Abstract: A method for operating a wind turbine having a nacelle disposed in a rotatable manner on a tower and a rotor having three rotor blades, which can be brought into a standstill position after a stoppage command, and in which at least two of the three rotor blades can be pitched about a rotor-blade longitudinal axis, which includes rotating the nacelle into an azimuth position transverse to a wind direction to attain the standstill position, bringing/holding a rotor blade into a range of an operating position that corresponds substantially to a blade pitch angle in a partial-load range below a full-load range of the wind turbine and bringing/holding each of the other two rotor blades into a range of a feathered position, wherein the rotor, after attainment of the standstill position, is stabilized by incident wind flowing transversely in relation to a direction of a rotor axis.