Wolfgang Hörner, born in 1964 in Öhringen (Germany); studied in Würzburg, Heidelberg, and York, England.
1990-1998, Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt; 1998-2008, founded and managed Eichborn Berlin; from 2009, founded and managed Galiani Verlag Berlin.
Teaching appointments at Universität Heidelberg and Freie Universität Berlin. Articles and features in newspapers and radio. Author of prefaces and postscripts to books by Erasmus von Rotterdam, Johann Fischart, Gottlieb Mittelberger, Laurence Sterne, Johann Karl Wezel, Ferdinando Galiani, Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Graphic Canon, Jürgen Dahl, Ai Weiwei.
Director of Galiani Verlag, which has published books by Karen Duve, Peter Wawerzinek, Sven Regener, Frank Schulz, Jan Costin Wagner, Alain Claude Sulzer, Bruno Preisendörfer, Kat Menschik, Stefan Koldehoff, Ai Weiwei, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, among others.
Publisher of:
- Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Die Erde ist ein gewalttätiges Paradies. Reportagen, Essays, Interviews aus vierzig Jahren (The Earth is a Violent Paradise. Features, essays, interviews over forty years). Selected by and including an afterword by Wolfgang Hörner.
- Together with Jürgen Jonas: Dagegen! Der große Zitatenschatz des Abscheus, Widerwillens und Ekels (I Disagree! A Collection of Quotations on Disgust, Revulsion, and Reluctance).
- Together with Herbert Kapfer: Alles Lalula. Songs & Poeme (Everything Lalula. Songs & Poems). Original recordings, from Karl Valentin to the present (4 audio CDs).
- With Jean Paul: Bier, Bier, Bier, wie es auch kommen (Beer, beer, beer, however it comes). An annotated documentary.
- Ferdinando Galiani’s Nachrichten von Vesuv: Briefe, Blitze, Lästereien (News from Vesuvius. Letters, flashes, blasphemies). Selected, introduced, and with intertexts by Wolfgang Hörner.
- Johann Karl Wezel’s Robinson Krusoe (Jena edition; commentary by Wolfgang Hörner).
- Gottlieb Mittelberger's Reise in ein neues Leben (Journey to a New Life).
- Also a biographical supplement and afterword to the three volumes of the first German edition of Laurence Sterne's works.
