Professorship for Performance and New Musical Production Forms

The University of the Arts Bremen (HfK) is committed to diversity and equal opportunities and offers a diverse range of courses of study in the fields of art, design and music, which also enables a productive and integrative dialogue between the study programmes.

The University of the Arts Bremen is seeking to fill an interdisciplinary position as of October 1, 2024 or as soon as possible for a

Professorship for Performance and New Musical Production Forms (f/m/d)
Pay bracket W 2 / Status of a civil servant with unlimited tenure / Teaching load of 18 semester hours per week / (Code number WP 24/04).

The University of the Arts Bremen is looking for an artist whose practice is at the interface between performance and new forms of musical performance.

The professorship is equally located in the Departments of Art and Design and Music and is intended to teach, establish in a subject-specifically way and further develop performative practice as an interdisciplinary field of work.

A university degree in a relevant subject with practical artistic elements, at least one year’s teaching experience at an art or music college or comparable institution and the ability to organise interdisciplinary courses for students from different fields of study are expected. Furthermore, the ability to design future-oriented study programmes is required.

Experience in different teaching formats and contexts and participation in current social and artistic discourses are also desirable.

Active participation in the further development of the University of the Arts Bremen, collegial cooperation and participation in academic self-administration committees are expected (official language German). The fulfilment of the professorship requires presence and the continuous deployment of work capacity on site at the university. The willingness and ability to teach in German and English is also expected.

In addition, the recruitment requirements according to § 116 of the Bremen Civil Service Act apply. The University of the Arts endeavours to increase the proportion of women in the artistic-academic field and therefore expressly encourages women to apply. Applications from people with a migration background are expressly welcomed.

Applicants with severe disabilities will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.

Please enclose the following documents with your application: Portfolio, CV, copies of academic transcripts and certificates, a list of previous courses. The position will be filled subject to the release of funds.

Applications should be sent to the vice chancellor of the University of the Arts Bremen, Am Speicher XI, 28217 Bremen by July 29, 2024, quoting the reference number WP 24/04.

Please send us your application in digital form only (one continuous PDF / maximum e-mail size: 20 MB) to the following e-mail address: bewerbungen [​at​] hfk-bremen.de.

Information on the processing of your personal data in the application process can be found here.