Max Walther studied literature and history in Erfurt and in Lille. During his master, he was affiliated as a research assistant at the IKKM, Weimar.
Currently he is writing his dissertation – with the title: Körper-zu-sein. Eine Verortung. Er- und Zer-Schreiben bei Simone Weil, Chris Kraus, Kathy Acker und Annie Ernaux – as a member of there search training group Medienathropologieat Bauhaus-University Weimar.
Besides regular teaching assignments at the University Erfurt, Bauhaus-University Weimar and Leuphana University Lüneburg, he is founding member of the interdisciplinary research group trans|disziplin Simone Weil denkkollektiv and the independent book shop project ORINOCO books Leipzig, where he organizes readings and talks on (feminist) literature and theory.
Together with Martina Bengert and Jörg Dünne he lately edited the volume Zukunft, gefaltet. Choreographien des Als-Ob.