Sybille C. Fritsch-Oppermann is a scholar of Religious Studies and Mission Studies and a retired Protestant minister.
She teaches at Technical University Clausthal. She is also a writer (lyrics and prose) and an independent scholar of intercultural philosophy, the encounter between religion and natural science, and Buddhist-Christian studies.
Previously, she taught at the University of Applied Sciences for Intercultural Theology (FIT) Hermannsburg and at the universities of Hamburg, Heidelberg, Göttingen, Geneva, the Wuppertal Church University, and Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge (MA).
From 1991 to 2005, she worked as a director of studies and director at various Protestant Academies in Germany and was one of the first to organize intercultural and interdisciplinary conferences and think tanks in Feminist Studies and Interreligious Studies.
As an author and editor, she has published many books (including poetry) in various languages, including Christliche Existenz im buddhistischen Kontext (2000); Kühler Kopf und weiches Herz — Frauen in den Religionen der Welt (2005); The Beauty of Emptiness (in Handbuch der Religionen, 2025); and Tertium Datur? Christian Buddhist Dialogue with Science (2025).
