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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: Political history of the GDR; The PDS; Sorbian history, institutions and literature; Minorities in Germany

Monographien: The East German Novel and its Critical Reception in the German Democratic Republic between 1963 and 1973 (1981).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: Interview with Jurij Koch (GDRMon, 1989). The Sorbian Minority in the GDR before and after the 'Wende' (GDRMon, 1991). Einige Schwierigkeiten bei der Auswertung der Nationalitätenpolitik in der DDR (Letopis, 1992). Some Reflections on the reception of Sorbian Literature in German after 1945, in Perspektiven sorbischer Literatur (ed. W. Koschmal) (1993). 'Die Neue deutsche Literatur der slawischen Sorben': On the development of a Sorbian Literature in German (GLL, 1994). Wends, Serbs or Sorbs? The British Foreign Office and the Sorbs of Lusatia (1942-47) (GLL, 1995). Edgar Bauer, Refugee Journalist and Police Informer, in Asylanten und andere Deutsche in Fontanes London (ed. P. Alter et al.) (1996). The Birth of Official Policy towards the Sorbian Minority in the Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany (1945-48) (GH, 1996). 'Die Schmerzen der endenden Art'. Ecological Themes in the works of Sorbian writers from the 1970s to the 1990s, in Literatur und Ökologie (ed. A. Goodbody) (1997*). The Development of the Sorbian Media in Germany (Mercator Media Forum, 1997*). Images of Dominance and Submission in German-Sorbian Cultural Relations, in Interkulturelles Verstehen: Sichtweisen des Anderen (ed. W. Busse) (1997*).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: MA (Cantab), PhD (Bath), PGCE (Reading)