Heinrich von Kleist

Günter Blamberger, born 1951, is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Cologne, where he directs the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities as well as the International Festival for World Literature, Poetica. He has served as President of the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Society since 1996 and has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature since 2015. His Kleist biography was chosen by the jury of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association as the top nonfiction title in the humanities of 2011.