Orlando Grossegesse

Orlando Grossegesse studied Romance philology at the LMU in Munich from 1981 to 1986 with a focus on Hispanic and Lusitanian studies as well as communication sciences. Since 1990 he has worked at the Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), where he founded the German department. His teaching and research topics include the diverse relationships between German-speaking and Lusophone cultures and literatures in the 19th century and up to the present. Studies on literary translation play an important role (e.g. Ilse Losa, Albert Vigoleis Thelen, Curt Meyer-Clason), in the context of migration and the mediation of foreign-language literature to the public in German-speaking countries.