Sven Oliver Müller

Sven Oliver Müller (* 1968 in Siegburg ) is a German historian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1989 at Rhein-Sieg-Gymnasium, he studied from 1989 at the University of Bonn (New and Old History, Archeology) and from 1991 at the University of Bielefeld . In 1994 he submitted his master's thesis in Bielefeld. From 2000 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research to prepare and redesign the » Wehrmachtsausstellung «. After completing his doctorate in 2001 at Bielefeld University with a thesis supervised by Hans-Ulrich Wehler , “The Nation as a Weapon and Presentation in Germany and Great Britain in the First World War”, he was a research assistant at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at Bielefeld University from 2001 to 2008 . From 2005 to 2008 he initiated the joint project »Opera in the changing world. The musical culture of European metropolises "and" Europe and Beyond: Transfers, Networks and Markets for Musical Theater in Modern Europe, 1740–1960 ". From 2008 to 2010 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute . From 2010 to 2015 he was a research group leader at the MPIB . After completing his habilitation in 2014 at Bielefeld University with the thesis: »The audience makes the music. Musical life in Berlin, London and Vienna in the 19th century «he represented the professorship for modern history and 19th century history at the University of Tübingen ( Ewald Frie ) in the winter semester 2014/2015 . Since October 1, 2015 he has been a visiting scientist at the University of Tübingen. In the summer semester of 2016 he was the professor for contemporary history at the University of Tübingen ( Anselm Doering-Manteuffel ).

His focus is on the history of violence in the 20th century, the history of music reception in Europe and the USA, historical comparison and social transfer between states and cultures, emotions as social practices in musical life, history and theories of nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, composers and Conductors as political points of reference and the war of annihilation of the German armed forces.

Publications

• The nation as a weapon and conception in Germany and Great Britain in the First World War (= Critical Studies in History , Volume 158), Göttingen 2002.
• The audience makes the music. Musical life in Berlin, London and Vienna in the 19th century , Göttingen 2014.

Web links

• PD Dr. Sven Oliver Müller