Elisa Erkelenz

Elisa Erkelenz is a freelance curator, dramaturge and author specializing in transtraditional and contemporary music. She founded the artistic research Outernational, which is dedicated to post-migrant and transtraditional art music: in concerts, listening sessions and in the accompanying magazine Van Outernational. Together with violinist David-Maria Gramse, she makes the podcast "Des Pudels Kern", which is dedicated to the connection between music and questions of life and is also broadcast monthly on WDR 3. As a freelance dramaturge, she works for various festivals, ensembles and concert halls, such as the Elbphilharmonie, Ensemble Recherche and the Donaueschingen Music Days, for which she edited the anthology "Dynamic Traditions". She has given guest lectures and taught at the HAW Hamburg, the mdw Vienna and the Anton Bruckner University Linz. She also passes on her knowledge as a consultant, whether for individual artists, institutions or orchestras.
She was born in 1987 on the Lower Rhine and studied French and German literature and cultural management in Bonn, Paris and Hamburg after an early musical and artistic education on the island of la Réunion, among others. From 2012-2018, she worked as a dramaturge and later also as deputy managing director for Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg.
Elisa Erkelenz lives and works in Hamburg, her place of work is at fux eG in Altona, an off-location for contemporary art and culture.