I studied history and philosophy in Leiden and Berlin. My two MA-theses on Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and on Nietzsche’s second Untimely Meditation raised my interest in the history of language and its role in historical processes.
This led me to Bielefeld, where from 2006 to 2010 I held a scholarship in the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. My PhD-project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Willibald Steinmetz, analyzed the emergence of modern discourses of decadence in 18th and early 19th century Europe. In 2010, I graduated as a PhD (summa cum laude).
Since 2011, I hold the position of “assistant” at the chair of Modern Western European History (Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard) at Freiburg University. Besides teaching and organizational tasks, I wrote a major research monograph on the role of silence in political communication in 19th century Europe. Its manuscript was submitted in April 2021 and is currently under review as part of my habilitation process.
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