Rapauke – Beneath the ground

Play – communicate – inspire. Rudolf Döbler pursues these goals as a musician, lecturer, presenter and music educator.

Rudolf Döbler was born in Achern (Ortenau) in 1966. He studied with William Bennett and John Wright at the music academies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe. He also attended master classes with Alain Marion, Michel Debost, James Galway, André Jaunet, Geoffrey Gilbert and Robert Dick. His first engagements took him to the philharmonic orchestras in Dessau and Hagen as principal flute.

Since 1993 he has been deputy principal flute with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Parallel to his orchestral activities, he was a member of the ensemble musikFabrik NRW, one of the leading German ensembles for contemporary music, from 1995 to 1997. He is a member of the “14 Berliner Flötisten” and the ensemble 7211.

Together with the Dutch flautist Robert Pot, Rudolf Döbler has been teaching advanced amateurs and professionals in master classes since 2002. He has been artistic director of the QUERWIND Flute Days Staufen since 2009.

Rudolf Döbler has been passionate about inspiring people for music ever since he has been on stage. His carefully chosen presentations of his own chamber concerts, his experience as a children’s concert presenter and his commitment as a school representative of the RSB are evidence of this. Since 2005, he has been coordinating, organizing and designing workshops and rehearsal visits for Berlin schools and kindergartens

After successfully completing her vocal studies, Heike Link studied elementary music education at the Berlin University of the Arts and trained as a children’s choir director at the Bundesakademie Wolfenbüttel. From 1995 to 2020, she taught at various music schools in Berlin in the areas of early musical education, basic training and children’s choir. From August 2021 to August 2022, she trained as an educator and has been working in a small kindergarten in Berlin since August 2020. She is a freelance lecturer at the Landesmusikakademie and the UdK and works with the Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin.

Prof. Jule Greiner worked as an elementary music teacher at the Kreuzberg Music School before teaching at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she subsequently held a professorship for elementary music education at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. She has also worked and continues to work as a lecturer in further and continuing education for teachers and educators as well as for musicians in kindergarten and concert programmes. She is co-author of various works on EMP and regularly writes articles on the subject in specialist journals.

As part of the Robert Bosch Stiftung’s ‘Art and Games’ funding project, she developed and designed the concert series ‘Rapauke macht Musik’ for children aged 3 to 6, which received the ‘JUNGE OHREN PREIS’ from the ‘netzwerk junge ohren’ for music education in 2017.

Isbael Stegner studied violin in Mannheim and Berlin and is a violinist with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Inspired by music projects for her own children, she also completed a degree in music education at the Detmold University of Music and Performing Arts and has since worked passionately as a freelance music educator. In addition to the Rapauke series of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, she organises projects for the Kammerakademie and the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam and the Ensemble Aventure in Freiburg. She holds a teaching position at the Freiburg University of Music.
Communicating with the audience as equals, motivating fellow musicians, thinking creatively and reflecting the diversity of society: These are the principles that guide her in her work as a mediator.