Asmus Trautsch

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Asmus Trautsch (b. in Kiel) is a philosopher and poet and lives in Berlin. He studied Philosophy, German Literature and Composition and Music Theory in Berlin and London. He gained his doctorate from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in 2015 with a thesis on the Theory of Tragic Experience. He co-ran the publisher of contemporary literature LUNARDI Verlag für zeitgenössische Literatur and has been chairman of Klangnetz e.V., the non-profit Berlin network for New Music and applied arts. Asmus Trautsch teaches at various universities, organises symposia, readings and inter-media cultural projects and is a composer and conductor. He is the editor of the Edition Poeticon series for Berliner Verlagshaus. 


Publications (selection):

Ovid: Liebeskunst. Reich kommentiert von Tobias Roth, Asmus Trautsch, Melanie Möller, Berlin 2017

Der Umschlag von allem in nichts. Theorie tragischer Erfahrung, Berlin/Boston 2019

Treibbojen. Gedichte, Berlin 2019