Composer, conductor and music historian whose research interests cover the Euro-Ottoman musical exchange and the history of European musical tradition in modern day Turkey. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh and for some time Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Aracı is the author of two biographies of Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1999), Turkey's most prominent twentieth-century composer of contemporary music, and of Donizetti Pasha (2006), brother of the celebrated opera composer and master of music to Sultan Mahmud II and Sultan Abdulmecid. Emre Aracı also recorded several albums representing the music of this era: European Music at the Ottoman Court, War and Peace: Crimea 1853-56, Bosphorus by Moonlight and Istanbul to London, the first two of which were later released internationally by Warner Classics under the title Invitation to the Seraglio, and the last two most recently by Brilliant Classics titled Euro Ottomania. Based in the United Kingdom, he regularly lectures, performs and broadcasts under the patronage of the Çarmıklı family and Nurol Holding Inc.
Tülay Artan
B. Arch. 1980, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara; M. Arch. 1982 METU; PhD 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Has been teaching at Sabanci University Istanbul since 1999; previous teaching position at İstanbul University.
Areas of Interest: historiography; prosopographic studies of the Ottoman elite; applications of Ottoman law and its impact on social/family life; Ottoman elite households, consumption history and standards of living; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman and Middle Eastern history in comparative perspective; sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century art, architecture, and material culture.
Recent Publications: 'Arts and Architecture,' in The Cambridge History of Turkey. Volume III: The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839, ed. Suraiya Faroqhi, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 2006, 85-109; 'Questions of Ottoman Identity and Architectural History,' in Rethinking Architectural Historiography, eds. Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergut and Belgin Turan Ozkaya, London, 2006, p. 408-480.
Thomas Betzwieser
born in 1958 near Mannheim; studied musicology, German languages and philosophy at University of Heidelberg; 1989 Ph.D. in Musicology; 1990-1995 Assistant Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Musicology; 1995 DAAD-Fellowship at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris; 1996-1998 DFG Research Scholarship; 2000 Habilitation; 1999-2001 Lecturer in Music at University of Southampton; since 2001 professor of musicology at University of Bayreuth. Research fields: French opera 18th and 19th centuries, German singspiel, "Mannheimer Schule", transformation of operatic genres, music and danse. Books: Exotismus und "Türkenoper" in der französischen Musik des Ancien Régime (Neue Heidelberger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 21), Laaber 1993; Sprechen und Singen: Ästhetik und Erscheinungsformen der Dialogoper, Stuttgart/ Weimar 2002.
Ulf Birbaumer
Born 1939 in Waidhofen, Lower Austria. Senior professor of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. 1969 Dissertation on Viennese Popular Theatre in 18th century (Das Werk des Josef Felix von Kurz-Bernardon und seine szenische Realisierung. Versuch einer Genealogie und Dramaturgie der Bernardoniade, Wien 1971). 1983 habilitation on Theorie und Praxis alternativer theatralischer Kommunikation in Europa nach 1965 (Fo, Boal, Gatti). Since 1965 theatre critic in Austrian, German and French newspapers and Revues, 1983-1985 President of the AICT (Association Internationale des critiques de théâtre). Between 1979 and 1995 co-founder and co-director of Fo-Theater in den Arbeiterbezirken Wien (Gemeindehoftheater) (Fo-Theater in the Viennese Workers' Districts). 1986 and 1992 guest professor in Paris III and in Florence. 1995 Founding of the International Theatre Research Group "Spectacle Vivant et Science de l'Homme" in the Parisian MSH (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme). Vice President of INST (Institut zur Erforschung internationaler Kulturprozesse), Vienna. Since 1996 Chairman of Jura Soyfer Society.
Annemarie Bönsch
Born in 1939 in Vienna; studied theatre research, German philology and art history at the University of Vienna, followed by a master class study of stage and film design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts (then the Academy of Applied Arts). Since 1962 Annemarie Bönsch has taught at the University of Applied Arts, and since 1974 she has been a professor at the Institute of Costume Research. Since 1965 she has also taught at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. She is the author of many academic publications, as well as the scientific author of filmed documentaries, and a frequent lecturer on the history of costume. Having contributed to many exhibitions, since 2005 she has been the editor of the costume section of the Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen und Kostümkunde.
Born 1956 in Vienna. Studied History and English literature at the University of Vienna where he completed a doctorate in history. He has written widely on the history and politics of Central and Eastern Europe, especially its nationality and minority conflicts, as well as on the problems and perspectives of Austrian and European identity. Together with the former Austrian deputy prime minister Erhard Busek, he wrote Projekt Mitteleuropa (1986). He worked for the Austrian Parliament and was Head of the Cabinet of the Austrian Minister of Science and Research (1986-1989). He served from 1990 to summer 1995 in the Austrian Foreign Service as the first Austrian Consul General in Cracow, Poland. From 1995 to 1999 he was Director of the Austrian Cultural Institute in London. At present he is Director General for Cultural Politics in the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs. He is also Deputy Chairman of the 'Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe' in Vienna and Secretary General of the 'Austrian Research Association'.
Publications include a book on liberalism (Liberalismus, Interpretationen und Perspektiven, co-edited with Wolfgang Mantl (Vienna-Cologne-Graz: Böhlau, 1998), a book about collective memory in Central Europe: Der Kampf um das Gedächtnis. Öffentliche Gedenktage in Mitteleuropa, co-edited with Hannes Stekl. (Vienna-Cologne-Weimar: Böhlau, 1997) and the books Civil Society in Österreich (Vienna: Passagen, 1998), Organisierte Privatinteressen. Vereine in Österreich (Vienna: Passagen, 2000), Das Rechtssystem zwischen Staat und Zivilgesellschaft (Vienna: Passagen, 2001), Universitäten in der Zivilgesellschaft (Vienna: Passagen, 2001), Zivilgesellschaft zwischen Liberalismus und Kommunitarismus, co-edited with Peter Kampits. (Vienna: Passagen, 2003 and The Decline of Empires, co-edited with Klaus Koch and Elisabeth Vyslonzil. (Vienna: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik / Munich: Oldenbourg, 2001).
Graduated from the University of Economics in Vienna and joined the Austrian Foreign Ministry in 1993. A year later, he was Attaché at the Austrian Embassy in Bratislava. From 1995 to 1999 he worked at the Austrian Permanent Representation to the European Union (EU) in Brussels. During the first Austrian Presidency of the EU-Council in 1998, he chaired the Council Working Groups on Southeast Europe (incl. Turkey), Maghreb/Mashrik and Middle East/Gulf. From 1999 to 2003 he worked as a Principle Administrator in the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU in Brussels and was dealing with relations between the EU and Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus as well as Central Asia. Subsequently, he worked for four years as Head of Unit in the Directorate of personnel of the Austrian Foreign Ministry and was notably in charge of the Austrian Honorary Consulates abroad. Since September 2007, Christian Brunmayr is the Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Istanbul.
