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Author Biography

• Linda Maria Koldau, Aarhus Universitet

  Linda Maria Koldau, PhD, is currently the Chair of Music and Cultural Studies at Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Æstestiske Fag. Previously, she was Chair and Director of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Frankfurt am Main.. Besides working on music in women’s convents in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, as well as on music and nationalism, she specializes in film music, introducing a new cultural historical approach to this issue. Koldau is currently working on a book on the U-Boat myth in film, media, and music, and on a general German textbook about film music and its analysis in the context of visual and acoustic aspects of film.