We welcome back our fellow Dr. Hana Gründler at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Hana Gründler is Head of the permanent and independent Research Group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual”. Her research areas include the intersections of philosophy and art (history), extending from the early modern period to the present time...

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Michael Auer at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Michael Auer is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität in Berlin. His academic interests include lyrical soundscapes, teichoscopy and the messenger, and discourses of planetarity. During his research stay at the CAS from...

We welcome our new fellow Dr. Elisa Ronzheimer at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Elisa Ronzheimer ist Research Associate at Bielefeld University. She works on historical poetics since the 18th century (with a focus on meter and rhythm), literary theory (especially 20th-century theories of style and lyric theory) and the...

We welcome our new fellow Antje Schmidt, M.Ed., at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Antje Schmidt was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project »Poetry in the Digital Age« at the University of Hamburg until 2025, where she researched ecology-technology relations in multimodal 21st century poetry. Her research...

We are pleased to welcome Simone Kessler back as Artist in Residence at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Simone Kessler is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Hamburg who investigates, through creative processes, philosophical questions that interconnect human systems, ecology and science. Her artistic practice is...

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Eva Geulen is Director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research as well as Professor for European History of Culture and Knowledge at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on literature and philosophy from the...

We welcome our new fellow Prof. Dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann at the CAS »Imaginaria of Force«. Ann-Sophie Lehmann is Professor of Art History and Material Culture at the University of Groningen (NL) where her research and teaching develop materials- and practice-based approaches. She has published widely on the theory and history...

The program of our colloquium lectures in the summer term 2026 is online! Starting May 5, 2026, our current fellows will present their research projects. Interested listeners are cordially invited to participate.

Prof. Dr. Cornelia Zumbusch will give a lecture at the Goethe-Gesellschaft in Weimar e.V. on »Goethes west-östlicher Wasserwirtschaft« (Goethes west-eastern water management). Many poems in the »Divan« mention the »Dichters Mühle« (poet's mill) and other hydraulic structures. This lecture interprets them as metaphors...