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Director of the Conservatoire and Chairman of the Music Department, Stellenbosch University, until 1998
Reino Ernst Ottermann was born on 26 July 1936 in Rustenburg and grew up in the
German community of Kroondal, near Rustenburg. He studied in Stellenbosch (BA,
BMus, MMus and D Phil), Frankfurt am Main and Berlin.
From 1961 he taught at the University of Stellenbosch where he became professor
in 1978. He was director of the conservatoire and chairman of the music
department from 1988 until his retirement in 1998.
Apart from his main field of interest, musicology, he has also been active in
the field of church music, especially hymnology, and in general cultural
history, having had a number of articles, as well as contributions to
encyclopedias, published in each of them. Furthermore, he was involved in the
compilation and publication of Lutheran hymnals and liturgical books in
Afrikaans, English and German, as well as in African languages.
Reino Ottermann is married to Rosa Jauss who was lecturer in Home Economics at Stellenbosch University for many years. They have four children: Manfred (Manager: Product Projects, DaimlerChrysler, East London), Annegret (fashion buyer, Parow), Birgit (singer) and Peter (computer software engineer, Rondebosch).
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