About the Authors

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Ann Taylor Allen, PhD in History from Columbia University, is now Professor of History at the University of Louisville, where she directed the Women's Studies Program. She is the author of Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany and Feminism and Motherhood in Germany: 18001914 . She has published articles on the history of German feminist movements and on the comparative history of feminism in Germany and the United States. She received the Article Prize of the Conference Group on Central European History in 1989. She served as Program Director of the German Studies Association Annual Convention in 1991 and now serves on the Executive Committee of the Association. She held a guest professorship at the University of Bielefeld in the summer of 1991. Kirsten Belgum is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Texas at Austin. She has published a book entitled Interior Meaning: Design ofthe Bourgeois Home in the Realist Novel and articles on topics such as women's work in the nineteenth century and feminist aesthetics. The essay in this volume is part of larger research project on the popular construction of a national identity in nineteenth-century Germany. This broader study will examine the various discourses of national identification and belonging that were popularized in mass-distributed texts. Jeanette Clausen is Associate Professor of German at Indiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne. She is coeditor of an anthology, German Feminism (1984), and has published articles on Helga Königsdorf, Christa Wolf, and other women writers. She has been coeditor of the WIG Yearbook since 1987. Friederike Eigler received her PhD in 1987 from Washington University, St. Louis, and is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. Her research interests include twentieth-century literature, feminist criticism, and the history and theory of autobiography. She has published a monograph on Elias Canetti and articles on Goethe, Ingeborg Bachmann, Brigitte Schwaiger, and Sarah Kirsch, among others. The article included in this volume is one of several projects that reflect her interest in recent developments in the former GDR. Women in German Yearbook 9 (1993) 260About the Authors Karin Eysel is a PhD candidate in German Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her interests include contemporary literature, women's writing, and drama. She is currently writing her dissertation on Ludwig Tieck's early plays. Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati, Raymond Walters College. Her publications include The Androgyne in Early German Romanticism (1983) and articles on German Romanticism and nineteenth- and twentieth-century German women writers, as well as a volume coedited with Barbara Becker-Cantarino honoring Helga Slessarev, The Enlightenment and its Legacy (1991). She has been coeditor of the Women in German Yearbook since 1990. Christi Griesshaber-Weninger is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University, St. Louis. Her fields of specialization include German and French literature. She is particularly interested in the interconnectedness of education, language, literature, and art and is presently focusing on the representation and construction of gender, body, and otherness. Dia Hügel, born in 1947, studied social work in Frankfurt a.M. She has been the media contact person for Orlanda Frauenverlag since 1990. She has a teaching appointment in Antiracist Education and Awareness at the Technical and Free Universities in Berlin and has published numerous articles on these topics. In addition she teaches self-defense and Tae Kwon Do, especially for Black women. Sara Lennox is Associate Professor of German and Director of the Social Thought and Political Economy Program at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst. She is editor oí Auf der Suche nach den Gärten unserer Mütter and coeditor of Nietzsche heute: Die Rezeption seines Werkes nach 1968. She has published articles on various twentieth-century German and Austrian authors, on women's writing in the FRG and GDR, and on feminist pedagogy, literary theory, and the feminist movement. She is currently writing a book on Ingeborg Bachmann. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz was born in West Germany. She studied in Göttingen and completed her PhD in German and her MA in English at the University of Cincinnati in 1974-75. She teaches at The Ohio State University, where she is...