Felix Ensslin is a writer, curator and theater director, recently appointed as Professor for Aesthetics and Art Mediation, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart. He lives in Berlin and Stuttgart. Recent exhibitions include Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition (with Klaus Biesenbach and Ellen Blumenstein) at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and Neue Galerie at Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (2005) and Between Two Deaths: From the Mirror to Repetition (with Ellen Blumenstein) at the Zentrum fur Media Kunst ZKM in Karlsruhe (2007). Publications co-edited include the major catalogue for the latter exhibition published by Hatje Cantz in 2007 and Spieltrieb: Was bringt die Klassik auf die Bühne? Schillers Ästhetik heute. published by Theater der Zeit, Berlin in 2006. In 2009, he directed Friedrich Schiller’s Don Carlos at the Nationaltheater Weimar. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2009 at the University of Potsdam, was entitled Die Entbehrung des Absoluten. Eine philosophisch-psycho- analytische Untersuchung zum Subjekt der Nichtigkeit in Martin Luthers Magnificat-Auslegung [The Privation of the Absolute. A philosophical-psychoanalytic investigation into the subject of invalidity in Martin Luther’s Interpretation of the Magnificat]. It will be published in installments in Subjektile, a series he edits with Marcus Coelen for Berliner Diaphanes-Verlag.