Andreas Kilcher has been Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at ETH Zurich since 2008. He has held guest lectureships at Princeton, Stanford, UC Davis and Tel Aviv, among others. His research specialises in Jewish literary and cultural history, literature and the history of knowledge as well as Kabbalah and occultism. He works on authors such as Max Frisch, Thomas Mann, Joseph Roth, Gershom Scholem, Else Lasker-Schüler and Franz Kafka.
Recent book publications: Writing Jewish Culture. Paradoxes in Ethnography (with Gabriella Safran, Indiana University Press 2016); Franz Kafka. Die Zeichnungen (C.H. Beck Verlag 2021, translations into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, among others); Louis Ginzberg: Die Legenden der Juden (Suhrkamp Verlag 2022); Kafka's Werkstatt. Der Schriftsteller bei der Arbeit (C.H. Beck Verlag 2024).
To mark the opening of the Kafka Year 2024, Andreas Kilcher has been invited by the Swiss Embassy to give a lecture on the question "Who was Kafka and why can't we avoid him?" and to present his book "Franz Kafka. Die Zeichnungen
