Georg Högl

Georg Högl, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Institute for Music Research at the University of Würzburg. His work focuses on 19th-century musicology, particularly forest symbolism in Romantic opera, Richard Wagner's writings, and cross-cultural musical narratives.

• Education: Master's in Musicology (2015), Ph.D. in Musicology (2021) with a thesis on forest themes in 19th-century music.

Dr. Högl's research explores the intersection of musical iconography, Romanticism, and environmental representation through publications analyzing Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz and Wagner's critical writings. His recent work examines mythicization of forests in digital-age scholarship.

His publications include interdisciplinary studies in journals like wagnerspectrum and edited volumes such as Dresden Studies in Music, with a focus on ecocritical analysis and musical adaptation. Dr. Högl contributes to the Richard Wagner Writings edition project as a research assistant.

• Current affiliation: Institute for Music Research, University of Würzburg