Daniel Hensel English

Name: Daniel Hensel

Day of birth: 17th of April 1978

Place of birth: Buedingen/ Germany

Wife: Dorota Ewa, born Nowicka

Children: Anna-Maximiliane Geraldine Hensel, Johann-David Hensel, Rosemarie-Helene Hensel, Heinz-Ludwig and Quintus-Tadeusz Hensel

Citizenship: German

Musical Education and Career

• 1987: Commencement of guitar studies under the guidance of Michael Winderling (age 7).

• 1992: Initiation of piano studies with Johann Baumann (age 12).

• 1993–1994: Piano instruction with Gerhard Schaubach; first explorations in composition.

• 1994–1999: Comprehensive studies in composition, counterpoint, harmony, basso continuo, and instrumentation with Gerhard Schedl at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory, Frankfurt am Main (Amateur Department).

• Concurrent piano studies with Wolfgang Hess and Norbert Brecht.

• Flute instruction with Annegret Lucke at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory.

• 1997: Awarded secondary school diploma (university entrance qualification) from Wolfgang Ernst School, Büdingen.

• 1998–1999: University preparatory composition course with Gerhard Schedl.

• 1999–2003: Composition studies under Prof. Heinz Winbeck at the University of Music Würzburg (Hochschule für Musik Würzburg).

• 2001: Intermediate diploma in composition conferred.

• 2003: Mentorship with composer Moritz Eggert.

• 2003–2004: Composition studies with Prof. Manfred Trojahn at the Robert Schumann University of Music Düsseldorf.

• Guest residency with Prof. Wolfgang Rihm in collaboration with Justus Frantz.

• January 27, 2004: Final composition examination passed with distinction.

• 2004–2005: Postgraduate studies with Prof. Michael Obst at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (HfM Weimar).

• November 3, 2005: Marriage to Mrs. Dorota Ewa Hensel (née Nowicka).

• 2005–2008: Masterclass studies with Prof. Heinz Winbeck at the University of Music Würzburg.

• Private instruction with Joachim F.W. Schneider.

• December 25, 2008: Birth of daughter Anna-Maximiliane Geraldine.

• 2010: Collaboration with Musikverlag Doblinger (Vienna) for the publication of String Sextet, Op. 20 – Klärchen’s Song.

• 2011: Doctorate in Musicology awarded by the University of Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt am Main (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main) under Prof. Dr. Peter Ackermann.

• Dissertation: From Unity to Plurality or “The Lust for Subjectivity” – The Music of Gerhard Schedl.

• 2011: Collaboration with German filmmaker Edgar Reitz; composition of the Cardillac Suite for Reitz’s film Cardillac.

• April 1, 2011: Publication of the scholarly monograph Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Epigone or Original Genius, Eccentric Figure or Great Composer? through ibidem-Verlag.

• Academic and Professional Achievements

• June 22, 2011: Birth of Johann-David Hensel.

• April 2011 – Present: Appointment as Associate Lecturer in Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.

• July 13, 2011: Successful completion of dissertation and disputation with the distinction magna cum laude.

• 2010–2012: Independent studies in electroacoustic composition, focusing on computer music technologies, including Csound, Max/MSP, Pure Data, SuperCollider, and Java.

• September 2011: Publication of the doctoral dissertation on the works of Gerhard Schedl.

• 2012: Initiation of the development of the music analysis software Palestrinizer in collaboration with Ingo Jache. This project is based on a 1996 article by Peter Ackermann and contributes to the habilitation project at Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg.

• 2012: Completion of a critical edition of Emanuel Aloys Förster’s Anleitung zum General-Bass, including an accompanying biography by Karl Weigl.

• May 21, 2015: Birth of Rosemarie-Helene Hensel.

• May 18, 2016: Award of the post-doctoral lecturer qualification (Habilitation), conferring the title Privatdozent, equivalent to Associate Professor.

• July 1, 2016: Official conferral of the habilitation certificate, with the academic title Dr. phil. habil.

• April 1, 2018 – Present: Appointment as Lecturer for Special Tasks at Saarland University.

• June 24, 2018: Birth of Heinz-Ludwig Hensel.

• [Year]: Composition commissions received from the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and Hessischer Rundfunk (HR2).

• July 3, 2020: Recipient of the Promotional Prize at the 2020 Bach Composition Competition in Eisenach for the orchestral work Of One Who Set Out to Learn Life.

• 2020: Recognition with the Advancement Award for Daniel Hensel by the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

• April 2021: Recipient of a bridging grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation.

• April 12, 2021: Release of Duo for Viola and Tuba, Op. 7, on major streaming platforms, including Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Spotify.

• October 2021: Award of a GEMA grant for the composition of the First Electroacoustic Symphony.

• February 1, 2022 Birth of Quintus-Tadeusz Hensel

• July 1, 2022 Grant approval for the NEUSTART KULTUR scholarship from the German Music Council

• September 22, 2023 Broadcast of the 1st Symphony on BR-Klassik

• June 1, 2024 Appointed Artistic-Scientific Associate for Organ Art, Creativity Concepts & AI at the Klais Organ of the University of Music Würzburg within the framework of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria

• December 9, 2024 World premiere of “Energien” op.41 at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna by Ensemble Platypus and Jaime Wolfson

• April 5, 2025 Joined the Elvis Presley Association Bad-Nauheim-Friedberg e.V.

