Dr. Jürgen Brokoff

Biography

Jürgen Brokoff is a professor of German Philology at Freie Universität Berlin, specializing in Modern German Literature. He studied German Studies and History at the universities of Münster and Bonn, where he obtained his doctorate in 1999 with a dissertation on 'The Apocalypse of the Weimar Republic'. Following a period as a research assistant from 1999 to 2002, he held an assistant position at the University of Bonn from 2003 to 2009. He achieved his habilitation in 2008/09 with a thesis on the history of pure poetry, published in 2010. As a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he spent time at the University of California, Davis and Yale University between 2009 and 2010. Brokoff has held various professorships and has been a full professor at Freie Universität Berlin since the winter semester of 2013/14. His research interests include the intersections of literature, politics, and media post-1945, as well as explorations of Jewish-German literature.

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