The Editors : Holger Briel teaches German Literature, Philosophy and Communication Studies at the University of Surrey, Guildford (UK). Prior teaching engagements included the University of Massachusetts, Indiana State University, New York University and the University of Rostock. He is the author of Adorno oder wo liegt das Ende der Moderne ? (1993) and has published widely on contemporary German culture, philosophy, fiction and media.
Andreas Kramer is Senior Lecturer in German in the Department of European Languages at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has research interests in modernism and the avant-garde, comparative literature, and Critical Theory. His previous publications include books on Carl Einstein and Gertrude Stein, and articles on modernist writers with an emphasis on Expressionism and Dada, and Adorno at Oxford (written with Evelyn Wilcock).