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Thomas Saine (1941- Hans Wagener (1940- 2013) was an 2013) was a prolific scholar internationally noted who published scholar of eighteenth- monographs and articles century German culture on topics ranging from the (history, philosophy, German Baroque all the literature, aesthetics), way to 20th-century particularly of the works writers such as Erich Maria Remarque, Erich of Karl Philipp Moritz, Georg Forster, and Kästner, Stefan Andres, FranK WedeKind, Goethe. He was one of the founders of the Gabriele Wohmann, Sarah Kirsch, Siegfried now well-established Goethe Society of North Lenz, Carl ZucKmeyer, Franz Werfel, Lion America and the founding editor of Feuchtwanger, and Robert Neumann. Indeed, the Goethe Yearbook, an important venue for interpreting literature in its historical and Eighteenth-Century Studies, which he edited political contexts was Hans's passion. He from 1982-1999. He began his career at Yale, taught at UCLA for over 40 years, and on his his undergraduate and graduate alma mater, website, he stated that he was passionate where he taught as assistant and associate about "the function of literature as an professor of German from 1969-1975. After expression and part of ongoing historical and two terms as Visiting Professor at the political debates.” Hans was PAMLA University of Cincinnati, Tom moved to UC President from 1990-91, served for many Irvine. Author of numerous booKs and articles years on the executive committee, and GERMAN and recipient of distinguished grants and presented papers at numerous PAMLA many accolades, he was a strong advocate for conferences. His unwavering dedication to STUDIES German Studies in the United States and an scholarship and German Studies is evident in accomplished practitioner of that discipline. his edition of Zweig’s novel Sternstunden der GRANT The license plates on his car and motorcycle Menschheit. Although he was unable to finish Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association read GOETHE-1 and GOETHE, respectively. the booK himself— his wife Gertraud This grant was established in honor of our distinguished We all miss his engaging presence and will published it posthumously — he continued to colleagues to assist young scholars of German Studies to always remember him. worK on it, even during the last weeKs of his travel to PAMLA conferences and present their work life. Hans will be remembered for his engaging conversations and his unbroKen spirit during his illness. For more information, visit our website www.pamla.org or contact Dr. Craig SvonKin Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Department of English Metropolitan State University, Campus Box 32 P. O. Box 173362 Denver, CO 80217-3362 [email protected] | 626-354-7526 ChecKs should be made payable to PAMLA-German Studies Grant For more information, visit our website www.pamla.org or contact Craig SvonKin etc. Denver, CO 80217-3362 [email protected] 626-354-7526 Gunter H. Hertling Wolfgang Nehring (1938- Jens Rieckmann (1944- (1930-2014) was 2013) studied German 2013) held teaching Professor Emeritus of literature, philosophy, and positions at the University Germanics and a prolific classics in Germany and of Virginia; at the scholar of 18th- and 19th- Austria at the universities University of Washington; Century German of Bonn, Tübingen, and and at the University of Literature. He grew up in Vienna. A prolific scholar, California, Irvine, where he Germany, where he he published on German also served as Chair of the received his secondary education. In 1948, he literature from the 18th century to the Department of German. During his life, Jens came to the United States. He earned his present, on writers such as Schiller, Kleist, wrote a number of brilliant booKs and Ph.D. at BerKeley with a doctoral dissertation TiecK, Eichendorff, E.T.A. Hoffmann, countless articles on Thomas Mann and on the worK of Ricarda Huch. Gunter then Grillparzer, Saar, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Viennese modernism. He also mentored joined the faculty of the Department of Keyserling, and Werfel. An expert in German several generations of students— Germanics at the University of Washington romanticism and modernism, he nevertheless undergraduates, graduate students, and where he taught, published, and served the was particularly passionate about Austrian “DoKtorKinder”—for whom his guidance was a department and university for nearly fifty literature and, specifically, the Jung Wien professional and personal cornerstone. Jens years before his full retirement in 2006. He movement and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. studied at the Universität Göttingen and then was a highly active member of the Pacific Wolfgang is the author of Die Tat bei tooK his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1975. His Ancient and Modern Language Association Hofmannsthal: Eine Untersuchung zu landmarK study on Thomas Mann’s and served as a member of its Executive Hofmannsthals großen Dramen (1966) and Zauberberg appeared in 1977. Turning his Committee and as Second Vice President, Spätromantiker: Eichendorff und E.T.A. attention thereafter to Viennese Modernism, Vice President, and President (1995-1996). Hoffmann (1998). Wolgang was a long-time Jens produced a number of important Gunter was a scholar of enormous range who and highly engaged PAMLA member. He was monographs and articles that transformed authored countless articles and several booKs PAMLA President from 2002 until 2003 and subsequent readings of the period. He on German, Austrian, and Swiss writers, served on the Executive Committee for many showed us that Jung Wien writers were not including Adalbert Stifter, Conrad Ferdinand years. He was a professor, mentor, and merely indulging in narcissistic solipsism, but Meyer, Theodor Fontane, Theodor Storm, colleague to many PAMLA members, and his that their worK was informed by the belief Franz Grillparzer, Gottfried Keller, Georg deep passion for literature was evident in his that literary form needed to become self- Büchner, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and lifelong commitment to scholarship and lively reflexive if it was to lay claim to a continued others. In 2008, he published the moving debates about all things literary. His students relevance in modernity. Jens was a long-time autobiography Hard Times: My Youth under will remember Wolfgang as an excellent member of PAMLA and introduced several National Socialism (and Beyond). Gunter will professor who shared his sharp analytical generations of graduate students to our be sorely missed by his colleagues and by the insights with all who engaged with him. In association. With Jens RiecKmann, the fields many generations of students he taught. testimonies and essays in the Festschrift of German and Austrian Studies have lost one collection Auf dem Weg in die Moderne: of their greats. And many of us have lost a Deutsche und österreichische Lituratur former dear friend, mentor, and colleague we will students have already shown how deeply they forever miss. miss Wolfgang in their professional and personal lives. .