Monograph

2018 "Female cellists. Transformationen von Weiblichkeitsbildern in der Instrumentalkunst", publication of the dissertation in the series Musik Kultur Gender, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna

Publication sponsored by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for the Humanities and the Mariann Steegmann Foundation

Article

2021 "Many people play without having learned to listen to what they are playing." 100 years ago, the cellist Guilhermina Suggia propagated self-critical listening as the basis for artistic interpretation and pedagogical success, in: Üben und Musizieren 6/9 , Schott, Mainz, pp.46-47.

2018 "Recognition and the experience of difference. On the relationship dimension in instrumental pedagogy", in: Wolfgang Rüdiger (ed.) 2018: Instrumental pedagogy - how and why? State of development and perspectives, Schott, Mainz, pp.169-186

2016 "Female cellists and their teachers in the 19th century: Transformation of polarized gender boundaries in artistic training using the example of female cellists from the Belgian cello school of Adrien-Francois Servais.", in: Annkathrin Babbe, Volker Timmermann: Female musicians and their networks in the 19th century, Schriftenreihe des Sophie Drinker Instituts, vol. 12, BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg, pp. 91-111

2015 "Recognition and difference. An instrumental pedagogical model", in Üben und Musizieren 5/2015, Schott, Mainz, pp. 50-52

2013 "Crossing boundaries and transformation. Discourse-analytical reflections on the cellist Lise Cristiani's journey to Siberia", in: Elke Kleinau, Dirk Schulz, Susanne Völker (eds.): Gender in Bewegung, Transkript, Bielefeld, pp. 213-228

2011 "Informationen zu den musikgeschichtlichen Epochen", online publication for the music booklet "Mein erstes Konzert. 25 easy performance pieces from 5 centuries", Schott Music, Mainz

2010 "An atypical woman's life. The cellist Lisa Cristiani's journey to Siberia", in: Forum Musikbibliothek 3/2010, pp. 233-240

"Guilhermina Suggia", in: "Lexikon Musik und Gender", (ed.): Melanie Unseld and Annette Kreutziger-Herr. Bärenreiter-Verlag, cash register, pp. 488-499

"Maria Kliegel", in: "Lexikon Musik und Gender", (eds.): Melanie Unseld and Annette Kreutziger-Herr. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, p. 310

"Alicja Mounk", in: "Lexikon Musik und Gender", (eds.): Melanie Unseld and Annette Kreutziger-Herr. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel, p. 369

"Geschlechterforschung", in: "Lexikon Musik und Gender", (eds.): Melanie Unseld and Annette Kreutziger-Herr. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel; pp. 239-240

2009 "A violoncellist... that was still missing!" About female and male instruments", in: Ulrich Mahlert (ed.): Üben und Musizieren 03/2009, pp. 51-53

"Female cellists. Proposal for a different perspective on music history", in: VivaVoce. Journal of the Archiv Frau und Musik Frankfurt am Main.
Issue 3/2009, No. 83, pp. 9-12

2008 "A look at the history of female cellists", in: Ruth Becker, Beate Kortendiek (eds.): Journal Netzwerk Frauenforschung NRW, vol. 11, no. 24/2008, pp. 32-45

Sheet music

2020 Easy Concert Pieces, Chinese translation of the three volumes, Schott Music, Mainz

2017 Cellostyles, 14 easy pieces for cello and piano by Daniel Kemminer, edited by Katharina Deserno, Schott Music, Mainz

2015 Easy Concert Pieces. Easy concert pieces for cello and piano, edited by Katharina Deserno and Rainer Mohrs, three volumes with CD, Schott Music, Mainz

2014 Zwiegespräche, duos for violin and cello by Barbara Heller, edited and arrangement of the cello part by Katharina Deserno, Schott Music, Mainz

2013 Herbstmusik, duo for cello and piano by Barbara Heller, edited by K. Deserno, Schott Music, Mainz

2011 My first concerto. 25 easy performance pieces from five centuries for cello and piano, sheet music volume with CD, concept and edited by K. Deserno, Schott Music, Mainz

Kalabok. A Russian fairy tale for cello, piano and narrator by Oxana Omelchuk, edited by K. Deserno. Schott Music, Mainz

CDs

2023 Deserno plays Dinescu, works for cello solo by Violeta Dinescu, Kaleidos Musikeditionen

2019 "Suites&Roses", works for solo cello by Violeta Dinescu and Johann Sebastian Bach, Kaleidos Musikeditionen

2016 Barbara Heller chamber music, with Gesa Lücker, Susanne Stoodt, Verdi Quartet, Wergo

2015 "Gretchaninov-Rachmaninov, Russian Works for Cello and Piano", with Nenad Lecic, Kaleidos Musikeditionen

2011 "Hommage à Clara Schumann - female composers in the mirror of time". Works for cello and piano by Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel, Oxana Omelchuk, Rebecca Clarke, Luise Adolpha Le Beau and Sophie Seibt, with Nenad Lecic, piano, Kaleidos Musikeditionen

2011 "Fugenbrücke" - works for cello and piano by Konrad Lang and Ludwig van Beethoven, with Nenad Lecic, piano, Kaleidos Musikeditionen