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  1. Film screening: "Suites for a Wounded World" (15.02.2025)

    Tanja Tetzlaff plays J.S. Bach. Moderation: Heinz von Loesch The German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff plays J.S. Bach's Cello Suites No. 4 to 6 - in the midst of wounded nature scarred by climate change. A musically and visually moving plea for more mindfulness and humility towards the beauty of our planet

  2. Terms of use

    Terms of use The library of the State Institute for Music Research is a specialized scientific library, whose primary purpose is to support the scientists of the Institute in their work. However, it is also open to external users. Reading room of the SIMPK library. Photo: Anne-Katrin Breitenborn We

  3. Report Barrier

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  4. Dr. Sydney Hutchinson

    Dr. Sydney Hutchinson Research Associate CV Since November 2025: Research Associate at the State Institute for Music Research 2020-2025: Research assistant at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Musicology and Media Studies, Popular Music Studies 2019-2020: Substitute professor for eth

  5. Scholarships

    Scholarships The Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (SIM; State Institute for Music Research) awards stipends for one- to three-month research stays by music researchers in any discipline whose work touches upon the expertise of SIM employees and/or the particular strengths of the Institute. Th

  6. Award of the German Musical Instrument Prize (02.06.2023)

    On 1 June 2023, the 33rd presentation of the German Musical Instrument Award took place at the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research. The award went to the Gebrüder Alexander Rheinische Musikinstrumentenfabrik GmbH for their F/B double horn model 1106 MAL HG as well as

  7. Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums

    Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums The Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums (Bibliography of Music Literature, BMS) was created in 1936 by our predecessor institution, the Staatliches Institut für deutsche Musikforschung (State Institute for German Music Research) in Berlin, in order to establish a co

  8. Scientific Advisory Board

    Scientific Advisory Board The Scientific Advisory Board of the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung The Scientific Advisory Board advises the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung (SIM, State Institute for Music Research) on fundamental professional and scientific questions. It accompanies the wo

  9. Khrystyna Petrynka

    Khrystyna Petrynka From 1 April to 31 December 2022, Khrystyna Petrynka was a pre-doctoral fellow at the State Institute for Music Research and worked on a project on the Ukrainian bandura - a traditional stringed instrument. The focus is on bandura players in Ukraine in wartime, today and in the 20

  10. Claudia Wache

    Claudia Wache University education 2002–2006 Academic studies of Archive Management (Dipl.) and Library System Professional activities 07.2004–09.2004 Indexing the collection „Franz Steiner“, archivio provinciale Bolzano Since 2007 Archivist at the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (State Inst