Stephanie Schroedter
Stephanie Schroedter has been active in musicology and dance studies. She worked as a research assistant at the University of Salzburg’s Department of Musicology (with an emphasis on music theatre and dance research) while completing her PhD on shifts from “Affect“- to “Action”-based dramaturgies in French, English and German dance performances from the late 17th to the early 18th century (supported by the FWF Vienna and awarded with the “Tanzwissenschaftspreis Nordrhein-Westfalen” 2001). Afterwards she became a research fellow at the University of Bayreuth’s Department for Music Theatre Research. Fellowships from the DAAD (“Maison des sciences de l’homme” program) and Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris (DHI) enabled her to pursue research in Paris for the development of a project on Music in Motion: Dance Cultures of the 19th Century, from 2008 to 2012 subsidized by the DFG. Additionally she worked in a SNF-project focussing on dance in 19th-century French operas, later on followed by a DFG-project on artistic and aesthetic translation processes exemplified by co-productions of Pina Bausch’s “Tanztheater Wuppertal” under the direction of Prof. Dr. Gabriele Klein (Performance Studies at the Hamburg University). For her second monograph (“habilitation”) entitled Paris qui danse. Bewegungs- und Klangräume einer Großstadt der Moderne (Movement and Sound Spaces in a Modern City) she received the “venia legendi” (”Venia docendi“) for musicology and dance studies from the Freie Universität Berlin (2015, reviewed by Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter /Dance Studies, Prof. Dr. Matthias Warstat /TheaterStudies, Prof. Dr. Arne Stollberg /Musikwissenschaft at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Prof. Dr. Sieghart Döhring, Institute for Music Theater Research ofthe Bayreuth University).
Stephanie taught as visiting and substitution professor for musicology, dance studies, theatre and media studies (Universities of Bern/CH, Bayreuth, Berlin and Heidelberg etc.) and organised several international conferences focused on intertwinings of music, dance, theatre/performance and media art. Additionally to her work as book editor she made more than 100 contributions to collective volumes, journals and lexika and gave talks on conferences in Europe as well as in the US and Canada (for a selection see: ORCID and ResearchGate [currently under construction]).
Her latest research project “Bodies and Sounds in Motion“ (supported by the DFG) aims at theory-based methodical approaches to the analysis of intertwinings of music/sound and dance/movement in performances of the 20th/21st-century. She will continue this project within her professorship at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, starting in 2021.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0982-1991
