Supervised theses
Music and media: a multifaceted field of research!
The thesis topics listed here alone, which have been completed since 2009 in the Master of Education, Master of Arts Integrated Media and Master of Arts Musicology programmes, clearly show how diverse the topics are in this large and future-oriented field of study.
If you need inspiration for your own theses... take a look!
Supervised theses
Final theses 2025
Master of Arts Integrated Media
| Simão Capitão | Endless Repeat - Loops and loops as a musical style in US-American minimal music of the 19060s |
| Svenja Marschall | The representation of queer people in mainstream film: Establishing an independent (sub)genre? |
| Philipp Stiller | The emancipation of the soundtrack - An investigation into the narrative functions of film music and sounds |
| Lennart Wähnke | Stereotypes in advertising |
Master of Education Music
| Saskia Altenschmidt | The Virtual Underground - A music-cultural portrait of the rave scene in VRChat |
| Annika Buhtz | Didactic analysis of teaching materials to promote musical creativity through popular music in secondary education |
| Paul Lilienthal | DIY instrument making. Discourse and object analysis of a cultural and political practice |
| Hagen Pianka | "Cultural identity" in the classroom - teachers' perspectives on the opportunities and possibilities of the subject of music |
| Jonas Weißendorn | Science fiction sound: analytical and music didactic perspectives on the soundtrack of Dune (2021) |
| Ramon Zöllner | "Ich suche die DDR" - Development of interdisciplinary projects for the historical-research and musical-creative examination of pop music, everyday life and mentality in the GDR in secondary schools I and II. |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Leona Cordes | Female instrumentalists between jazz and free improvisation. On the current situation of women in free improvised music in Germany |
| Theresa Laser | Between voices and networks: An investigation of "cultural" and "social capital" in selected Oldenburg choirs |
Final theses 2024
Master of Arts Integrated Media
| Maja Paulina Giebeler | Being Aestehtic - The cinematic staging of everyday life in social media |
| Lisa-Marie Poelk | In the field of tension between lockdown and relaxation: The effects of the corona crisis on the event industry - with a focus on the local event culture of Wilhelmshaven |
| Madita Thomas | The selfie as an artistic and everyday practice of media representations of femininity on Instagram |
Master of Education Music
| Thea Reutepöhler | Cultural concepts of music teachers in Waldorf schools |
| Maraike Schuparis | "ABGESTÜRZT WIE LEMMINGE, DOCH AUFERSTANDEN AUS RUINEN" - On the understanding of East German artists in the post-reunification period in lyrics, music and videos of selected hip-hop tracks from 2019 |
Master of Arts in Musicology
| Irma Reich | Political and cultural upheavals in everyday theatre life: Music at the Oldenburg State Theatre 1932-1939 in the context of National Socialism |
Final theses 2023
Master of Arts Integrated Media
| Anna-Lena Berreth | Grief and politics in German-language hip-hop using the example of "Adriano" and "Bist du wach" |
| Thomas Bittermann | "All that glitters is not gold" - The dark side of electronic dance music. An investigation into the importance of artists' mental and physical health in the area of conflict between precarious fields of work and drug use |
| Luisa Kruse | Sound design and sound branding in explanatory videos |
| Rebecca Eva Rieder | Turned 90 degrees - music videos in the transformation of current media culture |
| Maha Vollmer | "Bind Spot": Narratives of media coverage in Germany on the conflict between Israel and Palestine - an artistic discourse analysis |
Master of Education Music
| Tristan Pargmann | Punk & Gender in Germany - Historical Development, Viewpoints & Perspectives |
| Konstanze Hacke | "Rethinking the mind" - The role of music in brand positioning in German television advertising |
| Robin Max Segebarth | Is it an instrument or can it go away? Soundwhackers and their place in schools |
| Jasper Vogt | Electronic sound production in schools |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Lena Dockhorn | "If you want to talk about seeds, why don't you become a florist?" Rap and queer feminism in a German-speaking context |
| Mika Miyashita | Development of gamelan music in Germany. Using the example of (the) Übersee-Museum and (the) Elbphilharmonie |
Final theses 2022
Master of Arts - Integrated Media
| Fabian Schulz | "Heut spielt hier n Soulband" - Curating stories: a compilation of East German soul music from the 1970s | |
| Sarah Goltsche | "So show me (I'll show you) - Boybands and parasocial relationships. An investigation of fanfiction as fan practice | |
| Birte Weinig | A radio play by children for children. A qualitative study with preschool children | |
| Anna Carina Keil | Webtival meets school. Interdisciplinary considerations and concepts for digital adaptations of the Deichbrand at Home Festival for a school project |
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Master of Education Music
