March 1981 Newsletter

WOMEN IN GERMAN

Number 24                                               
March 1981
Membership/Subscription Fee: $7.00 ($3.00 if unemployed or student)

Dear WIG Members,

Our March issue brings our readers special greetings in honor of Interna­tional Women's Day. This annual day of celebration on March 8th was first called for by Clara Zetkin, who proposed it to the Second International Socialist Conference in 1910. Her inspiration came from the active efforts and struggles of working women, in particular the women garment worker's strike in New York on March 8, 1908. It is especially important to re-collect the historical struggles in which women have engaged at a time when many of our own efforts and successes are being threatened by an anti-feminist, conservative trend.
In the spirit of International Women's Day and our need to unite in these times, we dedicate this Newsletter to women who have striven for women's emancipation in the past.

We would like to thank all of you who have shown their support for the WIG newsletter through renewals as well as new subscriptions. Financially, we seem to be in "good shape" now. Unfortunately, however, we need more than just financial input in order to keep our newsletter alive. If we wish to adhere to our policy, i.e., "to promote feminist scholarship and pedagogy in German literary and cultural studies, as well as in German language teaching" (WIG #22) then we need to become involved in a more creative, more sharing, more active way. The Newsletter should continue to be a means for dissipating information particularly relevant to all of us who are interested in German studies from a feminist perspective.

Please, send us information about your current work, share discoveries you've made. Maybe you read an interesting book, heard a new record, saw a beautiful movie. We also would like to bring back to life the "Dear Wiggy" column. Gedankensplitter aller Art sind willkommen. Remember, this is your Newsletter and the Collective here in Madison is but a "Sammel-und Verteilungsstelle for your information.

Once again, in the spirit of International Women's Day, let us renew our committment to a viable and exciting Newsletter.

[drawing: Hiermit erkläre ich das Matriarchat für ausgebrochen und den Tag der Frau zum "Tag des Mannes"!]

LETTERS

Dear WIG,

We have formed a little group of Italian academic women (Universities of Rome, Perugia and Pescara) interested in women 's studies in German.

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Unfortunately we have no organization in Italy, although a comparatively high percentage of women already attends German studies in a number of univer­sities. Of course, we often go to Germany and are in touch with germanists, but it would be very interesting for us to know something more about the initiatives you take in the USA as germanist women abroad. We have received till now the Proceedings of Women in German 1977 and the special feminist issue of New German Critique; but we would be very pleased if you could inform us about meetings, courses, papers, publications etc. in Massachusetts and else­where. We are prepared to subscribe some American journals.

Our interest focuses on the 19th century (we are currently at work on an anthology "Dal salotto al partito" which is going to be published next fall). But we are interested both in GDR and FRG contemporary women writers as well.

I thank you in advance for everything you will do for us and I remain

Yours sincerely,

Lee LiAman
Giuli Liebman Parrinello
[redacted]

WIG WORKSHOP

Here is another sunmary of the WIG Workshop session on "Forms of Our Bodies":

Sat. a.m. session: "The Forms of Our Bodies"
Organizers: Bonnie Beckett and Jill McDonald
Participants: Sara Lennox, Johanna Moore, Jeanette Clausen

"Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt": this quota­tion from Wittgenstein served as a motto for the session. How do women express their physical existence? Are references to women's bodies used by female authors as part of particular language devices intended to overcome the "Sprachlosigkeit" they experience in a patriarchal world? Is the use of such references part of a general attempt on the part of women writers to create a new poetic language?
The three presentations in the session taken together addressed all these questions They complemented each other and provoked a lively discussion of these and related issues.

Sara Lennox analyzed the central image of nearsightedness in Ingeborg Bach­mann's "Ihr glücklichen Augen" as an expression of the distortions of patriarchal society (Miranda's astigmatism) and Miranda's acceptance of the patriarchal system (her "willed" myopia in that she refuses to wear her glasses). The patriarchal ideology of heterosexual love leads to Women's subjection and to men's victimization as well. Bachmann seems to have felt that women’s self­expression is coifled by patriarchy but not totally confined by it. Yet stepping outside the norms of this society usually leads to the destruction of Bachmann’s women, as when Miranda is cut by the glass door she walks into at the end of the story. In Gabriele Wohmann's "Ernste Absichte," women's physical being is reduced to their hair. As Johanna Moore pointed out, this part of the body comes to represent the whole. The focus on hair in our society as an expression of sexuality and the object of advertising propaganda is important here. The

