Editors and Contributors

Gordon Burgess ([email protected]) is Professor of German at the University of Aberdeen, and has published extensively on aspects of German literature from the Baroque to the present day. He was a founder member of the Internationale Wolfgang-Borchert-Gesellschaft in 1988, and was subsequently President and Vice-President of the Society. His most recent publications on Borchert include a volume of his letters and poetry, Allein mit meinem Schatten und dem Mond (1996), the wide-ranging study The Life and Works of Wolfgang Borchert (2003), and the biography Wolfgang Borchert: Ich glaube an mein Glück (2007).

Barbara Burns ([email protected]) is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Glasgow. She has published books and articles on a number of nineteenth-century German writers including Theodor Storm, Detlev von Liliencron, Louise von François and Adolf Müllner, and also has an interest in Swiss Studies, in particular the work of Eveline Hasler on which she has recently been publishing. She is Germanic Editor of the MHRA journal The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies.

Rémy Charbon ([email protected]) studied in Zurich and Berlin and is currently Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Geneva. His research focuses particularly on Swiss-German literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, the literature of the GDR and relations between history and literature. Recent articles have dealt with eighteenth-century literature (‘Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 1700-1830’, 2007) and William Tell (‘Tells literarische Metamorphosen’, 2007).

Joy Charnley ([email protected]) has co-edited eight volumes of essays on Swiss literatures and history with Malcolm Pender and in 1996 they co-founded the Centre for Swiss Cultural Studies in Glasgow. She has written books and articles on French-speaking Swiss authors such as Yvette Z’Graggen, Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty, Anne Cuneo, Janine Massard and Amélie Plume. 266 Editors and Contributors

Dariusz Komorowski ([email protected]) completed his thesis on the Swiss writer Jürg Laederach in 2000. He has worked at the Institute for German-speaking Countries and Silesia since 2001 and became Head of the Division of Swiss-German Literature at Wroclaw University in 2005. He organised the international conference Raumgestaltung in der gegenwärtigen Deutschschweizer Literatur — Instituierung der fiktiven Bedeutungsräume in Wroclaw. His research interests include the culture and literature of German-speaking Switzerland and cultural theory.

Pedro Lenz ([email protected]) is best known for his poems Die Welt ist ein Taschentuch (2002) and, more recently, a hilarious fake guide to Swiss provincial literature, Das Kleine Lexikon der Provinzliteratur (2005). A brilliant performer of his work, Lenz spent six months in Glasgow in 2005 as the first Swiss writer to benefit from the new exchange with Berne. ‘Der Lottoschein’, the monologue presented here in Donal McLaughlin’s translation, was performed at various bilingual readings during that residency, including a session at the Goethe Institute in December 2005 chaired by Malcolm Pender.

Charles Linsmayer ([email protected]) is a Germanist, literary and theatre critic who has edited over 100 volumes on Swiss literature. His publications include Literaturszene Schweiz. 153 Kurzporträts von Rousseau bis Gertrud Leutenegger (1989); Schlaglichter. 200 weltliterarische Kürzestporträts (2006) and Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Ein Kapitel tragische Schweizer Literaturgeschichte (2008). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Basle in 2005, the German Language Prize in 2007 and the Oertli Prize in 2008.

Moray McGowan ([email protected]) taught in two German universities before becoming Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Lancaster. He moved to Hull and then Strathclyde, where he worked closely with Malcolm Pender between 1981 and 1989. He was Professor of German at the University of Sheffield from 1989-2000, then became Professor of German at Trinity College Dublin. He has published widely on modern and contemporary German literature and culture, and has particular interests at