Curriculum Vitae

Education

Andreas B. Kilcher has been full Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the ETH of Zurich since June 2008.
Born in Basel in 1963, he studied German Literature, History and Philosophy in Basel and Munich. 

1991-1993:     PhD-student and Fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1993-1996:     Assistant at the Department of German of the University of Basel.

1996:     Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

1996-2002:    Assistantship and Habilitation (2002) at the Department of German Philology of the University of Munster. Thereafter, Assistant Professor.

2002:    Fellow at the Research Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies in Berlin.

2004:    Full Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tubingen.

Research Interests

History of German-Jewish Literature and Culture, Literary and Cultural Studies; Esoteric Studies.

Publications

Books

• Die Sprachtheorie der Kabbala als ästhetisches Paradigma, Stuttgart: Metzler 1998.
• mathesis und poiesis. Die Enzyklopädik der Literatur 1600 bis 2000, München: Fink 2003.
• Geteilte Freude. Schiller-Rezeption in der jüdischen Moderne, München 2006.
• Franz Kafka, Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2008.

Edited Books (selection)

• Metzler Lexikon der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur, Stuttgart: Metzler 2000 (published anew by Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2003).
• Metzler Lexikon jüdischer Philosophen, Stuttgart: Metzler 2003.
• Kritische Else Lasker-Schüler-Briefausgabe (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp 2008).

Distinctions and Affiliations

• 2000 Leonard W. Forster-Preis
• Founder member and member of the committee of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)
• Member of the committee of the Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft
• Member of The society for European-Jewish Literary Studies
• Member of the Hölderlin-Society (Hölderlin-Gesellschaft)