Maria Fuchs is a musicologist and lecturer, currently working as a postdoctoral scholar in the field of music and media culture at the Center of Popular Culture and Music at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
Lecture
"Visual and musical transculturality of the Alps. The case of the multiple version Der Sohn der weißen Berge / Les Chevaliers de la Montagne by Luis Trenker and Mario Bonnard".
Together with Maria Adorno (Köln) lecture at the international conference Mountains & Cinema, Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck
October 2021
University of Innsbruck
Links
Mountains & Cinema
Lecture
"Composing for 'Heimat' in Ludwig Ganghofer's Cinematic Adaptions".
Lecture at the international conference Revisiting Austrian and German Music: from the ‘Spring of Nations’ to the Cold War, Department of Music and Media at the University of Surrey
September 2021
University of Surrey
Links
IAGMR
Soundscapes of 'Heimat'
Mapping Musical Signatures, 2020–2023
Research Project
This project aims to contribute to the clarification of the concept of 'home' by showing how it is created in relation to media and pop music
and how it influences a sense of collective identity and social belonging. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the medium of film has proved to be an essential constructive element of 'home' in the German-speaking world. In the research literature on 'homeland' films and mountain films of Austrian/German film production, the important role of music in these films has so far been given little attention.
Stummfilmmusik.
Theorie und Praxis im "Allgemeinen Handbuch der Film-Musik (1927)"
Schüren: Marburg 2016
(= Marburger Schriften zur Medienforschung 68)
Publication
This book examines the musical performance practice of silent film in Germany in the 1920s and sheds light on the early attempts at a theory and aesthetics of film music. The starting point for the study is the "Allgemeine Handbuch der Film-Musik" from 1927. Thereby, the genesis of film music conventions will be explored as well as the intermedial relationship between silent film music and music-aesthetic traditions.