Principal Investigator
Carolin Stahrenberg is a professor for musicology at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria. She studied Music, German studies and Musicology at the University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTM) in Hannover. In 2011 she gained her PhD with a thesis about popular music in Berlin between the wars, focusing especially on composer Mischa Spoliansky. Stahrenberg worked as a Research Assistant at the Research Centre for Music and Gender in Hannover and at the “ZPKM, Research Institute for Popular Culture and Music” in Freiburg/Brsg., as a Senior Scientist at the Alpen-Adria-University (AAU) Klagenfurt and as University Assistant at the University of Innsbruck. In 2018 she was applied junior professor for musicology / gender studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Her research interests are popular music, musical theatre, music and gender studies, music and migration and musical life in the Weimar Republic.