On the Works

Duo for Violin and Violoncello “Selbstzerstörung und Abgesang”, Op. 25

ESTA-Nachrichten 1/18:

The composer Daniel Hensel is currently working as a private lecturer in systematic musicology at the University of Halle. His duo Selbstzerstörung und Abgesang for vn and vc (and two obbligato wine glasses, as noted in the score), published by Doblinger, was premiered in 2013 in Vienna by Marianna Oczkowska and Tomasc [sic!] Skweres. Hensel studied with the Austrian composer Gerhard Schedl (on whose music he also earned his doctorate), and later with Manfred Trojahn and Wolfgang Rihm. [sic! I only attended one class by Rihm as a guest auditor! Winbeck was my actual teacher. Author’s note: Hensel]

The piece presents both instrumentalists with extraordinary challenges of a technical, rhythmic, and intonational nature. Shimmering tremolo is combined with a slowly, widely oscillating vibrato; constant changes of bow contact point generate ever-new timbres; the hissing noise of the bows alternates with the sounds of bowed wine glasses. Title and execution immediately evoke associations: swan song, death, destruction & Detroit, not least the duet with two obbligato eyeglasses… Daniel Hensel is a musicologist, and he will surely have employed these allusions deliberately.

Agnes Stein von Kamienski

String Sextet “Klärchens Lied”, Op. 20

Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 09.11.09

“The Agreeable Becomes a Provocation” — Georg Pepl

[…] Not only did the musical worlds of the Swiss grand master of the avant-garde, Heinz Holliger (70), and Kassel’s musical hero Louis Spohr collide. Even more striking were the tensions within New Music itself. Against Holliger’s radicalism stood world premieres by the young composers Daniel Hensel, Marc-Aurel Floros, Nina Senk, and Joachim F. W. Schneider, with Hensel’s expressivity commanding attention and the anti-avant-gardism of Floros seeming at least quite amusing. […]

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On the Arrangements for Chamber Ensemble

PaperPress, Culture / Issue No. 448 — August 2008 (posted by the editors on 11.08.2009, 10:35 a.m.)

“Small Orchestra — Great Music”

[…] Be that as it may, what mattered most last night was the successful arrangement for chamber ensemble—by Daniel Hensel—of the Farewell Symphony and, in the second half, Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony. Simply magnificent. […]

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Gesang des gesegneten Lebens, Op. 18

Eßlinger Zeitung, 10.12.2008:

“Eternal Light” — Manfred Honeck conducts Mahler and a World Premiere

By Martin Mezger

Stuttgart — Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony deals with death and declaration: to the demise, invoked with mighty sonority in the funeral march of the first movement, humanity declares its dissent and therefore claims the last word—divinely simple in the “Urlicht” song, as it were the protest song of a stray soul, and hymnically collective in the finale with the ultimately triumphant chorus of “Aufersteh’n.” Can and should one prepend a kind of prologue to this symphony of final words? One can—if one is able. And the composer Daniel Hensel, born in 1978, was able.

His Gesang des gesegneten Lebens, premiered in the Beethoven-Saal by the Stuttgart State Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, is a work with a completely independent logic and yet places a Mahlerian moment under the magnifying glass: the birth of the chorale from the primordial soup of natural sounds that wrest themselves from unformed noise. It begins almost tonelessly with breath scarcely audible, rises through shimmering mirages of sound and microscopic swarms of instrumental motives to a thunderous breakthrough that clears the way for a percussively roughened chorale, meanwhile raising the static fundamental A via E-flat to the fifth E, and finally subsiding into petering plops and the tonelessness of the opening.

Hensel wished to pay homage to Mahler’s First Symphony with its “Naturlaut” beginning and its titanic hero, who is borne to the grave in the first movement of the Second. But more than such programmatic orientation, it is the cogency of this composition that counts, functioning as an independent commentary on Mahler’s technique, like a magnifying glass and ear-opener before the popular “Resurrection Symphony.” At least when the new work is interpreted with such attention to detail, timbral awareness, and dynamism as by Honeck and the State Orchestra. This was no warming-up before the big number, but an engagement as consistent as with Mahler himself. And that, in turn, proved simply magnificent […].

Stuttgarter Zeitung, 09.12.2008:

“Grandiose Nobility” — Manfred Honeck conducts the Stuttgart State Orchestra

By Annette Eckerle

“Mahler’s tone tastes the way Austrians say one ‘tastes’ Riesling grapes. Its aroma, both pungent and fleeting, helps, as something vanishing, towards spiritualization”—thus Theodor W. Adorno once described Mahler’s tone. To reflect this in composition remains a somewhat daunting task. Daniel Hensel, whose Gesang des gesegneten Lebens, Op. 18, opened the State Orchestra’s second symphony concert in the Beethoven-Saal, therefore undertook months of intensive walks in the woods. As can be read in an email logbook. The effort paid off. One witnessed the world premiere of music that, employing the entire modern spectrum of sonority—from white noise to finely wrought allusions—entered into dialogue with Mahler’s “tasted” aroma and yet unfolded its own bouquet. This was more than a mere warm-up overture conducted by General Music Director Manfred Honeck before Mahler’s Second Symphony […].

Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 08.12.2008:

State Orchestra — Mahler’s Second

“Transfigured Nature and Wild Woe” — Helmuth Fiedler

In the Universal Edition catalogue, Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony in C minor is labeled as an evening-filling work. Not so for Stuttgart’s Opera GMD Manfred Honeck (50), who, in Sunday’s matinee concert of the Stuttgart State Orchestra before 2,000 listeners in the Beethoven-Saal, prefaced the “Resurrection Symphony” with the orchestral piece Gesang des gesegneten Lebens by the 30-year-old Hessian composer Daniel Hensel as a world premiere. Hensel borrowed the title of his ten-minute composition from a chant of the Navajo people with which they call their grievously wounded back to life. In doing so, the native Hessian—working with great atmospheric density—primarily alludes to the dynamically intensifying “Naturlaut” opening of Mahler’s First. The whole work revolves around a central tone A, to which—its increasingly bustling, richly shaped counterpart—an original chorale quotation by Mahler is set in opposition. Strong, brief applause, and immediately thereafter Mahler’s Second followed […].

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Requiem der jungen Hoffnungen, Op. 6

Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, 10.10.2006:

“Full of Lightness and Buoyant Harmony”

Heinrich Schütz Choir Hanover guest performance at Andreaskirche / “Requiem der jungen Hoffnungen” — Frank Hermann

[…] The world premiere featured Requiem der jungen Hoffnungen by the composer Daniel Hensel. With this premiere, the concert […] acquired a very special character. Composer Daniel Hensel, born in Upper Hesse in 1978 and at that time a student at the University of Music Würzburg, fulfilled a youthful dream with Requiem der jungen Hoffnungen. Under the direction of Peter Marino, the choir, strings, soprano Nan Li, and mezzo-soprano Nastassja Nass transported the audience into the surreal-sounding worlds of the Requiem with its dark, somber atmosphere. The audience rewarded this demanding fare with hearty applause […].

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Reviews of the Publications

“My sincere congratulations! You have achieved a wonderful portrayal—one musician by another—and that means a great deal (to me). Justice is done to the man and to the creator of evidently extraordinary works through your work. That is exceedingly necessary and precious.”

Dr. Thomas Daniel Schlee (composer, organist, musicologist, and Intendant)

“Daniel Hensel’s comprehensive study is a fascinating and illuminating read, treating biographical and analytical aspects equally thoroughly and competently. One can only offer due praise to both publisher and author for this successful book.”

Prof. Dr. h.c. Zsolt Gárdonyi (Professor of Music Theory, organist, and composer)

“The young composer Daniel Hensel dispels many prejudices in his book on Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Among other things, his analyses demonstrate that some of Friedemann Bach’s compositions were pioneering for the music of the 19th and 20th centuries. The eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach was by no means merely the greatest organ virtuoso of his time. A recommended read for all music lovers, musicians, and musicologists.”

Michael Meißner, Bachhaus Eisenach, February 2011

Scholarships and Grants

• 2006 – Paul and Käthe Kick Foundation: Grant

• 2007 – Scholarship of the GEMA Foundation

• 2007 – Musical Academy Würzburg e.V. – Society of Friends and Patrons of the University of Music Würzburg: Study grant for completion of the Master Class

• 2008 – Wolfgang Fischer and Maria Fischer-Flach Foundation: Study grant

• 2011 – Grant of the Paul and Käthe Kick Foundation

• 2019 – Grant from the Support and Relief Fund of the German Composers’ Association (DKV)

• 2020 – Grant from InnerWheel

• 2020 – Grant from the Support and Relief Fund of the German Composers’ Association (DKV)

• 2021 – “Bridge Scholarship” of the Hessian Cultural Foundation. Funded within the framework of Kulturpaket II: Opening Perspectives, Safeguarding Diversity

• 2021 – GEMA Scholarship for the composition of the First Symphony (Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR)

• 2022 – Composition Scholarship of the German Music Council (Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR)

Emails and Letters on the First Song of the Cycle Die junge Magd, Op. 19, by Georg Trakl

Email from the director of HEIMAT, Prof. Dr. Edgar Reitz, July 16, 2012, 11:59 p.m.

Dear Mr. Hensel,

Salome and I recently listened to your Trakl song while a storm was rising. It is a very beautiful, romantic piece of music, which reminded us of Mahler. We enjoyed it greatly—such intimacy is very rare in contemporary music.

With best wishes and warm regards from Munich,

Yours,

Edgar Reitz

reading them, he said that Mr. Bekh would certainly appreciate receiving a letter of appreciation and gave me his address. Mr. Bekh replied sooner than I had expected and wrote me the most beautiful letters I have ever received in my life. These letters were written in Kurrent, the old German handwriting that has not been taught since the 1930s.

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Letter No. 1, October 15, 2008

Dear Mr. Hensel,

Thank you very much for your letter of September 26, 2008. I am delighted that you enjoyed my book on Anton Bruckner. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on my Mahler book. May I also recommend my four-volume memoirs for further reading.

Thank you for sharing your own works with me—great works, for which I owe you my gratitude! In between the sounds touched me most deeply. I am grateful for the opportunity to have become acquainted with such a distinguished composer of our time.

I wish you all the best for the future and every success with your works.

Yours sincerely,

Wolfgang Johannes Bekh

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Letter No. 2, January 13, 2009

Dear Mr. Hensel,

By return of mail, I respond to your letter of today, which reached its destination in the way only possible under the special circumstances of the recipient’s complete devotion. Phew—what a long sentence that was! I was very moved by your lines.

