Prof. Dr. Stephan Kammer
After studying German Language and Literature, Modern History and Sociology at the University of Basel, Stephan Kammer received his PhD (2000) and worked from 2001 to 2007 as a Research Assistant at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, where he habilitated in 2011 in modern German literary studies. From 2008 to 2010 he was Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Since 2008 he has held visiting professorships at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the University of Vienna. His research focuses on the history of literature and knowledge of writing, literary theory and the mediality of literature, and (German) literature of the 18th to 21st centuries.
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. eds. 2025. Landwirtschaft und Literatur. Zurich: Diaphanes Verlag.
https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/landwirtschaft-und-literatur-7964
Krauthausen, K., Kammer, S. eds. 2020. Make it Real. Für einen strukturalen Realismus. With contributions by Blumentrath, H., Kammer, S., Krauß, A., Krauthausen, K., Meinecke, T., Moser, N., Peltzer, U., Pierstorff, C., Rau, M., Röggla, K., Strowick, E. Zurich: Diaphanes.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. 2025. »Landwirtschaft und Literatur. Überlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Agropoetik.« In Landwirtschaft und Literatur, edited by Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. Zurich: Diaphanes Verlag, 7-24.
https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/landwirtschaft-und-literatur-7964
Kammer, Stephan, Krauthausen, Karin. 2025. »Crisi della riproduzione, crisi della rappresentazione. Hubert Fichte e i romanzi dell'etnologia.« Afterword to the Italian translation of Hubert Fichtes »Forschungsbericht. Roman«. Translation, edition, and foreword by Rosa Coppola. In Hubert Fichte: Resoconto di una ricerca. Romanzo, edited by Rosa Coppola Naples: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, 217–237.
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K., Meinecke, T. 2020. »(Nicht) Ins Gebüsch kotzen, oder: Die Anstrengung des Realismus. Interview mit Thomas Meinecke.« In Make it real. Für einen strukturalen Realismus, edited by Kammer, S., Krauthausen K. Zurich: Diaphanes, 163-199.
https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/make-it-real-4171
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K., Peltzer, U. 2020. »Das Buch existiert ja gar nicht. Interview mit Ulrich Peltzer.« In Make it real. Für einen strukturalen Realismus, edited by Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. Zurich: Diaphanes, 201-227.
https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/make-it-real-4171
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K., Rau, M. 2020. »Realismus ist keine Geisterbahn. Interview mit Milo Rau.« In Make it real. Für einen strukturalen Realismus, edited by Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. Zurich: Diaphanes, 243-275.
https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/make-it-real-4171
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. 2020. »Für einen strukturalen Realismus. Einleitung.« In Make it real. Für einen strukturalen Realismus, edited by Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. Zurich: Diaphanes, 7-79.
https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/make-it-real-4171
Talks & Presentations
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. (lecturers) Landwirtschaft & Literatur. Einführung. Talk at the Landwirtschaft & Literatur, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 13 July 2023.
Krauthausen, K. (talk), Kammer, S., Keck, A. (organizers), Der Stoff der Materialwissenschaften. Überlegungen zu materials by design, active matter, and biomimesis. Talk at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. 21 June 2023.
Kammer, S. Actio/Activity: Rhetoric Matters. Talk at the »On Activity« a Joint Symposium on Activity and Materiality, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 7 February 2020.
Invited Moderation/ Comment
Krauthausen, K., Kammer, S. et al. Kulturtechnik. Kulturtechnik, Portland, USA. Seminar »Kulturtechnik« organized by Norton, B.; Trop, G.; Wirth, U. At the Forty-Third Annual Conference of German Studies Association, with contributions by researchers from USA and Germany. 4 October 2019.
Events & Workshops
Kammer, S., Krauthausen, K. (organizers) Landwirtschaft & Literatur. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 13 July 2023 - 15 July 2023.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/11178/landwirtschaft-und-literatur