Reinhard Buchberger
Born in 1972 in Linz, he studied history and Czech language and literature at Vienna and Brno Universities. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a researcher on the history of Jews in Early Modern Hungary at the Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich. Since 2004 he has worked in the department of printed books of the Vienna City Library (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus). He has authored several publications on Early Modern history, the history of the Jews, and book and library history including, Reinhard Buchberger, Gerhard Renner, Isabella Wasner-Peter (eds.). Portheim - sammeln & verzetteln. Die Bibliothek und der Zettelkatalog des Sammlers Max von Portheim in der Wienbibliothek, Wien: Sonderzahl, 2007.
Bertrand Michael Buchmann
Born in 1949 in Vienna, he studied history and geography in Vienna, and since 1976 he has been teaching at the Gymnasium Wien 16. Attained the habilitation on the subject, 'Neuere Geschichte Österreichs' from the University of Vienna in 1987, and since then has worked as lecturer and researcher in the Department of History. In 1994 he was awarded the first prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His numerous publications on Austrian and European History, include Türkenlieder zu den Türkenkriegen und besonders zur zweiten Wiener Türkenbelagerung (Vienna: Böhlau, 1983); Österreich und das Osmanische Reich. Eine bilaterale Geschichte (Vienna: Facultas, 1999); and Kaisertum und Doppelmonarchie. Geschichte Österreichs 5 (Vienna: Pichler, 2003).
Born in 1967 in Taranto, Italy. Studied piano in Taranto and Bari, and musicology at the Scuola di Paleografia e Filologia Musicale in Cremona/Pavia (Tesi di Laurea in 1993). Also studied musicology at the University of Regensburg 1990-91. In 1991-1993 he conducted research projects in Paris (he was a collaborator of RISM at the Bibliothèque Nationale), and from 1993 to 1997 he studied musicology, medieval Latin and romance studies at the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, writing a dissertation about the ensemble in the Tragédie lyrique of the late Ancien Régime. From 1997 to 2001 he was Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at the Philipps-University Marburg, and from 2001 to 2005 he was Assistent and Oberassistent at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut of the University of Zürich. In 2003 he did an Habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zürich about musical authorship from the middle ages to the modern period. In 2004 he won the Hermann Abert Award of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, and since 2005 he has been a professor of musicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Recent publications include: Das Ensemble in der Tragédie lyrique des späten Ancien Régime, Eisenach 2000 (Schriften zur Musikwissenschaft aus Münster 14); Musikalische Autorschaft: Der Komponist zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, Habilitationsschrift Universität Zürich 2003; Joseph Joachim: Komponist, Virtuose, europäischer Bürger, edited with Christian Glanz, Kongressbericht Kittsee Juli 2007, Anklänge 3 (2008); Komponieren in Lehre und Praxis, edited with Lothar Schmidt (Handbuch der Musik der Renaissance Bd.2), Laaber 2009; Händels Kirchenmusik und vokale Kammermusik, edited with H.-J. Marx (Händel-Handbuch 4), 2009.
Professor of theatre history at the Yeditepe University in Istanbul, she was born in Istanbul, and studied theatre at the University of Vienna and Suny Binghamton, USA. Worked as dramaturge of the Municipal Theatre in Istanbul, 1974-78. Wrote Yirminci Yüzyılda Öncü Tiyatro (Avant Garde Theatre of the Twentieth Century), 3rd edition, Bilgi University Press, 2003. Translated into Turkish The Secret Art of the Performer by Nicola Savarese and Eugenio Barba, and plays such as Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald by Horvath. Wrote many articles on drama for daily papers such as Cumhuriyet, Yeni Yüzyıl. Is currently working on Turkish theatre history from the 18th to 20th century.
Necla Çıkıgil has a BA in English literature and language. Due to her interest in ballet (she is a graduate of Fenmen Ballet School in Ankara) and theatre she started research work on Shakespeare's ballets while working for an MA in Shakespeare Studies at Birmingham University. While she was working for her MA degree she also studied Historical Dance. After receiving her MA, she conducted further research to get a PhD in Theatre at Ankara University. Dr. Çıkıgil's major interests and publications are in the transformation of literary works into dance, theatrical performances of Shakespeare's works, world theatre, English language, and academic oral presentation skills. She also writes ballet and play reviews for national and international journals. Currently, she is an instructor of the History of Theatre and English at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she has been teaching since 1981.
Since her operatic debut at the age of 21, soprano Jennifer Davison has been developing a wide range of repertoire and artistic diversity while enjoying public and critical claim for her performances throughout Europe and the United States. In her most recent success, as Vixen Sharp Ears in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen at Vienna's Kammeroper the magazine 'Musical America' praised her for her 'sumptuous, crystalline voice' and for her 'feisty' stage presence. Jennifer Davison received a Bachelor's Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, and a Master of Music from the University of Cincinnati. After completing her studies she became a member of the Lucerne Theater in Switzerland and was heard in many roles including Pamina, Micaela, Almirena in Handel's Rinaldo, and the principle role Olga Neuwirth's Baehlamms Fest. Her active concert singing has brought her to concert halls and cathedrals in Vienna, Lucerne, Berlin, Baltimore, Zürich and Lyon, in works from Bach to Brahms, Mozart to Sciarrino. Upcoming performances include her debut with the Tonhalle Orchestra as Soprano Soloist in Mendelssohns' Paulus, an appearance with the Baroque Ensemble of the Wiener Symphoniker and with the Neue Oper Wien in Eliot Carter's What Next in November 2008.
Helga Dostal
Dr.; studied dramatics, musicology, philosophy and psychology at Vienna University. Assistant producer for some 50 operas, plays and concerts broadcast by the ORF. Co-organizer of major exhibitions in the Vienna Künstlerhaus, Museo teatrale alla Scala di Milano and for the Prague Quadriennale. Worked with Rudolf Nurejev at the Vienna State Opera, dramaturgue for the Austrian Länderbühne and the Tribune Theatre. For ten years Head of the Art University Department in the Federal Ministry for Science and Research, then Director of the Austrian Theatre Museum. Currently President of the Advisory Board of the Arnold Schoenberg Centre. President of the International Theatre Institute of the UNESCO, Centrum Österreich. Awarded the Ring of Honour of the Salzburg Mozarteum University.
Erich Duda
Dr. Erich Duda was born in 1929 in Vienna. Between the years 1943-1949 he studied at "Technisches Gewerbemuseum" in Vienna, majoring in electro-technics, then worked as engineer and finally as a corporate manager for "AG der Wiener Lokalbahnen" until 1989. As of 1989 he studied music and theatre research at the University of Vienna, having received his PhD degree in 1998. His dissertation, titled Datierung musikalischer Quellen des 18. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel von Franz Xaver Süßmayr was published in the year 2000 by International Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg with the title The Musical Works of Franz Xaver Süßmayr; A Thematical Register.
Gertrude Durusoy
Born from a Czech mother and a French father, Gertrude Durusoy obtained her Baccalaureat in Cambra, France in 1961. She graduated in 1965 from the Université de Lille, France, in German Philology and Czech Philology. She got her PhD in Comparative Literature in 1974 in Aix-en-Provence. Established in Turkey, she did her academic career in the German Language Department of the Universities of Hacettepe, Ankara and Ege. Since 1997 she has been Head of the Research Center on European Languages and Cultures. She also works as a literary translator from and into Turkish, German, and French. She translated from German into Turkish one play by Elias Canetti and two by Jura Soyfer, and from Turkish into German a play by Güngör Dilmen. In addition to her many academic publications, translating poetry from German to French (Hans Raimund), or from German into Turkish (Georg Trakl, Paul Celan) keeps her busy.
