Lars Klingberg

Lars Klingberg, born in Leipzig in 1962, studied musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1984 to 1989 and received his doctorate from the University of Rostock in 1995 with a dissertation on musical and musicological societies in divided Germany.

Klingberg's research focuses on music and politics in the German dictatorships of the 20th century (especially in the GDR) as well as the earliest music history of the Berlin-Brandenburg region.

Important stages of his professional career are:

• 1989֪-1992 research assistant at the Academy of Arts (East) Berlin (project on the music history of the early GDR)
• 1998-2004 Musicologist at the (private) Academy for Historical Performance Practice, Berlin (research and edition of early music)
• 2004-2009 Research assistant at the Musicological Seminar of the Humboldt University, Berlin (independent work on the DFG project "Musiklandschaft Brandenburg vor 1740")
• 2010-2013 Research assistant at the Händel-Haus Foundation Halle (Saale) (collaboration on the BKM-funded project "Basic Research on the Reception History of Händel in the Dictatorships of Germany")
• 2014-2017 Research associate at the Institute of Music, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (collaboration on the DFG project "Political Instrumentalization of the Music of the Past in 20th Century Germany Using the Example of George Frideric Handel")
• 2018-2022 Research associate at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (coordination of the research and publication project "Music History Online - GDR" funded by the BMBF as part of the "Innovative Hochschule" funding program)
• since 2023 Research associate at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (research associate and project coordinator for Music History Online)