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Obituary for Winfried Kumpitsch

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to our friend and colleague Winfried Kumpitsch, who passed away unexpectedly on 5 June 2025.

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Ausonius Prize for Wolfgang Spickermann

Professor Wolfgang Spickermann, the former head of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt, will be awarded the Ausonius Prize on 30 June 2025.

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Justus Bier Prize for curators of the exhibition "Bauhaus und Nationalsozialismus"

The Helga Pape Foundation honours the curators of the exhibition "Bauhaus und Nationalsozialismus" (Bauhaus and National Socialism) – Professor Elizabeth Otto (University of Buffalo), Professor Anke Blümm and Professor Patrick Rössler from the…

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1st Erfurt Campus Cup on 25 June 2025

The University of Erfurt is hosting the 1st Erfurt Campus Cup, to which the Erfurt universities cordially invite all members on Wednesday, 25 June. The event will take place alongside the 9th edition of the traditional Erfurt Campus Run and is set to…

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Michael Rösser's dissertation shortlisted for Hedwig Hintze Prize

Every two years, the Association of Historians in Germany (VHD) awards the Hedwig Hintze Prize in recognition of outstanding doctoral dissertations from across the entire breadth of the discipline. At its meeting on Friday, 16 May 2025, in Frankfurt…

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University of Erfurt involved in the new "Imaginamics" Cluster of Excellence

As part of the German federal and state governments' Excellence Strategy, the new cluster application ‘Imaginamics’ submitted by Friedrich Schiller University Jena will receive funding over the next seven years. This was announced by the German…

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New publication: "Nicht alle Tage" (Part 2)

Markus Vinzent, head of the Meister Eckhart Research Centre at the Max-Weber-Kolleg for Cultural and Social Science Studies at the University of Erfurt, has now published part 2 of his novel "Nicht alle Tage" (Not Every Day) with the publishing house…

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Professor Hartmut Rosa admitted to the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig admitted eight new members at its public spring meeting in 2025. One of them is Professor Hartmut Rosa, Director of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt.

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