About

Since Nov 2017: CEO of the Bad Liebenstein GmbH

Since Sep 2017: artistic director of the Comödienhaus Bad Liebenstein and the Sommerkonzerte Schloss Altenstein

2015-2017: two-year research scholarship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for research project on the music practice of German immigrants in Santa Catarina, Brazil, c. 1850 to c. 1900; Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

2010-2014: research fellow at the research group "Music, Conflict and the State" and the Musicological Department at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

2008-2013: artistic director of the Festival Alter Musik in Thüringen - "Güldener Herbst" (www.gueldener-herbst.de)

2006-2009: doctorate in musicology at the Department of Musicology Weimar-Jena at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar and the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany (title of dissertation: "Der Komponist als Autor. Alfred Schnittkes Klavierkonzerte im auktorialen Diskurs"; grade: magna cum laude)

2000-2006: studies in musicology, arts management and English literary studies at the Department of Musicology Weimar-Jena at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt" Weimar and the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

1998-1999: studies in architecture at the Gesamthochschule Kassel (aborted)

born 1979 in Meiningen

Memberships

Förderverein Altenstein e.V. (president)
Freunde des Comödienhauses e.V (member of board)
Academia Musicalis Thuringiae e.V.
Gesellschaft Anna Amalia Bibliothek e.V.
Natur- und Heimatfreunde Bad Liebenstein e.V.
Rotary Club Bad Salzungen