Jeremy Adler was born in London and studied German and English at the University of London. In the 1970s he was part of the international experimental poetry scene before pursuing an academic career. He taught at Westfield College (University of London), Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London), and was professor of German at King’s College London. He has written books on Goethe, Kafka, and visual poetry and edited the complete works of August Stramm, the complete poetry of Franz Baermann Steiner, and Steiner’s collected essays. He has published widely on Goethe, Hölderlin, Novalis, and other German writers.