Rafael Kasper

Rafael L. Kasper is a Brazilian researcher, lecturer, and writer whose life and work are defined by political geography and memory. Born in the "south of the south" (Porto Alegre, Brazil), his family history traces a migration arc from the borders of Bessarabia and the rural landscapes of Hunsrück, to South America. In 2017, he completed the circle, relocating to the "north of the north" to live and work in Berlin, where he has spent nearly a decade exploring how public spaces hold and process historical fissures.

Rafael holds a BA in Social Communication, a degree in Creative Writing, and a MA and PhD in Philosophy, with a focus on Political Philosophy and the Modern Philosophy of History (with emphasis on Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin), including a research tenure at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has taught Sociology at the Media University (Berlin) and Philosophy at UFRGS, acts as a pedagogical guide at the Jewish Museum Berlin, and is a member of the Verein Hannah-Arendt-Preis für politisches Denken.

As an essayist published in outlets such as Zero Hora and Amarello, his work merges concepts and lived experience, interweaving Hannah Arendt with modern alienation, Prussian history, Walter Benjamin, and punk rock, inviting listeners to read the polis as a philosophical material.