| Dominik Johannes Ehrst | Woodstock '69 - An investigation into the narratives of a legendary festival |
| Charlotte Friedrich | Music production apps in primary school. A criteria-orientated analysis and observational study with 7 to 9-year-old children on the use of selected music production apps |
| Manuel Hecker | Effects of the corona pandemic on the cultural practices of techno DJs in Oldenburg |
Master of Arts in Musicology
| Björn Jeddeloh | Autoethnography as a method for raising awareness of racism in music studies |
Final theses 2021
Master of Arts - Integrated Media
| Laura Ranko | "German True Crime Podcasts" - An investigation into the auditory mediation of crime and criminality | |
| Merle Soyke | "Cultural Affection" in public broadcasting - how Arte reports on the social debate topic | |
| Elena Fomina | "Dark Horse" and "Bad Girls" - stereotypes of the "Orient" in music videos |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Jonas Zolper | Sonic-musical atmospheres and affordances in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky |
Final theses 2020
Master of Arts - Integrated Media
| Hannes Martens | From Set to Sample - Experimental Investigation of Properties and Functions of Musical Units in EDM Live Performance |
Master of Education Music (grammar school)
| Ben Ahlers | From country to city blues: a teaching unit on the development of the blues in the USA |
Master of Arts Cultural Analyses
| Frederic Bertram | Postmodern Primitive(s) - Myth, Design and World Relations among Goa Hippies. An autoethnography |
Final theses 2019
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Viktor Friesen | Only Vinyl! Strategies and practices of DJing - An analysis of the motivations for analogue DJing in the digital age |
Master of Education Music
| Benjamin Kobus | A comparative field study on the systematic lifestyle, community experiences, rites and symbols of fans from different fan communities | |
| Andreas Burau | Media competence and the use of music electronics. An explorative study among secondary school music teachers |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Veronika Volbers | The 'Orchester im Treppenhaus' as an organiser of new orchestral concert formats |
Final theses 2018
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Thorge Freidel | "... or is that too emo?": On the discursive function of the genre concept in popular music | |
Sarina Lux | The "entrepreneurial self" - self-exploitation or fulfilment? Qualitative research among self-employed women in the cultural and creative industries | |
Christian Kleinau | Transmedia storytelling on television - analysing potential within the user group of digital natives | |
Titus Nagel | Game music: on the paths of film music. The potential of music in games for enhancing the cinematic experience in strategy and role-playing games of the fantasy genre using the example of the in-house production The Light of Destiny | |
Sophie Labitzke | Silence on the radio - mistake or staging? (an artistic-scientific work) | |
Lian Chao Tong | Pop music festivals in the transformation society | |
| Berin Beyaz | Influencer Marketing. A study on questions of the credibility of "YouTubers" | |
| Carolin Harder | A historical audio walk through early Oldenburg | |
Maike Tschorn | The future model of trimediality. Media convergence and its effects in public service broadcasting using the case study of the concept expansion of Singt Euren Song - der hr4-Chorwettbewerb im Hessischen Rundfunk | |
| Dirk Lindes | Writing in film or how film learnt to love words (St. Kubrick) | |
| Jolanta Strebel | Music is the Vibranium. About the BLACK PANTHER album and its function with regard to the MARVEL film of the same name |
Master of Education Music
| Hendrik Torst | Growling, Grunting, Breeing - Teaching & learning popular vocal techniques?! | |
Philipp Quentmeier | Digital media in music lessons. Opportunities, problems and perspectives. |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Sabrina Bläß | "President killed by Videostar" - on the convergence of politics and pop culture in US-American music videos | |
| Jan-Oliver Groddek | "YOU CAN REALLY MAKE THE FIDDLE TALK"! 'Celtic' music in north-west Germany |
Final theses 2017
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Karina Deelwater | The distorted sound - recording studio work in heavy metal | |
Thorge Feigel | The concept of genre | |
Cecelia Fischer | "The portrayal of migration on German television - A comparison between ARD and ZDF television reports" | |
Reena Hansen | Creating authenticity in mockumentaries: A comparative analysis of the films "I'm still here" (2010) and "Fraktus" (2012) | |
Marie Hartlieb | When Woman TakesThe Streets. The Representation of The Female Migrant and Her Cultural Identity in Films with German-Turkish Context | |
Lisa Leihe | The influence of event dramaturgy on sustained visitor interest (using the example of the Felsenbühne Rathen) | |
Jannika Olesch | Music as a medium of memory in migration | |
Steffen Pilney | Radio play productions in the independent radio play scene: a historical comparison | |
