education
since november 2023
ph.d. candidate – humboldt university of berlin
experience, guilt, redemption. towards an unwritten theory of forgetting supervisor: prof. dr. eva geulen
october 2013 – march 2023
studies – goethe university frankfurt
m.a. german literature, b.a. sociology, philosophy, b.a. german studies, art history
september 2016 – january 2017
semester abroad – king’s college london
september 2004 – july 2013
abitur – heinrich-von-gagern-gymnasium, frankfurt
professional experience
march 2017 – present
freelance editor and author: scientific editing and commissioned work; taz, ja, the article
september 2023
moderator – jewish women* empowerment summit frankfurt
october 2015 – march 2023
tutor and lecturer – goethe university frankfurt
introduction to modern german literature studies (2018-2023)
master’s accompanying seminar literature and transnationality (2020-2021), sociology of laughter according to adorno (2019/20)
karl kraus (2016), development, implementation, and results of studies on the authoritarian personality (2015)
may 2018 – september 2022
student assistant – goethe university frankfurt
department of german literature and didactics, martin buber professorship for jewish religious philosophy
march 2017 – september 2019
supervisor – fuma s.r.o.
project manager for forsa. gesellschaft für sozialforschung und statistische analysen, institute for social research and analysis
before 2015
various part-time jobs and internships
practical experience
january 2024 – present
salon smurago
organization and facilitation of a monthly philosophical salon, theme I/2024: philosophy of history between crisis and redemption, II/2024: images of violence
july 2017 – present
lectures, speeches, interviews
2024: lecture on kafka’s negative messianism (warburg house hamburg, institute for the history of german jews), lecture on the philosophy of design (berlin design day), lecture on walter benjamin’s crisis of experience (conference crisis of experience – experience of crisis, centre for social critique berlin, hans-böckler-foundation), interview for the winter forum of widen the circle
before 2024 (selection):
moderation of discussion with max czollek and marc grünbaum (in situ, kunsthalle darmstadt, 2023), lecture on rahel varnagen (berlin, 2023), rahel varnagen’s 250th birthday (deutschlandfunk, 2020), sorry i’m late, i didn’t want to come (opelvillen rüsselsheim, 2020), benjamin reads kafka. forgetting as ritual (fu berlin, 2017)
january 2022 – september 2022
residency and lecture performance – jewish museum frankfurt, the sweet taste of revenge in collaboration with un-zu ha-nul lee for the exhibition revenge: history and fantasy
july 2021 – january 2022
publication – goethe university frankfurt
writing and editorial for the journal literatur transnational
scholarships and memberships
since april 2024
doctoral scholarship – ernst ludwig ehrlich scholarship fund
member – german society for aesthetics
april 2020 – march 2023
master’s scholarship – ernst ludwig ehrlich scholarship fund
april 2014 – december 2019
scholarship – pestalozzi foundation
languages
german, russian (native languages), english (fluent), latin (latinum), greek (graecum), french, spanish, hebrew (basic knowledge)