Current research projects
- Facetten kompositorischer Reflexion. Die Widmungen an Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Facets of Composers’ Reflections. Dedications to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)
(DFG)
- Graduiertenkolleg GK 2041 "Modell Romantik" (Graduate School GK 2041 The Romantic Model) (DFG)
- Music Education at Universities in the Post-Apartheid Era (DAAD)
- The Eisenach Wagner-Collection (Source analysis with scholarly commentary and discussion of selected aspects of the Richard Wagner collection, presented by Nikolaus J. Oesterlein in Eisenach (VolkswagenStiftung)
- Verfolgte Musiker im nationalsozialistischen Thüringen. Eine Spurensuche (Persecuted musicians in Nazi Thuringia. Searching for clues) (Thüringer Staatskanzlei und Deutsche Bank Stiftung)
- Works – Change – Identity: Max Reger's Mozart and Beethoven Variations as Musical Constructions of Identity (DFG)
- The Jewish Soundscape Project: Jewish Music in Cologne – Taking Stock in 2019 (Fritz Thyssen Stiftung)
- Aufbau einer Internetplattform: Theater und Musik in Weimar (Creation of an internet platform: theatre and music in Weimar) (DFG)
- Musikland Thüringen (Thuringia, a land of music) (Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen)
