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Lea Jakob

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C6.202
Fon +49.4131.677-2115, lea.jakob@leuphana.de
Associated member, Leuphana Center for Organization & Social Transformation

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Vita

Lea Jakob is a research associate and PhD student at the Institute of Management & Organisation at the Leuphana University as well as a lecturer for Arts Management at the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences.

Since 2023, she is the project coordinator of the “Leuphana Concert Lab” – a transdisciplinary teaching project at the Leuphana University. As a cultural manager, she continues to work freelance with the Lyceum Orchestra in Havana and the Orchester im Treppenhaus in Germany, among others.

 

Lea Jakob studied International Cultural and Business Studies with a specialisation in Italian Cultural Studies in Passau, Parma and Perugia. After graduating, she completed a Master's degree in Management and Entrepreneurship at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. Professional positions in marketing, fundraising, project management and music education led her to Elbphilharmonie & Laeiszhalle, TONALi, Heidelberger Frühling and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, among others. From 2015 to 2022, she was coordinator of the Cuban-European Youth Academy and developed exchange and training programmes for young musicians in Europe and Cuba.

In her thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Raphaela Henze (Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn (Leuphana University Lüneburg), she investigate the resilience of musical communities in times of crisis.

Projects

  1. Leuphana Concert Lab 2.0 - Transfer innovativer Konzertpraxis in die Musikinstitutionen Niedersachsen
    Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn (Project manager, academic) , Lea Jakob (Coordination)
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    Project: Research

  2. Leuphana Concert Lab
    Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn (Project manager, academic) , Lea Jakob (Coordination)
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    Project: Practical Project

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Neue Wege der Kulturkommunikation: Eine Studie zur Rezeption onlinebasierter Kommunikation von Corporate Cultural Responsibility
    Lea Jakob (Author) , Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn (Author) , Paula Maria Bögel (Author) , 2017 Leipzig , 135 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research › peer-review

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Journal contributions

  1. Mozart Habana 2023: Desde la Perspectiva de una Insider-Outsider
    Lea Jakob (Author) , 01.01.2023 , in: El Sincopado Habanero. Boletín del Gabinete de Patrimonio Musical Esteban Salas, 8, septiembre-diciembre , p. 24-28 , 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Transfer

  2. “Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America“
    Lea Jakob (Author) , 01.12.2021 , in: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, 175, 4 , p. 113-114 , 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. What do we do with "other" music?
    Lea Jakob (Author) , Shanti Suki Osman (Author) , Julia Auer (Author) , 01.01.2025 Wien , p. 44-46 , 3 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

  2. Cuba and Cultural Relations in Challenging Times: A Practice-Approach
    Lea Jakob (Author) , 01.01.2023 Belgrad , p. 179-194 , 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review

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Impact

Activities

  1. Co-Creating Classical Concerts in an Interdisciplinary University Setting
    Lea Jakob (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. Leuphana Concert Lab – Wie kann man Partizipation in der universitären Lehre leben?
    Lea Jakob (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Transfer

  3. Producción de Eventos Musicales desde la Perspectiva Práctica
    Lea Jakob (Lecturer)

    Activity: Guest lectures › Education

  4. “I feel like I’m going to walk out of here a slightly different person.” Exploring audiences’ meaning-making in unconventional concert formats
    Lea Jakob (Speaker) , Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  5. Leuphana Concert Lab - navigating and communicating societal challenges with artistic means
    Lea Jakob (Speaker)

    Activity: talk or presentation in privat or public events › Education

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Press / Media

Prizes

  1. M&T Impact Awards 2024
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    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointments › Transfer

  2. Lehrpreis der Fakultät M&T 2024
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    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  3. Teaching Award of School of Management and Technology 2024
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    Prize: Leuphana internal Prize, Scholaships, distinctions, appointments › Education

  4. DAAD-Stipendium
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    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Research

  5. Preisträgerin Science Slam HS Heilbronn 2022
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    Prize: external Prizes, scholarships, distinctions, appointments › Transfer

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Courses

Cuban Musicians as Artpreneurs: A Seminar on the Art of Improvising in Challenging Environments with the Cuban Ensemble 'Espirales'
Lea Jakob, Gabriela Rojas Sierra
As part of the Leuphana Concert Lab, a seminar in cooperation with the Cuban artist collective “Espirales” will take place. Originally classically trained, the five musicians have increasingly focused their careers on creating cross-genre performances with idiosyncratic Cuban roots. They aim to present and explain Cuban musical heritage to their audiences through workshops and lecture performances, and they have already showcased their music in different countries around the world. At the same time, they navigate a challenging environment: Cuba has been experiencing an economic and migration crisis with strong repercussions on the daily practices and careers of musicians and music institutions.

