Dr. phil. habil. Andreas Gehrlach

Andreas Gehrlach is the academic program director of the ifk and visiting professor at the University of Arts Linz. Since 2016, he has been a research associate at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, with interruptions for professorships at the HU and at the International Psychoanalytic University. Prior to this, he studied German Literature, History and English in Tübingen and then completed his doctorate at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School at the FU Berlin with a doctoral scholarship. The dissertations’ topic was a cultural history of theft and thievish subjectivity. It was submitted as part of a DFG project in Tübingen and was published in 2015. Another monograph published in 2020 is entitled Das verschachtelte Ich. It’s on our individual and partly very intimate spaces of property. In autumn 2023, Andreas Gehrlach submitted his habilitation on the cultural, literary and bodily history of kneeling and is now very much looking forward to doing new research projects, e.g. on the cultural history of the swamp, on the axe with which Goethe's sorcerer's apprentice tackles the broom or on the cultural technique of getting lost and getting unlost.

Curriculum vitae incl. publications