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Prof. Dr. Antje Tumat is a Professor of Musicology at the University of Paderborn and the Musicological Seminar Detmold/Paderborn. Since April 8, 2018, she has held a chair in musicology at this joint institution between the University of Paderborn and the Detmold School of Music. She served as Deputy Director of the Musicological Seminar since 2020 and was Director from 2021-2022. Her office is located at Hornsche Str. 39, 32756 Detmold, Room HFM1 1.08.
Antje Tumat studied Musicology, German Studies, English Studies, and Pedagogy at Heidelberg University and Stoke on-Trent. She earned her doctorate in 2003 with a dissertation on Hans Werner Henze and Ingeborg Bachmann's opera "Der Prinz von Homburg," which was funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. She later completed her habilitation with a thesis titled "Music and Language in Incidental Music of the 19th Century" at the University of Music, Theater and Media Hannover.
Her research spans music from the early modern period through the 21st century, with particular focus on music and theater (especially opera and incidental music), music for radio and film, Heidelberg Romanticism, new music, gender research, and digital edition. She has developed expertise in examining artistic networks, particularly around Hans Werner Henze, and has made significant contributions to recovering women's musical histories.
Professor Tumat leads several major research projects including the DFG-funded "Henzes künstlerisches Netzwerk" (creating a digital correspondence edition of Henze), the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation project indexing Henze's private library, and since 2022, the Carl Maria von Weber Complete Edition. She has supervised numerous doctoral students working on diverse topics from electroacoustic music documentation to women at the Darmstadt Summer Courses.
- Ruprecht-Karls-Preis der Universität Heidelberg
- Walter-Witzenmann-Preis der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
As an active member of the academic community, she serves as Chair of the German Sullivan Society, advisory board member of the Society for Music Research, the Hans Werner Henze Foundation, and the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Edition. She is also a member of the Joseph Haydn Institute and serves on the selection committee for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's scholarship program. Her interdisciplinary approach combines historical musicology with gender studies and digital humanities methods, making significant contributions to expanding the canon of music history.
