Alexander Harbord Mitscherlich was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Volker Rolf Berghahn is a historian of German and modern European history at Columbia University. His research interests have included the fin de siècle period in Europe, the origins of World War I, and German-American relations. He received a M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961 and a PhD, under supervision of Francis L. Carsten, from the University of London in 1964. Prior to teaching in the United States, Berghahn worked in the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1988, he accepted a position at Brown University, and moved to Columbia ten years later.
Paul Michael Lutzeler is a German-American scholar of German studies and comparative literature. He is the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Journal of Literary Theory is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by Walter de Gruyter since 2007. The journal is dedicated to research in literary theory. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and includes a broad variety of theories and methods. Publication languages are English and German. The journals is accompanied by a website, JLTonline offering selected articles from the journal as well as reviews, conference proceedings, and other information relevant to the field. The Journal was founded by Fotis Jannidis, Gerhard Lauer, and Simone Winko in 2007.
Felicitas Hoppe is a German writer. She received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2012.
Heinz Ludwig Arnold was a German literary journalist and publisher. He was also a leading advocate for contemporary literature.
Leonore Krenzlin studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin beginning in 1953. From 1970 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Central Institute of Literary History of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic. In 1978, she completed her Doctorate of Philosophy in German Studies with a dissertation on Hermann Kant and has become an expert on German literary figures. Her work on Kant was first published in 1980 and has since been republished three times. Among other literary figures, Krenzlin has written about Friedrich Griese, Willy Sachse and Ernst Wiechert, as well as the migration issues which occurred in 1945.
Markus Gasser is an Austrian literary scholar and author.
Miriam Rürup is a German historian and director of the Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Potsdam (Germany).
Luise F. Pusch is a German linguist. She is regarded as the co-founder of feminist linguistics in Germany, along with Senta Trömel-Plötz.
Sybille Steinbacher is a German historian. Since May 2017 she has been Professor of Holocaust Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Norbert Frei is a German historian. He holds the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Jena, Germany, and leads the Jena Center of 20th Century History. Frei's research work investigates how German society came to terms with Nazism and the Third Reich in the aftermath of World War II.
Notker Hammerstein was a German historian. His research interests were mainly in the field of University history and history of science as well as the history of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Karin Orth is a German historian, known for her research into the Nazi concentration camps.
Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf is a Senior Professor at the University of Münster, Germany. She was a Professor of German Literature at the University of Münster, and held a chair in German Literary History with special focus on Modernity and Contemporary Literature. Her fields of research include Autobiography/Autofiction, Literary Theory, Rhetoric, Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and the relation of Religion, Politics and Literature.
Deborah Judith Vietor-Engländer is a British literary scholar.
Klaus von See was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Hartmut Lehmann is a German historian of modern history who specializes in religious and social history. He is known for his research on Pietism, secularization, religion and nationalism, transatlantic studies and Martin Luther. He was the founding director of the German Historical Institute Washington DC and was a director of the Max Planck Institute for History. He is an emeritus honorary professor at Kiel University and the University of Göttingen.
Wilhelm Lehmann was a German writer distinguished for his significant contributions to literature and poetry. His artistic work is celebrated for its autobiographical elements, lyrical intensity, and deep connection with nature.
Heinrich Detering is a poet, writer, scholar and Professor in the fields of Literary Studies and Comparative literature Studies, mainly at the University of Göttingen. He was the president of the German Academy for Language and Literature from 2011 to 2017 and was awarded the german order of merit, the Pour le Mérite.