Suraya Faroqui
Educated at the universities of Hamburg, Istanbul and Bloomington, Indiana, Suraiya Faroqhi has taught English (1971-72) and history at Middle East Technical University, Ankara (1972-87) and served as a professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich, Federal Republic of Germany (1988-2007). After retirement she now teaches at the Department of History, Bilgi University in Istanbul. Her Festschrift from her Ankara colleagues, Osmanlı'nın peşinde bir yaşam (A lifetime in the wake of the Ottomans), ed. Onur Yıldırım (Ankara: İmge Publications, 2008), has just been published. Principal publications: Towns and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia, Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); Men of Modest Substance, House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri (Cambridge: CUP, 1987, reprint 2002); Pilgrims and Sultans, The Haj under the Ottomans (London: I.B. Tauris, 1994); Subjects of the Sultans, Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire,tr. by Martin Bott (London: I.B. Tauris, 2000); Approaching Ottoman History, an Introduction to the Sources (Cambridge: CUP, 1999); The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it, 1540s to 1774 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004). Collected articles: Several volumes of collected articles: Peasants, Dervishes and Traders in the Ottoman Empire (London: Vario¬rum Reprints, 1986); Coping with the State, Political Conflict and Crime in the Ottoman Empire (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1995); Making a Living in the Ottoman Lands, 1480-1820 (Istanbul: The Isis Press, 1995); Stories of Ottoman Men and Women, Establishing Status, Establishing Control (Istanbul: Eren, 2002). To be published in the fall of 2008: Another Mirror for Princes: The Public Image of the Ottoman Sultan and its Reception, (Istanbul: The Isis Press)
Matthew Head
Dr. Head, lecturer in music at King's College, London, is a graduate of Oxford and Yale, and a specialist in music of the European Enlightenment. He has published on C.P.E. Bach, Minna Brandes, Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Mozart, and Sophie Westenholz, exploring issues of musical character, performance, improvisation, genre, authorship, orientalism and gender. Matthew Head is currently working on a book of essays on music, gender and authorship in the late eighteenth century. Publications include: Orientalism, Masquerade and Mozart's Turkish Music (RMA Monographs 9) London: RMA, 2000; 'Musicology on Safari: Orientalism and the Spectre of Postcolonial Theory,' in Music Analysis, 22/1-2 (March-July 2003), pp. 211-230; 'Haydn's Exoticisms: 'Difference' and the Enlightenment' in The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, ed. C. Clark. Cambridge: CUP, 2005, pp. 77-94.
Caroline Herfert
Born in 1983 in Feldkirch (Austria), she grew up in Liechtenstein. She graduated from the Liechtensteinisches Gymnasium, Vaduz, and was the 2003 scholarship holder of the Peter Kaiser commemoration foundation for the best high school diploma. From 2003 to 2009 she studied theatre, film and media studies, cultural studies as well as Arabic studies at the University of Vienna, gaining work experience in archives and theatres along with her academic education. She has lived in Buffalo (USA), Annecy (France), Melbourne (Australia) and Tunis (Tunisia), for language studies. In 2006 she participated in the Interplay Europe 2006 Festival of Young European Playwrights, and in 2007-08 participated in the exhibition project, 'Wissenschaft nach der Mode?' by Birgit Peter and Martina Payr at the department of theatre, film and media studies (TFM) at the University of Vienna. In 2008 she conducted archival research for the symposion Theater der Eliten?, held November 11, 2008, at the Theater in der Josefstadt in cooperation with the Vienna TFM department. She is currently writing her master thesis about the range of Viennese theatre history and Orientalism discourses on Murad Efendi (1836-1881).
As one of the most interesting pianists of the young Austrian piano generation, Christopher Hinterhuber has won prizes at international piano competitions in Leipzig, Saarbrücken, Pretoria, Zürich and Vienna and performed solo recital and chamber music performances in concert halls such as the Wiener Konzerthaus and Musikverein, the Philharmonie Gasteig in Munich, the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo and as "Rising Star" 2002/3 in the international series at all major European concert halls and the Carnegie Hall, New York. Since then he worked with many renowned orchestras and conductors, recent festival invitations include the Ruhr Piano Festival, Styriarte Graz, Prague autumn, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Mozartwoche Salzburg. A special project was the recording and filming (his hands) for the french-austrian movie "La pianiste", directed by Michael Haneke, which won the Great Prize of the Jury in Cannes 2001. He has made several CD Recordings, and records currently all eight Piano Concertos by Beethoven's pupil Ferdinand Ries. The latest release included works for piano and orchestra by Hummel and won the prestigious Gramophone editor's choice in February 2008. He gave masterclasses in Japan, Europe and South America and was teaching piano as visiting professor at the University for Music in Vienna in 2005/6.
Born in 1946; MA, Phil.Doc. Associate Professor, Theater Studies, Institute for Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Has conducted research travels to Italy, France and India. Bent Holm is a dramaturge and translator of plays, especially those by Dario Fo, De Filippo and Goldoni. His doctoral dissertation was about Comédie Italienne in a broad cultural, religious, and iconographic context, and He has published interdisciplinary studies on historical and dramaturgical issues in English, French, Polish and Italian. For the moment, he is preparing the English version of his book about the eighteenth-century playwright Ludvig Holberg viewed from a dramaturgical-historical perspective. Special research focuses include the relationship between visual arts and theater; drama analysis and creative theater production; and theatricality and rituality. He is a lecturer at several international universities and research centres, most recently in Torino, Paris, Frankfurt, and Stockholm. Bent Holm is also a member of scientific committees and networks in Paris, Mantova, and Torino, among other cities.
Recent publications include: 'Il Corvo canta. Una lettura dell'adattamento lirico di Hans Christian Andersen del Corvo di Gozzi,' in: A. Fabiani, ed., Carlo Gozzi entre dramaturgie de l'auteur et dramaturgie de l'acteur; un Carrefour artistique européen, Longo: Ravenna, 2007; 'Enlightened Nordic Knights. Text, body and space in Jens Baggesen and F.L.Ae. Kunzen's opera - Holger Danske,' 1789, in: North-West Passage 5, Torino, 2008); and on ritual and theatre, non-western theatre (co-ed., contributor, Religion, Ritual, Theatre, Peter Lang: Frankfurt-New York, 2008).
Stefan Hulfeld
Prof. Dr.phil.; born in 1967. Awarded a Master of Arts in Theater Studies, German Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bern, and a PhD in Theater Studies with research concerning the culture and theater history of the eighteenth century, published as Zähmung der Masken, Wahrung der Gesichter (Zürich: Chronos Verlag 2000). Stefan Hulfeld's second book is called Theatergeschichtsschreibung als kulturelle Praxis. Wie Wissen über Theater entsteht (Zürich: Chronos Verlag 2007) and treats the development of theater history in Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. He has been Professor for Theater and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria) since 2006.
