Dr Sebastian Schirrmeister

Member UWA
Address
University of Hamburg
Warburgstraße 26
Hamburg
Office
Room: 4001
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838-9387
Current and Completed Projects
Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) (2019–2025)
- Project lead of project RFE22 (2024–2025):
A Fresh Look: Visualising Digitised German-Jewish Archives - Research Associate of project RFE10 (2020–2024):
Wandering Artefacts: The Materialistic History of German-Jewish Archives
CV
- from 2022: Research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts”, University of Hamburg
- 2020: Amos Oz guest professor for Hebrew literature, University of Munich
- 2019 to 2021: Moritz Stern Postdoc Fellow for Modern Jewish Studies, Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen
- 2017: PhD in German Literature, Universität Hamburg
- 2014: Doctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre, Hebrew University
- 2013: Joseph-Carlebach-Award for outstanding academic contributions to Jewish history, religion, and culture, University of Hamburg
- 2011 to 2019: Research associate, German Department and Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Literature in Exile, University of Hamburg
- 2008 to 2009: DAAD study scholarship, Haifa University
- 2005 to 2011: M.A. in Jewish Studies and German Literature, University of Potsdam