Martin Treml

Martin Treml

Martin Treml (born in Linz in 1959) studied Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Vienna and the Berlin Free University. Since 2000 he has worked at the Berlin Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, currently as head of the research projects Poetology and Jewish Philosophy (together with S. Weigel) and Philosophy of Religion after 1945. His research interests include theory of and figures in Western religions, cultural and literary history of Jews in Germany since 1700 and the ancient world and its reception. Most recently he has edited the volumes Grenzgänger der Religionskulturen. Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Gegenwart und Religion der Märtyrer (ed. with S. Horsch, Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2011) and Die Ordnung pluraler Kulturen. Figurationen europäischer Kulturgeschichte, vom Osten her gesehen (ed. with Z. Andronikashvili, Kulturverlag Kadmos 2014).