Ursula Kramer
Ursula Kramer (born 1960) is a German musicologist. She has taught at the University of Mainz since 2001, as a professor from 2007. She has been president of the Christoph-Graupner-Gesellschaft from 2007. Career. Kramer studied musicology, German, English, Romance languages and music pedagogy at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz from 1980 to 1987. She studied partly on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. In 1987, she graduated in music pedagogy and as Magister Artium in musicology. She also studied the bassoon. She obtained a Ph.D. in 1992 with the thesis "Richtiges Licht und gehörige  Perspektive. Studien zur Funktion des Orchesters in der Oper des 19. Jahrhunderts", on the function of the orchestra in 19th-century opera. She worked as a dramaturge at the Staatstheater Mainz, and from 1992 to 1995 as "Orchestergeschäftsführerin" and personal "Referentin" of Generalmusikdirektor Peter Erckens. She was an assistant at the Hochschule für Musik from 1995 to 2001, when she completed her habilitation. She then lectured at the Hochschule and was named außerplanmäßige Professorin in 2007. Kramer has been president of the Christoph-Graupner-Gesellschaft, an association dedicated to the composer Christoph Graupner, from 2007.