Primary Researcher
Franziska Kollinger studied musicology and german studies in Göttingen and Berlin. She received her PhD in 2017 from Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on French composer Georges Auric and his film and incidental music of the 1930s (publ. Franz Steiner 2019). Since 2012 she worked as a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits (SFB 626, FU Berlin) and at the Department of Musicology and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg. Since 2023 she has also held the professorship for Historical Musicology at the Department of Music and Dance Studies at the University of Salzburg (50%). She has taught at universities in Salzburg, Vienna and Berlin and is conducting research on the cultural and social history of music in 20th and 21th century, on music history as media history, on film and incidental music and on music and mobility.