Formal Awards Ceremony of the Herta & Kurt Blaukopf Award for Outstanding Dissertations at the mdw
Wednesday, 17 June 2026, 17:00-19:00
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Bankettsaal
1030, Anton-von-Webern Platz 1
We warmly congratulate the winners of the Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Award 2026:
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Isabel Frey: „Vocal Yiddishkeit. Postvernacular Transmission and Performance of Yiddish Folksong“ (sdp)
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Bianca Jasmina Rauch: „Widerständige Blicke: Weibliche Identitätssuche im Coming-of-Age-Film“ (Filmakademie Wien - Institut für Film und Fernsehen)
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Tianyu Jiang: „The Elusive Dancefloor: Music, Club Space and Sociality in Shanghai's Queer and Women-Centered Underground Music Scene“ (sdp)
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Alexander Flor: „Das Dramma per Musica im Konzeptalbum. Interpretation und Inszenierung Alter Musik am Tonträgermarkt“ (Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Interpretationsforschung (IMI))
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Ioannis Christidis: „Music in the experience of forced migration from Syria to the European borderland. Two case studies“ (Music and Minorities Research Center (MMRC))
Programme
Welcome
Ulrike Sych, Rector
Therese Kaufmann, Head of Research Support
Opening remarks
Nikolaus Urbanek, Dean of Research Programmes
Herta and Kurt Blaukopf Archive: "The Archival Turn in Music Sociology”
Rosa Reitsamer, Head of the Department of Music Sociology
Artistic Contribution
Salah Ammo
Presentation of the Herta & Kurt Blaukopf Awards by the Rector
Laudatory speeches & statements by the award winners
Artistic Contribution
Salah Ammo
Culinary finale
Research Support
Mag.a Therese Kaufmann, MA
Mag.a Marita Schaaser, MA
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