Prof. Dr. Csongor Lőrincz, Chair of Hungarian Literature and Culture at the Institute of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. Main research interests include: history and theory of the lyric, theories of language, performativity, witnessing, biopoetics, “Stimmung” and atmosphere, German, Austrian and Hungarian literature in the 19-21 centuries, history of Central European cultural studies. Recent publications: Herausforderung der Literatur: Péter Esterházy, de Gruyter 2021 (ed. with Péter L. Varga), Sprachmodalitäten. Das gestimmte Wie des Sprachlichen, wbg, 2021 (ed. with Hajnalka Halász), An den Rändern der Literatur. Dokument und Literatur in zentraleuropäischen Kulturen – Tracing the Edges of Literature. Documentary Fiction in Central European Culture, Böhlau, 2024 (ed. with Milka Car, Danijela Lugarić, Gábor Tamás Molnár).