The abundance of changes of a personnel and organizational nature in the young conservatory and the desire to bring something of this to the outside world motivated the management in 1976 to bring the 'Hochschulmitteilungen' (university news)  into being. In the foreword of the first issue, President Hanns Reinartz names as the main addressees “the institutions of public life, relevant publication organs and the media”. Of course, there was also a promotional purpose attached to it.

The wish to publish the university news “several times a year in loose succession” could not be fulfilled (as expected). At least, for a long time, one issue was published in the style of the annual reports, reviewing an entire academic year. The quality of the paper, typesetting, layout, cover, and binding also gradually improved. This made the termination of the company following the 2002/03 issue all the more serious. The move was probably a consequence of cost-cutting measures. The summaries of the years 2004 to 2007 and 2007 to 2011, edited by Dieter Kirsch, did not appear until 2012 and 2015, respectively – out of a need to continue “the long tradition unique to Germany” (according to the editor in 2012).

Its successor from 2012 was Podium, a magazine of the university with a new, contemporary look.

Christoph Henzel