Aims of the Deutschen Sullivan-Gesellschaft e.V.
The German Sullivan Society promotes the music of British composers, especially fostering the spreading and understanding of Arthur Sullivan's entire oeuvre, in the German-speaking countries.
This includes his work as composer (opera, chamber music, Lieder, part-songs, works for choir and orchestra, incidental music etc.) as well as his career as conductor, scholar and benefactor of the musical world.
Become a member now
As a member you will receive:
The latest issue of the
(Magazine of the Deutschen Sullivan-Gesellschaft)Newsletter as email
Invitations to society gatherings like the AGM in
different German towns, accompanied by a
Sullivan-related musical programmeDiscounts for certain offers
Annual Membership Fee:
30 Euro (single)
45 Euro (couples)
75 Euro (institutions)
Our Board:
Honorary President:
Scott M. Hayes
Scott M. Hayes is a great-great-grandnephew of Arthur Sullivan; his great-great-grandfather was Sullivan's only brother, Frederick. In 2009, Scott published the second edition of UNCLE ARTHUR: THE CALIFORNIA CONNECTION, originally written by his father, W. Scott Hayes, in 2001. The third edition was published in German translation by the German Sullivan Society in 2021. Scott and his father also co-edited the book YOUR AFFECTIONATE A: SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN'S LETTERS TO HIS FAMILY in 2015.
Scott has served as a professor at numerous universities on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as artistic director for two theater companies, and continues to work as a director, actor, and playwright. He is currently dean of the School of Communication & the Arts at Liberty University. Scott and his wife, Sarah, have three daughters and one grandson. They live in Virginia.
1st Chairperson:
Prof. Dr. Antje Tumat
Antje Tumat studied musicology, German, English, and education (state examination) in Heidelberg and Stoke-on-Trent. In 2003, she received the Ruprecht Karl Prize from Heidelberg University and the Walter Witzenmann Prize from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for her doctorate on Hans Werner Henze's and Ingeborg Bachmann's opera "The Prince of Homburg" (Kassel 2004), which was funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. She subsequently became a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She subsequently worked as a research associate in the DFG project "Music and Stage at the Stuttgart Court Theater in the 19th Century," as an assistant at the Department of Musicology at Heidelberg University, and as head of the junior research group "The Libretti at the Stuttgart Court Theater" as part of the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation's elite funding program. Further teaching assignments took her to the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts and the Karlsruhe University of Music.
She is the first chairwoman of the German Sullivan Society, a member of the advisory boards of the Society for Music Research, the Hans Werner Henze Foundation, the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Edition, and the Research Center for Music and Gender in Hanover. She is a member of the Joseph Haydn Institute and the selection committee for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's scholarship program, as well as a liaison lecturer there. From 2012 to 2020, she served on the advisory board of the Yearbook Music and Gender. She has published works on the early modern period and music of the 18th to 20th centuries. Her other research interests include music and theater, Heidelberg Romanticism, gender studies, and music for radio and film. Antje Tumat is the mother of a son and has extensive choral, orchestral, and chamber music experience.
Chairman:
Maximilian Burgdörfer
Maximilian Burgdörfer studied English and musicology in Leipzig. During his studies, he discovered Sir Arthur Sullivan's music and, in his bachelor's thesis, addressed Sullivan's relationship with Leipzig and Germany. After completing his studies, he worked as a personal assistant to the management of Edition Peters Music Publishing in London. After Brexit, he returned to Germany and now lives in Berlin, where he teaches English, music, and theater.
His main interests are British Classical Music of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. In addition to music, his diverse interests include cultural history, natural history, and garden history. His greatest passion, however, is and remains the Victorian era in all its facets. Maximilian Burgdörfer also works as a freelance artist and expresses his creativity in large-scale English school projects at various Berlin schools.
Secretary:
Klaus Blees
Treasurer:
Thomas Heinemann
