Maren Bagge

Maren Bagge is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Musicology Weimar-Jena (University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar).
She studied music, musicology, and mathematics in Hannover and Oldenburg. From 2014 to 2024, she was a research associate at the Research Centre for Music and Gender (fmg) in Hannover, where she completed her doctorate in 2022. Her dissertation Favourite Songs examines popular English song culture in the long 19th century and the central role of women within it. In 2023/24 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
In her current habilitation project, she explores music-related exhibitions and memorials, focusing on the GDR and music tourism. Her broader research interests include public music history, musical spaces, media of remembrance, and cultural-historical approaches to 18th- to 20th-century music history linked with methodological approaches from gender studies, network theory, mobility studies, and biographical research.
She is a co-founder of the Postdoc-Netzwerk Musik und Gender  and serves as a blog curator for the Women’s Song Forum. 

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.

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 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 music historiography, musicology and music education, and the intersections of music and gender. Her current project focuses on Josephine Lang and the song culture of Munich in the 1830s.