TEAM
Buber Correspondence Digital
The Dialogical Principle in Martin Buber’s Scholarly and
Intellectual Networks in the 20th Century
Project Director
Prof. Dr. Christian Wiese
Goethe University Frankfurt
Christian Wiese holds the Martin Buber Chair in Jewish Philosophy of Religion at Goethe University Frankfurt and is the founding director of the Buber-Rosenzweig Institute. As project director, he is responsible for the edition’s content and conceptual framework and coordinates the related research projects and activities.
Editorial Team
The editorial team is based at the Buber-Rosenzweig Institute at Goethe University Frankfurt and is responsible for describing and indexing the content of the correspondence, as well as transcribing and annotating it. In addition, its members contribute to research on Martin Buber and his correspondence within their respective disciplines through publications and presentations.
Michal Bondy, M.A.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Michal Bondy has a background in Jewish Studies and is an experienced translator from Hebrew into German. Within the project, she is primarily responsible for Martin Buber’s Hebrew-language correspondence. In addition to describing and indexing the content of these letters, she prepares transcriptions and German translations.
Dr. Heike Breitenbach
Goethe University Frankfurt
Heike Breitenbach is a literary scholar whose research focuses on German-Jewish modernity. As a long-time member of the editorial team and coordinator of the Martin Buber Werkausgabe, she is an expert on Buber’s life and work. In addition to her editorial work, she handles a wide range of project coordination tasks related to project coordination and communicates with the project’s partners.
Nadine Dietz, M.A.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Nadine Dietz studied German studies, sociology, and German literature. Her research focuses on literary theory and epistolary theory. In addition to her primary role as an editor, she is responsible for the project’s science communication and currently focuses mainly on editing correspondence with publishers.
Rabea Freund-Biton, M.A.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Rabea Freund-Biton studied art history, American studies, general and comparative literature, and Jewish studies. Her work focuses on describing and indexing the content of Hebrew-language correspondence and on researching the history of Jewish art and culture.
Denise Jurst-Görlach, M.A.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Denise Jurst-Görlach studied editorial studies and Jewish studies. Within the project, she is responsible for documenting and refining the editorial concept and ensuring data and metadata quality. Her current editorial work includes letters associated with the Jüdischer Verlag.
Digital Academy
The Digital Academy team is responsible for implementing the digital concept. In addition to providing the digital infrastructure, this primarily involves developing the project’s working and editing environment. Through publications, research, and teaching, the team contributes to the discourse in the Digital Humanities.
Julian Jarosch, M.A.
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Julian Jarosch studied linguistics and book studies. Within the project, his focus is on the provision and development of the digital editing environment and on handwriting text recognition.
drs Thomas Kollatz
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Thomas Kollatz studied theology, religious studies, and Semitic languages. He is responsible for the project’s digital concept.
Dr. Lea Müller-Dannhausen
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Lea Müller-Dannhausen is a literary scholar and digital humanist. Within the project, she is responsible for data modeling and data quality, as well as for developing a BKD ontology.
External Contributors and Research Assistants
The external contributors and research assistants perform indispensable preparatory and supporting work for the project. By undertaking the initial cataloging of the letters, they help manage the enormous volume of correspondence, and enrich the project with their extensive and wide-ranging specialist expertise.
Dr. phil. habil. theol. Christof Müller
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Christof Müller is a scholar of fundamental theology and served for many years as the director of the Augustinus-Lexikon. Following its completion, he is now describing and indexing Martin Buber’s correspondence with 20th-century Christian theologians for the project. He previously reviewed the extensive »General and Publishing Correspondence«.
Leonie Otters, M.A.
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Leonie Otters is a trained historian and works on the project as a research assistant. She is primarily responsible for the initial cataloging of the correspondence and its metadata. In addition, she prepares transcriptions of selected correspondence and supports the project’s science communication activities.
Magdalena Stumm, B.A.
Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
Magdalena Stumm is a student of Digital Methodology in the Humanities and Cultural Studies in Mainz. For the project, she recorded correspondence metadata from the three-volume edition Martin Buber. Briefwechsel aus sieben Jahrzehnten. She is currently working on a structured digital version of the bibliography of Buber’s works.
Ph.D. Fellows
Martin Kudla, M.A.
Goethe University Frankfurt
Martin Kudla is writing his dissertation on the topic »Prophetic Messianism and Social Psychology: Robert Jungk’s Reception of Martin Buber and Gustav Landauer«. For the project, he is working on the correspondence between Martin Buber and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.
Claudio Lasperanza, M.A.
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and Università degli Studi di Firenze
Claudio Lasperanza is working on a dissertation titled »The question of political messianism. A study on the relationship between religion and politics in Martin Buber’s thought, 1916-1936«. For the project, he has been editing the correspondence between Martin Buber and Louis Massignon and assists the team in letters written in Italian.
Former TEAM MEMBERS
- Prof. Dr. Martin Leiner – Project Management, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Dr. Susan Baumert – Editorial Team, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Dr. Francesco Ferrari – Editorial Team, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
- Dr. Inka Sauter – Editorial Team, Goethe University Frankfurt
Buber Correspondences Digital
Institutions and Partners
The people who work on Buber Correspondences Digital every day play a crucial role, but they are not the whole story. You can find out more about the institutions and partners who back and support the project here.