Frank Huss
Dr. Frank Huss, born in Marbach am Neckar/Germany in 1971, studied Musical Education at the Academy of Music in Vienna and Percussion at the conservatory of Vienna as well as History, German Philology and Musicology at the University of Vienna. He wrote his doctoral thesis about The opera at the imperial court of Vienna under the Emperors Josef I. and Karl VI. tutored by Professor Herbert Seifert. He has published a number of historical books, the last one about the baroque imperial court of Vienna from 1657-1792. (Der Wiener Kaiserhof - Eine Kulturgeschichte von Leopold I. bis Leopold II., Katz Verlag 2008). Huss, who also writes for some historical magazines, has been a teacher at a grammar school in Vienna since 1999.
Michael Hüttler
Dr.phil.; born in Tulln, Lower Austria. Studied theater, film and media studies as well as journalism and communication studies at Vienna University; worked in a bank for several years prior to studying. Teaches at Vienna University, in the Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies. Lectured at Yeditepe University Istanbul (2001-2003), and has been conducting research for the Da Ponte Institute and the Don Juan Archiv Wien since 2001. Since 2007, he has been head of Don Juan Archiv Wien Forschungsverlag. Current research focuses on forms of music and popular theater in the eighteenth century. He has published on Mozart, Theater Ethnology, Business Theater, and Experimental Theater in Austria, including (ed.) Aufbruch zu neuen Welten: Theatralität an der Jahrtausendwende (Frankfurt/Main: IKO, 2000); (ed.) Theater. Begegnung. Integration? (Frankfurt/Main: IKO, 2003); Unternehmenstheater. Vom Theater der Unterdrückten zum Theater der Unternehmer? (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2005); (ed.) Hermann Nitsch. Wiener Vorlesungen (Wien: Böhlau, 2005), and (ed.) Lorenzo Da Ponte (Wien: Böhlau, 2007).
Aydın Karlıbel
Born 1957 in Istanbul, Dr. Karlıbel began his piano lessons at the age of four; at the age of nine he became the private student of Cemal Resid Rey (1904-1985), with whom he worked until Rey's death. Along with his piano studies Karlıbel graduated from the Lycée du Saint-Michel (Prix d'Excellences) and the Robert College (1976) and finally received his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Boğaziçi University. Aydın Karlıbel also received the 'L.R.S.M. Diploma' from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools. Additionally, he participated in the Wiener Meisterkurse (1991-93) and the Summer Courses of the Accademia Chigiana. He was also awarded with the '2000 Outstanding Musician of 20th Century Prize' by the Cambridge Biographical Center. Karlıbel's compositions are printed and published as CDs by the Keturi Publishers in Germany. Karlıbel has been active in the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet since 1986, and his works and performances have been recorded on over eight CDs for Kalan Label, TRT and Iton Records. Over the years, he has won several prizes and mentions of the Municipal Conservatory and the Nejat Eczacıbaşı Contest. His works have been performed in England, Italy, Georgia and Germany. A concert pianist with an extensive repertoire, Karlıbel has composed two operas, an oratorio, two piano concertos, numerous original works and transcriptions for piano solo, choral, vocal, chamber works, and marches. He recorded, restored, orchestrated and computer printed many works of his master Cemal Resid Rey. Having also translated Ian Kemp's book on Berlioz's Les Troyens into Turkish (Pan Editions, 2009), he received his doctoral degree from Istanbul Technical University/MIAM in February 2009. His art aspires to fuse universal culture with Turkish aesthetics and colours. Dieter Paier Dieter Paier was born in Stiefing, Styria in Austria. Under the guidance of Otto Niederdorfer and Gerhard Zeller he studied music education and piano-vocal correpetition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. During his study he was given a training order for correpetition at the singing department in Graz, and he worked there in song and oratorium classes until the end of 1996. In 1997 he was appointed as solo correpetitor to the University of Music and Art in Vienna. He has been assistant in the song class of K.S. Edith Mathis, and from 2007 in the class of K.S. Gabriele Fontana. Dieter Paier took lessons with Charles Spencer, and played in master classes with singers such as Gundula Janowitz, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Zadek, Sona Ghazarian and Thomas Quasthoff. He has regular concert obligations as a song accompanist throughout Europe. Recordings for broadcast, television and CD enrich his musical work.
Nadja Kayali, stage-director and dramaturge, was born in Vienna and studied Musicology and Opera directing at the University of Music Vienna. Engagements a.o. Opera Lucerne, Opèra du Rhin (Strasbourg/France), National Opera Skopje Macedonia. Nadja Kayali programs for Music festivals, such as the 'Morgenland Festival Osnabrück' in Germany and directed several festivals in Austria and Switzerland. She writes programs and articles for the Vienna State Opera ('Otello' and 'Die Omama im Apfelbaum') and the Hamburg State Opera, a.o. In 2006 she led several projects on the theme of 'Mozart and the Orient', among them the concert 'Mozart und die Türken' for the 'Mozart Jahr 2006' at the Konzerthaus Vienna and a concert at the Almaty State Opera in Kazakhstan. She also participated at the Al-Bustan Festival in Beirut.
Nadja Kayali is a frequent lecturer and presenter of concerts and operas in the Konzerthaus Vienna, the Musikverein and at the Salzburg Festival. For the Turkish Embassy she presented last year the 'Ahmed Adnan Saygun Memory Concert' with the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra at the Konzerthaus. Nadja Kayali is heard regularly as a host of the radio program 'Pasticcio' on Austrian Radio Ö1.
Hans-Peter Kellner
Born in 1963 in Vienna. Works as a stage director, dramaturge and literary translator. He studied Scandinavian languages and theater studies at the University of Vienna, and film studies at the University of Copenhagen, for which he received a scholarship from the Austrian government. Since 1986 he has worked extensively in theater, film, television, and circus. Starting as Assistant Director, Dramaturge and Stage Manager in Vienna, he continued as Assistant of the former Royal Shakespeare Company with director Terry Hands in Berlin. Since 1993 he has directed around thirty plays at several venues in Austria and Germany, as well as in London, where he was based between 1995 and 2000 and where he worked with Tom Stoppard, David Farr and Michael Kingsbury. In 2000 Hans-Peter Kellner moved to Copenhagen, where he directed, among other plays, the first ever site specific production of Shakespeare's Hamlet at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. He has translated around twenty plays into German, many of them by contemporary Scandinavian playwrights, and he is regularly adapting classic plays for the modern stage. In recent years he has resumed Theater Studies, mainly related to the Scandinavian stage of the eighteenth century.
Alexandre Lhâa
Doctoral research student and research assistant (2006 - 2009) at the History Department of l'Université de Provence and the TELEMME research institute, France. In October 2006, he commenced PhD research on "Exoticism in the operas performed in the Teatro alla Scala from Cleopatra (1779) to La donna serpente (1942)", pursuing the reflexion developed in his MA thesis in History (for which he was awarded a high distinction). In the April 2008 "intervention" at the "The Sword of Judith" conference at the New York Public Library, he presented Giuditta (1860) by Marco Marcello and Achille Peri.
