Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education combines artistic, pedagogical and research-based expertise within the disciplines fine arts and music, with a particular emphasis on contemporary forms and practice. Lecturers offer modules for students enrolled in the Bachelor and Masters programmes within the faculties of Education and Humanities, in addition to the minor programme Popular Music Studies and the Early Childhood Music Further Education programme. Public exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events are of great importance within in the institute. These collaborative projects are innovatively developed and presented with and for our students thereby enriching the cultural life of the university.

Main research areas

Research activities

Junior professorship for Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic Practices

Professorship for Arts Mediation

Professorship for Music Education, in Particular Popular Music
Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlers

Professorship of Musicology, in particular Popular Music Studies
Prof. Dr. Monika Schoop

  1. E-pub ahead of print

    ‘The song factories have closed!’: songwriting camps as spaces of collaborative creativity in the post-industrial age

    Herbst, J.-P., Ahlers, M. & Barber, S., 29.06.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Creative Industries Journal. 17, 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Modellierungen außerinstitutioneller Aneignungsprozesse digital-materieller Interfaces und (musik-)pädagogische Anschlüsse

    Neuhausen, T. & Ahlers, M., 09.05.2024, Musik – Digitalisierung – Bildung. Neuhaus, D. & Keden, H. J. (eds.). München: Kopaed, p. 77-100 24 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Musikökonomie und Rechte: Terra incognita oder Potenzialgebiete für die Musikpädagogik?

    Ahlers, M. & Brunner, G., 15.04.2024, Der Welt abhanden gekommen?: Zur Relevanz von Musikunterricht im gesellschaftlichen Dialog. Krettenauer, T., Niegot, A., Stange, C. & Zöllner-Dressler, S. (eds.). Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 73-82 10 p. (Studien zur Musikkultur; vol. 9).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

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  5. Published

    Pop als Angebot: Fachliche und didaktische Überlegungen für die Grundschule

    Ahlers, M., 15.02.2024, In: Grundschule Musik. 2024, 109, p. 2-6 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  6. Published

    Musikkulturen, Nachhaltigkeit und Klimabildung

    Zaddach, W.-G. & Ahlers, M., 22.10.2025, Handbuch Klimabildung. Höttecke, D., Heinicke, S., Martens, H., Nehring, A. & Rabe, T. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer Nature, p. 265-283

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesEducationpeer-review

  7. Published

    Musikwirtschaft: "Chest always to puffed guy"

    Ahlers, M., 22.09.2025, Popmusikforschung. Rudolph, P., Suer, D. & Hornberger, B. (eds.). UTB, p. 87-104

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesEducationpeer-review

  8. Published

    From Sheet to Beat: Creativity and Composition as Useful Content for (Digital) Lifelong Learning

    Ahner, P., Ahlers, M., Aigner, W., Chatelain, S., Desmurs, S., Hug, D., Mall, P. & Spieker, B., 23.09.2025, Liberty – Equity – Creativity: Innovating and Inventing Music in the Classroom. Buchborn, T., Gall, M., Henessy, S. & Stumpfögger, M. (eds.). Helbling Verlag, p. 189-206

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Ruth Asawa and the artist-mother at midcentury

    Troeller, J., 06.05.2025, The MIT Press. 355 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  10. Published

    A Rapping Witness, Stumbling Stones and Jewish History: Musical Remediations of Memories from the Times of National Socialism

    Köhn, T., 22.12.2023, In: Samples. 21, p. 1-24 23 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review