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Topics

Cultural History of Aerospace (Eastern Europe): Matthias Schwartz
Aesthetics: Eva Geulen
History of Aesthetics: Ernst Müller
Psychological Aesthetics: Tobias Wilke
Afterlife: Falko Schmieder
Afro-German History: Jenaba Samura
Afropean Literature: Sandra Folie, Jenaba Samura, Gianna Zocco
Animals/Humans: Georg Toepfer
Anthropocene: Liola Mattheis, Falko Schmieder
Anticapitalism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Antiquity: Martin Treml
Architecture (Theory and History): Detlev Schöttker
Archive (Theory): Detlev Schöttker
Artificiality: Claude Haas, Aurore Peyroles, Georg Toepfer
Auto sacramental (Spanish and Latin American Corpus Christi Plays): Johanna Abel
Autobiographical Writing (Russia): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Historical Avantgarde: Tobias Wilke
Biodiversity: Georg Toepfer
Biology: Georg Toepfer
Biopolitics: Eva Geulen
Black Feminism: Jenaba Samura
Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea: Zaal Andronikashvili
Border Regions: Zaal Andronikashvili
Brazilian Literature: Oliver Precht
Literary Discourse on the Caucasus Mountains: Zaal Andronikashvili
Childhood: Liola Mattheis
Civil Disobedience: Liola Mattheis
Class: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Classical Literature: Claude Haas
Collectivity and Philosophy: Moritz Gansen
Colonial trauma: Jenaba Samura
Colonialism: Jenaba Samura
Communism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
History of Concepts: Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
Contemporary Literature (African Diaspora): Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
Contemporary Literature (French): Claude Haas
Contemporary Literature (German-speaking): Claude Haas
Contemporary Literature (Poland, Russia): Matthias Schwartz
Critical Theory: Pola Groß, Christoph Hesse, Falko Schmieder
Critical Whiteness in Literature: Sandra Folie
Critique: Georg Simmerl
(Trans-)Cultural Appropriation in Literature: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
Cultural and Social Anthropology: Andreas Lipowsky
History of Cultural Theory: Barbara Picht
Czech Literature: Ivana Perica
Disaster: Lukas Schemper
Dynamics of Debate in the Liberal Public Sphere: Georg Simmerl
Early Socialism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Ecology: Falko Schmieder
Economic crises: Georg Simmerl
Editorial Theory/Practice: Anja Keith
Embodiment: Johanna Abel
German Enlightenment: Ernst Müller
Essay (History and Theory): Magdalena Gronau
Ethnography: Andreas Lipowsky
Europe: Barbara Picht
Europe in African and Afrodiasporic Literature: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
Evolution: Georg Toepfer
Exile/Emigration: Christoph Hesse, Barbara Picht
Externalization: Katrin Trüstedt
Creation of Fame: Detlev Schöttker
Film history/theory: Christoph Hesse
New Formalism: Eva Axer
French Literature: Aurore Peyroles
French Philosophy in the 20th Century: Moritz Gansen
French Theory: Oliver Precht
Genetic Engineering: Magdalena Gronau
Constructions of Gender and Sexuality: Jenaba Samura
Generation: Barbara Picht
Georgia: Zaal Andronikashvili
Politics of Genre: Claude Haas (primarily Tragedy), Katrin Trüstedt (primarily Comedy)
Theory of Genres: Eva Axer
Governmentality: Sebastian Kirsch
The Grotesque: Eva Axer
Hegelianism in France: Moritz Gansen
Heiterkeit in Literature and Philosophy: Pola Groß
Hermeneutics: Ernst Müller
Heroism (Theory and History): Claude Haas
Historical Semantics: Ernst Müller, Barbara Picht, Falko Schmieder
History of Historical Studies: Barbara Picht
Historicism: Claude Haas
Methods and Critiques of the Historiography of Philosophy: Moritz Gansen
Theory of History: Henning Trüper
Human–Animal Relations in Antiquity: Martin Gronau
Humanitarism: Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper
(German) Idealism: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller
