Daniel Morat is an Adjunct Professor of Modern History at Freie Universität Berlin and currently works as a curator at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. He has received his Dr. phil. from Göttingen University in 2006 and his Habilitation from Freie Universität Berlin in 2017. From 2009 to 2017, he was a Dilthey Fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung with a research project on “Soundscapes of the Metropolis. Berlin 1880-1930”. During that time (2012-2016), he also directed the DFG research network “Auditory Knowledge in Transition” and co-directed (with Paul Nolte) the DFG research group “Metropole und Vergnügungskultur. Berlin im transnationalen Vergleich, 1880-1930”.
In 2016, he started to work as a curator for the City Museum of Berlin and has since then expanded his research interests into the fields of Public History and Museum Studies. In 2022, he was the Max Kade Visiting Professor in German Studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, before joining the curatorial team for the new core exhibition at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. He is the author of “Von der Tat zur Gelassenheit. Konservatives Denken bei Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger und Friedrich Georg Jünger 1920-1960” (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007) and (most recently) the co-author (with Christine Gunderman et al.) of “Key Terms of Public History” (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025).
For more information, please have a look at his Freie Universität website.