Norbert Christian Wolf

Norbert Christian Wolf was born in Innsbruck in 1970, spent his childhood there and his youth in Würzburg before studying German, history, and general and comparative literature in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. He has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Vienna since 2020; before that, he was Junior Professor at the FU Berlin from 2005-2009 and Professor at the University of Salzburg from 2009-2020. From 2014 to 2020, he was elected several times as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF); first as a deputy, then after two years as the main advisor for literature and linguistics. His research interests in the German- language and not least Austrian literature are diverse and range from the 18th to the 21st century (esp. Enlightenment, Classicism and Romanticism, Classical Modernism, contemporary literature). They relate in particular to questions of literary aesthetics, the sociology of literature, cultural history, and intermediality