Thank you for the picture of your little daughter. You honored me greatly by sending the recording of your Song of Consecrated Life. Allow me to share my impression: I have just listened to it and am utterly enraptured. Admittedly, some passages might have been composed by Mahler, but the work as a whole is entirely your own! I am proud and happy to know its creator.

When spring comes, will you visit me again?

With heartfelt regards,

Yours,

Wolfgang Johannes Bekh

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Letter No. 3, December 21, 2009

Dear Mr. Hensel,

I was thrilled by your letter and your recent package. I was also delighted by your arrangements, which I will listen to on Christmas Eve. My anticipation is great. I can no longer write long letters—I will be turning 85, after all.

I wish you a Merry Christmas.

Yours sincerely,

Wolfgang Johannes Bekh

I did not realize how ill he already was. The next letter was to be his last. I learned of his death on December 22, 2010—only in August 2012.

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Letter No. 4, March 10, 2010

Dear Mr. Hensel,

Your letter and its enclosures gave me great pleasure. The String Sextet, Op. 20, and your arrangements of Beethoven and Haydn left me astonished. Thank you very much! I wish you all the best and continued success.

As for my legislative work—it has been faltering for quite some time. In any case, I shall be turning 85 in a few days.

With best wishes and much creative energy,

Yours,

Wolfgang Johannes Bekh

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In my opinion, Bekh wrote the most beautiful composer biographies I know, and I use them with great passion in my seminars.

Testimonial (12 March 2022)

I have known Mr. Daniel Hensel for several years in my capacity as editor for Neue Musik | Klangkunst, both as a committed musicologist and as a versatile composer. For the editorial department I supervise at Hessischer Rundfunk, Mr. Hensel has authored music features on the composers Gerhard Schedl and Heinz Winbeck, two of his composition teachers, and has also realized several electroacoustic works as commissioned pieces.

These eloquent sound-art compositions articulate themselves in a remarkably individual idiom, one that virtuously integrates the manifold possibilities of contemporary composition with electroacoustic media. In precisely these works for loudspeakers, Mr. Hensel has succeeded in opening up entirely new technical and aesthetic territories. Moreover, his electroacoustic pieces are shaped by various art forms of our time, subtly reflect the respective social contexts in which they were created, and sometimes position themselves critically in relation to these contexts, often drifting—also as an aesthetic consequence—into the surreal.

Central themes in his creative work repeatedly address the great existential questions of life and the reality of individual finitude. A father of five, Daniel Hensel worked for many years as a paramedic. This knowledge and experience may indeed serve as a key to understanding his musical thought.

Prof. Stefan Fricke

Head of Editorial Department, Neue Musik | Jazz | Klangkunst

Dr. Christian Heindl

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On Daniel Hensel’s Music

Daniel Hensel: Gesang des gesegneten Lebens for large orchestra, Op. 18 (2008)

Instrumentation: 4 flutes (3rd and 4th also piccolo), 4 oboes, 3 clarinets in B-flat, 1 bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 1 contrabassoon – 6 horns in F, 4 trumpets in B-flat, 4 trombones, 1 tuba – 2 timpani, 6 percussionists (1. snare drum; 2. large tam-tam; 3. small tam-tam; 4. cymbals; 5. glockenspiel; 6. bass drum) – harp – strings (preferably 20/18/16/14/12).

Duration: 12 minutes

Born in 1978 in Büdingen (Hesse), Daniel Hensel today ranks among the most widely recognized composers of his generation in Germany. Having begun with instrumental studies in guitar and piano, he produced his first compositional attempts in the early 1990s at the age of fifteen, under the guidance of Gerhard Schaubach. From 1994 to 1999, Hensel studied with Gerhard Schedl in composition, counterpoint, harmony, thoroughbass, and orchestration in the “amateur division” of the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. In addition, he pursued studies in piano and flute at the same institution. Further training followed with Heinz Winbeck, Manfred Trojahn, Michael Obst, and Joachim F. W. Schneider.

As diverse as this impressive succession of eminent composer personalities suggests, so too is the young composer’s oeuvre. Alongside the almost “classical” Opus 1, a piano sonata, there already exists with Op. 1 No. 2 a concrete and highly personal reference to one of his teachers: a piano elegy In Memoriam Gerhard Schedl, who took his own life in 2000 at the age of only 43. Processing this tragic experience is also central to Op. 2, “…Ihr lacht wohl über den Träumer…” – A Struggle for Dark Ensemble, dedicated to Schedl and his widow Jutta.

Numerous piano works—befitting the pianist Hensel—together with chamber music, ensemble pieces, orchestral works, and vocal compositions, further define his catalogue. It is striking that somber colors appear frequently, for instance in the Requiem der jungen Hoffnungen, Op. 6. Equally notable are his recurring references to Vienna and Austria: the Requiem is set to texts by Lenau and Schubert, while his Second String Quartet, Op. 12 Im Nebel, is based on Trakl. It is therefore hardly misplaced to view Hensel—who is a member of both the German Composers’ Association and the Austrian Composers’ Union—in a tradition extending from Schubert through Mahler and his teacher Schedl into the present day.

Accordingly, with the world premiere of Gesang des gesegneten Lebens for large orchestra, Op. 18, Hensel sees, in his own words, a lifelong dream fulfilled: the joint programming of one of his works in conjunction with Gustav Mahler. That this “Overture to Gustav Mahler” (Martin Mezger, Eßlinger Zeitung, 28 March of this year) should by no means be regarded merely as an “appetizer” to the ensuing symphony becomes evident when one considers Hensel’s profound engagement with Mahler’s oeuvre. The atmospheric proximity is unmistakable, enveloping the listener from the very first bars. The immense orchestral apparatus is employed not as an end in itself, but for finely nuanced shading and dynamic build-up.

