Dr. Hendrik Rungelrath
Since October 2024, Hendrik Rungelrath is a visiting programme director, in place of Laurens Schlicht, responsible for the research focus on nature at the Käte Hamburger Centre CURE. Following studies of theology at the Universities of Bonn and Salzburg, and composition at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and the Berlin University of the Arts, he completed a PhD in 2020 with a dissertation on the concept of the Messianic in Giorgio Agamben’s work. Thereafter, he worked on a doctoral project at the Research Training Group “European Dream Cultures” at Saarland University, focusing on techniques of composition in contemporary music with thematic connections to dreams. His current research centres on ecomusicological approaches to sound practices.