Michael P. Steinberg

Michael P. Steinberg holds the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeny Professorships in History and a Professorship in Music and German Studies at Brown University . From March 2016 to August 2018 he was President of the American Academy in Berlin .

Career

After training at Princeton University and Chicago University , he was visiting professor at these two institutions as well as at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Tsinghui National University in Taiwan. From 1988 to 2005 he was a member of the Cornell University Department of History.

His research focuses on the cultural history of modern Germany and Austria with a special focus on German-Jewish intellectual history and the cultural history of music. He wrote and gave numerous lectures on these topics, including a. for the New York Times , the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , the Bard Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School , and the Salzburg Festival . He has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin.

He wrote studies on Hermann Broch , Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin and is the author of Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival (Cornell University Press, 2000), of which the German translation ( Origin and Ideology of the Salzburg Festival; Anton Pustet Verlag, 2000) won the Austrian Victor Adler State Prize in 2001.

Steinberg was Vice Dean of the Arts and Co-Founder and Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. From 2009 to 2013 he was the dramaturge of a joint production of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen between the Berlin State Opera and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In the 2015/16 semester he was a scholarship holder of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Publications

• Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and 19th-Century Music. Princeton University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0691116853 .
• Judaism Musical and Unmusical. University of Chicago Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0226771946 .
• Reading Charlotte Salomon. (with Monica Bohm-Duchen) Cornell University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0801439711 .
• Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made. (with Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel and Idith Zertal) Princeton University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0691164236 .

Web links

• Michael P. Steinberg. President & Chief Operating Officer, The American Academy in Berlin.