Max Czollek

Max Czollek lives in Berlin, where he was born in 1987. 2012 he gained his diploma in political science at TU Berlin. 2016 he was awarded a doctorate at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin. Since 2009 he is member of the poetry collective G13. 2013-2018 he curated the international project Babelsprech.International for the connection of the young German speaking and European lyric scene. Together with Sasha Marianna Salzmann he was initiator of Desintegration. Ein Kongress zeitgenössischer jüdischer Positionen (2016), Radikale Jüdische Kulturtage (2017) at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Studio Я. In 2020 he initiated and curated the international Tage der Jüdisch-Muslimischen Leitkultur. His essays „Desintegriert Euch!“ (2018), “Gegenwartsbewältigung” (2020), and "Versöhnungstheater" (2023) are published at Carl Hanser Verlag. His lyric books „Druckkammern“ (2012), „Jubeljahre“ (2015), „Grenzwerte (2019), and "Gute Enden" (2024) were published at Verlagshaus Berlin.