Karina Moritzen has been awarded the 2025 DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students. In addition to her academic research in Game Studies at the University of Oldenburg, she is involved in a number of social projects.

Astor Piazzolla's opera "María de Buenos Aires" first appeared on stage almost 60 years ago - it is still regarded as an homage to tango today. Now students from the University and the University of the Arts Bremen are performing the piece together.

The university band "Funkystition" and the school band at Graf-Anton-Günther-Schule will soon be performing together. The collaboration is a lot of fun - and should inspire talented pupils to study music.

Memes, mash-ups, reaction videos and other forms of user-generated content are shaping social media. Musicologist Mario Dunkel will investigate what role such content plays as digital cultural heritage in a new research project.

Pop music can normalise populism, says musicologist Mario Dunkel. In the following interview he explains how this happens and what it means – for music lessons in schools and for the upcoming European elections.

What does the US sound like? This intriguing question and its many facets will soon be the subject of a conference at the university. Americanist Martin Butler and musicologist Mario Dunkel share their observations.

Joaquín Alem started playing the bandoneon as a teenager in Argentina. Around 30 years later, the musician and composer is introducing students in Oldenburg to the originally German instrument.

"The Sunken City" is the name of the children's opera by Violeta Dinescu, which will be co-performed by pupils from Oldenburg. Students from the Institute of Music prepared the production. The result will soon be on show.

Kai Siedenburg investigates how people with hearing problems can experience the joy of music again. Martin Bleichner is more interested in disturbing noises in everyday life. The two researchers nonetheless want to work together.

Can music improve the quality of life of people with disorders of consciousness? In her doctoral thesis, cognitive linguist Teresa Grimm examined this question from different perspectives.

Silja Stegemeier is an artistic associate for vocal training at the Institute of Music. Among other things, she teaches prospective music teachers how to form a choir. She recently became the director of the university choir.

Choir rehearsals are disappearing from people's calendars, music lessons at schools are more theory than practice and churches are shrouded in silence. The pandemic has taken a heavy toll on singing, too.

Teaching, composing, organizing events – composer Violeta Dinescu has enriched musical life at the University of Oldenburg and far beyond for 25 years. Now she is retiring. An encounter in spring 2019.

History is not only something you read about; it can also be heard and felt. Together with her team, musicologist Anna Langenbruch researches how music history is presented on stage.