Dr Marion Kant

Marion Kant is Affiliated Lecturer in the German Section of the MMLL Faculty and supervisor at Pembroke College. 

She holds a PhD degree in musicology and dramaturgy from the Humboldt University in Berlin and has focused her research on cultural, performance and dance history and theory, ideologies of the body and the histories of antifascism and exile. 

Her publications as editor and author include Hitler’s Dancers: Modern German Dance and the Third Reich (with dancer and pedagogue Lilian Karina) (2004), The Cambridge Companion to Ballet (2007), Ein westfälischer Jude in der preussischen Armee. Isaac Löwenstein aus Rietberg-Neuenkirchen und sein Tagebuch 1821-1823. (2021). She is currently editing a six-volume series of The Cultural History of Dance for Bloomsbury. 

While teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, she organised a series of concerts presenting “Entartete Musik”, music forbidden by the Nazis.