg, Marion (2020): "Transformation oder Reproduktion? Die Musikschule der Barenboim-Said-Stiftung und ihr Anspruch auf gesellschaftliche Veränderung", in: Vorzeichenwechsel. Gesellschaftspolitische Dimensionen von Musikpädagogik heute. wiener reihe musikpädagogik Band 2. Münster: Waxmann, S. 143-159

  • Haak-Schulenburg, Marion (2017): "Vom Outsider zum Insider. Fallbeispiel eines gelungenen Community-Music- Projektes in Palästina. In: Burkhard Hill, Alicia de Banffy-Hall (Hrsg.): Community Music. Beiträge zur Theorie und Praxis aus internationaler und deutscher Perspektive. Münster: Waxmann, S. 179-187


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