Born in Hamburg in 1954, Andreas F. Kelletat studied Eastern European history, German language and literature, Scandinavian studies in Cologne. Dr. phil. (PhD) 1982 at Cologne University.

From 1984 to 1993 he was staff member (“Lektor” and professor) at the Institute for German Language and Literature at the University of Vaasa (Finland). 1993-2020 Prof. for Intercultural German Studies at the University of Mainz/Germersheim.
Editorial board of and contributions to the annual Trajekt, 1980-1986 edited by Manfred Peter Hein. Initiator and co-editor of the Germersheim Translator's Lexicon (uelex.de).

Main areas of research: Translation studies, German literature and culture in an international context, literature in exile and migrant literature, literary relations between Germany and North-Eastern Europe, analysis of hermetic poetry.

Prose works: Molscher Pfirsich. Erzählungen (2010); Von IHM zu ihm. Eine Jugend in Königsberg (2011); Warschauer Herbst. Eine Liebesgeschichte (2016); Kevin lernt Dolmetschen (2010, 2011, 2014, 2016); Der Held von Rethymnon (2017); Am Landgraben (2018); Gutkinds frühe Jahre (2020).