Adam Mestyan
Adam Mestyan is an Arabist and a historian, his main interest being nineteenth-century Middle Eastern and European cultural history. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate both in aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and in comparative history at the Central European University, Budapest. Having worked as Instructor of Arabic at the Mediaeval Studies department at CEU, he is a Research Fellow in the Opera and History Project (2009-2011) of the European University Institute, Florence. Mestyan is also a member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Dayka Gabor Society, Erasmus College, and the József Attila Circle (JAK). He received the Prize of the Republic of Hungary for Academic Excellence (2004), and the 'Ernő Kállai' Scholarship for Historians of Art of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (2006-2008). He is the editor of Látvány / színház: performativitás, műfaj, test ('Spectacle and Theatre: Genre, Body, Performativity'), Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2006; and of a special issue on Modern Arabic Literature of the Hungarian Literary Journal Kalligram, 2 (2008); and since 2008 he has been Associate Editor of the European Review of History, London: Routledge.
Professor in Literature and Performing Arts at the University of Tours (France). She is the author of La Représentation d'Opéra, Poétique et Dramaturgie (Presses Universitaires de France: 1993), L'Opéra seria ou le règne des castrats (Fayard: 1993, 2d ed 1998). She has also edited Le Spectaculaire dans les arts de la scène du Romantisme à la Belle Epoque (CNRS-Editions, 2006) and is presently coordinating the centenary celebrations of Victorien Sardou (Victorien Sardou, le théâtre et les arts, Tours-Paris BnF, Marly le roi: 2008). She has also written many contributions for several opera houses (Opéra de Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Staatsoper Stuttgart).
Born in 1947 in a refugee camp in Austria, as the son of a Crimean Tartar family. He finished his elementary and secondary schooling in Istanbul and Ankara. In 1965 he graduated from Ankara Atatürk High-School. In 1968 he finished his studies at Ankara University, School of Political Science, as well as the Department of History at Ankara University, School of Languages, History and Geography. He then studied Slavistics and Orientalism at the University of Vienna, Austria. İlber Ortaylı did his Master's work at Chicago University under Professor Halil Inalcık. He received his PhD at Ankara University, School of Political Science with his dissertation Tanzimat Sonrası Mahalli İdareler ('Local Governments after the Reformation', 1978). With his State doctorate, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Alman Nüfuzu ('The German Influence on the Ottoman Empire', 1979), he became Associate Professor. In 1989 he became full Professor.
Lectured and served as visiting professor at universities in Vienna, Berlin, Princeton, Moscow, Rome, Munich, Strasbourg, Yanya, Sofia, Kiel, Cambridge, Oxford and Tunis. He has published in Turkish and in international scientific journals, articles on 16th-19th century Ottoman history and the history of Russia. Between 1989-2002 he served as the Chairman of the Administrative History Department at Ankara University, School of Political Science. In 2002 he joined the faculty of Galatasaray University, Istanbul. Two years later he transferred to Bilkent University, Ankara. İlber Ortaylı is President of the Topkapı Palace Museum, Istanbul. He is a member of the Board of the International Committee on Ottoman Studies and a member of the European Association of Iranolgy.
Born 1964 in Adapazarı; Dr. Cemal Öztaş graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences. Following that, he received his M.A. degree from Istanbul University Institute of Humanities, Faculty of Political Sciences, and Department of Public Administration, having completed a thesis on The Correlations of Population and Economic Growth - the Cide Case. He pursued doctoral studies at Sivas Cumhuriyet University Institute of Humanities, Faculty of Economics, and Department of Economic Growth; and received his PhD degree with a dissertation on Local Authorities in the light of Rural Growth. After his posts at the Governorships of the provinces Kocaeli, Kastamonu, Ordu, Yozgat and Elazığ, he worked as deputy head and then head of Turkish Grand National Assembly Department of National Palaces until 2007. He is currently deputy secretary general at the Turkish Grand National Assembly. He published three volumes on a research conducted on rural growth in Turkey. He was accorded with many letters of commendation and was also awarded with the order of merit of Chivalry (Cavaliere-Classe III) by the Italian Republic. Cemal Öztaş also worked as guest lecturer at the Okan University in the academic years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.
Dieter Paier
Dieter Paier was born in Stiefing, Styria in Austria. Under the guidance of Otto Niederdorfer and Gerhard Zeller he studied music education and piano-vocal correpetition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. During his study he was given a training order for correpetition at the singing department in Graz, and he worked there in song and oratorium classes until the end of 1996. In 1997 he was appointed as solo correpetitor to the University of Music and Art in Vienna. He has been assistant in the song class of K.S. Edith Mathis, and from 2007 in the class of K.S. Gabriele Fontana. Dieter Paier took lessons with Charles Spencer, and played in master classes with singers such as Gundula Janowitz, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Zadek, Sona Ghazarian and Thomas Quasthoff. He has regular concert obligations as a song accompanist throughout Europe. Recordings for broadcast, television and CD enrich his musical work.
Anna Pangalou
Anna Pangalou is a mezzo-soprano and studied singing with Christa Ludwig and Antonietta Stella. In June 2002 she finished her studies in the Athenaeum Konservatorium in Athens (Singing Class of Marina Grilovitci) with the highest merit. She has participated in several Master Classes with Aris Christofellis, Jeanette Pilou, Helga Wagner and Gena Dimitrova. Since 2004 she has continued her studies under the guidance of Christa Ludwig and Antonietta Stella as a scholar of the Alexandros Onassis scholarship. She is a winner of the International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition in 2003 (First Prize). Since her debut in 2004 she has sung as soloist in several concerts (with piano, ensemble, and orchestra) with arias from operas, lieder and contemporary music in Vienna, Frankfurt, Athens, Limasol and Munich. She also sang the part of Koryphäe in the first performance of the Opera Eymenides from B. Tole in the ancient Amphitheater Herodus Atticus in Athens, the Wesendonk Lieder from Wagner, the Maeterling Lieder from Zemlinsky in Athens Megaron Concert Hall with Camerata Orchester, and Dreispitz from Manuel de Falla with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Konstanz.
William F. Parmentier is a graduate student at Bogazici University (Istanbul) in the M.A. Program in European Studies (MAPES). His passion for musical and cultural history led him to host and produce a daily radio program for the Canadian Forces Network-Europe (CFN) and to study jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt with celebrated Dutch gypsy guitarist Lollo Meier. His current project is teaching his 8-month old son to hum Lully's "Marche pour la Ceremonie Turque."
Brigitte Pekarek was born in Vienna. She studied acting in Vienna and London and has been working both in England and Austria. Brigitte´s stage credits include plays from the classical to the contemporary period.
She also acted in two television series for Austrian channel ATV+. Brigitte loves classical music and was particularly happy to be asked to participate in the children´s opera 'Die feuerrote Friederike' in the tent on the roof of the Vienna State Opera. She was most recently seen in Tom Stoppard´s "The Undiscovered Country" at the New Players Theatre in the London West End.
Matthias J. Pernerstorfer
Born in 1976, in Eggenburg, Lower Austria. He studied theater, film and media in Vienna and Munich, having completed a dissertation on the character of the parasite in ancient Greek comedy (2001). He received a fellowship (DOC) from the Austrian Academy of Sciences for a thesis on the 'Colax' of Menander from 2003 to 2005. Afterwards he worked for the Viennese Da Ponte Institute for Libretto Studies, Don Juan Research and History of Collecting from 2005 to 2006. He is currently working on a research project on different aspects of the popular theater in Vienna in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for the Don Juan Archiv Wien.
