Ivana Rentsch

Professor Ivana Rentsch is Director of the Graduate School at the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ and Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Hamburg’s Faculty of Humanities. Her research focuses on music and music theater from the 17th to 20th centuries, with particular expertise in operatic practices, ethnomusicology, and cultural heritage preservation.

Her research interests span handwritten layers of operatic practices, digital musicology, and spiritual intermediality in early modern Protestant drama. She employs ethnographic and historical methods to examine music’s role in cultural transmission.

Professor Rentsch serves on editorial boards for Musiktheorie and Wagnerspectrum and holds advisory positions at the State Institute for Music Research Berlin and the Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition project.