Whereas in earlier times extensive correspondence between composers and their confidants—textual or editorial—often provided insight into the creative process, today it is naturally electronic communication that assumes this role. Selected excerpts from the composer’s email correspondence with the author may describe the work more vividly than a detailed analytical study:

29 June 2008:

“The concept: Mahler’s presence initially overwhelmed me compositionally. I truly needed EIGHT different attempts, each yielding about four minutes of music, before I was able to free myself from Mahler. I have been writing since May, but never has composing been so difficult for me as with this project. Yet it is also the most wonderful project I have ever been able to undertake […]. I decided not to refer directly to the Second Symphony, but to Mahler as a whole. A central element of Mahler’s music is the ‘sound of nature’. Living in a forested region [and as my wife sends me out every evening for at least eight kilometers through the woods, so that I do not grow too expansive;-)] it was natural for me to seek the contemporary sound of nature. But nature sounds have changed: one now stands in the forest, hears the birds singing, and simultaneously a chainsaw in the distance and an airplane overhead. Thus I already had a subject. The next step followed naturally: to take the First Symphony as an ‘overture’ to the Second. For in the Second, the hero of the First is laid to rest! Hence, in the piece an ‘A’ emerges first from a ‘primordial soup’. Once the ‘A’ has become reality, it is alienated. In this unreal landscape, natural sounds reappear repeatedly as cries. The entire piece is additive—that is, it adheres to a musical concept to which more and more elements are added. The plan follows the model of evolution: first unicellular organisms, then higher life forms, then the human being. Here lies my present crisis: the appearance of the human must be particularly emphasized. I am currently revising the opening four minutes, because the development proceeds too quickly […].”

6 August 2008:

“Having sought a definition of life, I arrived at the human being—humanity as the midpoint between macro- and microcosm, as a creature of love and destruction. Now I would like to return to nature, but a nature already heavily altered by humankind. I wish to trace musically the path to industrialization and devastation, evolution as that which unfolds without judgment or hope—becoming ever quieter, noisier, and dying away—until, like a lightning strike: the first movement of Mahler’s Second Symphony. Musically, I plan to shape this by means of guiding rhythms, crafted from key-click sounds. We shall see how I manage this. The danger always lies in being too captive to the program, while the music itself must still make sense.”

15 August 2008:

“I am currently reworking the climax, as it seemed too harmless to me. It is now formed in E-flat, symbolizing the division of the octave (humanity between micro- and macrocosm), with the tension between A and E-flat alluding to Tristan. The brass interjections are organized according to triangular numbers and subsequently Fibonacci numbers, while a mechanizing percussive bombardment in chains of sixteenth-notes is unleashed. In context, this appears as a brief episode—just as humanity itself is but a brief episode in world history. I do not return to the ‘A’, since after the extinction of each species, evolution proceeds one step further. I ascend from E-flat to E, thus creating a quasi-dominant relation and, with the framing of fifths, a divine framework. […] Never have I invested so much labor into a piece; the looming submission deadline weighs heavily upon me […].”

Professor Michael Obst

Institut für Neue Musik - Komposition

Weimar May 5th, 2007

Recommendation for Daniel Hensel

Daniel Hensel was my composition student during his post-graduate studies during the 2004/05 academic year. I had admitted him to my composition class because I found the compositions he submitted for his entrance examination both interesting and multifarious. They consisted of chamber music as well as works for choir and orchestra. The compositions he wrote during his studies in Weimar display an especially individual style and a diverse way of handling the compositional means of our time. During the past months, Daniel Hensel has shown me several of his new works, which convinced me that he has found his own compositional language and knows how to state his artistic concerns by using his comprehensive knowledge of the stylistic means of contemporary music. This knowledge, which of course also includes musical tradition, is also an ideal prerequisite for a future teaching position.

Prof. Michael Obst

https://github.com/Elvis-Budingensis/PALESTRiNIZER

Bücher

Von der Einheit in der Vielfalt oder der Lust am Subjektiven: Die Musik Gerhard Schedls dargestellt an seiner Instrumentalmusik, ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011

Emanuel Aloys Förster: „Anleitung zum General-Bass“ (1805), einschließlich der Biographie Karl Weigl: Emanuel Aloys Förster (1913)

Neu gesetzt, kommentiert und herausgegeben von Daniel Hensel, ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2012

Johann August Dürrnberger, „Elementar-Lehrbuch der Harmonie- und Generalbasslehre“, hrg. von Daniel Hensel, Klaus Petermayr, und Andreas Lindner, Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag Wien, 2018.

Beiträge zur Musikinformatik

Modus, Klang- und Zeitgestaltung in Lassus- und Palestrina-Motetten

bei Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2017.

Aufsätze

Simon Sechter, seine Fundamentalbass-Theorie und ihre Auswirkungen auf die musikalische Konstruktion im Werk Anton Bruckners, in:

Bruckner Jahrbuch 2011-2014, hrg. von Andreas Lindner und Klaus Petermayr, Anton Bruckner Institut Linz/ Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Linz 2015

Das Bruckner-Exemplar des „Elementar-Lehrbuch der Harmonie- und Generalbasslehre“ des Johann August Dürrnberger,Bruckner Jahrbuch 2015-2017, hrg. von Andreas Lindner und Klaus Petermayr, Anton Bruckner Institut Linz/ Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Linz 2018.

