How do you learn to make a violin?

Violin makers follow ideals in sound and form. The rules of violin making provide a rough guide for this, but personal instruction, practice and experience are decisive: the violin making schools form the foundation - and are at the same time very different in their traditions and demands. How are learning and teaching in violin making organized? How do the European schools differ? How do they react to technical and cultural changes?

With photo and text series, PD Dr. Sarah May (Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies at the University campus Freiburg), Janine Wildhage (violin making), Sinah Osner and Fabian Stransky (photography) seek to answer these questions in their joint publication "Hands, Skills, Tools. Learning the Craft of Violin Making", they look for special features in the craft of violin making. On July 3, 2025, they will present their work and discuss the opportunities and challenges of such collaborations between crafts, art and science that lead to joint research.

Photography: Sinah Osner and Fabian Stransky (Darmstadt)
Text: Sarah May (Freiburg) and Janine Wildhage (Berlin)
Reading: Roxana Willis (Freiburg/London)
Music: Dining Dolphins (Freiburg)

Registration is not required.

Admission is free of charge.

The event language is German, the reading will be held in English.