Kurt David Brühl Visiting Professorship
Kurt David Brühl (1929-2014) was President of the Jewish Community in Graz for many years and Honorary Consul of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the federal states of Carinthia and Styria. He was associated with the University for many years, for example by awarding scholarships for stays in England and through his work in the David Herzog Fund. In 1999, Brühl was awarded honorary citizenship of the University of Graz.
In the 2001/02 academic year, the Kurt Brühl Visiting Professorship for Jewish Studies was established. The professorship, named after the long-standing president of the Jewish Community of Styria and benefactor, is filled every two semesters and focuses on history, literature and cultural studies. It is explicitly open to applicants from various academic disciplines.
The current visiting professor is Dr. Vera Kallenberg.
Summer term 2025
Mag. Dr. Sanna Schulte (University of Vienna, Austria)
Summer term 2024
Dr. Karin Neuburger-Twito (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Winter term 2023/24
Dr. Martina Niedhammer (Collegium Carolinum/LMU Munich, Germany)
Summer term 2022
Dr. Björn Siegel (The Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, Germany)
Winter term 2021/22
Dr. Noëmie Duhaut (IEG Mainz, Germany)
Summer term 2020
PD Dr. Birgit Erdle (TU Berlin & Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Summer term 2019
Anat Gilboa, PhD (University of Haifa, Israel)
Summer term 2018
PD Dr. Hans-Joachim Hahn (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Summer term 2017
Dr. Ljiljana Radonić (Vienna)
Summer term 2016
Prof. Dr. Frank Stern (Vienna)
Summer term 2015
Dr. Lars Fischer (London)
Summer term 2014
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schloer (Southampton)
Summer term 2013
PD Dr. Hildegard Frübis (Berlin)
Summer term 2012
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wyrwa (Berlin)
Summer term 2011
PD Dr. Thomas Meyer (Munich)
Summer term 2010
PD Dr. Mona Körte (Berlin)
Summer term 2009
Apl. Prof. Dr. Trude Maurer (Göttingen)
Summer term 2008
Dr. Eric Jacobson (Roehampton University, London)
Summer term 2007
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Winter term 2004/05
Dr. Stefan Litt (Koebner-Center for German History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Winter term 2002/03
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Elisabeth Hollender (Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg)
Winter term 2001/02
Dr. Gerold Necker (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.)