albert einstein fellowship
supporting young limit pushers
The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation are offering the Albert Einstein Fellowship for tomorrow’s outstanding thinkers, both in Germany and abroad, who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research.
The purpose of the fellowship is to support young limit pushers who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches – following the example set by Albert Einstein.
The Albert Einstein Fellowship has been supporting creative, interdisciplinary thought by young scholars since 2007. The topics addressed by the 13 fellows to date are extremely diverse – from “Russia and Germany’s way of confronting its Nazi past” to “Making opera in the steppe” and “A collection of linked historical fictions on politics and media technology”. What they all have in common is that, under the Einstein Forum’s funding rules, the project must not be directly related to the fellows’ current academic work, such as a dissertation or a postdoctoral thesis. On the contrary, the young researchers should consciously endeavor to think outside the box.
Residents at Albert Einstein’s summer house
The garden cottage of Albert Einstein’s summer house in Caputh offers just the right atmosphere for fellows to work in. They spend between five and six months at Einstein’s former home in Brandenburg – a significant place in terms of science and architectural history alike – where he lived with his wife Elsa and his two daughters from 1929 to 1932. Numerous Nobel Prize winners and other well-known personalities such as Max Planck, Käthe Kollwitz or Heinrich Mann were guests in Albert Einstein’s house – just as the fellows are today.
The Einstein Forum
The Einstein Forum is a foundation of the German federal state of Brandenburg that serves the public as an open laboratory of the mind with an innovative, international, multidisciplinary agenda. Through lectures, workshops and conferences it provides insights into the work of outstanding contemporary thinkers and encourages thinking outside traditional academic boundaries. The Forum has been awarding the Albert Einstein Fellowship since 2007, and the application period for the fourteenth fellowship is currently running until May 15, 2022.
The philosopher Susan Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum. The Board of Trustees includes Eckard Minx, Michael Naumann and Gesine Schwan while Ute Frevert, Thomas Naumann and Jens Reich are among the members of the Board of Advisors.
For more information see https://www.einsteinforum.de/