CONTRIBUTORS
Randall P. Donaldson (Ph.D., The Johns Hop-
kins University) is Assistant Professor of Ger-
man at Loyola College in Maryland. He has
done extensive work on Robert Reitzel, the
radical editor of the German-American period-
ical, Der arme Teufel. His book on Reitzel will
appear in early 1997.
Jurgen Eichhoff (Dr. phil., Marburg) is Profes-
sor of German Linguistics at the Pennsylvania
State University and director of Penn State's
German-American Research Institute. His
publications include the Wortatlas der deutschen
Umgangssprachen (Linguistic Atlas of Spoken
German, three volumes thus far). At present
he is working on the German section of the
Dictionary of American Family Names (to be pub-
lished by Oxford University Press), a Dictio-
nary of German Place Names in Pennsylvania, and
a Dictionary of German Loan Words in American
English.
Brigitte Voelkel Fessenden is an historical
preservation planner with the Commission for
Historical and Architectural Preservation of
the City of Baltimore. She has a Masters De-
gree in Community Planning and Historic
Preservation from the University of Maryland
and a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute. She
is currently president of the Maryland Chap-
ter of the American Goethe Society and is ac-
tive in a number of civic and professional asso-
ciations.
Gary L. Grassl was born in Omaha, Nebraska,
but grew up in Germany during World War II.
After receiving a bachelor of arts degree from
the Catholic University of America, he worked
for the Wall Street Journal. He was a writer-editor
with the U.S. Department of the Interior and
the U.S. Department of Education for more
than twenty-five years. He has published arti-
cles in the American-German Review, the Na-
tional Park Service's Trends in Parks and Recre-
ation, Review of the Society for the History of
Czechoslovak Jews, Bureau of National Affairs, The
American Rationalist, and Hadassah Magazine.
He is currently vice president of the German
Heritage Society of Greater Washington, D.C.
George Fenwick Jones (Ph.D., Columbia Uni-
versity) is Professor Emeritus of German and
Comparative Literature at the University of
Maryland, College Park. Before retirement he
specialized in Medieval German Literature;
since then he has devoted himself to the his-
tory of the Germans in the American colonies.
He was been awarded the Cross of Literature
and Science by the Republic of Austria and the
Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of
Germany.
Lieselotte E. Kurth (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins
University) is Professor Emerita at the Johns
Hopkins University. She taught at Hopkins for
more than twenty-five years and served as chair
of the Department of German for seven years.
She is the author of Die zweite Wirklichkeit, Stu-
dien zum Roman des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts and
Perspectives and Points of View: The Early Works of
Wieland. She has co-edited several collections
of letters, written chapters for Deutsche
Literatur.Fine Sozialgeschichte and Studies in Eu-
ropean Romanticism, and published numerous
articles on Grimmelshausen, Lessing, Wieland,
Goethe, Schiller, Kleist, Fontane, and Thomas
Mann, among them several which address the
reception of German literature in the United
States.
Michael J. Kurtz (Ph.D., Georgetown Univer-
sity) currently serves as the Assistant Archivist
for the Office of the National Archives. He
joined the National Archives in 1974 and has
worked in various archival and staff positions
in the office of the Federal Records Centers,
the Office of Management and Administra-
tion, and the Office of the National Archives.
He is also an adjunct professor at the Univer-
sity of Maryland's College of Library and Infor-
mation Science, where he teaches a course in
managing cultural institutions. Dr. Kurtz has
had several publications in the areas of archival
management, the American civil war and the
World War II.
William H. McClain (Ph.D., University of Wis-
consin) was Professor Emeritus of German at
the Johns Hopkins University. His long list of
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publications gives evidence of his abiding in-
terest in the German literature of the nine-
teenth century. His monograph on German Re-
alism, Between Real and Ideal: the Course of Otto
Ludwig's Development as a Narrative Writer is one
of the standards in the field.
Peter C. Merrill (Ph.D., Columbia University)
was born near Chicago but now lives in Boca
Raton, Florida. He is Associate Professor of
Languages and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic
University, where he teaches a course on Ger-
man immigrant culture in America. Dr. Mer-
rrill has published more than thirty articles
dealing with such topics as German-American
literature, German immigrant artists in the
United States, and the German-language stage
in America. His book German-American Artists
in Milwaukee: A Biographical Dictionary will be
published next year.
Susann Samples (Ph.D., Yale University) is As-
sociate Professor of Modern Languages at
Mount Saint Mary's College. Her research in-
terests include medieval German Arthurian ro-
mances, medieval German literature, and Afro-
Germans. In the last year she published an
article on "The Rape of Ginover in Heinrich
von dem Türlin's Diu Crône" in Arthurian
Romance and Gender, ed. Friedrich Wolfzettel
(Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995). Among
other forthcoming articles are two of particu-
lar interest to readers of the Report. "Afro-Ger-
mans in the Third Reich" and 'The Afro-Ger-
mans: The Invisible-Visible Germans."
Helen Perry Smith is a retired teacher of sec-
ondary school English now living at Edenwald
in Towson, Maryland. She has written books on
family history. Her B.A. is from Middlebury
College and her M.A. is from the University of
the State of New York at Albany.
Don Heinrich Tolzmann (Ph.D., University of
Cincinnati), Curator of the German-Ameri-
cana Collection and Director of the German-
American Studies Program at the University of
Cincinnati, serves as president of the Society
for German-American Studies and is also a
member of the planning committee of the
Auswanderermuseum in Bremerhaven. Most re-
cently, he has edited a multi-volume work, Ger-
man-Americans in the World Wars: A Documentary
History (Munchen: K. G. Saur, 1995-96). He
also edits a monographic series, "New German-
American Studies," published by Peter Lang
Publishing Company.
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