[5] After his application to university was rejected again, Wolf left the German Democratic Republic in July 1953 to live in West Germany.

Later he studied literature, sociology and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt,[6] with Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Höllerer and Max Horkheimer.

[2] Wolf soon published prose, poetry, reviews of literature, theatre and jazz as well as artistic collages in the student magazine Diskus.

[2] Wolf worked as contributing editor of literature for the Hessischer Rundfunk, a public radio station, for two years.

[1][6] Wolf's texts often begin in simple everyday-life situations, changing abruptly to the grotesque in a combination of comical and horrible aspects.

[13] The Schiller Memorial Prize's jury wrote in 2016: For the fragmented present in which we live, Ror Wolf has developed literary forms like no other that have nothing to do with the comforting obligations of conventional storytelling.