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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kraß is a leading scholar at the Department of German Literature, Faculty of Language and Literature, Humboldt University of Berlin. As Deputy Director of the Institute for German Literature and founding head of the Research Center for the Cultural History of Sexuality (established 2012), he specializes in queer readings of German literature from the medieval period to the 20th century, focusing on intersections of sexuality, gender, and cultural history.
- Research Focus: Queer theory, cultural history of sexuality (19th-21st centuries), medieval courtly literature, and translation studies.
- Current Projects: Queer Reading – A Methodology (Thyssen Foundation, 2023-2026), analyzing German literature under Paragraph 175.
His recent publications include Höfische Epik. Eine Einführung (Metzler, 2025) and Spielräume des Übersetzens (de Gruyter, 2025), while his methodological work appears in the Barthes-Handbuch. He has supervised groundbreaking PhD research on temporalities in lesbian-feminist literature, Arthurian genealogies, and queer modernism.
The Research Center under his leadership has completed major initiatives such as the Naomi Wilzig Art Collection (2017-2022) and the Digitization of Der Eigene magazine (2015-2020). He collaborates internationally with Hebrew University, Kinsey Institute, and the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, organizing conferences like the Queering Memory symposium (2019) and Cruising the 1970s HERA project (2016-2019).
Students engage with his work through courses like Queer Lesen seminars and Introduction to Courtly Epic. He maintains strong ties to digital humanities through the Berliner Repertorium database, documenting medieval hymn translations (471 Latin texts with 3,066 German translations).
