Ivana Rentsch Arne Stollberg

Studied at the University of Zurich, then research assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Bern (doctorate 2004) and from 2006 at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Zurich (habilitation 2010). Since 2013 Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg. Research interests include the relationship between music and nationalism, Czech music history, music and music theatre from the 17th to the 20th century.

At the University of Hamburg, currently head of the DFG long-term project “Digital Music Edition: Open Work Form in the 17th Century” (together with Juliane Pöche), the sub-project “Handwritten Layers of Operatic Practices: The Reception of Richard Wagner at the ‘Neues Deutsche Theater’ in Prague (1888-1938)” in the Excellence Cluster “Understanding Written Artefacts” as well as the sub-project “Phenomena of Spiritual Intermediality in Protestant Drama around 1700” (together with Bernhard Jahn) in the DFG Research Group “Spiritual Intermediality of the Early Modern Period.”

Arne Stollberg studied Musicology and Theatre, Film and Media Studies in Frankfurt on the Main. From 2001 to 2012 he was first assistant, then senior assistant at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Bern (doctorate in 2004, habilitation in 2010); from 2012 to 2015 he held a professorship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Musicology Department of the University of Basel. Since 2015 he has been Professor of Historical Musicology at the Institute of Musicology and Media Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Recent book publications: Figuren der Resonanz. Das 18. Jahrhundert und seine musikalische Anthropologie, Berlin/ Kassel 2021; Von Spontini bis Strauss. Hofkapelle und Hofoper Berlin im langen 19. Jahrhundert, ed. together with Detlef Giese and Christian Schaper, Würzburg 2022. Since 2021, Arne Stollberg has been leading the „Erich Wolfgang Korngold Werkausgabe“ together with Friederike Wißmann, a 25-year long-term project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.

David Vondráček

David Vondráček is a postdoctoral researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History. He completed his doctoral thesis on the music of Jaroslav Ježek (Jaroslav Ježek zwischen Avantgarde und Jazz, Allitera 2021) at the University of Munich (LMU), where he also worked as a teaching assistant. Among his recent publications is the edited volume The East, the West, and the In-Between in Music (also Allitera 2021).

15/6 – 2/7 2023