Together with Cuban arts manager and researcher Gabriela Rojas Sierra, we will explore how Cuban musicians and ensembles navigate the challenging environment. We will dive deeper into the context and selected aspects of the Cuban music ecosystem. The concept of “bricolage” will be taken up in the seminar from various disciplinary perspectives and artistically implemented by the students together with the musicians. Originally introduced by Lévi-Strauss (1967), the concept of bricolage can be found in many disciplines, including entrepreneurship research, where it is defined as “making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities” (Baker and Nelson, 2005). Furthermore, we will touch upon questions of Cuban transculturality and music identity.

The seminar will contain a workshop with the ensemble “Espirales” on Cuban music and rhythms, as well as a concert that is organized and contextualized as part of the seminar.

During the workshop weekend, the students will split up into small groups and work on different contextualizing aspects of the Espirales concert on Monday, 9th November in the Forum - e.g. a digital/analogue concert brochure, an introduction to the concert, a podium discussion, or interactive elements integrating the audience.

The students will work closely with the musicians, conduct interviews with them, and engage in guided observations. These will form the basis for the second part of the course assignment_ a creative output format, such as a podcast or video on the project, each based on a specific guiding question or aspect related to the seminar topic.


PRÜFUNGSLEISTUNGEN
1. Practical Part / Presentation (40% of the overall grade)
In small groups, the students work on a specific aspect of the performance during the workshop, e.g. by actively participating, by designing sound / video / text, by designing the setting of the performance or info material for the audience. They are required to explain their idea to the group and contribute to the overall project.

2. Reflection format (60% of the overall grade)
The students will create a creative output format, in which they reflect on their learning experience and specific guiding questions or aspects related to the concepts and topics covered in the seminar. This could be, for example, a podcast episode or a video. Data for that format will be collected during the workshop weekend, e.g. through interviews or observations.
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-16 at 14:15
Room: C 16.203 Seminarraum
Responsibility 3: Artistic Citizenship and new approaches to concert design: a Leuphana Concert Lab Seminar with the TONALiSTEN
Sigrid Bekmeier-Feuerhahn, Lea Jakob, N. N.
Das Leuphana Concert Lab ist ein transdisziplinäres Projekt der Leuphana Universität (https://www.leuphana.de/portale/concert-lab.html), das Wissenschafts- und Praxispartner verbindet, um gesellschaftliche Fragen kreativ zu bearbeiten.

Das Seminar richtet sich explizit an Studierende aller Fachrichtungen und setzt keine Vorkenntnisse voraus.
Im Wintersemester 26/27 kooperieren wir mit der Hamburger Organisation der TONALiSTEN (https://tonalisten.com/about/), um mit deren Partnermusiker:innen zu erkunden, wie sich gesellschaftliche Themen musikalisch inszenieren und an ein Publikum vermitteln lassen.
Wir setzen uns zunächst mit dem Konzept des Artistic Citizenship auseinander: Welche Rolle spielen Musiker:innen in unserer Gesellschaft? Wie nehmen sie ihre eigene Verantwortung wahr? Wie kann eine verantwortungsvolle Konzertpraxis aussehen? Welche gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen beschäftigen junge Musiker:innen?
Im nächsten Schritt stellen wir uns die Frage, wo künstlerische Mittel ansetzen können, um gesellschaftliche Themen zu behandeln. Welche Lösungsräume können eröffnet werden, wenn man künstlerische Herangehensweisen und wissenschaftliche Perspektiven verbindet?
Danach wählen wir ein konkretes Thema für das Konzertlabor aus und bearbeiten in Kleingruppen Teilaspekte der Konzertplanung, wie Dramaturgie, Publikumsinteraktion und Raumgestaltung.
Am Ende des Semesters wird das im Seminar konzipierte Konzertformat zweimal öffentlich aufgeführt: Im TONALi-Saal in Hamburg und bei der Konferenzwoche. Je nach Interessen und Vorwissen werden die Studierenden auch ein Begleitprogramm gestalten, welches das Thema interdisziplinär beleuchtet, bspw. über das Medium eines interaktiven Programmhefts oder einer Ausstellung, Videoinstallation usw. Außerdem werden sie in den Dialog mit den Besucher:innen treten, um Feedback zu ihrer Vermittlungsarbeit und zur Veranstaltung einzuholen (bspw. im Rahmen moderierter Publikumsgespräche oder anderer Formate).
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-23 at 12:15
Room: C 14.103 Seminarraum