Mark Ludwig in conversation with poet Rita Dove on PBS NewsHour's "Art Beat."

SCHOLAR
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A Fulbright scholar of music in Terezín during the Third Reich, Mr. Ludwig has authored essays, program notes, and a curriculum for teaching about the Holocaust. A sought-after educator, he is Adjunct Professor at Boston College and has been scholar-in-residences and guest lecturer in colleges and universities in the U.S. and Europe. 

Mr. Ludwig's most recent publication is Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music Critiques of Viktor Ullmann, Illustrations by Terezín Artists, published January 11, 2022 by Steidl. He is also editor of the poetry anthology LIBERATION: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets (Beacon Press 2015), for which he commissioned 83 poems by 63 poets in 25 countries. This work honors the 70th anniversary in 2015 of the liberation of the Nazi camps and the end of WWII.

"Takes readers into the world of Terezín’s silenced artists and makes their voices come alive. A testimony to the inextinguishable strength of the human spirit." —Yo-Yo Ma

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"This anthology of poems from people all over the world gives expression to the human yearning for freedom, which will serve as an inspiration to the present and future generations."
—His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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AWARDS

• National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1999
• Fulbright Fellowship to Czech Republic, 1996
• Belgium's Cecilia Grand Prix Special Du Jury 1995.   (Presented in recognition of "an exceptional undertaking and paying homage to an interpreter who has made a mark on the history of recorded sound.")
• Preis der Schallplattenkritik in 1991

DOCUMENTARIES/FILMS (PERFORMING ARTIST/ CONSULTANT):

• Writing On The Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall (2009) (Etoile International Productions)
• Confronting Amnesia (Etoile International Productions)
• Entartete Musik: The Birth of a Project (London DECCA)
• The Polio Crusade. The American Experience: PBS
• The Gold Rush. The American Experience:PBS
• We Shall Remain:After the Mayflower. The American Experience: PBS
• We Shall Remain: Tecumseh’s Vision. The American Experience: PBS
• We Shall Remain:Trail of Tears. The American Experience: PBS
• We Shall Remain: Geronimo.The American Experience: PBS
• We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee. The American Experience: PBS
• Schindler’s List
• The Last Dance: Maurice Sendak and Philobolus
• In the Shadow of the Reich: NAZI Medicine
•  DESSA: A Legacy From Theresienstadt
• The Holocaust: Memory and Legacy
• Terezin: resistance and revival. (Knight-Ridder Productions)
• Creating Harmony: The Displaced Person’ Orchestra from St. Ottilien
• (Etoile International Productions)
• Gulag: (Etoile International Productions)
• Lost Momentum
• Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
• Roan Inish

PUBLICATIONS:
Books/Curricula:

• OUR WILL TO LIVE: The Terezín Music Critiques of Viktor Ullmann, Steidl Verlag, 2022.
  
• LIBERATION, Beacon Press, 2015, edited and introduced by Mark Ludwig, Preface by Ha Jin, Boston, MA.
  
• Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezin, Studley Press, 2000, Mark Ludwig and Phyllis Goldstein, Williamstown, MA.

Essays/Papers:

• Entartete Musik and Music at Terezin. Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, 2004, Macmillan Reference USA, New York, NY
• Silenced Voices: Music in Extremis. Catalogue and CD to An Old Song in a New World: The 4000 – Year Love Affair Between Jews & Music Exhibition, 1 August – 7 November 2004, Jewish Museum of Australia
• Silenced Voices: Music in the Third Reich. Journal from Boston College: Religion and the Arts, Volume 4-1, 2000, Leiden, Boston, Koln.
• Silenced Voices: Music Banned by the Nazis, INDEX on Censorship, December 1998, London, UK
• Entartete Musik, Recovered, Boston Symphony Orchestra, January to April, 1995, Boston.
• Entartete Musik, Silenced Voices: Music Banned by the Nazis, Brandeis University Programs, October, 2-November 9, 1994, Brandeis University.
• Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 3 Opus 15, Bote & Bock Publishers, 1996, Berlin, Germany

CD Liner Notes:

• An Old Song in a New World: CD Companion to Exhibition, Jewish Museum of Australia, 2004, Melbourne, Australia
• Concert for Terezín, Hawthorne String Quartet, Turquoise Bee Records, 2003, Boston, MA.
• Music in Terezín, Haas & Krasa String Quartets, London Decca, 1994, London, UK.
• Silenced Voices:  Victims of the Holocaust, Northeastern Records, 1992, Boston, MA.
• Chamber Music from Theresienstadt, Channel Classics, 1991, Amsterdam, Holland.

Edited Scores:

• Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 1 Opus 3, Bote & Bock Publishers, 1994, Berlin, Germany
• Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 2 Opus 7, Bote & Bock Publishers, 1994, Berlin, Germany
• Pavel Haas String Quartet No. 3 Opus 15, Bote & Bock Publishers, 1996, Berlin, Germany
• David L. Post String Quartets #2-4
• Hans Krása String Quartet (1921)