Notes on Contributors
Rony Alfandary
PhD, Clinical Social Worker and Photographer. Private practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Lectures at Bar-Ilan University and the University of Haifa, Israel. Recent publications include: Exile and Return – a Psychoanalytic Study of Lawrence Durrell’s “The Alexandria Quartet”.
Gerrit-Jan Berendse
Emeritus Professor of Modern European Culture and Literature at Cardiff University. PhD Utrecht (1990). His publications include Die „Sächsische Dichterschule“ (1990), Grenz-Fallstudien (1999), Terror and Text (2002), Baader-Meinhof Returns (2008) and Vom Aushalten der Extreme (2011). Lives in Berlin.
Albrecht Dümling
DPhil, is a Berlin-based musicologist and critic. His exhibition “Banned by the Nazis: Entartete Musik” has travelled world-wide since 1988. As president of the society Musica reanimata he focuses on the rediscovery of composers persecuted by the Nazis. His publications include The Vanished Musicians. Jewish Refugees in Australia (2016).
Patrick Farges
Agrégation (1998), DPhil (2006), Habilitation in German Studies (2016), is Professor of German & Gender History at the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies, University of Paris (Diderot). He has published extensively on the culture and history of the refugees from Nazism in Canada and Mandatory Palestine, including Bindestrich-Identitäten? Sudetendeutsche Sozialdemokraten und deutsche Juden als Exilanten in Kanada ([2008] 2015).
Anthony Grenville
DPhil (1976), is Chair of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, University of London. He has published widely on the culture and history of the Jewish refugees from Nazism in Britain, including Encounters with Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees from Nazism (2018).
Brigitte Mayr
DPhil (1993), is managing director and head of research of SYNEMA – Society for Film & Media (Vienna). (Co-)conception of numerous symposia and film events. Area of research: Film historiography, Gender Studies, filmmakers and authors in exile. She has published on Wolf Suschitzky, Carl Mayer, Fritz Rosenfeld, Marcel Ophüls, and Anna Gmeyner.
Michael Omasta
is the film editor of the Viennese weekly Falter, and board member of SYNEMA – Society for Film & Media. He has conducted numerous research projects on filmmakers in exile and (co-)edited books on Josef von Sternberg, Amos Vogel, Alexander Hammid, Carl Mayer, Charles Korvin, Wolf Suschitzky, Paul Czinner, and Peter Lorre, among others.
Jyoti Sabharwal
MA, MPhil, PhD in German Studies, is Senior Lecturer in German at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi. She has published extensively on German-speaking exiles in India and comparative city fictions. Her publications also include translations of fiction and non-fiction from German into English and Hindi. In 2013 she published Willy Haas: Die Begegnung mit Indien als Exilort.
Sarah Schwab
MA, is a PhD student at Konstanz University, affiliated to the chair of contemporary history. Her PhD project explores the history of the German minority in South Africa from 1918 to 1961. As a cultural historian, her focus lies on processes of identity construction in a transnational and multiethnic context.
Ursula Seeber
DPhil (1983), was Director of the Austrian Archives for Exile Studies at the Literaturhaus Wien 1993–2016. Responsible for numerous exhibitions and publications on Austrian emigration and exile, including Kometen des Geldes. Exil und Ökonomie (2015), Küche der Erinnerung. Essen & Exil (2018).
Swen Steinberg
DPhil (2013), is Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of History at Queen’s University, Kingston/Ontario, and an Affiliated Scholar of the German Historical Institute, Washington/DC with its Pacific Regional Office at University of California Berkeley. Recent publications: “Knowledge and Migration”, Special Issue of Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 43, 3 (2017), edited with Simone Lässig; „Karl Herschowitz kehrt heim.“ Der Schriftsteller-Journalist Edgar Hahnewald zwischen sächsischer Identität und der Heimat im Exil. Mit einer kritischen Edition (2016).
Andrea Strutz
is head of the programme line “Migration” at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on Consequences of War (BIK), Lecturer at the University of Graz, with a post-doctoral Habilitation in Contemporary History. She has published widely on the role of memory for Austrian Jewish refugees and their families, on measures for victims of Nazism and on migrations to and exile in Canada.
Monica Tempian
DPhil (2002), is Senior Lecturer in German at Victoria University, Wellington. She has published extensively on topics related to children and youth during the Holocaust and on Jewish-German poetry from the Bukovina, including Manfred Winkler. Haschen nach Wind. Die Gedichte (2017), and The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime: Migration, the Holocaust, and Postwar Displacement (co-edited with Simone Gigliotti, 2016).
Jutta Vinzent
DPhil (1996), PhD (2004), is Senior Lecturer for Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, University of Birmingham. She has published widely on aesthetic concepts of space and the visual cultures of exile and migration, including most recently with Sebastian Dorsch, SpatioTemporalities on the Line (2017).
Paul Weindling
is Wellcome Trust Research Professor in the history of medicine at Oxford Brookes University. He has published widely on medical refugees from Nazism and on Nazi medical practice, including Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments (2014).
Veronika Zwerger
MMag. Phil. (2009), is director of the Austrian Archives for Exile Studies at the Literaturhaus Wien. She has published widely on Austrian emigration and exile, mainly based on the holdings of the Austrian Archives for Exile Studies, including Neue Fragen an alte Objekte (2018), Küche der Erinnerung. Essen & Exil (2018).