Sigurd Paul Scheichl

Sigurd Paul Scheichl, born in Innsbruck in 1942, grew up in Kufstein. He studied German and English at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna and as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Kansas. From 1967 to 1971, he taught German at the University of Bordeaux; he then joined the Department of German Studies at the University of Innsbruck, where he became Professor of Austrian Literary History and General Literary Studies in 1992. After guest lectureships in Graz and Dakar, among other places, he retired in 2010. His research focused on Austrian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Karl Kraus, Canetti, Grillparzer and Nestroy, as well as literature and antisemitism. He edited a volume of the historical-critical Nestroy edition and co-edited the works of Norbert C. Kaser.