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.

Valesca Baert-Knoll studied history, German language and literature, and Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, where she worked as a research assistant until September 2018. Since October 2018, she has been a research assistant in the Department of Religious Education, Kerygmatics, and Church Adult Education and co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung im Kontext.

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. 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.

Christin Zühlke is a doctoral candidate at the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at TU Berlin. Her dissertation deals with the Yiddish testimonies of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, since January 2021, and she has worked at the Elie Wiesel Research Center since April 2021. She studied Philosophy, German Studies, and Jewish Studies at the HfJS, among other universities. In 2016/17, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Hebrew University Jerusalem and a Project Manager at the Department of Cognitive Science. At the same time, she was a Research Assistant at Tel Aviv University.

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.

Julien Jeusette defended his Ph.D. thesis (University of Paris - University of Luxembourg) on the imagination of mobility and nomadism in literature and philosophy since the end of the 19th century. After four years of postdoctoral work at the Università degli Studi di Milano, he joined the Elie Wiesel research at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society in April 2022. His research rests at the intersection of literature, politics, and philosophy, particularly in power relations, inequalities, and vulnerability.

Emma Hauf studies Jewish Studies and Sociology at the HfJS and the University of Heidelberg. From September 2019 to August 2020, she participated in a service for peace with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington D.C. In October 2020, she was awarded the Cusanuswerk scholarship, and has been serving as a student assistant at the Elie Wiesel Research Center at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since February 2021.

Julian Wilhelm is a master's student in Interreligious Studies in Heidelberg. After completing his Bachelor's E.d. in Catholic Theology and History in 2020, he joined the Elie Wiesel Research Center as a student assistant in January 2021. His primary focus is centered on interfaith encounters, dialogue, and learning.

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.