Our project
The online lecture series „Artsong and Gender in Dialogue“ (AGiD) was established in 2025 by Maria Behrendt and Anna Magdalena Bredenbach with the goal of fostering an international community of scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines, all dedicated to exploring artsong through the lens of gender. We are now accepting proposals for the inaugural series of events, which will run from October 2025 to January 2026.
The online lectures will be held every second Monday at 6 PM CET, beginning on October 20th and continuing through January 26th.
Submissions may address any aspect of the intersection between artsong and gender, including explorations of gender as an aesthetic category as well as research on art songs by underrepresented composers whose work has been marginalized due to their gender.
We welcome proposals in the following formats:
- Standard 20-minute conference papers and Q&A
- Full themed panels (Two or three 20-minute papers plus, optionally, a session chair)
- Interviews with performers and industry figures
The submission deadline is August 15, 2025.
The lectures will be held in English and may be published as videos on this website afterwards, subject to the presenters’ consent. Following the first season, you may find recordings of past sessions here, along with the current program and the call for the upcoming season.
Who are we?
Anna Bredenbach
Anna Magdalena Bredenbach is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Music at the University of Erfurt. She studied music education, musicology, German studies, and rhetoric at the HMDK Stuttgart, the University of Stuttgart, and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. In 2016, she completed her doctorate with a dissertation on the music historiography of the turn of the 20th century from a narratological perspective. Her studies and doctoral research were supported by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and the Deutschlandstipendium. From 2014 to 2019, she served as a research assistant at the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at HMDK Stuttgart. Since 2016, she has been teaching at the University of Erfurt’s Department of Music.
In 2023, she worked as dramaturg and scientific director for the Tübingen Music Festival „Komponistinnen“. Since 2024, she has served as the deputy spokesperson for the Fachgruppe Frauen- und Genderstudien der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung.
Her research interests encompass the theory and methodology of music historiography, musicology and music education, music around 1900, and the intersections of music and gender. Her current project focuses on Josephine Lang and the song culture of Munich in the 1830s.
Maria Behrendt
Maria Behrendt is Junior Professor of Musicology at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and Head of the Research Center Music and Gender (fmg). She studied musicology, media studies and French at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Münster and the University of Wales, Bangor, funded by the German National Academic Foundation and the DAAD. From 2014 to 2018, she was a research assistant at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. She completed her doctorate in 2018 with a thesis on romantic aspects in the German art song of the 1830s. After a start-up scholarship from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Musicology at Philipps University Marburg from 2021 to 2024. Her research interests include song research, film music research and music and gender.
Maria Behrendt is a founding member of the artistic-scientific “trio pontes” (with Anna Schors and Paul Heller), co-author of the podcast “Ein Like für Clara” about musical dedications to Clara Schumann, co-host of the podcast “Musikgespräch” and a member of the board of the Kiel Society for Film Music Research.