Andreas Höfele

Andreas Höfele studied English, German, Theatre and Art History at Frankfurt and Munich, where he took his PhD in 1975. After his postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) at Würzburg (1984) he was associate professor of Theatre History at Munich 1985–1992, full professor of English at Heidelberg and from 2000–2016 Chair of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies at Munich. He is a member of the Bavarian and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and served as President of the German Shakespeare Society 2002–2011. His publications include No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt (OUP 2016) as well as six novels.