Team

Reinhold Boschki studied Catholic theology and education studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Münster, and Boston. In 1994 he completed his dissertation on theology and anthropology in the work of Elie Wiesel. After working as a pastoral associate, religious education teacher, and research assistant, Reinhold Boschki taught as a Professor of Religious Education at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn from 2004 to 2015. As of April 2015, he is Head of the Department of Religious Education, Kerygmatics, and Church Adult Education at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Tübingen. Reinhold Boschki is the editor of several anthologies and interview volumes and the author of numerous scholarly texts on the work of Elie Wiesel. In addition, he has translated various texts by Wiesel into German.

Marion Eichelsdörfer studied Jewish Studies, German Studies, and Yiddish Studies at the University of Trier, the University for Jewish Studies (HfJS), and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. From 2011–2018 she worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Jewish Religious Education, Pedagogy, and Didactics at the HfJS. Since January 2019, she has worked at the Elie Wiesel Research Center at the Eberhard-Karl-University Tübingen.

Elisabeth Migge is a research assistant at the Elie Wiesel Research Center of the Department of Religious Education, Kerygmatics, and Church Adult Education. Since the winter semester of 2025/26, she has been a substitute professor for Catholic Theology/Religious Education at the Ecumenical Institute of the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education. She earned her doctorate in 2021 with the dissertation Mohammed – a Prophet also for Christians? A critical examination of recent Christian theological positions, which was awarded the University of Tübingen’s doctoral prize. She completed her studies at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Catholic theology and biology. She taught at a vocational high school as a Studienrätin from 2016–2022.

Moritz Sacherer (M.Ed.) has been a research assistant at the Elie Wiesel Research Center since November 2024. From 2018 to 2024, he studied catholic theology and biology in education at the University of Tübingen. From 2022 to 2024, he worked as a student assistant at the Chair of Religious Education. In May 2025, he began a PhD project funded by the Cusanuswerk on the topic of Elie Wiesel's ethics of remembrance in the context of contemporary memory culture and anti-semitism prevention [working title].

Julian Wilhelm studied Catholic theology and history in Tübingen and interreligious studies in Heidelberg and Basel. From January 2021 to July 2024, he worked at the Elie Wiesel Research Center and rejoined the team in November 2025.

Christin Zühlke is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Holocaust Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She holds a Ph.D. from the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University of Berlin. Her Ph.D. project focuses on the Yiddish writings of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau with an approach to Jewish Cultural Studies and Literature. She holds an M.A. in Jewish Studies and Philosophy and a B.A. in Philosophy and German. Also, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel, the University of California, Berkeley, and a Guest Scholar at the German Historical Institute (Pacific Regional Office in Berkeley). She was an ELES Research Fellow from 2019 until 2022.

Lukas Dürrenberger has been studying Catholic theology in Tübingen’s Magister's program since October 2020. In July 2019, he completed a year in the World Church Peace Service of the Dizöse Rottemburg-Stuttgart at the EJR Youth Agricultural School in the Brazilian Dizöse Santa Cruz do Sul. He has been a student assistant to the Chair of Catholic Religious Education and the Elie Wiesel Research Center at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since January 2021.

Daniel Krochmalnik was born in Munich in 1956. He attended the École Maimonide in Paris and studied mathematics, philosophy, and Jewish studies in Munich. Since 1999, he has worked as a Jewish philosophy and pedagogy professor at the University for Jewish Studies. In 2018, he was offered a chair at the University of Potsdam and served as executive director of the Jewish School of Theology. He has been emeritus since 2022. Krochmalnik is the editor of the Jubilee Edition of the Collected Writings of Moses Mendelssohn (JubA) and the Elie Wiesel’s Works (EWW), as well as the author of numerous books and essays. (see: https://krochmalnik.de/)

Carina Branković studied Religious Studies, Protestant Theology, and Jewish Studies at the University of Heidelberg, the University for Jewish Studies, and the University of Zurich. She is a research associate in Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Intercultural Theology at the Institute for Protestant Theology and Religious Education at the University of Oldenburg. Her dissertation in religious studies examined ritual constructions in George Tabori's Holocaust Drama The Cannibals (New York City 1968) and Die Kannibalen (West Berlin 1969).

Jean Ehret is the founding director of the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. His research interests include intellectual and institutional processes, language, the role, form, and renewal of theology in secularized society, and what can be a discourse in which God is the subject.