Scandal at the Dresden University of Music
The University Council of the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden has resigned from office in corpore with immediate effect. In a letter to Eva-Maria Stange, the Saxon State Minister for Science and the Arts, it explains its decision.
The reason for his resignation: the extended Senate bypassed the University Council when electing the new Rector of the University of Music and chose the previous Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies, Judith Schinker. The Council's favorite was the then Rector Ekkehard Klemm.
According to the Council's open letter to State Minister Eva-Maria Stange, the clearly differing ideas on the further development of the school between the Senate and the Council made "a prosperous and unencumbered cooperation impossible". The University Council consisted of Werner Barlmeyer (Chairman), Olaf Bär, Wilfried Krätzschmar, Regine Lorenz and Jan Vogler. It was appointed for five years in the fall of 2014.
This means that a German conservatory is now also struggling with succession and strategy problems. Comparable turmoil could be observed at the conservatories in Vienna and Graz. At these universities, rectors who had already been elected did not take office.
