Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Peter Bubmann
Prof. Dr. Peter Bubmann, born in 1962, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria as well as church musician, and since 2002 Professor of Practical Theology in the Department of Theology at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU). Publications include works on music & religion, aesthetics, and the art of living.
Prof. Dr. Hans Jaskulsky
He studied school music as well as German studies and musicology in Frankfurt am Main and earned his doctorate on Franz Schubert’s Latin Masses. From 1979 to 2016 he served as Director of University Music at Ruhr University Bochum. He was appointed Honorary Professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in 2008 and received the Federal Cross of Merit in 2018. He is Chairman of the Board of MODfestivals e.V.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl-Josef Kuschel
Born in 1948 in Oberhausen (Rhineland). He studied German studies and Catholic theology in Bochum and Tübingen, earning his doctorate in 1977. From 1995 to 2013 he held a professorship in Theology of Culture and Interreligious Dialogue at the University of Tübingen. His honors include the Theological Prize of the Salzburg Hochschulwochen (2019) and the Tolerance Ring of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2022). His research focuses on religion and literature as well as interreligious dialogue among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Prof. Dr. Jascha Nemtsov
Jascha Nemtsov is a pianist and musicologist, Professor of the History of Jewish Music at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar, and Academic Director of the Cantor Training Program at the Abraham Geiger College. He has numerous publications and more than 40 CDs to his name, and in 2018 he received the OPUS KLASSIK Award.
Prof. Dr. Heike Oberlin
Prof. Dr. Heike Oberlin heads the Department of Indology at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on India’s performing arts, Malayalam and Kerala studies, manuscriptology, and gender studies. She has received, among others, the Gisela Bonn Award and was honored as Scholar in Residence in Kerala.
Osman Öksüzoğlu
Osman Öksüzoğlu, a musician and ethnomusicologist from Şanlıurfa, studied in Harran, Afyon, and Istanbul. He conducted research at WWU Münster, co‑founded the ensemble Du‑Sems, and released several CDs. Until 2024 he was a percussionist with the Istanbul State Orchestra and now works independently.
Bettina Strübel
Bettina Strübel studied church music and organ in Cologne and Hamburg, completing the concert diploma. From 1995 to 2011 she served as A Kantorin in Leichlingen (Rhineland). Since 2011 she has lived in Frankfurt am Main, where she initiated interreligious music projects and founded the Interreligious Choir Frankfurt (IRCF). Since 2017 she has been Cantor in Offenbach. She is the editor of a widely acclaimed interreligious songbook (Breitkopf & Härtel, 2017). In 2019 she assumed the artistic directorship of Musica Sacra International.
