HERTA AND KURT BLAUKOPF AWARD

FOR OUTSTANDING DISSERTATIONS AT THE MDW

 

The Rector of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna regularly presents the "Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Award for Outstanding Dissertations at the mdw". This award was created in order to make visible special achievements within the scholarly doctoral studies programme at the mdw as well as to provide early-stage researchers with support for their further academic careers.

First issued in 2019, the Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Award for outstanding dissertations at the mdw is granted by a transdisciplinary internal jury, chaired by the Dean of Research Programmes, on the basis of independent external evaluations. 

 

We congratulate the awardees:

 

2026

Isabel Frey: "Vocal Yiddishkeit. Postvernacular Transmission and Performance of Yiddish Folksong" (Structured Doctoral Program - Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology)

Bianca Jasmina Rauch: "Widerständige Blicke: Weibliche Identitätssuche im Coming-of-Age-Film" (Department of Film and Television - Film Academy Vienna)

Tianyu Jiang: "The Elusive Dancefloor: Music, Club Space and Sociality in Shanghai's Queer and Women-Centered Underground Music Scene" (Structured Doctoral Program - Department of Music Sociology)

Alexander Flor: "Das Dramma per Musica im Konzeptalbum. Interpretation und Inszenierung Alter Musik am Tonträgermarkt" (Department of Musicology and Performance Studies )

Ioannis Christidis: "Music in the Experience of Forced Migration from Syria to the European Borderland. Two Case Studies" (Music and Minorities Research Center)

 

2024

Elena Minetti: "Schrift als Werkzeug. Schriftbildliche Operativität in Kompositionsprozessen früher musique mixte (1949–1959)" (Department of Musicology and Performance Studies)

Irena Müller-Brozović: "Resonanzaffine Musikvermittlung in Konzertsituationen" (Department of Music Education Research)

Barbara Wolfram: "Moving The Needle. The Portrayal and Representation of Gender and Diversity in Austrian Feature Films of the years 1997-2017" (Department of Film and Television - Film Academy Vienna)

 

2022

Krista de Wit: "Legacy. Participatory Music Practices with Elderly People as a Resource for the Well-being of Healthcare Professionals" (Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education)

Julia Fent: "Diskriminierungskritische Perspektiven auf Musiktherapie und ihre Kontexte" (Department of Music Therapy & Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies)

Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà: "Expressive Performance on Single-reed Woodwind Instruments. An Experimental Characterisation of Articulatory Actions" (Department of Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister Education)

Axel Petri-Preis: "Musikvermittlung lernen. Eine Analyse von Lernwegen klassischer Musiker_innen" (Department of Music Education Research, Music Didactics and Elementary Music Education)

 

2019

Nejla Melike Atalay: "Women Composers' Creative Conditions Before and During the Turkish Republic" (Department of Musicology and Performance Studies) 

Marko Kölbl: "Burgenlandkroatische und kroatische Totenklagen" (Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology)

Katharina Pecher-Havers: "Der Salon des Proletariats – Die Narrative der Zitherkultur und ihre Erzählräume" (Department of Musicology and Performance Studies)

Anke Simone Schad: "Doing Politics – Making Democracy? Cultural Governance in der kommunalen Kulturpolitik" (Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies)

 

 

You see a black and white photograph of Herta and Kurt Blaukopf presenting their book "The Vienna Philharmonic" to the camera. Herta Blaukopf is looking straight into the camera, while Kurt Blaukopf has his arm around her and is looking at his wife.
You can see a collage of three book covers. In the upper half of the picture, you can see the works "The Vienna Philharmonic: essence, development, impact of a great orchestra" and "Gustav Mahler: Life and work in the testimonies of time". The lower half of the picture is taken up by the bright red cover of the "Music guide to Vienna".
You see a typed letter to which the date, personal addressing and signature have been added by hand.