Beth Linklater

Beth Linklater is Lecturer in German at the University of Wales Swansea. She is the author of "'Und immer zugelloser wird die Lust: ' Constructions of Sexuality in East German Literatures" (1998), and co-editor (with Mererid Puw Davies and Gisela Shaw) of "Autobiography by Women in German" (2000). Birgit Dahlke is Assistant Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. Her study "Papierboot. Autorinnen aus der DDR - inoffiziell publiziert" appeared in 1997. She is co-editor of "LiteraturGesellschaft DDR. Kanonkampfe und ihre Geschichte(n)" (2000) and of "Zersammelt. Die inoffizielle Literaturszene der DDR nach 1990" (2001). ""