Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and the City of Poznań invite you for an open lecture entitled: Bliski i daleki sąsiad Berlina - Fundacja "Zukunft Berlin" i Polska. (in English: Close and far Berlin neighbour - "Zukunft Berlin" Foundation and Poland) An outstanding Germanist in the world - Prof. Hubertus Fischer will deliver the lecture. The lecture will be held on 4 April 2016 at 05:00 PM at the Faculty of Modern Languages, al. Niepodległości 4, room C-3.
Hubertus Fischer is a retired professor of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover. He was the deputy vice chancellor and the dean of the University. For many years he has been also the president of the Theodor Fontane Society, a co-founder and a member of the scientific council of the University Centre of Landscape Architecture in Hannover as well as of the "Zukunft Berlin" Foundation.
Prof. Fischer made an important contribution to the research into the German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the 19th c., he is a medievalist, a highly regarded specialist in landscape architecture as "a vision of the future" as well as literary links between Poland and Germany.
He gave lectures as a visiting professor at universities in Cairo, London, Haifa and Poznań, among others.
Prof. Hubertus Fischer is an outstanding worldwide known Germanist. He is a retired professor of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität in Hannover, was the deputy vice chancellor and the dean of the University. For many years he has been also the president of the Theodor Fontane Society, a co-founder and a member of the scientific council of the University Centre of Landscape Architecture in Hannover. as well as of the "Zukunft Berlin" Foundation.
In his academic achievements he has more than 39 monographs and more than 300 articles from many fields and disciplines: from literature through architecture, politics, art, history to culture. He is distinguished particularly for the research into the German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the 19th c., he is a medievalist, a highly regarded specialist in landscape architecture as "a vision of the future" as well as literary links between Poland and Germany, an expert at the European satirical drawing. He gave lectures at universities in Cairo, London, Haifa and Poznań, among others.
For more than 30 years Prof. Fischer has been closely cooperating with the Adam Mickiewicz University, in particular with the Institute of German Philology. As the deputy vice chancellor of the University in Hannover, he was the initiator and a supporter of cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University, organised and co-organised numerous academic conferences as well as exchanges of lecturers and scholarship holders between the Universities in Hannover and Poznań. He was awarded the Medal for Services for the Adam Mickiewicz University in 2008 for his previous achievements. Currently, as an active member of the "Zukunft Berlin" Foundation, he tries to strengthen and develop cooperation among Poznań, Wrocław, Szczecin and Berlin.