Norbert Miller

On various occasions - especially in the work on European Romanticism in Music (1999/ 2007) - he worked together with the musicologist Carl Dahlhaus. He is editor of the works of Goethe (Munich Edition), Jean Paul, Gérard de Nerval and Marie Luise Kaschnitz. Furthermore, he is co-editor of the critical edition of Nietzsches works.

Miller's research focuses on European literature, art and music of the 18th to 20th centuries. In particular, he has repeatedly researched the debates of European classicism between Winckelmann and Byron in numerous essays and books, whereby the aesthetics transfer processes between the arts are the focus of his representations. As an art scholar, he has been fascinated by the anti-classical tendencies in European art since the Enlightenment, and has shown them to be a source of inspiration with his books on Giovanni Battista Piranesi. (1978), Horace Walpole (1986) and William Beckford (2012) are dedicated to weighty monographs. At the centre of his research on music are the configurations of Romantic music, especially with regard to the history of Opera seria in the 19th century.

From 1973 Miller held a full professorship for Comparative Literature Studies at the TU Berlin. He was managing director of the institute there until 2004.

Born in Munich, Miller grew up in Berlin, Vienna and Munich and studied literature, musicology and art history in Frankfurt and Berlin. Around 1958 he came into contact with Walter Höllerer in Frankfurt, who became his teacher and friend. From 1962 to 1965 Miller was Höllerer's assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Later he joined Hans Mayer as his assistant.

Norbert Miller (born 14 May 1937) is a German scholar of literature and art. He was professor of literary studies at the Technische Universität Berlin from 1973 and retired in 2006.