Lorenz WelkerChristoph Marz was born in 1956. He studied German language and literature, musicology and Latin. He was an academic assistent at Erlangen University and was granted a Heisenberg Fellowship afterwards. He worked as a lecturer at Leipzig University, ad in 2002, he became Professor for Medieval German Literature and Language at the Freie Universitat in Berlin. He died prematurely on November 9th 2006. His publications include studies on comparative musicology and philology, medieval poetry and literature in the early Middle Ages. Lorenz Welker is doctor of medicine, psychoanalyst and musicologist; since 1996 he is professor of musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. There, he is a member of the Human Science Centre and Director of the Zentrum Seniorenstudium. His researches in historical musicology relate to the music of the late Middle Ages and the Baroque, questions of historical performance practice and interdisciplinary medieval studies. Furthermore, he is dedicated to questions concerning borderline areas between humanities and sciences, especially with respect to the biological basis of the making and perception of music. In 1988, he was honoured with the E. Sigerist-Award of the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences. In 1994, he was awarded the Dent-Medal of the Royal Musical Association and the International Musicological Society. Nicola Zotz studied German and French languages and literatures. From 1997 to 2002, she worked in the project "Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon". From 2002 to 2010, she was academic asistent at the Universities of Freiburg i. Br., Berlin (FU) and Vienna. Since 2010 she works at Vienna University as a Post-doctoral Researcher in the project "The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript" (HERA). In her research work, she focuses on medieval poetry, Old High German literature, Romanic-German literary relations. Read More Read Less