born 1959, lives near Salzburg where he studied German and English literature and has lectured since 1984. In 2012 he became head of the Salzburg Literature Archive and co-director of Rauris Literary Festival. He is the author of several books and essays on Thomas Bernhard, has curated an exhibition on him, and is a member of the editorial team for Suhrkamp’s twenty-two-volume edition of Bernhard’s complete works. From 2005 to 2012 he was employed at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography where he researched Bernhard’s biography.