Born in
Bielefeld, Bischoff completed the old language learning at the in
Zehlendorf (Berlin) (
Abitur 1971). A study of
pedagogy and school music for teacher training, as well as
music theory followed (with Heinrich Metzler and ) and
musicology (with
Elmar Budde and Helmut Kühn) at the
Berlin University of the Arts. He also studied biology and musicology with
Klaus Kropfinger and
Rudolf Stephan at the
Free University of Berlin. In 1979 he passed his second state examination in school music and biology. Since 1981 Bischoff has been a student councilor in the university service at the Musicology Department of the Free University of Berlin. In 1992 he received his
doctorate in musicology, and his
dissertation dealt with the development of Beethoven's reception of Robert Schumann. Since 1989 Bischoff has also been active in choir conductor training, both in Berlin and at the , at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in
Wolfenbüttel and at the music training centres
Schloss Zeillern and in Austria. Since 1992 he has held a teaching position for musicology at the
University of Kassel. From the winter semester 1997/98 to the summer semester 1999, he held a deputy professor post for musicology at the University of Kassel and was head of the School Music Department. He was appointed to the Scientific State Examination Office of the University of Kassel and became a member of the commission for the development of a new concept for the amendment of the study courses of school music, applied musicology and music education at the University of Kassel. == Publications ==