Deborah Judith Vietor-Engländer (born 1946) is a British literary scholar.

Life

Vietor-Engländer was born in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. Her father fled

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

in 1939 and found refuge in

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

; her sister, Shulamit Engländer Amir, was rescued by

Nicholas Winton Sir Nicholas George Winton (born Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who helped to rescue children who were at risk of being murdered by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at ...

on the 1939 Children's Transport to London. Vietor-Engländer studied German and French at

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

(B.A.). She then worked as a freelance writer for the BBC German Service and taught at the

Polytechnic of Central London , mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength , type = Public , established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution 1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street 1970: Polytechnic of Central London 1992: University of Westminster , endowment = £5.1 million ...

. She worked for the

Fontane Fontane is a surname of Italian origin, meaning ''fountain''. The name may refer to: *Char Fontane (1952–2007), American actress *The Fontane Sisters (active 1941–1961), American singing trio *Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and ...

letter edition and wrote her doctoral thesis on Faust in the GDR under

Walter Jens Walter Jens (8 March 1923 – 9 June 2013) was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Ab ...

at the

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar. People First name *Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire *Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian *Eberhard I, Du ...

. Married, one daughter. From 1972 to 1992, she had a position teaching at the

Saarland University Saarland University (german: Universität des Saarlandes, ) is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in si ...

and then at the

Technische Universität Darmstadt The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...

until 2007. Numerous publications on the problems of exile and the Shoah, including Yiddish in English, on the authors Lion Feuchtwanger, Heinrich Mann, Friedrich Torberg, Hermynia Zur Mühlen and Arnold Zweig. Editor of ''The Legacy of Exile'' (1998), the series Jewish Library and Exile Documents and the volumes Sucher und Selige (2009) and ''Das war meine Zeit'' (2013) as part of the Alfred Kerr-Werkausgabe published by S. Fischer Verlag. She is the complete editor of the three-volume edition of works by , Volume I, 2013. In 2016, her great Alfred Kerr biography was published by Rowohlt (720 pages). She edited four volumes of Alfred Kerr's Berliner Briefe published in 2021. Vietor-Engländer was Vice-Chairman of the International Arnold Zweig Society from 1991 to 1996 and then its Chairman until 2002. She has been President of the Alfred Kerr Foundation since May 2017. Since 2020, she has been on the board of directors of the P.E.N. Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad.Alfred Kerr. Die Biographie
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Publications

* ''Faust in der DDR''. Lang, Frankfurt, 1987, also a dissertation, Universität Tübingen 1986. * ''The Legacy of exile: Lives, Letters, Literature''. Blackwell, Oxford 1998. * with Eckart Früh, Ursula Seeber (ed.):

Hermynia Zur Mühlen Hermynia Zur Mühlen (12 December 1883 – 20 March 1951), or Folliot de Crenneville-Poutet, was an Austrian writer and translator. She translated over seventy books into German from English, Russian and French, including work by Upton Sinc ...

: ''Vierzehn Nothelfer und andere Romane aus dem Exil''. 2 volumes. Peter Lang, Bern 2002. Alfred Kerr – Die Biographie. Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-498-07066-3.

Editor

* (ed.): Alfred Kerr: ''Sucher und Selige, Moralisten und Büßer. Literarische Ermittlungen''. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2009. * (ed.): ''Exil im Nebelland: Elisabeth Castoniers Briefe an Mary Tucholsky. Eine Chronik''. Peter Lang, Bern 2010, . * ''Hermann Sinsheimers deutsch-jüdisches Schicksal''. In Kerstin Schoor (ed.): ''Zwischen Rassenhass und Identitätssuche. Deutsch-jüdische literarische Kultur im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland.'' Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, , . * (ed.): Hermann Sinsheimer: ''Gelebt im Paradies.'' Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2013. * (ed.): Alfred Kerr: ''Das war meine Zeit: Erstrittenes und Durchlebtes.'' S. Fischer, Frankfurt, 2013. * (ed.): Hermann Sinsheimer: `Shylock´ Quintus-Verlag 2017, . * (ed.): Alfred Kerr: Was ist der Mensch in Berlin. Briefe eines europäischen Flaneurs, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 2017. * (ed.): Hermann Sinsheimer, Was ich lebte, was ich sah. Briefe und Theaterkritiken Quintus-Verlag 2020 * (ed.). Alfred Kerr Berlin wird Berlin Briefe aus der Reichshauptstadt 1897-1922 four Volumes Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2021, ISBN 978-3-8353-3862-3

References

External links

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