What drives you?
Curiosity about intercultural encounters, a passion for well-prepared content, creative freedom and new perspectives on structures for the common good.
The best advice you’ve ever gotten?
Trust your intuition!
What are you learning right now that you’re not so good at yet?
Calmly and clearly put sexism in its place.
What would you change if you had the power to do so?
Designing socially fairer, more attractive working structures in the scientific and cultural sector and, in particular, abolishing precarious employment.
Which superheroine power would you like to have?
Get good thoughts into text form without detouring via a writing instrument.
Carolin Krahn
As a multilingual, internationally trained expert in transnational music culture from the late 18th to the 20th century, intercultural communication and content-orientated project design, Carolin Krahn works across disciplinary, institutional and national boundaries: formulated to the point, thematically variable, from the initial idea to the implementation of new formats for a broad audience, often with an emphasis on Italy or German-Italian cultural contacts.
Carolin Krahn has been a professor at the University of Kassel since 2024, where she works on issues such as multimedia music historiography, Italian clichés and image formation, and opera in international everyday culture. In addition to her award-winning research and teaching experience in Vienna, Rome, Harvard and Stanford, among other places, she has a Master’s degree in cultural mediation and management. This is rounded off by professional training in stage presence and presentation techniques. 15 years of practical experience in interdisciplinary and international working contexts have led to collaborations with numerous educational and cultural institutions – from international foundations to professional orchestras, opera houses and concert halls, festivals and museums to radio stations and print media in Germany, Austria and Italy.
Topics
Music and cultural history of Central and Southern Europe, especially with reference to the Italian cultural area in international contexts (from 1800 to the present), music and science mediation, image building and cultural branding, international education systems in comparison (Germany, France, USA, Austria, Italy / public and private general universities and music academies), international music and cultural institutions (opera, theater, concert halls, classical music festivals, museums), precarious work in cultural institutions and science, structural problems in science (main topics: Bullying, sexism, abuse of power, lack of transparency, best practice strategies, support for talented individuals, cross-generational cooperation and exploitation of potential), social inequalities and cultural capital in the education sector, international educational mobility and the German and European funding landscape, “educational climbers”
Languages
German, English, Italian, French
Formats
ReferenCES
- Goethe-Institut Rome (Roundtable concept/moderation: “Un canto a più voci – lingue europee e la sfida del globale”)
- Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (Popular Science Evening Lecture: “Casanova balla – ritratti musicali di un ‘seduttore italiano’ tra Venezia e Sanssouci”)
- Grafenegg Festival (introductory lecture to the concert “La Lira di Orfeo & Raffaele Pe”); Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst (workshop: “Once around the world? Paths and personal questions about international science”)
- Detmold University of Music (block seminar: “Inform – Entertain – Inspire. Concert introductions and the fine line between level and
platitude”) - Stanford University (block seminar as part of the summer program “Stanford Abroad in Vienna”: “Vienna 1900: Culture, Science and Politics”)
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (interdisciplinary workshop: “Ab in den Süden: Phantasms, Construction and History of the Mediterranean”)
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (various program texts)
- Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst (Workshop: “Once around the world? Paths and personal questions about international science”)
What drives you?
Curiosity about intercultural encounters, a passion for well-prepared content, creative freedom and new perspectives on structures for the common good.
The best advice you’ve ever gotten?
Trust your intuition!
What are you learning right now that you’re not so good at yet?
Calmly and clearly put sexism in its place.
What would you change if you had the power to do so?
Designing socially fairer, more attractive working structures in the scientific and cultural sector and, in particular, abolishing precarious employment.
Which superheroine power would you like to have?
Get good thoughts into text form without detouring via a writing instrument.
