Sebastian Kirsch

Sebastian Kirsch, born 1980, works as a theater and literary scholar as well as a publicist and has taught in Bochum, Düsseldorf, Stockholm, and Vienna. He received his PhD from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2011 with a study on the history of central perspective (Das Reale der Perspektive, published 2013) and habilitated in 2018 with the thesis Chor-Denken. Sorge, Wahrheit, Technik (published 2020). With a research project on Hermann Broch, Kirsch was associated with the Department of German at New York University as a Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2019/2020; in 2021, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. Kirsch was editor of Theater der Zeit from 2007-2013, and was also a regular columnist for the journal until 2017. He has worked as a dramaturg with Hans-Peter Litscher and Johannes Schmit, among others.