Detlef Goller is Academic Director at the Department for Medieval German Philology at the University of Bamberg and Student Advisor at the Centre for Medieval Studies (ZeMas). After finishing his exams for the teaching profession (German, History, and Social Sciences), he worked for 12 years at the University of Halle/Wittenberg. His articles have focused on the Courtly German Literature while his PhD thesis investigated the intertextual relations between the works of Gottfried von Straßburg and Hartman von Aue (Lang Verlag, 2005).