After studying German and English language and literature in Heidelberg and Warwick (UK), Tim Lörke joined the Faust Archive and Faust Museum in Knittlingen as a doctoral researcher. He completed his doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis on the Faust myth and competing political cultural concepts in Thomas Mann, Ferruccio Busoni, Hans Pfitzner and Hanns Eisler. This was followed by assistantships in Heidelberg and at Freie Universität Berlin and joint research projects with the German Literature Archive Marbach a.N. and the Berlin State Library. During his time as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the FU Berlin, he was invited to the University of Notre Dame (USA) as a Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor. From 2018 to 2021, he was a research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre Affective Societies at the FU Berlin.