Dirk Niefanger

Dirk Niefanger received his PhD from the University of Tübingen and his habilitation qualification from University of Goettingen with his thesis »Historical Drama in the Early Modern Age 1495–1773«. Following research and teaching posts in Berlin and Brunswick, he took up the Chair in Literary Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2003. His main fields of research are early modern culture and the literature of Viennese modern age. Among his recent publications are an introduction in the literature of »Barock« (2012) and an edition of Grimmelshausen's »Simplicissimus« (2017).