Gabriele C. Pfeiffer
Mag. Dr.phil, is a theater researcher and lecturer at universities and independent institutions in Austria (University of Vienna, INST Research Institute for Regional and Transnational Cultural Processes, Jura Soyfer Gesellschaft), Germany (University of Leipzig), Italy (University of Catania) and France (Groupe international de recherches interdisciplinaires, 'Spectacle vivant et sciences de l'homme' at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris). Most recently, she was a contributing scholar for the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards' 'Tracing Roads Across' Documentation Team (2003-2006). Dr. Pfeiffer conducted extensive postdoctoral research on Austrian experimental theater, 1945-1983, and her current fields of research include eighteenth-century Austrian theater history, experimental and intercultural performance, theater of the neo avant-garde in twentieth century Austria and Italy, and theater anthropology. At the moment she is researcher at the Don Juan Archiv Wien (Project: Komplex Mauerbach), lecturer at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, and working on the research project 'Documentation Fo-Theater in den Arbeiterbezirken Wien.'
Walter Puchner
Born in Vienna in 1947, he studied theater science at the University of Vienna. In 1972 he was nominated Doctor of Philosophy at the same university with a dissertation on Greek shadow theater, and in 1977 became Dozent in theater studies with a habilitation on the evolution of theatrical forms in Greek folk culture. In 1977-1989 he taught theater history at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Crete, then theater theory in the newly founded Department of Theater Studies at the University of Athens where he is currently dean. He has also taught theater history for thirty years at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the University of Vienna. He has been an invited guest professor at many European and American universities. In 1994 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in 2001 he was decorated with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. He has published more than sixty books and about three hundred publications in scientific periodicals. His research topics are the history of theater of the Balkan Peninsula, comparative folklore and ethnography of the Mediterranean area, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, as well as theory of drama and theater.
Günsel Renda
Received her BA degree from Barnard College, Columbia University, an MA from Washington University, and her PhD from Hacettepe University in Art History.
She has worked at Hacettepe University and chaired the department of History of Art for many years. She is presently teaching at Koç University in Istanbul. She has served as advisor to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and organized several international exhibitions. She was a Fulbright visiting scholar in U.S.A. and guest professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes à la Sorbonne in Paris. She has been a member of the governing board at IRCICA. She has lectured on Turkish art in the United States and several countries in Europe and Asia and has participated in many international research projects. She is the author or co-author of books published in U.S.A., Europe and Turkey, and of many articles. She specializes in Ottoman art, Ottoman painting and interactions of European and Ottoman cultures.
Some of the books she edited, coedited and wrote are The transformation of Culture. The Atatürk Legacy (ed. G. Renda, M. Kortepeter), Princeton 1986; A History of Turkish Painting (Grabar, Renda, Turani, Ozsezgin) Genève-Istanbul 1988; Woman in Anatolia. 900 Years of the Anatolian Woman (ed. G. Renda) Istanbul 1994; The Sultan's Portrait. Picturing the House of Osman (Neciboglu, Raby, Majer, Meyer-zur-Capellen, Bagcı, Mahir, Renda), Istanbul 2000; The Ottoman Civilization (ed. H. Inalcik, G. Renda), Istanbul 2002; Minnet av Konstantinople. Den osmansk-turkiska 1700-talssamlingen pa Biby, (Achlund, Adahl, Brown, Karlsson, Kaberg, Laine, Renda), Stockholm 2003; Image of the Turks in the 17th Century Europe, (Neumann, Stepanek, Yerasimos, Renda, Gardina, Grothaus, Vidmar) Istanbul 2005; and Osmanlı Resim Sanatı (Ottoman Painting) (Serpil Bagcı, Filiz Çagman, Günsel Renda, Zeren Tanındı).
Dr Geoffrey Roper is an international bibliographical and information consultant, specialising in the Middle East and Muslim world. He was from 1982 to 2003 head of the Islamic Bibliography Unit at the University of Cambridge, and editor of Index Islamicus, the major current comprehensive bibliography and search tool for publications on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. He has also been editor of Al-Furqān Foundation's World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts, Chairman of the Middle East Libraries Committee (MELCOM-UK) and contributor to various reference works. He has researched, written and lectured extensively on bibliography and the history of the book in the Muslim world, has curated exhibitions on the subject at Cambridge University Library and the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, and has been a convener of all three of the Symposia on the History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East (Mainz 2002, Paris 2005, Leipzig 2008). He is a contributor and adviser to the Khatt Foundation (Centre for Arabic Typography), the MuslimHeritage.com project of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), and Associate Editor (Muslim world) of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to the Book.
Born in 1970 in the town Shumen, Bulgaria, and originally named Orhan Salih. In 1985 he was renamed Orlin Sabev by the then regime and this remains his official name. In 1995 he obtained an MA degree from the University of Veliko Tarnovo, and in 2000, a PhD with a study on Ottoman educational institutions at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Since May 2000 he has been Research Fellow at the the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was awarded the 'Marin Drinov' Academic Prize of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for young research fellows. Since October 2005 he has held an Associated Professorship at the Institute of Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His publications include: Ottoman Schools in Bulgarian Lands, 15th-18th Centuries, Sofia, 2001 (in Bulgarian); First Ottoman Journey in the World of Printed Books (1726-1746). A Reassessment, Sofia (in Bulgarian); and İbrahim Müteferrika ya da İlk Osmanlı Matbaa Serüveni (1726-1746). Yeniden Değerlendirme, İstanbul: Yeditepe Yayınevi, 2006 (in Turkish).
Mustafa Fatih Salgar
Born in Adana in 1954. In 1972 he attended Istanbul Belediye Conservatoire where he received formal education on Turkish classical music. He also attended choral training during those years. He continued his choral practice in the University Chorus during his undergraduate program of study in Istanbul University in the Faculty of Letters, the Department of Ancient History and Archeology. In 1976, he became a chorist of Istanbul Klasik Devlet Turk Muzigi Korosu appertained to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He has given lectures at Istanbul University and Istanbul Teknik University and he has been lecturing in private institutions since 1978. He has written several articles and conducted considerable research on Turkish classical music. He has written three books named, respectively, Dede Efendi, Sultan Selim III and The Lives of Fifty Turkish Composers. He has been the maestro of Istanbul Klasik Devlet Turk Muzigi Korosu since 2006 and has been continuing his authorship on Turkish classical music.
Çetin Sarıkartal, PhD, is a theatre director and dramaturge, and also Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Film and Drama (MFA) at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. He has published articles on art and performance, Turkish theatre and cinema. His current research and teaching focuses on theatricality, storytelling, dramaturgy, and the theory and practice of acting. His most recent theatre productions are III. Riçırd Faciası, based on Shakespeare's King Richard III, Tartüf Bey, based on Molierè's Tartuffe, and Nasıl Anlatsak Şunu ('How to Tell It?'), all of which have been produced in collaboration with Tiyatrotem, Istanbul. His theatrical work combines the methods and techniques of contemporary Western theatre with those of traditional Turkish performing arts such as shadow play, storytelling and puppetry.
