Essays on German Literature and the Holocaust

Wolfgang Mieder is University Distinguished Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he has taught for many years together with his colleague and friend David A. Scrase. He is an internationally recognized proverb scholar with honorary doctorate degrees from the universities of Athens and Bucharest. Among his most recent books are Proverbial Wisdom in Culture, Literature, and Politics and Proverbs and the American Worldview.

Tabula gratulatoria – Preface – Wilhelm Lehmann – Wilhelm Lehmann as Translator – "Leicht" and "Schwer" in the Poetry of Wilhelm Lehmann – Discussing "This and That" and Modern German Literature—The Correspondence of Jethro Bithell with Wilhelm Lehmann (1952–59) – Wilhelm Lehmann’s Michael Lippstock: A Reassessment of an Erstwhile "Poeta Pittore" and His Repudiated Work – Wilhelm Lehmann (4 May 1882–17 November 1968) – Point Counterpoint: Variations on the "Fest" Theme in – Johannes Bobrowski’s Levins Mühle –The Role and Relevance of the Movable Feast: The Fest Motif in Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen – Dimensions of Reality: West German Poetry of the Seventies –Correcting Emotion: The Poetry of Ludwig Greve within the Context of West German Trends – The Poetry of Johannes Bobrowski – "Wo gehörten sie hin?" The Berlin Autobiographies of Stephan Hermlin and Ludwig Greve – Literature of the Holocaust – Art and the Holocaust – The Holocaust Through Literature and Film – Fact, Fiction, Truth, Lies: The Rights of Imagination and the Rights of History in Four Holocaust Accounts – Building a Holocaust Studies Program for Both Town and Gown – Hermann Friedrich Gräbe: Rescue in Rovno – "To Leave or Not to Leave—That Was Just One of the Questions": Jewish Emigration from the Third Reich – List of Publications.