Seit 2018
Curator at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

2012 – 2018
Scientific Associate at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

Scientific Associate on various research, exhibition and publication projects.

Doctorate at the University Hamburg

History research scholarship at the Landeshauptstadt Munich

Studied (M.A.) in musicology, political science, philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, the “Franz Liszt” University of Music in Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena

Postgraduate studies in book studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich

• Permanent exhibition “Image-Script-Codes”, Deutsches Museum (opening 2022)

• Mechanizing Handmade Paper. Traditional and Modern Paper Production in 19th-Century Europe. In: Silvia Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, Davíð Ólafsson (eds.): Paper Stories – Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe. (Material Text Cultures, Vol. 38), Berlin/Boston 2023, pp. 91-110.
• From the Music-Telegraph to the Opera-Telephone – Listening to Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. In: Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Century. Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University Press 2019.
• About dislocated sounds and auditory spaces - loudspeakers in the early days of electrophones. In: Brech, M.; Paland, R. (ed.): Compositions for the audible space. Early electroacoustic music and its contexts. Bielefeld 2015, pp. 105-122.
• Holocaust and popular music. The memory discourse of a genre. In: Rásky, B., Pawlowsky, V. (eds.): Scores of memory. The Holocaust in Music, symposium proceedings, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies/University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna 2015, pp. 339-350.
• The beginnings of electroacoustic sound reinforcement in urban areas - the example of Munich. In: Widmaier, T.; Grosch, N. (Ed.): Popular music in the urban soundscape. Cultural-historical perspectives. Münster 2014 (Popular Culture and Music, Vol. 13), pp. 169-191.
• (together with Meinl, S.; Hechelhammer, B.; Ptacek, H.): Pullach, Heilmannstraße. From the Rudolf Heß imperial settlement to the headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service - the history of a mysterious place. Exhibition catalogue. Munich 2014.
• Personal article “Elisabeth Baerlein” for the lexicon of persecuted musicians during the Nazi era, 2013. www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de
• The “elementary” modernity. Orff between conservatism, primitivism and Nazism, in: Mimesis, Mimicry, Simulatio. Camouflage and detection in the arts from the 16th to the 21st century, ed. Bernhard Spies/H.-W. Heister, Berlin 2013.
• Hrsg. der Reihe „Bilder/Welten“; Bd. 1: H.-W. Heister: Heinz Gellrich – Zeiten, Wege, Zeiten, Au/Hallertau 2013.
• Personal article “Gideon Klein” for the lexicon of persecuted musicians during the Nazi era, 2012. www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de
• “Humiliated and Insulted” − Mahler, the “lower” music and the public space, in: “Where the beautiful trumpets blow”. Vowels and instrumental semantics in the work of Gustav Mahler, ed. by H.-W. Heister, Berlin 2011, pp. 45-64.
• “They have no songs” – Music between the November Revolution and the Soviet Republic, in: Music Contexts, ed. by Thomas Phleps and Wieland Reich, Münster 2011, pp. 603-622.
• On Hamburg music and musical culture between the November Revolution and the handover of power to the Nazis, in: “Temporary heaven”. The culture of the 1920s in Hamburg, ed. by Dirk Hempel and Friederike Weimar, Neumünster 2010, pp. 147–176, (together with Hanns-Werner Heister und Hanjo Polk).
• Musical life in Munich 1925-1945. Between the labor market, bureaucracy and ideology, Au/Hallertau 2009.

• 5/2020 Reykjavík, "Rise of the Machines" – How industrial paper production in 19th century Europe influenced the paper (machine) trade and the materiality of paper. Conference of the University and National Library of Iceland, Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Post-Medieval Europe (May 7-8, 2020)
• 11/2019 Dresden: “Canned music and electronic capital”. The introduction of sound film technology in Munich. Conference of the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore and the Dresden Technical Collections: Urban Cinema Culture. The cinema in the big city between 1895 and 1949 (November 7-8, 2019)
• 4/2018 Hamburg: Showdown on the Newspaper Market – How Skeleton Editions reflect the Balance of Power between the Printing Business Players. Conference, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg: The Production of Information. Technologies, Media Markets, and Labor in the Twentieth Century.
• 11/2017 Aachen: The “newspaper” between technology and media history. Annual conference of the International Working Group on Print and Media History (November 9-11, 2017).
• 9/2017 Mauthausen: Holocaust and popular music. 9th Dialogue Forum of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial (November 18-19, 2017).
• 5/2017 Chania: Printing Heritage and the Information Age. Collecting, preserving and exhibiting as a future challenge for printing museums. Jahrestagung Association of European Printing Museums (11.-14.05.2017).
• 11/2016 Valkenswaart: The "Original" Pole Press of Alois Senefelder. Annual conference Association of European Printing Museums "Alois Senefelder and the invention of lithography in an international context. (November 3-5, 2016).
• 7/2016 Porto: From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Global Village. Historical and Contemporary Narratives in Permanent Exhibitions. ICOHTEC annual conference (July 26-30, 2016).
• 8/2015 Tel Aviv: From Electronic Musical Instruments to Lethal Weapons and Back Again. High frequency technology in 20th century Germany. ICOHTEC Annual Conference (August 16-21, 2015)
• 6/2015 Trento: Making Objects speak. ECSITE Jahrestagung: Food for Curious Minds (11.-13.6.2015).
• 8/2014 Trondheim: Electrophones on Display – Between experimental prototype and large-scale product or How to manage the crossover from art to popular music. Conference of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Musical Instruments (24.-31.8.2014).
• 7/2014 Berlin: Of auditory spaces and dislocated sounds - loudspeakers in the early days of electrophones; Conference TU Berlin “Compositions for audible space - early electronic music and its contexts” (July 9-11, 2014).
• 4/2014 Tutzing: Weimar - past, coping, memory; Conference of the Evangelical Academy: “Places of History and Remembrance” (April 4-6, 2014).
• 5/2013 Dresden: The horn loudspeaker - On the sensual, aesthetic and technical dimensions of the auditory; Conference “The Sensuality of Technology”, annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology.
• 3/2013 Tutzing: “...and if the world were full of devils...”. Church song and church struggle in the Luther year 1933; Evangelical Academy study day “Catholics, Protestants and the ‘seizure of power’”.
• 7/2012 Berlin: From the music telegraph to the opera telephone − listening to music in the modern age; Conference “The Art of Listening” − Trends and perspectives on a history of listening to music; University of Potsdam.
• 6/2012 Göteborg: Can Sleeping Instruments Awaken the Senses? The Complex Nature of Exhibiting Musical Instruments in the Deutsches Museum (zus. mit P. Poulopoulos); ECSITE Jahrestagung: The Spirit of Innovation.