„Der neapolitanische Sextakkord und andere tonale Aspekte in Weberns Orchesterstück op.10 Nr.4“, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Band 76, Dezember 2019, Heft 4, pp 307-314

Kompositionstechniken bei Alban Berg und Joseph Haydn und Methoden der musikalischen Analyse

Zwei Studien, Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Band 78, September 2021, Heft 3, pp 224-229

Modale Klangstrukturen in Madrigalen Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinas und ihre Analyse durch die Software PALESTRiNIZER In: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Band 79, Juni 2022, Heft 2, pp 153-171

Bergs Op. 2 – ein weiterer Versuch einer semantischen Analyse auf Basis der Harmonik in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Band 79, Oktober 2022, Heft 3, pp 189-206

Daniel Hensel

KI – Grenzen und Möglichkeiten

Statement zu KI

erschienen in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 1/2025 , Seite 42

Lexikonartikel

Heinz Winbeck, in: Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG), 65. Nflg, 12/19, edition text+kritik, München 2019

Gerhard Schedl, in: Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG), 66 Nflg, 1/20, edition text+kritik, München 2020

Sendungen

hr2-kultur, Neue Musik

"Ich hab’ meine Arbeit getan…" - Heinz Winbeck. Eine Sendung von Daniel Hensel

hr2-kultur, Neue Musik

„Musik ist eine Sucht - GERHARD SCHEDL. Eine Sendung von Daniel Hensel

Eine Publikation, auf die ich noch aufmerksam machen möchte:

Dorota Ewa Hensel

„Transmigration als soziales Phänomen“, Polnische Transmigrantinnen in Deutschland

bei ibidem

Vorträge

26.03.2024 Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

"KI und ihre Möglichkeiten in der Orgelkunst"

12.06.2023 Kunstuniversität Graz

„Mein Zugang zur elektronischen Musik“, per Zoom

14.09.2022 MDW-Wien

online-Vortrag über Das Handexemplar Bruckners des „Elementar-Lehrbuchs der Harmonie- und Generalbasslehre“ von Johann August Dürrnberger

23.09.2020 Musik Privatuniversität Wien

online-Vortrag über Das Handexemplar Bruckners des „Elementar-Lehrbuchs der Harmonie- und Generalbasslehre“ von Johann August Dürrnberger

23.09.19 Strassburg Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie

„Die Musikanalyse-Software PALESTRiNIZER, Modell für das 21. Jahrhundert?“,

wegen nicht aufschiebbarer OP meiner Frau leider entfallen

17.01.18 Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken:

„Modus, Klang und Zeitgestaltung bei Orlando di Lasso und Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina“

08.05.17, Bruckner-Universität Linz, Das Handexemplar Bruckners des „Elementar-Lehrbuchs der Harmonie- und Generalbasslehre“ von Johann August Dürrnberger

15.11.16 Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main:

„Modus, Klang und Zeitgestaltung bei Orlando di Lasso und Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina“, Vortrag im Rahmen des wissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums des Max Planck-Instituts Frankfurt am Main

23.09.2020 Musik Privatuniversität Wien, online-Vortrag über Das Handexemplar Bruckners des „Elementar-Lehrbuchs der Harmonie- und Generalbasslehre“ von Johann August Dürrnberger

23.09.19 Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie: „Die Musikanalyse-Software PALESTRiNIZER, Modell für das 21. Jahrhundert?“, wegen nicht aufschiebbarer OP meiner Frau entfallen

30.09.16 Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie: „Klanganalyse von Motetten des 16. Jahrhunderts mit der Software PALESTRiNIZER“

04.05.16

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, 14:00 Uhr

öffentliche Vorlesung als Abschluss des Habilitationsverfahrens

„Haben wir das 18. Jahrhundert falsch verstanden?“

27.04.16

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, 14:00 Uhr

Disputation über „Modus, Klang und Zeitgestaltung bei Orlando di Lasso und Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina“

(entfallen) Donnerstag, 1.10.2015

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung in Halle an der Saale,

Vortrag „Musikanalyse mit dem PALESTRINIZER“

13.06.14.

Gastvortrag an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main:

„Modi, pythagoräische Stimmung und Computer“, Workshop mit Ingo Jache, computergestützte Musikanalyse und digitale Signalverarbeitung

14.01.14

Gastvortrag an der Martin-Luther-Universität zu Halle:

„Modi, pythagoräische Stimmung und Computer“, Workshop mit Ingo Jache, computergestützte Musikanalyse und digitale Signalverarbeitung

13.07.2011 Disputation "Von der Einheit in der Vielfalt oder der Lust am Subjektiven – Die Musik Gerhard Schedls" an der HfMDK-Frankfurt am Main

Postal address:

Name: PD Dr. Daniel Hensel

Street: Ueber den Roten Graeben 8

Zipcode\ city: D-63654 Buedingen

Telefone: +49\6042\956499

E-mail: daniel(at)danielhensel.de

Responsible person after § 10 Abs. 3 MDStV

Name: Daniel Hensel

Street: Ueber den Roten Graeben 8

Zipcode\ city: D-63654 Buedingen

Portraits:

Eric Mörschel

63654 Büdingen

http://www.breadless-arts.de

email: erixpostfach(at)breadless-arts(punkt)de

By using these websites, no businesslike services in the sense of german §6 Teledienstegesetz (TDG) are done! These websites are only a portrait of the composer, Daniel Hensel!

