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Peter Moormann

Professorship:

Musik in the Media / Music Journalism, since 1 Februar 2024

To the Professorship

Department:

Arts and Sports Sciences

Studies and doctorate:

  • 2018: Habilitation in Musicology at the University of Cologne (“Gustavo Dudamel. Repertoire – Interpretation – Rezeption“, Steiner 2019)
  • 2007: Doctorate in Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-Award 2008 („Spielberg-Variationen. Steven Spielberg und sein Komponist John Williams“, Nomos 2010)
  • 2005: Magister Artium in Journalism and Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
picture of a man © Hesham Elsherif​/​TU Dortmund

Stages:

  • 2013-2023: Assistant professor für media aesthetics with special focus on music and adjunct professor for musicology at the Department of Arts and Music, University of Cologne
  • 2008-2013: Research assistant at the Institute for Musicology, Freie Universität Berlin within the DFG Collaborative Research Centres 626 “Esthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits“, project “Aesthetic Diversification as the Future of Music?“ and 447 “Performing Culture“, project “Day’s Parade: Military Music in Germany“

Focus in Research:

  • Music and sound design in film, television, radio and games
  • Music and Internet / Digital Music Cultures
  • Music journalism (intermedia strategies)
  • Aesthetics of audiovisual media
  • Music of the 20th to 21st centuries
  • Performance and interpretation analysis / conductors
  • Reception research (music criticism)