... holds a doctorate from the University of Vienna. He is appointed professor for musicology at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK). There he is deputy director of the Centre for Science and Research and heads the competence centre "Film | Film Music". He also serves as a member of the Senate. At MUK he is currently leading the project "Austro-German Melodrama and Its Film Music" (FWF 34466).
At the ACDH-CH, Stefan Schmidl is part of the research unit Musicology. He is working on the history of cinematic reception of cultural heritage, including a project on the film music of Johannes Fehring. Results of this work have appeared in numerous monographs. Furthermore, he is editor of the series "Filmmusik in historisch-kritischen Editionen".
Publications
Lectures
Schmidl, Stefan (22.01.2008) Wiener Operette. Das Nationale, das Populäre und die Moderne. Vortrag bei: Wiener Operette. Das Nationale, das Populäre und die Moderne (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Gesellschaft für Musik), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (06.11.2007) Amnesie-Strategien. Vergessen und Interesse. Vortrag bei: Gedenken und Interesse (Zentrum Kulturforschungen), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (29.03.2007) Ortmaschinen: Aspekte des räumlichen Erzählens. Vortrag bei: "Mozart als Zeitgenosse" (Kommission für Musikforschung; Kommission für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte), Wien/AUSTRIA <http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kmf/veranstaltungen/archiv/mozart/v_mozart_schmidl.pdf>.
Schmidl, Stefan (27.10.2005) New ways of Displaying History of Science. . Vortrag bei: Displaying History of Science [Experimenteller Wokshop] (Galerie der Forschung), Wien/AUSTRIA.