Last actualization: 04.05.2025

We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the Daniel Hensel. The use of the Internet pages of the Daniel Hensel is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the Daniel Hensel. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.

As the controller, the Daniel Hensel has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.

1. Definitions

The data protection declaration of the Daniel Hensel is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.

In this data protection declaration, we use, inter alia, the following terms:

a) Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

b) Data subject

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.

c) Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

d) Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

e) Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

f) Pseudonymisation

Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

g) Controller or controller responsible for the processing

Controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

h) Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

i) Recipient

Recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

j) Third party

Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.

k) Consent

Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. Name and Address of the controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

Daniel Hensel

Über den Roten Gräben 8

63654 Büdingen

Deutschland

Phone: 06042956499

Email: daniel[[AT]]danielhensel.de

Website: www.danielhensel.de

3. Cookies

The Internet pages of the Daniel Hensel use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.

Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the dats subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies, the Daniel Hensel can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online store remembers the articles that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.

The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.

4. Collection of general data and information

The website of the Daniel Hensel collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.

When using these general data and information, the Daniel Hensel does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the Daniel Hensel analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.

5. Subscription to comments in the blog on the website

The comments made in the blog of the Daniel Hensel may be subscribed to by third parties. In particular, there is the possibility that a commenter subscribes to the comments following his comments on a particular blog post.

If a data subject decides to subscribe to the option, the controller will send an automatic confirmation e-mail to check the double opt-in procedure as to whether the owner of the specified e-mail address decided in favor of this option. The option to subscribe to comments may be terminated at any time.

6. Routine erasure and blocking of personal data

The data controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or as far as this is granted by the European legislator or other legislators in laws or regulations to which the controller is subject to.

If the storage purpose is not applicable, or if a storage period prescribed by the European legislator or another competent legislator expires, the personal data are routinely blocked or erased in accordance with legal requirements.

7. Rights of the data subject

a) Right of confirmation

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed. If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of confirmation, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

b) Right of access

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller free information about his or her personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information. Furthermore, the European directives and regulations grant the data subject access to the following information:

• the purposes of the processing;

• the categories of personal data concerned;

• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;

• where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;

• the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing;

• the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;

• where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;

• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of the GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

Furthermore, the data subject shall have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation. Where this is the case, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.

If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right of access, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

c) Right to rectification

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, the data subject shall have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to rectification, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller.

d) Right to erasure (Right to be forgotten)

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay, and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary:

• The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.

• The data subject withdraws consent to which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, and where there is no other legal ground for the processing.

• The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.

• The personal data have been unlawfully processed.

• The personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.

• The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Daniel Hensel, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of Daniel Hensel shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.

Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the Daniel Hensel will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.

e) Right of restriction of processing

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to obtain from the controller restriction of processing where one of the following applies:

• The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.

• The processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests instead the restriction of their use instead.

• The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

• The data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the Daniel Hensel, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the Daniel Hensel will arrange the restriction of the processing.

f) Right to data portability

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator, to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which was provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. He or she shall have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, as long as the processing is based on consent pursuant to point (a) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR or point (a) of Article 9(2) of the GDPR, or on a contract pursuant to point (b) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR, and the processing is carried out by automated means, as long as the processing is not necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

Furthermore, in exercising his or her right to data portability pursuant to Article 20(1) of the GDPR, the data subject shall have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the Daniel Hensel.

g) Right to object

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to object, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning him or her, which is based on point (e) or (f) of Article 6(1) of the GDPR. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

The Daniel Hensel shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If the Daniel Hensel processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the Daniel Hensel to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the Daniel Hensel will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.

In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the Daniel Hensel for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the Daniel Hensel. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

h) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject’s explicit consent.

If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject’s explicit consent, the Daniel Hensel shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.

If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Daniel Hensel.

i) Right to withdraw data protection consent

Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator to withdraw his or her consent to processing of his or her personal data at any time.

If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the Daniel Hensel.

8. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google AdSense

On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdSense. Google AdSense is an online service which allows the placement of advertising on third-party sites. Google AdSense is based on an algorithm that selects advertisements displayed on third-party sites to match with the content of the respective third-party site. Google AdSense allows an interest-based targeting of the Internet user, which is implemented by means of generating individual user profiles.

The operating company of Google’s AdSense component is Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.

The purpose of Google’s AdSense component is the integration of advertisements on our website. Google AdSense places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Alphabet Inc. is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google AdSense component is integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google AdSense component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Alphabet Inc. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Alphabet Inc. gains knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Alphabet Inc., inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently create commission settlements.

The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Alphabet Inc. from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, cookies already in use by Alphabet Inc. may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

Furthermore, Google AdSense also uses so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in web pages to enable a log file recording and a log file analysis through which a statistical analysis may be performed. Based on the embedded tracking pixels, Alphabet Inc. is able to determine if and when a website was opened by a data subject, and which links were clicked on by the data subject. Tracking pixels serve, inter alia, to analyze the flow of visitors on a website.

