Dr Anja Bunzel holds a research position at the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she pursues a project on musical repertoire in the Prague private domain between 1815 and 1850 within the European context.
Dr Anja Bunzel graduated from Freie Universität, Berlin, in 2012 with a Master’s Degree in musicology. Her thesis was entitled ‘The Paradise and the Peri by Robert Schumann: An Examination of the Reception History of the Peri in Dublin and Leipzig between 1843 and 1854’. Her MA was preceded by a BA in Media and Communication Research (Major), Music Theory (Minor) and English Language and Literature (Minor) (also FU Berlin, 2010). In 2012, Anja took up PhD studies at Maynooth University, where she researched Johanna Kinkel’s (1810-1858) Lieder compositions within their socio-cultural context. Her PhD was supervised by Professor Lorraine Byrne Bodley and was funded by an Irish Research Council PG Scholarship. Anja defended her PhD in November 2016. Since 2012, she has given papers and invited lectures in Ireland, the UK, Germany, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Romania, the Czech Republic, and Russia. Her publications include articles in Canadian, US-American and European journals. Anja gained teaching experience at Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, Kunstuniversität Graz, and Charles University Prague. From 2017-2018, she was an IRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow at Maynooth University.
Anja has worked in Irish tourism and has gained work experience with the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Kilkenny Arts Festival, and Open House Festival Belfast. She also worked for the German-French public broadcasting company ARTE during which time she provided German subtitles for Russian and English originals and was involved in the reconstruction of the Russian silent movie October. She is experienced with the music typesetting programme Sibelius and is fluent in English, German, and Czech.
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