MICHAEL BUTLER is Professor of Modern German Literature and Head of the Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham. He is author of The Novels of Max Frisch (1976), The Plays of Max Frisch (1985) Max Frisch: 'Andorra' (1994) The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich B?ll (1994), and numerous articles in the field of modern German literature. - ROBERT EVANS is Lecturer in German, Department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are Old High German and comparative Germanic philology.

• Foreword Notes on the Contributors Wilfried van der Will; M.Butler Hadubrand's 'Frageversäumnis' in the Hildebrandslied ; R.Evans Willehalm and Puzzât, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's Willehalm and in the Bataille d'Aliscans Bürger and 'das schwankende Wort Volk'; D.Hill Moments of Emancipation: The Nineteenth-century Heroine in German Literature; R.Whittle 'Apollo aber schlieblich die Sprache des Dionysus'; Harmony or Hegemony in Die Geburt der Tragödie?; R.Speirs Ernst Stadler in Oxford; R.Sheppard Historicity and all that: Reflections on Bertolt Brecht's Die Mabnahme; M.Swales 'Zwischen den Zeilen'? The Development of Dolf Sternberger's political 'Sprachkritik' from the 'Wörterbuch der Regierung von Papen' to 'Ein guter Ausdruck'; B.Dodd The Paradox of Simultaneity: 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' in Paul Schallück's Engelbert Reineke; J.Klapper Authenticity and the 'Speaking Other': Günter Wallraff's Ganz unten as an Industrial Fiction; R.Burns Der parodierte Erzähler Grass: Anmerkungem zur Wirkung des Romans Die Rättin; M.Durzak East German Literature and the Cold War: The Example of Erich Loest's Die Westmark fällt weiter; M.Kane Was bleibt Revisited: Christa Wolf and the Fear of Transience; M.Butler High and Low Literature and the German Reading Public; K.Bullivant Reflections on Jewish Culture in Germany since 1945; E.Kolinsky Visiting Frau Behrens; B.Taylor Reflections on German History and Anglo-Saxon Liberalism; G.Minnerup The Social Dynamics of Dictatorship: Re-evaluating the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic from the 'Bottom Up'; J.Grix & C.Jeffery The Impact of 1968 on the SPD; W.E.Patterson Wilfried van der Will: Publications Tabula gratulatoria Index