Professor J.M. Ritchie is Chairman of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Aberdeen. He is also joint editor of German Life and Letters. His principal research interests are Expressionism, National Socialism and German exiles in Great Britain. His publications include: [edited with S. Bolbecher, K. Kaiser and D. McLaughlin] Zwischenwelt 4: Literatur und Kultur des Exils in Großbritannien (Vienna, 1995); German Exiles/British Perspectives (New York/Berne, 1997); German Literature under National Socialism (London/Totowa, N.J., 1983; Chinese edition, Shanghai, 2006).

Professor Charmian Brinson is Director of Language Studies in the Humanities Programme at Imperial College London. Her main areas of interest are political exile and women in exile. Publications: The Strange Case of Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm: A Study of German Political Exiles in London during the 1930s (Berne/London, 1997); ‘“In the exile of internment” or “Von Versuchen aus einer Not eine Tugend zu machen”: German-speaking women interned by the British during the Second World War’ in Politics and Culture in Twentieth Century Germany edited by W. Niven and J. Jordan (Rochester, N.Y., 2003); [edited with M. Bearman et al.] Wien-London, Hin und Retour: Das Austrian Centre in London, 1939 bis 1947 (Vienna, 2004); [edited with R. Dove] Stimme der Wahrheit? (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2003) on German-language broadcasting by the BBC.

Professor Richard Dove is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Greenwich. His research interests centre on Expressionism, German and Austrian exile in Britain and theatre in exile. Publications: He was a German. A Biography of Ernst Toller (London, 1990); [German edition] Ein Leben in Deutschland (Göttingen,1993); [edited with S.J. Lamb] German Writers and Politics 1918-39 (Basingstoke, 1992); Journey of No Return: Five German-speaking Literary Exiles in London 1933-45 (London, 2000); [German edition] Fremd ist die Stadt und leer… (Berlin, 2003); [edited with an introduction] Die Reise nach Deutschland von Karl Otten (New York/Berne, 2000); [with M. Bearman et al.] Wien-London, Hin und Retour: Das Austrian Centre in London 1939 bis 1947 (Vienna, 2004); [edited] Totally un-English? Britain’s Internment of Enemy Aliens in Two World Wars (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2005); ‘“Im Vertrauen auf Ihre Einfühlungsgabe …” Karl Otten, Heinz Schöffler und die Neuentdeckung des literarischen Expressionismus in Deutschland’ (Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft, 2006).

Dr Anthony Grenville is Honorary Treasurer of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. He is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol and co-editor of the monthly journal of the Association of Jewish Refugees. His main research interest is the history of the Jewish refugees from the German-speaking countries who came to Britain to escape Nazism. Publications include Continental Britons: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe (London, 2002); [edited with M. Malet] Changing Countries: The Experience of German-speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain, from 1933 to Today (London, 2002); [with M. Bearman et al.] Wien – London, Hin und Retour: Das Austrian Centre in London 1939 bis 1947 (Vienna, 2004); ‘The Legacy of Classical Humanism among the Jews from Germany and Austria after 1945’ (Publications of the English Goethe Society, 2005); Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain 1933-1970. Their Image in the 'AJR Information' (London/Portland, 2009).

Dr Andrea Hammel is Lecturer in German at Aberystwyth University. She is currently Co-Director of the AHRC Network 'Holocaust Writing and Translation' and the holder of a British Academy grant to facilitate research on the Kindertransport. She was recently involved in compiling an Online Database of British Archival Resources Relating to German-speaking Refugees, 1933-1950 (BARGE). Her research interests include exile literature, especially by women writers; German-Jewish women; autobiographies and memoirs. Selected Publications: [edited with Godela Weiss-Sussex] ‘Not an Essence but a Positioning’: German Jewish Women Writers, 1900-1938 (Munich/London, 2009); Everyday Life as Alternative Space in Exile Writing: The Work of Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied and Hermynia Zur Mühlen, (Berne/Oxford, 2008); [edited with W. Benz and C. Curio] Kindertransporte 1938/39 (special issue of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2004); [edited with W. Benz and C. Curio] Die Kindertransporte 1938/39. Rettung und Integration (Frankfurt/M., 2003); ‘The Destabilisation of Personal Histories: Rewriting and Translating Autobiographical Texts by German-Jewish Survivors’ (Comparative Critical Studies, 2004).

