Research Assistant

in the research project Knowledge Architectures: Mapping structures of Jewish heritagization processes on communal, organizational and academic levels in post-1945 Europe

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 2022: 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.