Michael Fisch holds the Walter Benjamin Chair of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural Studies (Walter Benjamin Chair) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since October 2018. 

He is a novelist and literary scholar and studied German philology and philosophy. He received his master's thesis at the Free University of Berlin in 1994, his dissertation five years later and in 2010 his habilitation writing was printed. From October 2008 to June 2011 he was DAAD lecturer in Tunis. During this time he wrote a book on the life and work of Michel Foucault. He is currently working on a text story on the work of Jacques Derrida, which is expected to be published in 2024. After a teaching and research stay at the Institute of Semitic and Arabic Studies at Free University of Berlin, he took up the position of a visiting professor in Cairo in October 2012. He worked there for six years with the DAAD at several universities. During this time, his catalog of German-language Qur’ân-editions titled "umm-al-kitâb" (2013) and his list of international Qur’ân-research appeared under the title "ulûm-al-qur'ân" (2018). Together with young scientists he compiles a text-scientific Qur’ân-commentary. In addition, he is editor of the book series about contributions to transcultural science and has published four volumes of poetry and four books of novels. Michael Fisch has been an elected member of the German Oriental Society (D.M.G.) since 2019 and of P.E.N.-Club Austria since 2022.