Daniel Weidner

Trained in German and comparative literature Daniel Weidner received his PhD in 2000 and his Habilitation (second thesis) in 2009 at the Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches German and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität and has been Visiting Professor in Gießen, Basel, Stanford, Chicago, and Yale. He is head of the program area World Literature and of the project Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks, and Professor for the study of Culture and Religion at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt University of Berlin. His main areas of research are the interrelation of religion and literature, theories of secularization, the history of philology and literary theory, and German-Jewish literature.