Luisa Klaus

Luisa Klaus is a Lecturer in Musicology and Cultural History at Bremen University of the Arts and Scientific Associate at the Sophie Drinker Institute. Her academic appointments include doctoral studies at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and a visiting research position at Hebrew University of Jerusalem through the Minerva Foundation.

Her research spans Reception History of Early Music, Historical Performance Practice, and Transcultural Music Studies, with particular focus on Edith Gerson-Kiwi's work and German-Jewish intellectual history. She examines how cultural intersections shape musical epistemologies through frameworks of gender, migration, and postcolonial theory.

Klaus's scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with comparative musicology, historical epistemology, and critical Jewish studies, demonstrating methodological breadth across institutional history, performance analysis, and cultural criticism. Her publications frequently address the tension between Western musical canons and marginalized knowledge systems.

• PhD Fellow of the Minerva Foundation (2022/23)
• Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme scholar (2023–)
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation recipient (2024–)

As both a practicing recorder artist and scholar, Klaus bridges performance practice with theoretical inquiry. Her current doctoral work on Edith Gerson-Kiwi's epistemology represents significant contribution to understanding East-West musical paradigms in 20th century scholarship.