“… just an invented word”

Teaches German literature, theatre, and film at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He studied in Avignon, Hamburg, Baltimore (at Johns Hopkins) and Frankfurt am Main, where he received a PhD. His dissertation is titled “Das Theater des ‘konstruktiven Defaitismus’. Lektüren zur Theorie eines Theaters der A-Identität bei Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht und Heiner Müller.”