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Ruth Klüger (1931-2020) was Professor of German Philology at various American universities from 1966 to 1992, most recently at the University of California / Irvine. From 1978 to 1986 she was editor of the journal "The German Quarterly", from 1980 to 1985 Vice President of the International Association of Germanists (IVG). She was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry and became known to a wide audience at home and abroad with her autobiography "weiter leben" (1992), which has been translated into several languages: Roswitha Prize (2006), Lessing Prize of the Free State of Saxony (2007),Federal Cross of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (2008), Honorary Doctorate of the University of Vienna (2015), Bavarian Book Prize - Prize of Honour of the Bavarian Minister President (2016). Gesa Dane is a professor at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin: In the thicket of texts. Editionswissenschaft als interdisziplinäre Grundlagenforschung (co-edited, 2013) Scharfsinn und Frömmigkeit. On the work of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-1694) (ed., 2013) Zeter und Mordio. Rape in literature and law (2005).