Imagology: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
Internationalism: Lukas Schemper
Intersectionality: Sandra Folie
Labor Camp Literature (Russian): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Law and Literature: Katrin Trüstedt
Letter Edition: Anja Keith
Letter Culture (The letter as literary work): Anja Keith
Liberalism: Georg Simmerl
Life and Life Knowledge: Georg Toepfer
Philosophy of Life and Vitalism: Andreas Lipowsky
Life-Saving from Nautical Distress: Nebiha Guiga, Lukas Schemper, Henning Trüper
African-American Literature: Gianna Zocco
Minor/Small Literature(s): Zaal Andronikashvili
Russian Literature: Zaal Andronikashvili
Literature and Philosophy: Eva Geulen
Literary Theory: Eva Geulen, Katrin Trüstedt
Marxism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
History of Marxism: Ernst Müller
Orthodox Marxism: Ivana Perica
Media (Theories): Tobias Wilke
Memory (Theories): Eva Axer
Cultures/Literatures of Memory (Eastern Europe, World War II): Matthias Schwartz
Politics of Memory: Eva Axer
History of Military Surgery: Nebiha Guiga
(Classical) Modernity: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Mythos: Martin Treml
Napoleonic Wars: Nebiha Guiga
New Social Movements: Ivana Perica
Paris Commune: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Periodicals (Journalism): Moritz Neuffer
Philately: Dirk Naguschewski, Detlev Schöttker
The Political in Literature: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ivana Perica, Aurore Peyroles, Katrin Trüstedt
Postcolonial Theory: Jenaba Samura
Postfundamentalist Theory: Ivana Perica
Pragmatism in France: Moritz Gansen
Precariat: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Presence Effects: Johanna Abel
Progress: Falko Schmieder
Proletariat: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Psychoanalysis: Martin Treml
Theories of the Public Sphere: Ivana Perica
Queer Studies: Liola Mattheis
Racism: Jenaba Samura
Realism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Regelpoetik: Claude Haas
History of Religion (Christianity, Judaism, Islam): Martin Treml
Representation: Katrin Trüstedt
Romanticism (Concept): Ernst Müller
Political Romanticism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Philosophy of Science: Georg Toepfer
Science Fiction (Eastern Europe): Matthias Schwartz
Secularization (Theories): Ernst Müller
“Slave narratives”: Sandra Folie
Small Forms: Eva Axer
Socialism: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Sound: Tobias Wilke
South Slavic Literatures: Ivana Perica
Sovereignty: Lukas Schemper
Soviet Union: Zaal Andronikashvili
Style: Pola Groß
Typologies of Style: Eva Axer
Subject (Theories): Zaal Andronikashvili
Sustainability: Falko Schmieder
Swing Riots/Luddites: Patrick Eiden-Offe
The Third Way in Socialism: Ivana Perica
Time Models: Eva Axer
Cultural Topography (Eastern Europe): Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
History of University (around 1800): Ernst Müller
Utopia: Falko Schmieder
Visual Culture: Tobias Wilke
Vormärz: Patrick Eiden-Offe
War: Claude Haas
Wikipedia: Sandra Folie
Window (literary motif): Gianna Zocco
“Women’s writing”: Sandra Folie
Work: Ivana Perica

People

Theodor W. Adorno: Eva Geulen, Pola Groß, Christoph Hesse, Falko Schmieder
Giorgio Agamben: Eva Geulen
Louis Aragon: Aurore Peyroles
Hannah Arendt: Eva Geulen, Ivana Perica, Sigrid Weigel
Bettine von Arnim: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Erich Auerbach: Martin Treml
May Ayim: Sandra Folie, Jenaba Samura, Gianna Zocco
James Baldwin: Gianna Zocco
Roland Barthes: Katrin Trüstedt
Georges Bataille: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Ludwig van Beethoven: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Walter Benjamin: Christoph Hesse, Detlev Schöttker, Sigrid Weigel, Tobias Wilke
Max Bense: Tobias Wilke
Ludwig von Bertalanffy: Eva Axer
Hermann Borchardt: Christoph Hesse
Fernand Braudel: Barbara Picht
