MA Jasmin Goll

Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology

Faculty of Humanities

E-Mail
jasmin.goll@unibe.ch
Office
Büro 108, 1. Stock
Postal Address
Institut für Musikwissenschaft
Mittelstr. 43
CH - 3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
by appointment
ORCID No
orcid.org/0009-0002-8688-9615

Jasmin Goll is a historical musicologist and theater scholar and Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the University of Bern. In her dissertation “Dis:connected by Wire. Music by Telephone Wires as an ‘Audible Infrastructure,’ 1877–1930,” she studies concerts and opera performances delivered by telephones in North America and Europe through the lenses of listening history and infrastructural concepts. From September until May 2025, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Music at New York University (advisor:  Fanny Gribenski) and a short-term fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. She has given talks about her project at different international conferences and departments, e.g. the annual meetings of the IFTR, AMS, and SHOT. Her research on her Ph.D. project has been supported by fellowships and grants from the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., the University of Bern, and the Berne University Research Foundation.

Jasmin Goll holds an MA in musicology from Humboldt University and a BA in musicology and theater studies from the University of Bayreuth. Furthermore, she was a lecturer in musicology at the universities in Bayreuth, Berlin, and Bern and worked at the Research Institute for Music Theatre in Bayreuth (fimt) and the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts in Berlin. She published articles, among others, on the image of women on the operatic stage during the Third Reich in Nuremberg, Germany, and an article about the disco genre in the German Democratic Republic in the 1970s and 80s.

From 2025 to 2027, Jasmin Goll is part of the interdisciplinary working group of the research project “Music Listening and Music Seeing: Historical Reciprocities from the 17th to the 21st centuries” (Universities of Potsdam, Marburg, and Max Planck Institute of the History of Science Berlin), working on a collaborative publication.

Mini CV
 Mini CV

2025-2027

Member of the working group “Music Listening and Music Seeing: Historical Reciprocities between the 17th and the 21st Centuries” as part of the DFG project “Musikhören und Musiksehen. Historische Wechselwirkungen vom 17. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert,” Philipps University of Marburg, University of Potsdam, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin.

2025

Short-term fellowship at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

2024-2025

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Music at New York University, USA (September 2024 to May 2025)

Since 2022

Ph.D. Candidate in musicology at the University of Bern. Topic: Dis:connected by Wire. Music by Telephone Wires as an “Audible Infrastructure,” 1877–1930

2023-2024

Freelancer at the radio station SRF 2 Kultur

Since 2023

Freelance author for the newspaper Der Bund / Berner Zeitung

Since 2020

Freelance author for music theater for the magazine Die Deutsche Bühne

2016-2025

Founder and first chair of Almaviva e.V. Musiktheater-Netzwerk Uni Bayreuth

2019-2022

Lecturer in Musicology, two undergraduate courses per semester at Humboldt University of Berlin

2019-2022

Working group member “Music and Intermediality” of DVSM e.V.

2018-2022

MA in musicology at Humboldt University in Berlin, master thesis: “Telephonic music transmissions in late-nineteenth century Berlin”

2018-2022

Student assistant at the Department for Contemporary Puppetry, Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Berlin, Germany

2018

Research Associate (Replacement for Parental Leave) at the Research Institute for Music Theater, University of Bayreuth, Thurnau, Germany

2016-2017

Student Assistant for public relations, Research Institute for Music Theater, University of Bayreuth, Thurnau, Germany

2015-2017

Student Assistant for the DFG research project “Staging Power and Entertainment – Propaganda and Music Theater in Nuremberg 1920–1950,” own research subproject “Women's Biographies and Images of Women at the Theater in Nuremberg 1920–1950,” Research Institute for Music Theater (fimt), University of Bayreuth, Thurnau, Germany

2014-2018

BA in music theater studies, thesis title: “‘The Sense of the Higher Parable.’ Images of Women in Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten and its Reception in the Nazi Era in Nuremberg"

  • intersections of music, science, and technology
  • listening history
  • music, infrastructures, and globalization
  • global and transnational history of music
  • history of opera staging and contemporary opera staging
  • voice studies
  • opera and operetta in the Nazi era
  • Goll, Jasmin (2025): Disco in der DDR – Erscheinungsformen eines Genres am Beispiel der Fernsehshow Ein Kessel Buntes. In: PopScriptum 13, pp. 1–33, https://doi.org/10.18452/32583
  • Goll, Jasmin; Sid Wolters-Tiedge (2024): ‘Vielfalt ist normal:’ Ein Podiumsgespräch zu Inklusion in Musiktheater und Performance mit Isabelle Freymond, Lua Leirner und Nina Mühlemann. In: Schweizer Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 40, pp. 113–120. https://bop.unibe.ch/SJM/article/view/10239/14035
  • Goll, Jasmin; Reupke, Daniel (2020): Performen ohne Publikum – verändert eine pandemiebedingte Theaterschließung das Aufführungsnetzwerk? In: Corona-Netzwerke – Gesellschaft im Zeichen des Virus, ed. by Christian Stegbauer, Iris Clemens, Wiesbaden, pp. 209–219.
  • Goll, Jasmin (2020): ‘Der Sinn des höheren Gleichnisses.’ Frauenbilder in Richard Strauss‘ Die Frau ohne Schatten und die Rezeption im Nationalsozialismus in Nürnberg“, in: Hitler.Macht.Oper. Propaganda und Musiktheater in Nürnberg 1920–1950, ed. by Silvia Bier, Tobias Reichard, Daniel Reupke, Anno Mungen, Würzburg (Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, 40), pp. 299–334.
  • Contributions to Hitler.Macht.Oper. Propaganda und Musiktheater in Nürnberg. Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung im Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände Nürnberg, 15. Juni 2018 bis 3. Februar 2019, ed. by Tobias Reichard, Anno Mungen, Alexander Schmidt, Petersberg.