Ramona Walter | Music industry 2.0 - crowdfunding as an alternative revenue model for musicians and its potential for success | |
Victoria Wilms | From passive viewer to active user? - Media-analytical investigation of successful interactive online advertising videos using a case study as a basis for the production of an own interactive advertising video | |
Radka Zensikowa | K-Pop |
Master of Education Grammar School Music
| Jan Bogmaier | The positioning of the musician in the value creation network of the music industry. Self-marketing or exclusive artist contract - an analysis of advice literature for musicians | |
Frederik Borhauer | Music - Politics - Didactics An investigation into the significance of music in the US election campaign as part of a teaching unit | |
Arne Busche | "Louder than Hell" - A quantitative survey of Wacken visitors between scene expertise and event tourism | |
Karen Erichsen | Performance motivation among jazz musicians of the state youth jazz orchestra "Wind Machine". A qualitative interview study | |
Ralph Linster | The riddim in reggae - history of development and analysis of a musical format | |
Philipp Alexander Rotzal | Inventing music in primary school - opportunities and limits of music apps | |
Viviane Rübke | Medieval imaginations in the pop music culture of the 21st century. An exemplary examination of the groups In Extremo and Faun | |
Marie Luise Templin | A fashion wave in popular music (culture). Stagings in the current reggaeton pop clip | |
Lars Varchim | Four-part tones in jazz: music-theoretical analyses and jazz-historical classifications |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Johanna Imm | Queering Punk Rock. Intermedia productions by Laura Jane Grace as objections to the two-gender model | |
Nina Jaeschke | St. Pauli cultural conservation area - an empirical study of the situation of Hamburg's club landscape using the example of three music clubs | |
Heidi Weschke | Behind the Beat. Body and space in electronic dance music |
Other degree programmes
| Christina Grzela | The mediatised pop voice (Master's degree in Music & Sociology) |
Final theses 2016
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Sina Balzhäuser | Flow on the Internet - a current discourse | |
Gregor Buder | Covers and parodies: musical adaptations as a problem in current copyright law | |
Julian Kloß | Social Media - Public Spheres - Marketing. Reflections on the correlating impact potential of social media for the emergence of digital publics and their use as a marketing tool | |
Ole Nietsch | Development of a financing concept for independent films and the importance of crowdfunding |
Master of Education Grammar School Music
| Hermann Eswein | Music copyright in the digital age - a presentation of the (music) media usage behaviour of young people in Web 2.0 | |
Patrick Tellmann | On the construction of historical images in jazz, jazz historiography and its consequences for the portrayal of musicians |
Master of Arts Musicology
| Frauke Blohm | "... where you have to embody what you say" Gender performativity in music videos by German hip hop artists | |
Dirk Matulla | Hybridisation processes in jazz. Reinterpretative adaptation of traditional African polyphonic forms in the polyphonic and homophonic compositional techniques of the New Orleans style and swing | |
Lina Schütte | "Fehlerfrei" - A performance and image analysis of the pop singer Helene Fischer |
Other degree programmes
| Josephine Bühring | The tone of violence in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) and Django Unchained (2012). A de- and reconstructive analysis of a musical aesthetic. | |
Carolin Schweizer | Recording sound: On the potential of auditory objects in exhibitions |
Final theses 2015
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Theresa Beschnidt | From dance film to YouTube dance meme. The significance of dance for the media dissemination of music with a focus on internet dance video memes such as "Happy" by Pharrell Williams | |
Kathrin Girnus | The strengths and weaknesses of Bremen's music industry - an empirical study in the field of popular music | |
Karsten Woll | The recipe for success in radio comedy: a self-experimental analysis | |
Jennifer Paul | Participative cultural strategies. Promoting innovation through the Fonds Soziokultur e.V. | |
| Merle Zander | Music as a means of inclusion: How people with disabilities experience the music project Abgedreht | |
| Valeska Schössler | Evaluation of the media behaviour of employees at the Feuerbach plant of Robert Bosch GmbH to optimise the communication portfolio | |
| Lena Hancken | The Transmedia Puzzle - The conception of transmedia styleworlds in the field of tension between mediality and seriality, analysed using the example of "The Walking Dead" |
Master of Education
| Maximilian Valentin Hagen | Vinyl in the digital age - on the revival of the record between vintage and modernity |
Master of Arts Applied Musicology
| Thomas Sebastian Köhn | Steinehagel and Geschrammel: Medially constructed concepts of sound at the Chaostage 1994/1995 in Hanover |
Final theses 2014