Memo G. Schachiner
Dr. Memo G. Schachiner was born 1948 in Istanbul, Turkey, with Kurdish and Greek origins. He immigrated in 1971 to Austria. He studied singing, acting, political economy, philosophy, orientalistic studies and musicology. He is on researching duty of several universities and institutes and author of several books in several languages. Currently he is working as composer, singer (bass), conductor, music and culture historian, orientalist.
Ulrike Schneider
Ulrike Schneider, born 1977 in Hanover, Germany, studied Music Education at the Academy Liszt School of Music Weimar, and at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki, Finland, as well as German Literature and Language at the Friedrich Schiller-University in Jena. Between 2004 and 2006 preparation of "stage for school" at Hanover. Since 2006 she has worked as an assistant at the Department of Music Education of the Academy of Music and at the new Franz Liszt Museum in Weimar. She is writing her PhD entitled Wielands Oberon in der Vertonung von Paul Wranitzky. Studien zur Inszenierungspraxis in Weimar um 1800.
Dr.phil., born in 1948 in Vienna. Studied pedagogy and psychology at the University of Vienna. Works as author and editor. Became chief editor of Redaktion Tagbau (Hollitzer Baustoffwerke Graz GmbH) in Vienna in 1999. Specialises in the research field of the history of post, media and travelling, associated with Don Juan Archiv Wien.
Suna Suner
Born in Ankara, Suna Suner (MA) is a performing arts researcher and a performer. She received her BA in Conference Translation and Interpretation (Turkish and English) from Hacettepe University. Having worked as an instructor of English for six years, and as a teaching assistant at the Management of Performing Arts department for two years at Istanbul Bilgi University, she received in 2004 her MA degree in Performing Arts from the Middlesex University in London. She worked as a stage performer for seven years at the Istanbul-based Kumpanya Theater Co., having also devised her own performances. She sang in polyphonic choirs, and also with miscellaneous bands including Istanbul Blues Company, and performed in numerous Turkish festivals and venues. In 2006 she was invited as a performance artist to the first International Sinop Biennial, Sinopale. Between 2004-2007 Suner worked as archive associate at the Viennese Da Ponte Institute and in January 2007 she joined the team of Don Juan Archiv Wien as performing arts researcher. Suner currently continues her doctoral studies at the Institute of Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, and continues her performance work both in Vienna and Istanbul.
Marianne Tråvén
Marianne Tråvén studied musicology at the University of Stockholm. Her dissertation dealt with Mozart's opera Don Giovanni and the interrelationship between verbal text, music and different libretto translations. She has since her graduation in 1999 taken part in a number of international conferences with papers on Mozart-related topics, musical gesture, musical rhetoric and the method of libretto translation as well as 18th century music, especially opera, and the training of singers in this era. She is now a lecturer in musicology at Uppsala University. Marianne Tråvén has also studied applied Voice, Choral conducting as well as Vocal instruction at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She has performed regularly in the fields of oratorio, opera, operetta, musical and chamber music and is active as a soprano, particularly in opera, operetta and lied. She has a Masters degree from the University of Stockholm in cultural sciences and art history, and has also studied social anthropology and museology.
B. Babür Turna
Obtained his BA (1992) and his first master's degree (1995) in theater (history and theory of theater) at Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. Courses he has taken include History of Turkish Theater, History of Western Theater, Modern Art and Literature, Literary Theories and Criticism, and Dramaturgy. In 2000, he obtained a second MA in history (Ottoman history) at Bilkent University. Currently he is working on a PhD dissertation under Prof. Halil İnalcık. His most recent publication, 'Paths to God within the Poet: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and his mystical poetry', in: Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures (Routledge, 2006, edited by Glenda Abramson, Hilary Kilpatrick), deals with the mystical dimensions of Turkish poetry during the early Republican era.
Derek Weber
Born 1947 in Knittelfeld / Austria. Studies in history, German philology and political science. He holds an assistant professorship in history. Teaches in many Austrian universities, and contributes to the cultural sections of different European newspapers and periodicals. Directs and conducts research projects, a recent project with the theme "Arisierung" in frame of the Commission for History of the Republic of Austria. Since 1990 contributor to different festivals (Macerata Opera, Musikfest Bremen, "Mozart in Schönbrunn" in Vienna) and opera houses (Volksoper Wien, Kammeroper Wien, Opéra Comique Paris, Luzerner Theater) as free-lance opera dramatist as well as translator of diverse opera texts.
Hans Ernst Weidinger
Gewerke, Dr. phil., born in 1949 in Vienna. Studied law, classical languages, theater studies and art history at Vienna University, and dance, voice and piano in Vienna and Prague; has conducted study trips to Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Palermo, London and Prague; taught at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa; Mozarteum University Salzburg; ISSEI, Pamplona. Founder of Don Juan Archiv Wien in 1987. Projects include Wiener Brut (film, Vienna 1982); Constitutionis Theresianae Revocatio (performance, Vienna 1982); La Prétendante Chante (performance, Berlin 1984); Il Giudizio di Don Giovanni (opera - librettist and director, Ratisbon 1986); HIC SAXA LOQVVNTVR (architectural competition, Pfaffenberg - Berlin - Vienna - Venice, 1993-96); Eine Oper für Büropa (opera - librettist and director, Linz 1998); Fermata Greve Piazza (opera - librettist and director, Greve in Chianti, 2002). His PhD was on IL DISSOLUTO PUNITO. Untersuchungen zur äußeren und inneren Enstehungsgeschichte von Lorenzo da Pontes & W. A. Mozarts DON GIOVANNI.
Daniel Winkler studied comparative literature and Romance studies in Aix-en-Provence, Paris and Vienna. His PhD research was on Marseille as a cinematic city (Transit Marseille. Eine Mittelmeermetropole im Film. Bielefeld 2007). Current research interests include popular culture, migrant cinema and literature, and theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
His publications in English and French include: 'Empereurs de Californie' Blaise Cendrars et Luis Trenker à la recherche littéraire et cinématographique de L'Or, in Ritm. Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Textes Modernes 36 (2006); 'Marseille: Cinematic Sites of Imaginary and Globalisation,' in Sinn-haft. Zeitschrift zwischen Kulturwissenschaften 14-15 (2003); 'The Cinema of Irregular Migration and the Question of Space: France, Italy and Spain' (with Verena Berger; in print).
Larry Wolff
Larry Wolff is professor of history at New York University and director of the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. He received his AB from Harvard in 1979 and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. His research concerns issues of East and West in Europe, especially in the culture of the Enlightenment. Wolff has received Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and in 2003 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 he presented the keynote lecture in Vienna at the conference 'Wie europäisch ist die Oper?' The lecture was titled 'Turkey and Europe: The Operatic Perspective.'
Publications include: The Anthropology of the Enlightenment, co-edited with Marco Cipolloni, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007; Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, 2001; paperback edition, Stanford, 2002; Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 2006 (Venezia e gli Slavi); Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment, Stanford University Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996; Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000 (Inventarea Europei de Est); Moscow: Historia Rossica, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2003; (Izobretaia Vostochnuiu Evropu: Karta tsivilizatsii v soznanii epokhi Prosvescheniia) Sofia: Kralitsa Mab, 2004; Le Mirage russe au XVIIIe siècle, co-edited with Serguei Karp Ferney: Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2001; 'The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions' in: Diplomatic and Cultural Encounters at the Warsaw Nunciature, Boulder East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 1988; Postcards from the End of the World: Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna, New York: Atheneum, 1988; London: William Collins Sons, 1989; Salzburg and Vienna: Residenz Verlag, 1992 ('Ansichtskarten vom Weltuntergang'); Tokyo: Shobunsha, 1993; and the Introduction to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs. Translation by Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Penguin Classics, 2000.
