Dr. Anna Ricke

Research Associate, Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn, Paderborn University

Vita

Dr Anna Ricke has been a research associate at the Department of Musicology Detmold/Paderborn since 2019; since 2023 in her DFG-funded research project "Music Theatre Horror. Music and Sound in London Gothic Plays around 1800". She studied Music Theatre Studies at the University of Bayreuth (B.A.) and Musicology at the HfMT Cologne (M.A.). In 2020, she completed her doctorate in Cologne on the musician Smaragda Eger-Berg (1886-1954) and conditions of artistic emancipation in Viennese modernism, for which she received a doctoral scholarship from the Forschungszentrum Musik und Gender (fmg) Hanover. In 2018, she was a prizewinner at the "Forum junger Autoren. Schreiben und Sprechen über neue Musik", is a member of the advisory board of the “Jahrbuch Musik und Gender”, a founding member of the "Postdoc-Netzwerk Musik und Gender" and deputy spokesperson for the "Fachgruppe Frauen- und Genderstudien der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung".

Focus of Work

Gender Studies, theatre music, music theatre, contemporary classical music

Publications (selection)

Smaragda Eger-Berg (1886–1954). Bohemienne – Musikerin – Schwester. Bedingungen künstlerischer Emanzipation in der Wiener Moderne (= Musik – Kultur – Geschichte, Band 14), Würzburg 2021.

Casegroup

Languages and Cultural Studies, Art and Design