Höllerer, Walter (Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Upper Palatinate, 1922- ), taught at Frankfurt University before being appointed to the chair for Germanistik at the Technische Universität, Berlin (1959-92). From 1954 to 1967 editor of Akzente, and since 1961 editor (with N. Miller) of Sprache im technischen Zeitalter, he directed the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin from 1963 to 1983 Autoren im Haus. Zwanzig Jahre Lite-rarisches Colloquium was published in 1982. The author of a novel (Die Elefantenuhr, 1973) and of a comedy (Alle Vögel alle, 1978), but mainly an exponent of experimental lyric poetry, he published his own collection, Gedichte 1942-82, in 1982. Well-known for his promotion of young authors, he edited Transit. Lyrikbuch der Jahrhundertmitte (1956) and Spiele in einem Akt. 35 exemplarische Stücke (1961) as well as other publications. It was his initiative and contact with his native city that led to the foundation of the Literaturarchiv Sulzbach-Rosenberg for modern literature in 1977.