Rate My Professor Andree Michaelis-König

Andree Michaelis-König is Professor of Modern German Literature and Culture in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Antwerp, Department of Literature, and affiliated with the Institute of Jewish Studies. He earned his PhD at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, culminating in the publication "Erzählräume nach Auschwitz. Literarische und videographierte Zeugnisse von Überlebenden der Shoah" (Akademie Verlag, 2013). He obtained his venia docendi in Modern German Literature at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), with his habilitation published as "Das Versprechen der Freundschaft. Politik und ästhetische Praxis jüdisch-nichtjüdischer Freundschaften in der deutschsprachigen Literaturgeschichte seit der Aufklärung" (Winter Verlag, 2023). Previously, from 2017 to 2023, he was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Axel Springer Chair for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Exile and Migration at Viadrina, where he also led the working group on Jewish Writing in the European Diaspora (19th and 20th centuries).

Michaelis-König's research interests include Friendship Studies, German-Jewish literary history, contemporary literature, German Enlightenment and Vormärz, literature and migration, media of remembrance after the Holocaust, Transcultural Studies, intersectionality, and gender. He is promoter of the project "Intersections of Jewish and Working-Class Emancipation in 19th Century German Writing (1830-1860): Affinities and Differences in Revolutionary Times." His teaching covers courses such as "Literature and Friendship: Negotiating Alterity, Gender, and Community," "German Cultural History from the Enlightenment to the Present," "Deutsche Kulturgeschichte," and "German-Language Literature: Fundamentals, Terms, Analyses" in Linguistics and Literary Studies programs. Key recent publications feature "Friendship as sisterhood: Fanny Lewald and Therese von Bacheracht or practicing friendship among women" (Oxford German Studies, 2025), "The productive force of friendship in literary history" (Oxford German Studies, 2025, with Tobias Heinrich), co-edited special issue of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies (2024, with Philipp Lenhard), and co-edited "Schriftstellerinnen des Umbruchs" (German Life and Letters, 2024). He serves as voting member on the Department Council of Literature, deputy on the Faculty Council of Arts and Philosophy, and on several education commissions.

Professional Email: andree.michaelis-könig@uantwerpen.be