Klaus Amann

Born in 1949, Klaus Amann is an Austrian literary scholar. He studied German and English at the University of Vienna and was Professor of Modern German Literature, as well as Professor of the History and Theory of Literary Life, at the University of Klagenfurt until 2014. At the university, he founded and directed the Robert Musil Institute for Literary Research and the Carinthian Literary Archive. Amann has published numerous books and essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, contemporary literature, and the institutional history of Austria. He also co-edited the collected editions of the works of Robert Musil and Christine Lavant.