Michael Ewert, Dr. phil., studied German language and literature, history and political science in Cologne and Marburg, taught as senior academic advisor at LMU Munich, guest lecturer in Poland, Kyrgyzstan and Thailand. Second chairman of the Georg Forster Society and co-editor of Georg Forster Studies, board member of the Munich Goethe Society. Publications on literature from the 18th to the 21st century. Areas of work and research include: Interculturality and alterity; literature and migration; travel, flight and exile.