About the Author

Dr. Reinhard Zachau is Professor of German and Film Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (USA). He is the author of a number of books, among them a volume on Stefan Heyman's work, introductions to German film and to Berlin's culture, along with studies on Wolfgang Koeppen, Hans Fallada and Heinrich Ball. Prof. Dr. Carsten Gansel teaches modern German literature and literature and media didactics at the University of Giessen. He is also the chairman of the jury for the awarding of the Uwe Johnson Literature Prize and the Uwe Johnson Funding Prize and a member of the P.E.N. Center for Germany. In 2012 he was nominated for the Diefenbaker Award (Canada). Dr. Hermann Korte is a professor in the Faculty of Language, Literature and Media Studies at the University of Siegen.