Maria E. Kronfeldner

Born 1974.

She studied philosophy and religious studies (Universität Regensburg, Freie Universität Berlin) from 1996 to 2001, supported by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung. For her thesis, she worked on the concept of creativity and received the second prize of the Altdorfer Leibniz-Preis 2002.

She wrote her dissertation in philosophy (Universität Regensburg, 2002-2005) on “Darwinism, Memes, and Creativity: A Critique of Darwinian Analogical Reasoning from Nature to Culture”. While writing her dissertation, she was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University in 2004, supported by the Andrea von Braun Stiftung (travel scholarship) and a fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (2002-2005).

Since 2006, she is Karl Schädler Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Plank Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, researching on the nature-culture-dichotomy.

During her residence at Solitude, Kronfeldner will review her dissertation, (for which she received the second prize of the Andrea von Braun-Preis for interdisciplinary work in 2005), into a book-manuscript and will organize a reading circle on the concept of creativity.