From scholarship recipient to benefactor: toward the end of his career, Gerhard Metzger returned to Mannheim and to his alma mater, where he has since become deeply engaged — through endowment contributions, scholarship funding, and a planned legacy gift. Speaking with FORUM, he looks back on a fulfilling professional life, shifting perspectives, and friendships that have endured for decades.
Max Liebermann, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso: many people have admired their paintings in museums. Mannheim Business School alumnus Manuel Ludorff, by contrast, has actually owned some of them. That is hardly surprising — he is an art dealer. Yet even for him, certain works are so compelling that he will drop everything to pursue them.
FORUM introduces new professors at the University of Mannheim. This time: Prof. Sarah Geber, Prof. Olga Stavrova, Prof. Marie-Luis Merten and Prof. Matthias Meier.
For decades, the University of Mannheim Library has been led by two female directors. But few people know that more than 100 years ago, the library was also headed by a woman: Lilly Lichtenthaeler, who oversaw the library in difficult times and later headed it again in the early postwar period. A brief profile.
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