Humanities - Music

The TU Ilmenau invites all music lovers to start the new year light and lively with the New Year's Concert 2026 on Wednesday, January 21, at 7:30 pm. Under the musical direction of Pamela R. Mayorga from Mexico, works by Johann Strauss, Mel Bonis and Franz Schubert will be performed in the Auditorium maximum, all'of which have one thing in common: their cheerful lightness. Traditionally, the TU Ilmenau's New Year's Concert is combined with the University President's review of the past year and his outlook for the new year. Admission is free.

It was in Jena at the end of the 18th century that a new philosophical and literary movement emerged in the form of early Romanticism, which, alongside the Enlightenment, became a defining era of modernity.

Neuroscientists at Freie Universität Berlin show that spoken words can sharpen the sense of touch in ways music cannot. Language allows humans to convey thoughts and ideas - it is a central means of communication.

The spread of a particular genre of music reflects the borders between medieval empires in Europe. This is shown by a study conducted by a musicologist at the University of Würzburg.

When a few Ilmenau technology students started making radio broadcasts for their fellow students in a small room in the Curiebau in May 1950, nobody could have guessed that this would one day become the oldest student radio station still in existence in Germany and produce many professional radio broadcasters.

Pol Pi will explore the musicality of movements and perform musical gestures with music and dance students of Freie Universität Berlin.