Kathrin Witter *25

Kathrin Witter joined the Princeton German Department in Fall 2018. Before, she obtained a BA in Cultural and Literary Studies at LMU Munich and a MA in Interdisciplinary Antisemitism Research at TU Berlin. She has worked as a Research Assistant for a documentary film on Walter Benjamin and an exposition at the NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich. She held a scholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, a merit grant by the Princeton University Center for Human Values and the Nietzsche-Fellowship by the Klassik-Stiftung Weimar.

Her anthology “Ultima philosophia. Zur Transformation von Metaphysik nach Adorno” was published with Neofelis and an article on Heiner Müller in the journal Schriftstücke (5/2023). Smaller pieces appeared in the Journal for the History of Ideas Blog, Riss. Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Zeitschrift für Germanistik; and her journalistic writing can be read in venues such as Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Literarische Welt, Frankfurter Rundschau, Süddeutsche Zeitung and jungle world.