Sybille Krämer

Sybille Krämer (born 1951) is a German philosopher. She held the position of professor at Freie University Berlin from 1989 until 2018. Since March 2019, Krämer serves as a senior professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Career Krämer studied philosophy, history, and political science at the University of Hamburg and the Philipps University of Marburg. In 1980, she completed her Ph.D. with a dissertation on the socialization of nature and the nature of society. She obtained her habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in 1988. From 1989 to 2018, she held the professorship in theoretical philosophy at the philosophical institute of Freie Universität Berlin from 1989 to 2018.

Since 2019, she is a guest researcher at the Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Research areas Krämer's research focuses on the 17th-century rationalism, philosophy of language and writing, testimony and witnessing, as well as media and cultural techniques and digitality and history of computation. Her concept of the genesis of operative symbol use has been applied in the historiography of structural mechanics.

Honors In 2016, Krämer was awarded an honorary doctorate from Linköping University. Testimony Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture. Editors: Sybille Krämer & Sigrid Weigel. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017 Thinking with Diagrams: The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition. Editors: Sybille Krämer & Christina Ljungberg. Boston/ Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Mouton series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition Vol 17), 2016