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Dr. Janine Droese appointed Professor of Musicology

Dr. Janine Droese appointed Professor of Musicology

30. October ’25

Our university has appointed Dr. Janine Droese as Professor of Musicology with a focus on early music history. The musicologist is an expert in medieval and Renaissance sacred music, among other things, and will take up her position at HMTM on 1 December 2025.

Dr. Janine Droese on her professorship:

»I’m looking forward to sharing my enthusiasm for exploring questions of music history and thereby contributing to the high-quality academic education of students in the educational and artistic programmes at HMTM. In doing so, I would like to make particular use of the strengths of a music university – through constant exchange with artistic and artistic-educational practice, the development of collaborative teaching formats with artistic teaching, and by strengthening interdisciplinary research at HMTM. The promotion and networking of young academics is also a particular concern of mine.«

Dr. Janine Droese studied musicology with minor subjects in cultural management and education at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. From 2007 to 2009, she received a doctoral scholarship from the State Graduate Funding Programme at the University of Hamburg, as well as DAAD scholarships in 2005 and 2009/2010 for research stays at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance Tours.

From 2010 to 2019, she was a research assistant in the editorial project »OPERA – Spectrum of European Music Theatre in Individual Editions« at the Universities of Bayreuth and Frankfurt am Main, where, as supervising editor, she was responsible for the edition of Justine Favart and Adolphe Blaise’s »Annette et Lubin«, among other works. In 2019, she received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg with a thesis on conceptions of angelic music and its significance for music and musical perception in the 13th–16th centuries.

In the same year, she moved to the Cluster of Excellence »Understanding Written Artefacts« at the University of Hamburg, where she worked as a research assistant on the project »Creating Music Albums as Originals Made of Originals« which she took over as director in 2022, focusing on 19th-century music albums. She is also the spokesperson for Research Area C »Creating Originals« of the Cluster of Excellence. As a member of Research Group 5138 »Spiritual Intermediality in the Early Modern Period« at the University of Hamburg, she is responsible, together with Prof. Dr. Oliver Huck and Prof. Dr. Johann Anselm Steiger, for subproject 1 »musica angelica et consociatio hominum cum angelis. The Music of Angels in Church Spaces« which describes the performative and iconographic design of the music of angels in church spaces and examines the interactions between the corresponding image and inscription programmes in church spaces and the music performed in them.