Through Google AdSense, personal data and information—which also includes the IP address, and is necessary for the collection and accounting of the displayed advertisements—is transmitted to Alphabet Inc. in the United States of America. These personal data will be stored and processed in the United States of America. The Alphabet Inc. may disclose the collected personal data through this technical procedure to third parties.

Google AdSense is further explained under the following link https://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/.

9. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)

On this website, the controller has integrated the component of Google Analytics (with the anonymizer function). Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. A web analysis service collects, inter alia, data about the website from which a person has come (the so-called referrer), which sub-pages were visited, or how often and for what duration a sub-page was viewed. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.

The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.

For the web analytics through Google Analytics the controller uses the application “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this application the IP address of the Internet connection of the data subject is abridged by Google and anonymised when accessing our websites from a Member State of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze the traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data and information, inter alia, to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our websites, and to provide other services concerning the use of our Internet site for us.

Google Analytics places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google Analytics component was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google Analytics component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Google gains knowledge of personal information, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Google, inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently create commission settlements.

The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of visits of our website by the data subject. With each visit to our Internet site, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.

The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.

In addition, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to a collection of data that are generated by Google Analytics, which is related to the use of this website, as well as the processing of this data by Google and the chance to preclude any such. For this purpose, the data subject must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics through a JavaScript, that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-ons is considered an objection by Google. If the information technology system of the data subject is later deleted, formatted, or newly installed, then the data subject must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled by the data subject or any other person who is attributable to their sphere of competence, or is disabled, it is possible to execute the reinstallation or reactivation of the browser add-ons.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the following Link https://www.google.com/analytics/.

10. Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google-AdWords

On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows the advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network. Google AdWords allows an advertiser to pre-define specific keywords with the help of which an ad on Google’s search results only then displayed, when the user utilizes the search engine to retrieve a keyword-relevant search result. In the Google Advertising Network, the ads are distributed on relevant web pages using an automatic algorithm, taking into account the previously defined keywords.

The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.

The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website.

If a data subject reaches our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed on the information technology system of the data subject through Google. The definition of cookies is explained above. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, e.g, the shopping cart from an online shop system, were called up on our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and the controller can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, executed or canceled a sale of goods.

The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future. Neither our company nor other Google AdWords advertisers receive information from Google that could identify the data subject.

The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time we visit our Internet pages, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, is transmitted to Google in the United States of America. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may pass these personal data collected through the technical procedure to third parties.

The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by our website, as stated above, by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from placing a conversion cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. In addition, a cookie set by Google AdWords may be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.

The data subject has a possibility of objecting to the interest based advertisement of Google. Therefore, the data subject must access from each of the browsers in use the link www.google.de/settings/ads and set the desired settings.

Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

11. Data protection provisions about the application and use of YouTube

On this website, the controller has integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to set video clips and other users free of charge, which also provides free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.

The operating company of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, UNITED STATES. The YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.

With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a YouTube component (YouTube video) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download a display of the corresponding YouTube component. Further information about YouTube may be obtained under https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/. During the course of this technical procedure, YouTube and Google gain knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.

If the data subject is logged in on YouTube, YouTube recognizes with each call-up to a sub-page that contains a YouTube video, which specific sub-page of our Internet site was visited by the data subject. This information is collected by YouTube and Google and assigned to the respective YouTube account of the data subject.

YouTube and Google will receive information through the YouTube component that the data subject has visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call to our website is logged in on YouTube; this occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on a YouTube video or not. If such a transmission of this information to YouTube and Google is not desirable for the data subject, the delivery may be prevented if the data subject logs off from their own YouTube account before a call-up to our website is made.

YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

12. Legal basis for the processing

Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR serves as the legal basis for processing operations for which we obtain consent for a specific processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, as is the case, for example, when processing operations are necessary for the supply of goods or to provide any other service, the processing is based on Article 6(1) lit. b GDPR. The same applies to such processing operations which are necessary for carrying out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries concerning our products or services. Is our company subject to a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required, such as for the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6(1) lit. c GDPR.

In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor were injured in our company and his name, age, health insurance data or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6(1) lit. d GDPR.

Finally, processing operations could be based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR. This legal basis is used for processing operations which are not covered by any of the abovementioned legal grounds, if processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by our company or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data. Such processing operations are particularly permissible because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. He considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a client of the controller (Recital 47 Sentence 2 GDPR).

13. The legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party

Where the processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR our legitimate interest is to carry out our business in favor of the well-being of all our employees and the shareholders.

14. Period for which the personal data will be stored

The criteria used to determine the period of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After expiration of that period, the corresponding data is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract or the initiation of a contract.

15. Provision of personal data as statutory or contractual requirement; Requirement necessary to enter into a contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of failure to provide such data

We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (e.g. tax regulations) or can also result from contractual provisions (e.g. information on the contractual partner).

Sometimes it may be necessary to conclude a contract that the data subject provides us with personal data, which must subsequently be processed by us. The data subject is, for example, obliged to provide us with personal data when our company signs a contract with him or her. The non-provision of the personal data would have the consequence that the contract with the data subject could not be concluded.

Before personal data is provided by the data subject, the data subject must contact any employee. The employee clarifies to the data subject whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or is necessary for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data and the consequences of non-provision of the personal data.

16. Existence of automated decision-making

As a responsible company, we do not use automatic decision-making or profiling.

This Privacy Policy has been generated by the Privacy Policy Generator of the German Association for Data Protection that was developed in cooperation with Privacy Lawyers from WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, Cologne.

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