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Arne-Birger Jeske | Politics for and in the mass media - the intersection of two systems | |
Janko Meisel | The Celebration of Celebrity in Japanese Idol Culture. AKB48 as Media Phenomenon -Aspects and Perspectives on current Idol-Images in the contemporary Japanese Media Culture | |
Katharina Proske | Improvised and interactive radio drama. Possibilities and limits of active creation by listeners | |
Fan Zhang | Social media and surveillance - analysing and comparing the USA and China using the example of microblogging |
Master of Education
| Linda Krause | The "Bond Recipe" - Origin, development and analysis of the theme songs of the James Bond series |
Master of Arts Applied Musicology
| Sara Falke | Ammar114 and his rap music | |
Kjell Torben Böttjer | Postdigital is better"! - New usage practices, market players and value creation networks of mobil music and their localisation in the digital mediamorphosis | |
Klaas Ullmann | "Disco Codes" - The phenomenon of disco in the current club scene | |
Thomas Flömer | Skinhead reggae, Oi! and right-wing rock: the youth culture of skinheads and their music |
Other degree programmes
Josephine Bühring | The tone of violence in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) and Django Unchained (2012). A de- and reconstructive analysis of a musical aesthetic |
Carolin Schweizer | Recording sound: On the potential of auditory objects in exhibitions |
Final theses 2013
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Susanne Hohaus | Crossing the thresholds between childhood and adulthood. On the function of parallel worlds in the film Coraline by Henry Selick (2009) | |
| Ina Konopka | The Internet as a medium of communication. A comparative analysis of past, present and future advertising media | |
| Marje Lück | Scandalised everyday life on TV - motives for the reception of docu-soaps and scripted reality | |
Benjamin Müller | Media literacy within youth media protection | |
| Timo Schliep | screaming for a change. Self-education in the hardcore scene | |
| Simon Talkner | Hip hop. Potentials and risks of a youth culture | |
| Andreas Rüttger | An anthem for VfB Oldenburg - function, effect and aesthetics of football anthems | |
| Shuli Zhang | Marketing Strategy of Multinational Media in China | |
| Arne Böhm | Opportunities and threats for music labels in view of the comprehensive digitalisation of production and distribution | |
| Stefanie Ehlert | Football on television: Staging for a mass medium | |
| Katharina Hagedorn | Culture and music festivals as a breeding ground for user-generated content. Opportunities and challenges for visitors, organisers and companies - a (free) field study | |
| Tobias Klink | The dual broadcasting system in the Federal Republic of Germany. History, actors, legal and normative framework conditions | |
| Lydia Skrabania | "Speak so that I can see you!" Audio/visual realisation of the cult series "The Three ???" in the intermedial field of tension | |
| Mischa Wahed | Satirical radio comedy. Investigation of a radio phenomenon using the example of the production of the project "Escape from Athens" |
Master of Education
| Matthias Neumann | Classical music in the loudness war |
| Julian Trempel | The audible sequencer - The sequencer and its influence on production, composition and the producer |
| Sarah-Lena Reuß | The genre mix as a success factor in the current music business using the example of violinist David Garrett |
Master of Arts Applied Musicology
| Karolin Dettmer | "Who's that kind of girl?!" The staging of Kylie Minouge in music videos and its influence on her star image |
| Stefan Körner | Jazz on the radio between 1945 and 1949 in post-war Germany |
| Petra Talkowski | Nightingale, diva, star - a historical comparison of the images of selected sopranos |
Christin Lambrecht | (School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies / School II Computing Science, Economics and Law) Perspectives on the new regulation of music exploitation taking into account increasing copyright infringements in the age of digitalisation
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Final theses 2012
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Dennis Breitenfeld | Pop ballads: An investigation and practical testing of their success |
| Nicole Heimbürge | An investigation into the reality content of film musicals using selected examples |
| Benjamin Kuschnik | Techno - Digitalisation - Perception |
| Till Rehbein | The significance of Web 2.0 for the internet presence of museums using the example of pop music museums in Germany |
| Manuela Sies and Nadine Brinkmann | THROUGH THE BACK DOOR INTO THE GERMAN BOOK MARKET? The potential of print on demand and social networks for book projects |
| Sebastian Stück | The Internet as a mass interaction medium |
| Jan-Patrick Tyra | Surreal aesthetics in contemporary feature films |
Master of Education
| Benjamin Löwe | The bass in jazz and popular music - history, functionality, images |
| Jörn Walting | "Intercultural music lessons at grammar schools in Lower Saxony" - an analysis of textbooks with regard to cultural understanding in intercultural music education |
