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"The black and white picture of young Clara"
A music theatre film
By Julia Dieckhoff, Fojan Gharibnejad and Jörg Holzmann
The musical theatre play "Das schwarzweiße Bild der jungen Clara" about the composer Clara Schumann was developed and premiered in her anniversary year 2019 (For more information on the play, see: www.juliadieckhoff.de/aktuelles/). As part of the 10th workshop of the working group "Biography and Gender", a film made for this workshop will be shown on YouTube. Following this virtual event, an artist talk is planned, to which all viewers are also invited.
Fri, 12 November 2021, 19:00, online (admission and welcome at 18:45)
The access link will be sent to you shortly before the event after registration.
Registration: until 09.11.2021 by email to
This event is sponsored by the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. and takes place in co-operation with the Emmy Noether junior research group "Music History on Stage".
Staging, performing, embodying: performative (auto)biographies
10th workshop of the working group "Biography and Gender"
From 11-13 November 2021, the tenth workshop of the interdisciplinary working group "Biography and Gender" will take place at the University of Oldenburg. Here, early career researchers with biographical and gender-related research topics from various disciplines will focus on this year's topic "Staging, Performing, Embodying: Performative (Auto-)Biographies".
Organisation: Anna Baccanti, Naemi Flemming, Jörg Holzmann, Clémence Schupp-Maurer
Funded by the Emmy Noether junior research group "Music History on Stage" and the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V.
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Music theatre and the history of knowledge
Free symposium for the XVII International Congress of the Society for Music Research
Emmy Noether junior research group "Music History on Stage"
Prof. Dr Anna Langenbruch, University of Oldenburg
Bonn, 28 September 2021, 14-18:30 hrs
In recent years, the history of knowledge has developed into a productive and increasingly differentiated field of research in the historical disciplines. It focuses on a wide variety of epistemic spaces, actors, practices, discourses, genres and objects: Scientists, experts or artists, epistemic functions of hearing or the sense of touch, of visual art, photography, crime literature or even: Music theatre.
Music theatre and the history of knowledge can be related to each other in many different ways: As a history of knowledge of music theatre, which is interested in how knowledge about music theatre and the associated practices of composing, singing, playing or listening is produced, discussed and disseminated. Or as a history of knowledge in music theatre, which views music theatre as a medium of knowledge transfer, its transformation and circulation, as in so-called music history theatre, for example. Based on the work of the Emmy Noether junior research group "Music History on Stage", the symposium asks how considerations of the history of knowledge can be made fruitful for music theatre research and, conversely, what the music (theatre) sciences contribute to the interdisciplinary history of knowledge.
New publication "Music History on Stage - Performing Music History"
Bielefeld-based transcript Verlag has published Musikgeschichte auf der Bühne - Performing Music History both as a printed book and as an open access ebook. It is also the second volume in our publication series.
The volume brings together a large part of the lectures given at the conference in May 2019 and is supplemented by two further contributions. A total of 21 contributions by 26 authors are dedicated to performative representations of music history from different perspectives.
To mark the publication, Mascha Drost from Deutschlandfunk Kulur conducted an interview with Daniel Samaga in the Tonart programme.
Anna Langenbruch appointed to the professorship "Cultural History of Music"
Anna Langenbruch has been appointed to the professorship for "Cultural History of Music" at the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg on 1 April 2021. You can read the university's press release online here.