In the Year of the Humanities 2007, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research launched its funding initiative »Freedom for Research in the Humanities«, which provides new opportunities to highlight and advance achievements in the humanities at national and international level. At the heart of this funding initiative are the »Käte Hamburger Collegia«.
Between 2007 and 2011, an international panel of experts selected a total of ten »Käte Hamburger Collegia« on the following topics:
Prof. Dr. Erika Fischer-Lichte, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, Dr. Christel Weiler, Prof. Dr. Matthias Warstat, Freie Universität Berlin
www.interweaving-performance-cultures.com
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Siegert, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
www.khk.ceres.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner, Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers, Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Boschung, Prof. Dr. Günter Blamberger, Universität zu Köln
www.ik-morphomata.uni-koeln.de
Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch, Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler, LMU Munich
www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. jur. Werner Gephart, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Prof. Dr. Joachim von Puttkamer, Prof. Dr. Włodzimierz Borodziej, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
www.imre-kertesz-kolleg.uni-jena.de
Prof. Dr. Tobias Debiel, Universität Duisburg Essen
Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie, Advanced Institute for Study in the Humanities
Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner, German Development Institute, Bonn