Master of Arts Applied Musicology
| Florian Kräme | Timbaland, Dr Dre & Co - The music producer as star |
| Felix Rühlin | Development of drum styles in popular Jamaican music of the pre-digital era |
| Cornelius Clemens Veit | MUSIC - TIME - APERSPECTIVITY |
| Esther Loisc | Sustainability management at music festivals |
Final theses 2011
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Christina Veronika Buck | Unbounded working relationships for solo self-employed persons in the cultural and knowledge economy |
| Franca Lea Calina Engel | Urban Sounds - Contexts and Ciphers of Sound Architectures |
| Jan Rosenbrock | Viral Video Marketing: An analysis of the distribution and economic success of viral video advertising on the internet |
| Elias Schmidtke | Computer-aided music selection on the basis of emotion concepts |
Master of Education
| Benjamin Gräwert | Forms of musical notation - traditional notation compared to alternative forms of notation and their possible applications in school practice |
| Vincent Janetschek | Music teaching aspects of media with special consideration of a musical project |
| Anne Luise Kienle | The music industry in the age of the internet. A teaching suggestion for thematising the music industry in music lessons |
| Verena Kühn | When does it rain in film and why? Rain as an aesthetic moment in film |
| Frerich Max | Communication on the dancefloor in minimal techno. Application of systems theory according to Niklas Luhmann |
| Tammo Pitters | Technologies in music using the example of jazz-rock |
| Simon Tessow | THE SHOW MUST GO ON! - An examination of the musical's place in the past and present |
Master of Arts Applied Musicology
| Katrin Windheuser | "You go to concerts to become happier" - Marketing concept for a live music café |
Dr Sacha Szabo | (Diplom thesis in the distance learning programme "Culture and Media Management" at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre) Ballermann. Phenomenon and brand. Cultural-sociological analysis of an extraordinary experience
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Final theses 2010
Master of Arts Integrated Media - audiovisual media in practice, theory and mediation
| Sabrina Theresia Schwarz | Singapore's media landscape - business potential for German media companies using the example of the games industry |
| Verena Engelhardt | ... to make it small enough to fit into our living rooms: Filmic reconstructions of 11 September 2001 in American cinema. An examination of the films 9/11, World Trade Centre and United 93. |
| Wiebke Mikolajczyk | The communication-political staging of female pop stars in music videos |
| Arne Wachtmann | Independent film distribution on the Internet (short film through) |
| Aaron Rahe | Disgust as a provocation strategy in the visual arts (short film Durch) |
Master of Education
| Anna-Maria Knust | Psychophysiological effects of music in individual sports. - A literature research - |
| Nina Haßmann | Lifeworld relevance and student motivation when using symphonic film music in relation to the teaching topic of classical music |
| Daniel Scharenberg | "Mood" and "athmosphere" in the history of film music |
| Wiebke Bischoff | Casting competitions in pop music. How a Lena is turned into a brand. |
Examination papers
| Arne Fleischhut | Marketing bands: traditional strategies versus current developments |
| David Molitor | Traditional blues vocal styles and their impact on vocal styles in contemporary pop music |
| Erik Stacey | The development of sequencer-based music production in the context of music pedagogical evaluation. A comparison of the years 1999 and 2009 |
| Björn Bruschke | "Britpop: The musical contribution to the 'Cool Britannia' phenomenon" |
Master's theses
| Hannah Wellner | Effects of "digitalisation" on classical concerts, orchestras and audiences |
| Till Rölle | The effects of the recording crisis on the music industry: |
| Stefan Dietrich | "Sampling as a cultural technique using the example of hip-hop - loop-based rap music in practice |
Final theses 2009
Master theses
| Garvin Birger Bösch | What could an exemplary digital studio production of the Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" look like against the background of analogue-digital change? An attempt to reconstruct the studio-induced aesthetics of the 1966/67 production. |
Lars Nemeth | WEB- and Audio-BLOGS as media for identity and image construction of young people. |
Examination papers
| Arne Farin | The role of the violin in modern jazz using the example of Jean-Luc Ponty |
| Kirstin Moje | "Who owns jazz?" - A critical examination of questions of cultural identity in jazz |
| Lars Niemeyer | Constructions of masculinity in popular music |
| Nils Kempa | Self-marketing of self-produced music on the Internet |
| Sebastian Schlosser | "Between folk music and folk music: The influence of German-speaking immigrants on music in Canada |
Master Music
| Nicole Rank | "Strange little girl?" - On the importance of marketing and image for the artist Tori Amos |
| Matthias Schmidt | Evasion as a principle? Media staging and music cultural factors with Bob Dylan |