 

Presentations

  • “Alone Together? Music by Telephone Wires, 1877–1930,” at the symposium Performing Mobile Technologies, Hochschule der Künste, Bern, October 24 to 25, 2025.
  • “(Dis)Connected by Wire. Transatlantic entanglements and the failure of music delivery by telephone in the U.S., 1907–1915” at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Université de Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, October 9 to 11, 2025.
  • “(Dis)Connected by Wire: Liveness and Distance in Late Nineteenth-Century Telephonic Music Listening” at the symposium Télé-Phonies. L’écoute à distance dans les arts et les cultures auditives, organized by IMAGO | Cultures Visuelles at the L’institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, October 8 to 9, 2025.
  • “Visionary listening? The ‘music telephone’ in the late nineteenth century,” first workshop in the Working Group on “Music Seeing and Music Listening. Historical Reciprocities from the 17th to the 21st Centuries,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin, June 26 to 27, 2025.
  • “(Dis)Connected by Wire. Music by Telephone Wires as an ‘Audible Infrastructure,’ 1877–1930,” work-in-progress presentation and discussion at the Center for Musical Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles, May 27, 2025.
  • “(Dis)Connected by Wire. Music by Telephone Wires as an 'Audible Infrastructure,' 1877–1930” in the Works-in-Progress Series at the Department of Music, New York University, April 24, 2025.
  • “Audible infrastructure, liquid notes, and visionary listening: Music by telephone wires, 1877–1930” in the Rough Cut series at the Film and Media Studies Program, Yale University, April 17, 2025.
  • “The World's Telephone Concert.’ Music by Telephone Wires as an 'Audible Infrastructure,' 1870–1930” in the Colloquium at the German Historical Institute Washington D.C., February 20, 2025.
  • “On the Intersections of Opera, Science, Business, and Utopianism. Opera by Telephone Wire, 1877–1930,” Guest Speaker in the Opera Studies Working Group, Department of Music, Yale University, January 31, 2025.
  • “(Dis)Connected by Wire. Music Transmissions via Telephone as an ‘Audible Infrastructure’ in the Late Nineteenth Century” at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 14 to 17, 2024.
  • “Looking backward and forward: Das Hören telefonischer Musikübertragungen um 1900 und dessen futurographische Potenziale” at the symposium What’s next? The Future(s) of Music Listening and Analysis, Universität Potsdam, Lehrstuhl Musikwissenschaft, September 6, 2024.
  • “Experiencing Opera Remotely: Opera Transmissions via Telephone around 1900” at the International Federation for Theater Research Conference (IFTR), Music Theater Working Group Panel, University of Ghana, Accra, July 24 to July 28, 2023.
  • “Mediating Opera and Technology. Operatic Transmissions via Telephone in Late-Nineteenth Century Berlin” at the 5th Transnational Opera Studies Conference (tosc@lisboa.2023), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, July 6 to 8, 2023.
  • “Telephonic Music Broadcasting as an ‘Audible Infrastructure’ between 1870 and 1930” in the workshop (Dis)Entangled. Reflections on infrastructural concepts, University of Bonn, January 13 to 14, 2023.
  • “Musiktheater und Videokunst oder die Bühne als Bluebox – Pierrick Sorins Spiel mit der Wahrnehmung” in the workshop Oper im Wechselspiel der Medien: Transformationsprozesse der Oper durch Digitale Medien und das Filmische/Audio-Visuelle in Zeiten von Krisen und Reformen, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, January 17, 2019.
  • “Heimchen am Herd, Verführerin oder Weltretterin? Frauenbiographien und Frauenbilder am Nürnberger Stadttheater 1920–1950” at the conference Hitler.Macht.Oper (project at the Research Institute for Music Theater), Staatstheater Nürnberg, June 2 to 4, 2017.

Courses taught in the past

Lehre
 Semester

Title 

Type 

University 

2024

“Camerata Bern—writing workshop for concert program books”

Practical course/Seminar

University of Bern

2021

“The speaking voice in music”

Seminar
HU Berlin

2021

“Stagings of La traviata

Seminar HU Berlin

2020

“Opera directing and staging analysis,” 2020. Nominated for the award for good teaching of the Faculty of Cultural, Social and Educational Sciences of the Humboldt University of Berlin

Seminar HU Berlin

2020

“‘Stimmfach’ and casting practice”

Seminar HU Berlin

2019-2022 (recurring course, six courses in total)

“Introduction to musicology”

Tutorial HU Berlin
2019-2022

Exam preparation classes in music theory

Tutorial HU Berlin

2019

“Between tradition and renewal: the Komische Oper Berlin”

Practical course

HU Berlin

2018

Analysis of music theater forms

Proseminar

University of Bayreuth