Heinrich Heine Guest Professorship 2024/2025

Dr. h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch

Holocaust survivor and former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch will take on the Heinrich Heine Guest Professorship for the academic year 2024/25. The long-term President of the Israelite Cultural Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria has been an advocate for Jewish life in Germany, interreligious dialogue and Holocaust remembrance for decades.

As part of the guest professorship, Charlotte Knobloch will speak twice in the largest lecture theatre at Düsseldorf University. She will offer insights into the culture of remembrance she advocates, the importance of tolerance and Jewish life in Germany. However, her lectures will focus on current political developments in Germany and the significant rise in antisemitism.

“Arrived in Germany?” is the title of her opening lecture in lecture theatre 3A (building 23.01) at 4.30 p.m. on 31 October 2024.

Dr h.c. mult. Charlotte Knobloch will complete her lecture series on 11 February 2025.

Participation in the lectures is free of charge and only possible with prior registration.

Registration is possible from 8 October 2024. The corresponding link for registration will be published here in good time.

About the Heinrich Heine Guest Professorship

The Heinrich Heine Guest Professorship was a gift from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the University on the occasion of its naming in 1988 and has become established as an important platform for the exchange of thoughts and ideas between culture, politics and academia. Before Charlotte Knobloch, other Heinrich Heine Guest Professors have included Helmut Schmidt, Juli Zeh, Klaus-Maria Brandauer and most recently Campino.