Marcel Beyer

Marcel Beyer (born 23 November 1965) is a German writer.

Marcel Beyer was born in Tailfingen, Württemberg, and grew up in Kiel and Neuss.

Since 1989, he published, with Karl Riha, the series Vergessene Autoren der Moderne (Forgotten Modernist Authors) at the University of Siegen.

He is a visiting professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee.

From early on, Beyer, strongly influenced by Friederike Mayröcker and the authors of the French nouveau roman, has been a writer of lyric poetry and novels, always taking an idiosyncratic view of German history, in particular the Third Reich era.