Andreas Martin Widmann

Andreas Martin Widmann received a PhD in Modern German Literature from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. He has taught in the German Departments of Royal Holloway College and University College London, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a faculty member of the summer school program of Middlebury College, VT. His research interests include historical fiction, literature and ecology, literature of exile and creative writing. He is the author of one academic monograph (Kontrafaktische Geschichtsdarstellung, 2009), as well as of various articles and essays on 20th century literature, film and popular culture in journals and edited volumes, and the editor of the first academic study on the life and work of Hans Keilson. He has written two novels (Die Glücksparade, 2012 and Messias, 2018) and is currently working on a third one.


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Dr. Andreas Martin Widmann
German Studies
Email: m.widmann[at]berlin.bard.edu