Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt

Christiane Wiesenfeldt obtained her PhD in 2005 from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel with a thesis on the cello sonata in the 19th century, and completed her habilitation in 2011 at the University of Münster with a habilitation thesis on the Marian Mass in the 16th century. From 2012 to 2020, she was Professor of Musicology at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar and at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Chair at the Institute of Musicology). Since 2020, she has held the Chair of Musicology at the University of Heidelberg. Her research and publications focus on music, religion and liturgy in the early modern period; music history as a history of reception; musical concepts of Romanticism and Heimat; as well as phenomena such as the concept of the ‘work’ and self-reflection in music. For the past 15 years, she has been teaching and researching various phenomena in popular music, with her current focus on the Eurovision Song Contest.

Christiane Wiesenfeldt is editor-in-chief of DIE TONKUNST, a member of the Academies of Sciences in Erfurt, Leipzig and Heidelberg, and a member of the editorial board and the scientific advisory board of “MGG online”. Since 2022, she has headed the academy project “Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” as well as the DFG long-term project “Digital Liszt Source and Works Catalogue”.