Helmut Peitsch has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Potsdam since 2001. He has previously held positions at the Universities of Cardiff, Swansea, Leeds and New York. His research interests include post-war German writing which is a subject on which he has written extensively. His publications include: Berlin seit dem Kriegsende (1989), “Deutschlands Gedächtnis an seine dunkelste Zeit”. Zur Funktion der Autobiographik in den Westzonen Deutschlands und den Westsektoren von Berlin 1945-1949 (1990), “No Politics”? Die Geschichte des deutschen PEN-Zentrums in London 1933-2002 (2006), Nachkriegsliteratur 1945-1989 (with Helen Thein, 2009) and Walter Boehlich: Die Antwort ist das Unglück der Frage. Ausgewählte Schriften (2011).