The Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship for Literature was instituted at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1998 by the publishers S. Fischer in association with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Freie Universität Berlin and the Veranstaltungsforum of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. In addition to teaching at Freie Universität, the author holds a special Guest Professorship Lecture in Berlin and reads in further cities at various literary events.
The guest professorship is intended to promote the dissemination and critical analysis of world literature. It gives students at Freie Universität Berlin the chance to create literature with internationally renowned authors. The results of this collobaration have been documented and published in Edition AVL.
The guest professorship is intended to promote the dissemination and critical analysis of world literature. It gives students at Freie Universität Berlin the chance to create literature with internationally renowned authors. The results of this collobaration have been documented and published in Edition AVL.
Peter Szondi (1929-1971) was the first professor of the institute. A Hungarian Jew by birth, he was at home in different languages, and he fought passionately for a Free University in Berlin.
Since 2005 the institute of comparative literature has officially carried his name. Since its foundation in 1965, the institute has been dedicated to a transnational perspective on literature, in terms of an internationally connected, up-to-date understanding of comparative literature. Today Peter Szondi Institute belongs to the leading research facilities in comparative literature and shapes the profile of the humanities at Freie Universität Berlin. Professors of the institute participate in collaborative research centers (SFBs), research clusters, and graduate schools of the nationwide Excellence Initiative. Yet as teaching and research have always been intertwined at Peter Szondi Institute, the same professors also regard themselves as committed teachers.
Since 2005 the institute of comparative literature has officially carried his name. Since its foundation in 1965, the institute has been dedicated to a transnational perspective on literature, in terms of an internationally connected, up-to-date understanding of comparative literature. Today Peter Szondi Institute belongs to the leading research facilities in comparative literature and shapes the profile of the humanities at Freie Universität Berlin. Professors of the institute participate in collaborative research centers (SFBs), research clusters, and graduate schools of the nationwide Excellence Initiative. Yet as teaching and research have always been intertwined at Peter Szondi Institute, the same professors also regard themselves as committed teachers.
