Siegbert S. Prawer is Taylor Professor of German emeritus in Oxford University, Honorary Fellow and Dean of Degrees of Queen's College, Oxford, a member of the British Academy and the German Academy of Language and Literature, honorary member of the MLA of America, and the author of books on comparative literary studies, the cinema of terror and its literary roots, Karl Marx and world literature, Mörike, and Heine; he has also edited books on Romanticism, the Lied and modern poetry.