Dr Bea Lewkowicz is co-director of the programme of filmed interviews ‘Refugee Voices: The Association of Jewish Refugees Audio-Visual Testimony Archive’. She also co-directed the exhibition ‘Continental Britons: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe’ shown at the Jewish Museum, London, in 2002. Her research interests include oral history; trauma and memory; diasporas; nationalism and ethnicity; the Jews of Salonika; and German-Jewish refugees in Britain. Publications: The Jewish Community of Salonika: History, Memory, Identity (London, 2006); ‘“After the War We Were All Together”: Jewish Memories of Post-War Thessaloniki’ in After the War Was Over. Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960 edited by M. Mazower (Princeton, 2000); ‘“Greece is My Home, But…”: Ethnic Identity of Greek Jews in Thessaloniki’ (Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 1994); ‘Das Selbstverständnis junger Juden in Thessaloniki’ in Stadtmosaik Thessaloniki edited by W. Kokot (Bonn, 1990).

Dr Marian Malet (Correspondence Secretary) is former Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Service Language Centre, Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Her research interests include oral history, artists in exile and women in exile. Publications include ‘Ika Olden – “Eine Kameradin von Größe”’ (Exil, 1995); ‘Beyond Dachau: Irmgard Litten in England’ in “Keine Klage über England?” Deutsche Exilerfahrungen in Großbritannien 1933-45 edited by C. Brinson et al., (Munich/London, 1998); ‘Departure and Arrival’ in Changing Countries.The Experience and Achievement of German-speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain from 1933 to Today, edited by M. Malet and A. Grenville (London, 2002); [co-edited with S. Behr] Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-1945: Politics and Cultural Identity (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2004).

Dr Jutta Raab Hansen studied musicology at the Humboldt University, Berlin. After working in various areas, including as a music critic and editor in Berlin and Hamburg, she was a member of the project group ‘Music in Exile’ at Hamburg University. A scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation assisted her in completing her doctoral dissertation on German and Austrian Refugee Musicians from Nazi Germany in British Exile, 1933-1946, published by Bockel Verlag, Hamburg, in 1996. Since 2003 she has worked in London as a freelance musicologist, writing and lecturing mainly on refugee musicians from Germany and Austria. In 2005/06 she carried out research for ORT London on ‘Music in the Holocaust’. She is a member of the Jewish Musical Institute’s International Centre for Suppressed Music, based at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Dr Andrea Reiter is Senior Lecturer and Parkes Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her research interests include Holocaust and exile studies; twentieth-century Austrian literature; German-Jewish literature; and the relation between literature and music. Publications include 'Auf dass sie entsteigen der Dunkelheit’. Die literarische Bewältigung von KZ-Erfahrung (Vienna, 1995); [English translation] Narrating the Holocaust (London, 2000); [edited] Children of the Holocaust (London, 2005); and essays on Austrian authors such as Thomas Bernhard, Ilse Aichinger and Ruth Beckermann.

Dr Jennifer Taylor (Minutes Secretary) is an independent researcher who has published extensively on the exile press in Great Britain, including ‘“Something to make people laugh?”: Political Content in the Isle of Man Internment Camp Journals, July-October 1940’ in ‘Totally Un-English?': Britain’s Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in Two World Wars (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2005); ‘Zeitspiegel, Young Austria, Austrian News. Die Pressearbeit des Austrian Centre’ in Wien – London, Hin und Retour: Das Austrian Centre in London 1939 bis 1947 edited by M. Bearman et al. (Vienna, 2004). Recent publications on radio propaganda include ‘Grete Fischer: “Outside Writer” for the BBC’ in Stimme der Wahrheit? (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2003); ‘The Propagandists’ Propagandist: Bruno Adler’s “Kurt und Willi” Dialogues as Expression of British Propaganda Objectives’ in Immortal Austria (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 2006). Other research interests include radio propaganda and German-speaking Czechs exiled in Great Britain.

Professor Ian Wallace is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Bath. His current research focuses on the work of German writers exiled in France and the United States after January 1933. He is President of the International Feuchtwanger Society and organiser of the Society’s forthcoming conference on ‘Feuchtwanger and Film’ (Los Angeles, September 2007). He is General Editor of German Monitor and a founder member of the executive committee of the Association Exil en Paradis (Sanary-sur-Mer). Recent publications include essays on Fritz Lang, Lion Feuchtwanger and Stefan Heym.