Alin Aylin Yağcıoğlu
Born in İstanbul, soprano Alin Aylin Yağcıoğlu studied vocal music with Gül Sabar and flute with Nazım Acar at İstanbul University State Conservatory during her undergraduate education at Boğaziçi University. She attended the TRT İstanbul Youth Chorus as well. She played the flute and sang in the Sera Chamber Music Ensemble in 1998-1999 and performed in concerts at Aksanat, Borusan Kültür Sanat, Italian Cultural Center, and Yeditepe University. She continued her vocal studies with Suat Arıkan and Sevan Şencan in İstanbul and Savaşeri Kolat in Ankara. After joining the CRR Concert Hall Choir as a chorist, she sang the works of leading Turkish composers, including the 'Yunus Emre Oratorio' of Adnan Saygun. She has been the soloist of Surp Takavor Church Chorus since 1999. She sang solo with the chorus in the 31st İstanbul Music Festival in 2003. She also performed in CRR Concert Hall and Atatürk Cultural Center with the chorus in 'Living Together' concert series from 2002 to 2006. She received her master degree in music in 2007 from ITU MIAM (Center for Advanced Studies in Music). Alin Aylin Yağcıoğlu, working as an instructor of English at ITU School of Foreign Languages, continues her doctoral studies with Lynn Trepel Çağlar who is a soloist at Istanbul State Opera and Ballet.
Professor of Education at Ankara University Faculty of Letters, History Department, Turkey (BA), Birmingham University, Faculty of Arts, Ottoman Studies, UK (BA and PhD). Alaaddin Yalçınkaya's thesis was titled The First Permanent Ottoman-Turkish Embassy in Europe: The Embassy of Yusuf Agah Efendi to London (1793-1797), Birmingham, 1993. From 1997 to 2001 he was Head of the History Department, in 2001-2004 he was Director of Social Sciences Institute, and since 2005 he has been Head of the History Department at Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon.
His most recent publications in English include: 'Mahmud Raif Efendi as the Chief Secretary of Yusuf Agah Efendi, The First Permanent Ottoman-Turkish Ambassador to London (1793-1797)', in: OTAM 5, 1994, pp. 385-434; 'İstanbul as an Important Centre of European Diplomacy (According to British Sources During the Period, 1792-1798)', in Great Ottoman-Turkish Civilisation, vol. I Politics, Ankara, 2000, pp. 523-537; 'The Eighteenth Century: A Period of Reform, Change and Diplomacy (1703-1789)', in: THE TURKS, 4, ed. Kemal Çiçek-Cem Oğuz. Ankara: Yeni Turkiye yayınları, 2002, pp. 91-123; 'The Modernisation of the Ottoman Diplomatic Representations in Europe: The Case of the Embassy of İsmail Ferruh Efendi to London (1797-1800)', in: A Bridge Between Cultures, Studies on Ottoman and Republican Turkey in Memory of Ali İhsan Bağış, ed. Sinan Kuneralp, İstanbul 2006, pp. 51-67.
Selim Yenel
Ambassador Selim Yenel was born in Istanbul in 1956. After his studies at the University of Ankara, Faculty of Political Science, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979 and in between his services in Ankara was posted to OECD in Paris, Kabul, the United Nations, New York, Delegation to the European Union, Brussels. Since 2006 he is Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in Vienna. He has dealt with Turkish - EU relations between 1994-2005.
Associate professor Dr. Netice Yıldız is a graduate of Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters where she gained degrees in English Literature and Language (BA) in 1980 and Archaeology and History of Art (PhD) in 1987, with a thesis on British-Ottoman Artistic Exchanges, 1583-1914. She has been working as art historian at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) (North Cyprus) since October 1987 as assistant professor and as associate professor since 1992. Her research interests are every aspect of British - Ottoman artistic exchanges; Cyprus Medieval and Ottoman culture, art and architecture; western artists and the Turkish image in England; women in Cyprus through the ages; and medieval iconography in Cypriot Art. Her honours and awards include having been awarded the research grant of the Barakat Foundation, Oriental Research Centre, Oxford University (2000) and the Ministry of Education and Culture Funding Award for the project 'Catalogue of Illuminated Islamic Manuscripts in North Cyprus'.
Netice Yıldız's memberships include being a member of the Standing International Committee of International Congress of Turkish Arts since 1991; fellow member of BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Society); member of Historian of Islamic Art (HIA); member of Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA); fellow member of Europa Nostra; Board of Antiquities and Monuments (1998-2000); Executive Board for Centre for Woman Studies (EMU) (1998-2004) (2006- ); She published several articles and proceedings on her research topics in the areas of British- Ottoman relations, and Cyprus Art History and worked as the editor-in-chief for KADIN/WOMAN 2000, Journal for Woman Studies, a refereed and indexed journal (2000-2008). Recent Publications include: 'The Vakf System in Cyprus as a Philanthropy and Religion Institution and a Special Case for Housing the Poor: The Complex of Saman Bahçe Houses in Nicosia (Cyprus)', in: Guiliana Gemelli (ed.), Religions and Philanthropy, Global Issues in Historical Perspectives, Legacy of MISP, Bologna: Baskerville UniPress, 2007, pp. 217-266; 'Documents Regarding the Supplies of Dolmabahçe and Other Palaces in the Archive of the Turkish Embassy in London', in: Bildiriler (Proceedings), International Symposium for the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Dolmabahce Palace in İstanbul, organised by Milli Saraylar (National Palaces) 23-26 November 2006., Vol. I, pp.107-122; 'Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İngiliz Saatleri ve Topkapı Sarayı Koleksiyonu', in Belleten, LXX, 259 (Aralık 2006). pp. 919-973 (British Clocks and Watches in Ottoman Empire and Topkapi Palace Collection); 'Wakfs in Ottoman Cyprus', in: Imber, Colin; Kiyotaki, Keiko; Murphey, Rhoads (eds.) Frontiers of Ottoman Studies, Vol. 2, I.B. Tauris Publications, 2004 pp. 179-196; 'A Mark of Modernity: The Role of Turkish Cypriot Women Artists in the Evolution of Modern Art', in: KADIN/WOMAN 2000, III (2) December 2003, pp.1-36; 'İngiliz Yaşamında Türk İmgesi ve Etkileri', in: Türkler, ed. Hasan Celal Güzel, Kemal Çiçek, Salim Koca, Ankara: Türkiye Yayınları, 2002, 21 Volumes, in Vol. 11, pp. 921-933. (21 Volumes, Reference section Book). 'İngiliz Kültüründe Osmanlı Etkileri', in: Türkler, ed. Hasan Celal Güzel, Kemal Çiçek, Salim Koca, Ankara: Türkiye Yayınları, 2002, Vol. 15, Part: 75, pp. 564-580 (a twenty-one-volume reference book).
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