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Holger Noltze, born in 1960 in Essen, studied German, Spanish, and History in Bochum and Madrid and received his doctorate for a thesis on Wolfram von Eschenbach's novel "Parzival".

From 1990 onwards, he has been working for German radio broadcaster WDR-Hörfunk as a journalist and hosted the programs "Budengasse", "Mosaik", "Gutenbergs Welt", and "Musikpassagen" and also, from 1995, the late night talk "Letzte Worte". From 1997 onwards, Holger Noltze hosted the series "NachtKultur" on WDR's TV channel and is hosting the cultural program "WestArt am Sonntag" since 2001. In August 2000, Deutschlandfunk appointed him as Departmental Director for Culture.

Holger Noltze is a regular lecturer at the University of Essen where he teaches Mediation of Literature and Media Practice and became Professor for Music and Media/Music Journalism at the University of Dortmund. He writes reviews and reports for "Literaturen", "FonoForum", Frankfurter Rundschau, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and has been reporting from the Bayreuth Festival since 1995.