Bertolt Brecht: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Hildegard Brenner: Moritz Neuffer
Hermann Broch: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Barbara Picht
Emily Brontë: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Martin Buber: Martin Treml
Georg Büchner: Patrick Eiden-Offe
August Cesarec: Ivana Perica
Erwin Chargaff: Magdalena Gronau
Werner Conze: Barbara Picht
Ernst Robert Curtius: Barbara Picht
Gilles Deleuze: Moritz Gansen
Jacques Derrida: Oliver Precht
Heimito von Doderer: Eva Geulen
John Dos Passos: Aurore Peyroles
W. E. B. Du Bois: Gianna Zocco
Friedrich Engels: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Ivana Perica
Frantz Fanon: Liola Mattheis, Jenaba Samura
Ludwig Feuerbach: Falko Schmieder
Ludwik Fleck: Ernst Müller
Theodor Fontane: Eva Geulen
Michel Foucault: Georg Simmerl
Sigmund Freud: Martin Treml
Juri Gagarin: Matthias Schwartz
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Eva Geulen
Franz Grillparzer: Eva Geulen
Friedrich Gundolf: Claude Haas
Oskar Halecki: Barbara Picht
Johann Georg Hamann: Ernst Müller
Raoul Hausmann: Tobias Wilke
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller
Martin Heidegger: Oliver Precht
Heinrich Heine: Eva Axer
Klaus Heinrich: Martin Treml
Moses Hess: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Albert O. Hirschman: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Friedrich Hölderlin: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Arno Holz: Eva Axer
C. L. R. James: Jenaba Samura
André Jolles: Eva Axer
Ernst Jünger: Anja Keith, Detlev Schöttker
Gretha Jünger: Anja Keith
Immanuel Kant: Ernst Müller
Ernst Kantorowicz: Barbara Picht
Søren Kierkegaard: Ernst Müller
Max Kommerell: Eva Geulen, Claude Haas
Karl Korsch: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Reinhart Koselleck: Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
Werner Krauss: Barbara Picht
Miroslav Krleža: Ivana Perica
Jean Lannes: Nebiha Guiga
Nella Larsen: Gianna Zocco
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Oliver Precht
Hans Liebeschütz: Barbara Picht
Clarice Lispector: Oliver Precht
Stanisław Lem: Matthias Schwartz
Audre Lorde: Jenaba Samura
Georg Lukács: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Merab Mamardašvili: Zaal Andronikashvili
Walter Markov: Barbara Picht
Karl Marx: Patrick Eiden-Offe, Ernst Müller, Falko Schmieder
Marshall McLuhan: Tobias Wilke
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Oliver Precht
Czesław Miłosz: Barbara Picht
Robert Minder: Barbara Picht
Dualla Misipo: Sandra Folie, Gianna Zocco
Stéphane Mosès: Sigrid Weigel
Erwin Panofsky: Barbara Picht
Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon: Nebiha Guiga
Fernando Pessoa: Oliver Precht
Wilhelm Raabe: Eva Geulen
Kathrin Röggla: Pola Groß
Warlam Schalamow: Franziska Thun-Hohenstein
Friedrich Schiller: Claude Haas
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Ernst Müller
Arnold Schönberg: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Percy Ernst Schramm: Barbara Picht
Erwin Schrödinger: Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
Kurt Schwitters: Tobias Wilke
William Shakespeare: Katrin Trüstedt
Ervin Šinko: Ivana Perica
Josef Škvorecký: Ivana Perica
Adalbert Stifter: Eva Geulen
Jacob Taubes: Martin Treml
E. P. Thompson: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Ludwig Tieck: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Paul Tillich: Martin Treml
Flora Tristan: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: Oliver Precht
Max Leopold Wagner: Dirk Naguschewski
Jean Wahl: Moritz Gansen
Robert Walser: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Oskar Walzel: Eva Axer
Aby Warburg: Barbara Picht, Martin Treml, Sigrid Weigel
Georg Weerth: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Peter Weiss: Ivana Perica
Wilhelm Weitling: Patrick Eiden-Offe
Joseph Wulf: Anja Keith
Sylvia Wynter: Liola Mattheis