Wolfram Setz (7 July 1941 – 14 August 2023) was a German historian, editor, translator, and essayist.

Life and career

Born in Stralsund, Setz studied at the University of Cologne and the University of Tübingen, completing his Ph.D. in 1975 with a dissertation on Lorenzo Valla's exposure of the Donation of Constantine as a hoax. Setz was subsequently employed as an editor at Monumenta Germaniae Historica in Munich. Following retirement in 2004, he relocated to Hamburg. Setz was editor of the Bibliothek rosa Winkel, a series of 80 volumes of gay literary reprints, cultural studies, and historical works that was launched in 1991, published initially by Verlag rosa Winkel and after 2001 by Männerschwarm Verlag. Several of Setz's publications contributed to the rediscovery of the LGBT rights pioneer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895). Setz was editor of the book series Homosexualität und Literatur published by Verlag rosa Winkel (12 volumes, 1981–1999) and a co-editor of the scholarly journal Forum Homosexualität und Literatur (1987–2007). In 1986 he was a founding member of the German LGBT organization Bundesverband Homosexualität and served for several years as a board member until the organization was dissolved in 1997. In 2021 Deutschlandfunk broadcast an interview with the editor. Wolfram Setz died on 14 August 2023 after a long illness, at the age of 82.

Publications

In German

Setz's works were published Verlag rosa winkel in Berlin, from 2001 Männerschwarm in Hamburg, from 2019 in Berlin.

In English