Ulrich Engel

*1961; Prof. Dr. theol. habil.

Together with Dr. Thomas Eggensperger OP Spiritual Counselor of the Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD);

Studies of Catholic Theology at Münster, Bonn, Fribourg/Switzerland and Benediktbeuern universities; joined the Dominican Order in 1984; ordination of the priesthood in 1990.

Director of "Institut M.-Dominique Chenu – Espaces Berlin" (http://www.institut-chenu.eu);

Further activities: editor of the theological journal "Wort und Antwort" (http://www.wort-und-antwort.de); private lecturer at „Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Benediktbeuern“; guest lecturer at „Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Münster“ and at Potsdam University; board member of the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ordenshochschulen" (AGO) in German speaking countries (www.ordenshochschulen.de);

Publishes in the fields of theology of the Dominican Order, theological aesthetics, and the border areas of philosophy and theology.

Lives in Leipzig and Berlin.