WILLI PAUL ADAMS is professor at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerika Studien at the Freie Universität Berlin.

LAVERN J. RIPPLEY is professor of German and German-American Studies at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

EBERHARD REICHMANN is professor emer. of Germanic Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and editor-in-chief for the Max Kade German-American Center of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.