Gender Studies

Gender in teaching and research is particularly important at arts universities, which, like the HfMT Hamburg, educate over 60% female students, both in view of a strongly male-dominated European history of music, theater and work and with regard to the current career prospects of female artists: women are still very much in the minority in the few secure and leading positions in the cultural sector (see study by the German Cultural Council "Women in Culture and Media" 2016). The appointment of a professor of musicology with a focus on gender in 2002 means that this topic is now permanently available at the HfMT.

Prof. Dr. Nina Noeske, Musicology with a focus on music and gender
Nina.Noeske[a]hfmt-hamburg.de

Conferences and research projects delve deeper into individual subject areas. The internet platform MUGI = Musik(vermittlung) und Gender(forschung) im Internet, which has been set up since 2005, and a lecture series on gender research in the field of Music and Drama with an accompanying seminar, which has been offered every winter semester for two decades, provide an overview and networking. This series of events was included as a model example in the German Research Foundation's (DFG) toolbox on the subject of "Equality in Science":

Prof. Dr. Beatrix Borchard (retired), Editor MUGI
Beatrix.Borchard[a]hfmt-hamburg.de