Focus Fall 1995.tif 216 FoCl/S on Literatur world. Schenk cl~v:r.ly follows flli's decreasing ability to deal with ~he humdrum a~uvmes?f everyday life while simultaneously creat­ I~g an entrance mto. the mner. t ho_ughts and anxieties of her protago­ ~ISt. S~e does so by interspersing lim person with third person narra­ tive, dialogue, and interior monologue. .--1m Ende is an excep ti onal novel which covers unfamiliar terri­ tory as it rep resents the thoughts of an aging woman. 10 her writings on .gerontology, Schenk .has wre.srled with the question of aging theo­ retically. Am Ende provides a different path, an insider's path to un­ derstanding the aging process. Washington Universil)' In St. Louis Jane Soko/osky 217 Contributors CYNTIlIA ApPI. completed a BA and 11A in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Universi ty of Kansas. She is currentl y at the Uni­ versity of Peon sylvania where she is writing a dissertation on Heinricb Schirmbeck, a German author who has focussed on the relations of science and literallLre in the twentieth century. Her research imerests include science and literature in the eighteenth and twentieth centu­ ries as well as language pedagogy. STl.iI'AN Jux studied hiscory and German Literature at the Albert­ Ludw igs-Uni ve rsi tat Freiburg, Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne, and at the Pennsylvania State University. H e is currently studying at the Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel. !-lis major InterestS in Gaman Literature are Klopstock as well as nineteenth :lnd twentieth Cen· tury. His historical interests are fOCUSed on the French and German Revollilions and Nationalism as well as on [he Weimar Republic. GERIIARD R EICI! is a donoral candidate in the German Deparrment at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is working on a disserta­ tion aboU[ German exi le writers in New York Ci ty during World War fl . H e earned his MA in German Li terature at rhe University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He has a Magister In Philosophy from the Universitat Hamburg. 218 Announcements GP~>\DUATE STUDENT CONFERENCES March 22-23, 1996. The 1996/I1lerseClions?/conference, entitled franco· German Discourses: Licerary Exchanges from we Middle Ages w the twen· tieth Cenlury. For more information contact Tim Lyons {(2 15) 898· 7332 I dyonS@Sls.upenn.edu} or consult the Depanmem Home Page (hup:! Iccat .sas.upenn.edu/german) March 29-3 1, 1996. The Seventh Annual Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference at Yale. Abstracts should be sent nm later than January 8, 1996 to Mary Ballard Paddock, Departmem of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale Universi ty, P.O. Box 208210, New Haven, ConneclicU[ 06520-82 l0. Fax: (203)432-8l64. Oct ober 10-11, 1996. Focus on Lileratttr Graduate Student Confer­ ence at the University of Cinc innati . Topic: Literature since 1970. Abstracts should be sent no later than February 10, 1996 to Focus Conference Coordinator, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, T he University of Cincinnati, Cincinnat i, Ohio 4522 1- 0372. Participants will be notified by April 15, 1995 (o r http:// www.uc.edu/-fourmag/focus.htm. CONTEST The Guman-American Studies Program of lhe University of Cincin­ nati is sponsoring an annual competition for articles on any topic concerning German-Amer ican li teratu re. Each year the author of the best arricle will receive a prize of 5100, and the article will be published in the corresponding volume of Focus on Literatur. Articles should conform to regu lar submission guidelines. For further infor­ mation, contact the editors of Focus on Literatur, D epartment of Ger­ manic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincin­ nati OH 4522 1-0372. 219 CALL FOR REVIEWERS The purpose of the book review secliOl.l is to intr?ducc our read­ ership to primary works of literature published wlllllll I.he last three years. Our aim is not to pass critical judgn~ent on a part~c~ l ar work. Instecl.d we seek to discllss the work thematically and Styltstlully anti, when possible, to contexmalize the work wit~in th~ aut~lOr's oeuvre or its respective genre. We have the coopera~lOn ot. major German, Austrian, and Swiss publishers, and can prOVide review copl.es. Allhough we will gladl), consider unsolicited bo?k reView!., we prefer to operate from a pool of known reviewers. It you are Illler­ ested in reviewing books for FoClis on Life ralllJ', please send us the following information: Name and Address; Institlilion: Fie\d(s) of Expenise: . 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