{"id":98021,"date":"2026-06-22T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/?post_type=authors&#038;p=98021"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:14:50","slug":"frauke-brosius-gersdorf","status":"publish","type":"authors","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/","title":{"rendered":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf is a legal scholar and holds the Chair of Public Law at the University of Potsdam, where her research focuses on constitutional law, social law, and education law. In 2025, she withdrew her SPD-backed candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court after failing to secure sufficient support within the CDU and CSU parliamentary groups. Her case sparked an intense debate in Germany about political campaigns, the independence of the judiciary and academia, and the state of public discourse, which she writes about in her book \u00abWahl und Wahrheit\u00bb (tr. \u00abChoice and Truth\u00bb). Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf lives in Potsdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last update: 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":98017,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[495],"jct-ilb-years":[1025],"class_list":["post-98021","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-germany","jct-ilb-years-2026-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf is a legal scholar and holds the Chair of Public Law at the University of Potsdam, where her research focuses on constitutional law, social law, and education law. In 2025, she withdrew her SPD-backed candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court after failing to secure sufficient support within the CDU and CSU parliamentary groups. [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalesliteraturfestivalberlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-21T09:14:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ilb_\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"KJL\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0d188376b7f78e4dd7c392d35c536b8c\"},\"headline\":\"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-22T15:08:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-21T09:14:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":101,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/\",\"name\":\"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf &#8211; international literature festival berlin\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-22T15:08:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-07-21T09:14:50+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1441,\"caption\":\"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf \u00a9 Marcus H\u00f6hn\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/authors\\\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"international literature festival berlin\",\"description\":\"Jetzt Tickets sichern 03\u201312 Sep 2026 Programm 06\u201316 Sep 2026 Junges Programm\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"internationales literaturfestival berlin\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/ilblogo.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/ilblogo.svg\",\"width\":227,\"height\":80,\"caption\":\"internationales literaturfestival berlin\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/internationalesliteraturfestivalberlin\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/ilb_\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/ilb_literaturfestival\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/festivalberlin\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/literaturfestival.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0d188376b7f78e4dd7c392d35c536b8c\",\"name\":\"KJL\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8977e7ea7514e4576084df70604d70ee321377ec882ef67ed44797f489efd1b0?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8977e7ea7514e4576084df70604d70ee321377ec882ef67ed44797f489efd1b0?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8977e7ea7514e4576084df70604d70ee321377ec882ef67ed44797f489efd1b0?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"KJL\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf &#8211; international literature festival berlin","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf &#8211; international literature festival berlin","og_description":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf is a legal scholar and holds the Chair of Public Law at the University of Potsdam, where her research focuses on constitutional law, social law, and education law. In 2025, she withdrew her SPD-backed candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court after failing to secure sufficient support within the CDU and CSU parliamentary groups. [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/","og_site_name":"international literature festival berlin","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalesliteraturfestivalberlin","article_modified_time":"2026-07-21T09:14:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@ilb_","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/"},"author":{"name":"KJL","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/0d188376b7f78e4dd7c392d35c536b8c"},"headline":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf","datePublished":"2026-06-22T15:08:31+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-21T09:14:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/"},"wordCount":101,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/","url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/","name":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf &#8211; international literature festival berlin","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg","datePublished":"2026-06-22T15:08:31+00:00","dateModified":"2026-07-21T09:14:50+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frauke-Brosius-Gersdorf-\u00a9-Marcus-Hoehn.jpg","width":2560,"height":1441,"caption":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf \u00a9 Marcus H\u00f6hn"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/authors\/frauke-brosius-gersdorf\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/","name":"international literature festival berlin","description":"Jetzt Tickets sichern 03\u201312 Sep 2026 Programm 06\u201316 Sep 2026 Junges Programm","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#organization","name":"internationales literaturfestival berlin","url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilblogo.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilblogo.svg","width":227,"height":80,"caption":"internationales literaturfestival berlin"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/internationalesliteraturfestivalberlin","https:\/\/x.com\/ilb_","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ilb_literaturfestival\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/festivalberlin"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/0d188376b7f78e4dd7c392d35c536b8c","name":"KJL","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8977e7ea7514e4576084df70604d70ee321377ec882ef67ed44797f489efd1b0?s=96&d=retro&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8977e7ea7514e4576084df70604d70ee321377ec882ef67ed44797f489efd1b0?s=96&d=retro&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8977e7ea7514e4576084df70604d70ee321377ec882ef67ed44797f489efd1b0?s=96&d=retro&r=g","caption":"KJL"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/98021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/authors"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/98021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100423,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/98021\/revisions\/100423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jct-role","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jct-role?post=98021"},{"taxonomy":"jct-origin","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jct-origin?post=98021"},{"taxonomy":"jct-ilb-years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jct-ilb-years?post=98021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}