26-27 March 2019
Impressions from the conference „Persecution – Collaboration – Resistance. Music in the ‚Reichskommissariat Norwegen‘ (1940-45)“.
Mayor Gerhard Jaksch, representing the City of Münster, opened the conference with a short welcoming speech. 
Jürgen Heidrich, representing the WWU Münster and the Institute of Musicology with a short welcoming speech
Sophie Fetthauer, speaking about the persecution of musicians during the Nazi-era. 
Ina Rupprecht, presenting her findings about musical troop entertainment for German soldiers in Norway.
Tom Kristiansen discussing with Ina Rupprecht about the presence of
German artists in Nazi-occupied Norway.
Harald Herresthal, presenting his findings about the „Deutsches Theater“ in Oslo.
Albrecht Riethmüller, Friedrich Geiger and Arvid Vollsnes in discussion.
Martin Moll discussing with Ivar Roger Hansen
Manfred Heidler speaking about German military music in Norway
Arnulf Mattes presenting the ambigious case of the composer Anne-Marie Ørbeck
Michael Custodis summarizing Norwegian musicians in Swedish exile.
Sjur H. Bringeland speaking about composer Geirr Tveitt and
the ambivalent evaluation of his case in 1945.
Martin Moll, Friedrich Geiger and Tom Kristiansen discussing
historical consequences in the final panel.
13 March 2019
Arnulf Mattes and Michael Custodis speaking about Music in Concentration Camps in Norway at the historical site of Camp Falstad, north of Trondheim.
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11-12 March 2019
Filming for a documentary about Gunnar Kjeldaas’ “Fangesanger fra Kirkenes” in Jar, Lillestrøm and Hønefoss, supported by Anna-Ma Kjeldaas (right) and Stein Sødal (left).
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18-20 February 2019
Michael Custodis and Andreas Bußmann speaking at the interdisciplinary conference „mit vorsichtig ausgewählten Ausländern zusammenkommen“ – Internationale Tagungen und wissenschaftlicher Austausch in der Zeit des Nationalsozialimus in Heidelberg.
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17. November 2018
Music and Resistance in European dictatorships – Workshop at the Institute for Musicology in Münster
16. November 2018
Music and Resistance-meeting at the Institute for Musicology in Münster.
(from left to right: Michael Custodis, Münster – Friedrich Geiger, Hamburg – Katarzyna Naliwajek, Warsaw – Boris Previšić, Luzern – Arnulf Mattes, Bergen)
12.-14. November 2018
Research at the Riksarkiv and the archive of the conservatory in Stockholm.
11. November 2018
Michael Custodis and Arnulf Mattes gave a well-received lecture on the difficult topic of „Music in Norwegian concentration camps“
6. November 2018
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Arnulf Mattes (Grieg Research Center / University of Bergen) at the Institute for Musicology in Münster.
20. September 2018
Meeting of Michael Custodis, Friedrich Geiger, Katarzyna Naliwajek and Arnulf Mattes in Münster to discuss the network „Music and Resistance in European Dictatorships“.
30. August 2018
Kristiansand Agder Vitenskapsakademi
SOON:
– – – PUBLICATION „THE NORDIC INGREDIENT“ IN 2019 – – –
The results of the joint international conference „The Nordic Ingredient“ held by NORDIC MUSIC POLITICS at the Grieg-Research-Center in Bergen in March 2018 will be published soon in early 2019, by Waxmann Verlag Münster (Programm)
JUNE 2018
Nordic Music Politics-Team in Narvik & Tromsø to visit Tom Kristiansen and his Team to conduct research!
GESTAPO-Headquarters in Tromsø „Til minne om Gestapos ofre 1940-1945“
APRIL 2018
Meeting with Arvid Vollsnes discussing Norwegian Music History, April 2018.
More archive work!
DECEMBER 2017
Falstad Concentration Camp &
memorial at the former site where executions were conducted
Giving a lecture on „Music and Resistance“ in Graz, December 2017.
OCTOBER 2017
Working in Stavanger’s Statsarkivet in October 2017.
SEPTEMBER 2017
Research in the music section of the museum for military defense in Oslo
Old Wagner-Scores used by Norwegian military bands!
Research in Bergen’s Byarkiv in September 2017 with telling black propaganda against the Quisling Regime.
AUGUST 2017
Meeting with Bjørn Geirr-Harsson in Ringerike.
Doing research on G.W. Müller’s propaganda department in Oslo.
JULY 2017
Drammen: Grave of Gunvor Mjelva, a Norwegian singer and active member of the resistance movement.
MARCH 2016
Discovering Harald Sæverud’s unknow correspondence with his publishers in Oslo!
