Linda Maria Koldau

Linda Maria Koldau ( born October 28, 1971 in Munich) is a professor of musicology and cultural history and has held the chair at the University of Aarhus, which was once set up for the Danish musicologist Knud Jeppesen. Her work represents an interdisciplinary, culturally and historically oriented musicology, which illuminates the connections between music and social context based on comprehensive knowledge of sources and musical analysis.

Career

Linda Maria Koldau studied at the University of Reading and the University of Mainz musicology, American and Romance Studies and received his doctorate in 2000 at the University of Bonn on the Venetian church music of Claudio Monteverdi. In 2005 she qualified as a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on women in the musical culture of the early modern period. Both works have been awarded University prizes. From 2006 to 2008 she was Chair Representative and head of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Frankfurt am Main; In 2009 she received the call to the Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at the University of Aarhus. She is a member in several international research associations and interdisciplinary networks and has published on various comprehensive musicological and cultural- historical areas. In the period from 1992 to 2002, she worked part-time as a music journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Since 1995 she authored radio broadcasts for various German cultural channel.

Research

  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • Sacred music and piety culture of the late Middle Ages and early modern times
  • Monastic culture of the Middle Ages
  • Historical research on women
  • The oratory in the 19th century
  • Music and Nationalism
  • Modern myths (especially submarines and RMS Titanic )
  • Film Music

Book publications

  • The Venetian church music of Claudio Monteverdi. Barenreiter -Verlag, Kassel 2001 22005th
  • Women - music - culture. A Guide to German-language area of the early modern period. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2005 ().
  • The Moldau. Smetana's cycle " My Country ". Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar in 2007 ().
  • Myth submarine. Steiner, Stuttgart 2010 ().
  • (Ed.): Passion and Easter in the Lüneburg monasteries. Publisher monastery Ebstorf Ebstorf 2010 ().
  • Titanic. The ship, the sinking of which legends. C. H. Beck, Munich 2012 ( ).
  • The Titanic on Film: Myth vs. Truth. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012
  • Jante Universitet. Episoder fra livet bag murene ( Jante University. Episodes from the life behind the walls ). Volume 1: The skønne facade ( The beautiful facade ). Volume 2: Uddannelseskatastrofen ( The formation disaster ). Volume 3: Totalitarian strukturer ( Totalitarian structures). Hamburg:. Tredition, 2013 http://www.tredition.de/?books/ID28801/Jante-Universitet ( Volume 1). http://www.tredition.de/?books/ID28800/Jante-Universitet ( Volume 2).
  • Tsunamis. Genesis - History - prevention. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2013. ISBN 978-3-406-64656-0 http://www.chbeck.de/Koldau-Maria-Tsunamis/productview.aspx?product=11510074

Organization of international conferences

  • Passion and Easter in the Lüneburg monasteries, VIII Ebstorfer Colloquium, Ebstorf monastery, 25th - 28th March 2009
  • International Monteverdi interpretations: Science - Practice - Mediation, University of Frankfurt am Main, 2nd - 4th July 2009
  • Andes Verdenskrig i dansk kulturliv 1940-2010, Aarhus Universitet, 22 - 23rd April 2010
  • World view and reality of life in the Lüneburg monasteries, IX. Ebstorfer Colloquium, Monastery Ebstorf, 23 - 26th March 2011
  • Music and the Formation of National Identity, Aarhus Universitet, June 2011
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