Public demand for comedy has always been high in the German-speaking countries, but the number of comic dramas that have survived is relatively small. Those whi

The emancipation of Jews that commenced in Germany in the early 19th century pushed many Jews into urban commerce, industries, and intellectual professions. The

The call by German Early Romantic writers for a new mythology is one of the boldest and most unusual demands by any literary theorist. This study asks how an ag

The German Revolution of 1848-49 offered a significant literary opportunity for all those interested in politics in general and the progress of women in society

Stefan Heym's very beginnings as a writer were a direct response to the threat of Fascism and the mass veneration of Hitler, and in his American exile he was to