Samuel Weigel
Samuel Weigel M.A.
Research Assistant
in the research project ‚Jewish Heritage Community Resilience’: Interdependencies of Cultural Heritage and Resilience in Times of Crises, Wars and Disasters
Research Areas:
Jewish Music, Music and Digitality, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Sustainability, Ethnomusicology
Contact: T. 3100-7129
E-Mail: Samuel Weigel M.A
Research:
- Since 2026: Research Associate in the subproject Communal Singing and the Mobilization of Music as Resilience Strategies: An Investigation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Israel that is related to the overarching project ‚Jewish Heritage Community Resilience’: Interdependencies of Cultural Heritage and Resilience in Times of Crises, Wars and Disasters. This research project is part of the second funding phase of the German Research Foundation's Priority Programme 'Jewish Cultural Heritage' (SPP 2357).
- 2022-2025: Research assistant in Area Study 1 – Jewish Worship Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage: Local Top-Down Versus Translocal and Virtual Bottom-up Processes of Heritage (Re-)Construction and Transmission, that is related to the research project Knowledge Architectures: Mapping structures of Jewish heritagization processes on communal, organizational and academic levels in post-1945 Europe. The project is part of the DFG Priority Program "Jewish Cultural Heritage" (SPP 2357).
- Since 2022: Doctoral student in Musicology at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with research interest in the processes of transmission and innovation of musical heritage in Jewish online-communities.
- 2021-2022: Assistance in the preparation of the DFG Priority Program "Jewish Cultural Heritage" (SPP 2357).
- 2020-2021: Research assistant in the joint project Objects and spaces reflecting religious practice: traditions and transformations in Jewish communities in Germany after the Shoa in the field of Jewish liturgical music.
- 2017-2020: Musicology and Music Education (M. A.) at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (Ethnomusicology/Jewish Music Studies).
- 2013-2017: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology and Musicology (B. A.) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
Publications:
- Weigel, Samuel (2022): „Introduction to Part 3: Community, Religious Practice and Synagogue Music in Post-War Germany.” In: Katrin Keßler, Sarah Ross, Barbara Staudinger und Leah Weik (Hg.), Jewish Life and Culture in Germany after 1945. Sacred Spaces, Objects and Musical Traditions. Berlin: De Gruyter, 165-173.
Memberships:
- International Council for World Music and Dance (ICTMD)
- European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS)
- German Musicological Society (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, GfM)
Last modified: 2026-02-03
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