Heinrich Kirschbaum is (since 2019) professor of slavic literatures at the University of Freiburg. His research interests lie in Western-Eastern European literature & discourse relations from the 18th century to the present (with a focus on Russia, Belarus, Poland and Kazakhstan). He is author of the books:

– Revolution der Geduld. Eine belarussische Bricolage [Revolution of Patience. A Belarusian Bricolage, 2022); https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/revolution-der-geduld.html?lid=2: The Belarusian Version: Belaruski Brykalaž (2023). https://vesnabooks.eu/bricolage/

– Im intertextuellen Schlangennest: Adam Mickiewicz und polnisch-russisches (anti )imperiales Schreiben [In the intertextual snake nest: Adam Mickiewicz and Polish-Russian (anti)imperial writing, 2016]; https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049986

– Valgally beloe vino. Nemeckaja tema v poėzii O. Mandel’štama [The White Wine of Walhalla: German topics in the Poetry of Osip Mandelshtam, 2010]; https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/nauchnaya_biblioteka/1043/