Günter Blamberger

Günter Blamberger is the professor of German philology at the University of Cologne and the director of the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata (Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Cologne). He is the author of several works including Figuring Death, Figuring Creativity: On the Power of Aesthetic Ideas. He has received visiting scholarships in Stanford, Melbourne, Parma, Adelaide and Krakow, and was awarded the Humanities International for the best book in the humanities in Germany in 2011.