Susanne Rode-Breymann (born 29 May 1958 in Hamburg) is a German musicologist, and from 2010 until March 2024 the president of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover.[1]
Rode-Breymann studied early music and music education at the Hamburg Conservatory and musicology, art history and literature at the University of Hamburg and received her doctorate in 1988 with a thesis on Alban Berg and Karl Kraus. She was a researcher at the University of Bayreuth (1988 to 1992) and the University of Bonn (1992 to 1996), a research fellow of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel in 1989 researching Anton Webern etc.[2] From 1996 to 1999 she taught as a university lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and was from 1999 to 2004 a professor of historical musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She was appointed professor of historical musicology at the university in Hannover in October 2004,[2] serving as vice president from July 2006 to July 2008. In February 2010 she was elected president of the university.[3]
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.