PD Dr. Fabian Czolbe

Fabian Czolbe (born 1981) studied musicology, art history and philosophy in Berlin, was a research fellow at a DFG-funded graduate school, and was awarded a PhD in 2011 under Prof. Drn Elena Ungeheuer in Würzburg for a thesis on aspects of graphic representation in Henri Pousseur’s compositional sketches. He was a research associate of Prof. Dr. Christiane Wiesenfeldt at the Institute for Musicology Weimar-Jena (DFG project, 2015–2019), has taught at universities in Berlin, Weimar and Freiburg since 2012, and held a visiting professorship in Marburg in 2021/22. Since September 2023, he has been working as a research associate at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre / ligeti zentrum. As a freelance music journalist, he writes for magazines and radio and has contributed to various music theatre projects as a dramaturg and assistant. He has also developed digital outreach concepts for museums, various concert formats and academic teaching. His research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century music and music theatre, experimental and improvised music, music education, sound art and sound performance, music aesthetics, notation, and compositional writing and creative processes in music. In July 2024, he completed his habilitation at the University of Heidelberg with the thesis “Compositional Writing Scenes between Work, Change and Identity” and was awarded the venia legendi in musicology.

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