Christian Rakow

Born in Rostock in 1976, he studied German Philology and Philosophy in Rostock, Sheffield and Berlin. In 2010, he obtained a doctorate in Literary Studies at the University of Münster, supervised by Prof Dr Moritz Baßler. His dissertation “Die Ökonomien des Realismus – Kulturpoetische Untersuchungen zur Literatur und Volkswirtschaftslehre 1850–1900” (The Economies of Realism – Cultural poetic investigations on literature and political economy 1850–1900) was published by DeGruyter in 2013. Christian Rakow is an editor for the online portal nachtkritik.de and a theatre critic for Theater heute and Berliner Zeitung, among others.