Prof. Heinrich Kirschbaum

1974 – born in Moscow, Russia
1995-2003 – Studies of Russian, Polish and Italian literature at the Universities of Regensburg (Germany) and Triest (Italy)
2003 – Master of Arts in Slavic Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany
12/2007 – PhD degree (University of Regensburg)
4/2007-1/2010 – Assistant Professor, University of Passau, Germany
10/2007-1/2009 – Research fellow, University of Regensburg, Germany
4/2011-9/2012 – Grant by Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
12/2014 – Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) at the Humboldt University, Berlin Germany
4/2013-2017 – Professor of West-Slavic Literatures and Cultures (W 1), Humboldt University, Berlin Germany
9/2017-2/2019 – Assistant Professor at the University of Basel
2/2019-present – Professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Freiburg

Research interests: Russian, Polish and Belarus poetry, history of interslavic and Slavic-german literary and cultural relations.