Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship for Literature

Since 1998, the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship for Literature has been awarded by the Institute of Comparative Literature. It is funded by Freie Universität Berlin, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), S. Fischer publishers, and the Lecture Forum of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Writers from different literatures and cultures are invited to facilitate the critical reflection of world literatures. For one academic term, eachvisiting professor becomes a member of the institute’s faculty and teaches a course for which undergraduate and graduate students can receive credits.

 

• Summer term 2009: Richard Powers
• Winter term 2008/2009: Raoul Schrott
• Summer term 2008: László Krasznahorkai
• Winter term 2007/2008: Sjón
• Summer term 2007: Nuruddin Farah
• Winter term 2006/2007: Fernando Pérez
• Summer term 2006: Dubravka Ugrešic
• Winter term 2005/2006: Amit Chaudhuri
• Summer term 2005: Michèle Métail
• Winter term 2004/2005: Nora Amin
• Summer term 2004: Feridun Zaimoglu
• Winter term 2003/2004: Etgar Keret
• Summer term 2003: Alberto Manguel
• Winter term 2002/2003: Yann Martel
• Summer term 2002: Robert Hass
• Winter term 2001/2002: Marlene Streeruwitz
• Summer term 2001: Sergio Ramírez
• Winter term 2000/2001: Scott Bradfield
• Winter term 1999/2000: Kenzaburo Oe
• Summer term 1999: V. Y. Mudimbe
• Summer term 1998: Vladimir Sorokin