Alf Mentzer

Alf Mentzer, born in 1966 in Rendsburg, studied English, American Studies, Philosophy and History in Bonn, at Harvard and in Frankfurt am Main. From 2006, he worked as a literary editor for the radio station hr2-kultur and for the past two years he has been co-responsible for the arts and culture unit of the broadcaster Hessisches Rundfunk. His publications include “Die Blindheit der Texte. Studien zur literarischen Raumerfahrung” [“The Blindness of Texts: Studies on Spatial Awareness in Literature”] (2001) and a collaboration with Hans Sarkowicz entitled “Schriftsteller im Nationalsozialismus” [“Writers under National Socialism”] (2011).