Fabian Bernhardt Editor

Fabian Bernhardt is a postdoctoral researcher at the collaborative research center "Affective Societies" at Freie Universität Berlin. He holds an MA in philosophy, cultural anthropology, and comparative literature and a PhD in philosophy. He is the author of an award-winning book on revenge, a book on forgiveness and has edited a volume on law and emotion. His publications include Rache: Über einen blinden Fleck der Moderne (2021) and Recht und Emotion II: Sphären der Verletzlichkeit (2017, ed. with H. Landweer). Saskia Fischer is a research associate at the Department of German Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover and fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld. Following her BA and MA in literary studies and history, she received her PhD in literary studies from the Universität Bielefeld in 2016. She is the author of an award-winning study on ritual and drama and is co-editor of several volumes on guilt, forgiveness, ritual, and Holocaust literature. Her publications include Ritual und Ritualität im Drama nach 1945: Brecht, Frisch, Dürrenmatt, Sachs, Weiss, Hochhuth, Handke (2019) and Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair: A Cross-Cultural Comparison (2022, ed. with M.-S. Lotter). Maria-Sibylla Lotter is a professor of ethics, aesthetics, and modern philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. She has worked on issues of guilt, responsibility, apologies, and moral repair, including from a cross-cultural perspective, on modern metaphysics (Leibniz, Whitehead), on the relation of artistic and theoretical methods of expression, and the ethics of lying and self-deception. Her publications include Opfer: Über Verwundbarkeit als Selbstbild (2026) and Schuld und Respekt (2024).