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Contributors 

ANKE FINGER is a doclOral candidate in t he CompJf<luve Literature 
Depa rt ment at Brandeis University, whe re she IS compicllllg resc.1rch 
for a dissenalion on the changing concept of Ges.lT1UkU1JSl'll.'e,-k in 
German and American t heater :md the avant-garde. She received her 
undergraduate education in Americ.Ul and GermJIl iilCr,ltUre .Inti in 
history at t he University of Konstanz., Germany. Other scholJ.r1y in­
lereStS include theories of literary hiStory, feminist critici~m, and lhe 
cultural interpby bel ween the Baroque and l'OSlnlodernism. 

C. ... n-IERI NE M ARSI-IALL, a graduate of Kenyon College. earned her 
Master's from the University of Cincinnall with a thesis on Peter 
Altenberg. She is currently a doclOrai candidate at Cincinn,ni, where 
her dissel1alion examining the mytbologica l dramas of lise Langner 
nea rs completion. She plans to continue her work 011 Langner. 

GREG REDOING earned his AB at Wabash College and his l\ IA in Ger­
man at the Universit y of Cincinnati, where he is currently ABO. His 
dissertat ion is on formal and sty listic development in the prose of 
Glimer Kunen. 

AM .... N D A RITCHI E wi ll com plete a Master's Degree LfI Ge rmJ.11 Studies 
at the University o f Arizona in the spring of 1995. Her emphasis is in 
eigilleemh-cemury German culture and literature. 

D AGMAR SCIIULZ studies G~nrlarllSllk at the Universitlit H.unburg. 
She is writi ng her thesis on Brlgiu e Kronauer for a MagISter to comple­
ment Ihe Master's Degree in German li terature she earneJ at the Uni­
vers it y of Cincinnati in 1993. While 3l C incinnati, she WJ.S:1 driving 
force in the creation of Foms on Literalltr. 



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