... 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 (26.09.2012) Between Pathos and Sentimentality. Yugoslavia's past in film music. Vortrag bei: Musical and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe. (European Seminar in Ethnomusicology), Ljubljana/SLOVENIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (25.07.2012) Poesie und Ideologie. Musikalische Repräsentation von Wasser. Vortrag bei: Ehrung Bundesminister Peter Ramsauer (Alpine Wasserkraft Österreich), Innsbruck/AUSTRIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (13.07.2012) Vienna intorno al 1900. Vortrag bei: Settimane Musicali Gustav Mahler (Settimane Musicali Gustav Mahler), Dobbiaco/ITALY.
Schmidl, Stefan (01.07.2012) From October to October. Musical anniversaries of the Great Socialist Revolution. Vortrag bei: Musics Cultures Identities. 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society (International Musicological Society), Rom/ITALY.
Schmidl, Stefan (29.06.2012) Felix Dörmann und die Moderne. Vortrag bei: Die Operette und das Tragische (Universität Wien), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Schmidl, Stefan (28.05.2012) Zwischen Tourismus und Trauma. Über audiovisuelle Imaginationen Jugoslawiens. Vortrag bei: Cultural memory and the arts in/on Southeast Europe (Universität Graz), Graz/AUSTRIA.