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fact that hair is actually dead thus becomes significant, as does its dis­appearing at times (under the habits of nuns) and its use as a camouflage.
The heroine, a writer recovering from an "Unterleibsoperation", combs her hair back as she faces herself and the prospect of death openly. Jeanette Clausen showed the importance of the examination and articulation of the body as part of Verena Stefan’s attempt to restructure langauge as a female vehicle of expression ("Häutungen"). This writer, the one of the three to be writing in the most overtly feminist context, is the most explicit in connecting the expression of the body with reconstituting of language. Of the three, her linguistic experimentation represents the most optimistic attempt to overcome woman's "Sprachlosigkeit," or at least to begin to create new linguistic possibilities for doing so.

The ensuing discussion of the session began with the expression of a need of a new term other than "heterosexual love" to designate the negative manifesta­tions of the sexual ideology of patriarchy. "Patriarchal love relationships" was suggested as an alternative to avoid the alienation which the negative use of "heterosexual love" has for feminists involved in positive relationships with men. The discussion then turned to whether women can "speak through their bodies" since these traditionally have been possessed by men. It was pointed out that women are still largely speaking and writing out of a patriarchal perspective. In connection with this, Margot Schroeder reminded us that women should beware of being overly concerned with the expression of their bodies and their physical being. Such a one-sided focus is similar to the reduction of women to physical, biological beings so dominant in patriarchy.

Recorder: Linda S. Pickle 

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A Political Action Committee was created at the WIG 1980 Workshop. The following is a reminder of how all WIG members can help this committee function effectively.

At its meeting in Racine last October, WIG decided to create a committee that would concern itself with political issues such as the hiring, promoting and tenuring of women Germanists, or the recent MLA decision to replace the pro­posed policy recommendation regarding sexist language by a simple suggestion that MLA members avoid discriminating language.

To be effective (within the means of our limited time), the committee needs the cooperation of WIG members. Please let us know your concerns!

More specifically, we would like to ask you to send us any information you might have concerning hiring and promotion/tenure. We would like to start collecting information on these issues. Therefore let us know your and/or your friends' problems and success stories; let us know your experiences in job interviews. Our goal in this area is:

a)  to collect statistics that will transcend the bare facts to be gleaned from the Personalia section in Monatshefte;

b)  to develop statistics with regard to the hiring and promoting/ tenuring of women by individual departments;

c)  to set up a file of specific cases (short description of problem and attempts of and/or solutions) for reference.

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If anybody needs some advice concerning a problem and the ways of handling it, I will be glad to share my experience (including three years on a College Faculty Appeals Committee) with you. Or contact any other member of the committee—we all want to pass on whatever knowledge we have acquired in this area.

Let us hear from you!

Marianne Burkhard, Chair
U. of Illinois, Urbana

Renny Harrigan
U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Helen Fehervary
Ohio State U., Columbus

Ritta Jo Horsley
U. of Massachussetts-Boston

Sara Lennox
U. of Masschussetts-Amherst

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Minutes of Business Meeting at MLA - Houston, December 28, 1980

Steering Committee: Marjorie Tussing asked to be replaced because of too many other commitments. It was agreed that Martha Wallach should be asked despite the fact that she is not from the West.

MLA 1981: Proposal for two sections back to back on "German Romantic Women"; coordinators are Elke Frederiksen and Martha Wallach.

AATG 1981; AATG would allow a half-day preconference workshop on Tuesday before Thanksgiving. These workshops are for high school teachers. Gabriele Wickert and Barbara Wright would coordinate "Women in the Curriculum: Methods and Materials for Non-Sexist Education."

Proposal deadline is early in January, Jeanette Clausen will contact people to see if proposal can be submitted; if this is impossible, we will pro­pose two sessions: 1) "Mothering in German Literature" (Ric Johnson, Karen Achbrger) and 2) on pedagogy as substitute for workshop.

WIG Workshop 1982: Since Christa Wolf cannot come, we decided to try to invite Sara Kirsch. Linda S. Pickle will coordinate the grant writing for the money, will be glad for any suggestions and help!

Site: Barbara Wright and Joey Horsley found the Thompson Island Education Center, a place on an island in Boston harbor. Price for two nights+meals+trans- portation from shore: $49.00. The Steering Committee decided that this should be the site for the 1982 WIG Workshop.

Financial Report: Small profit from T-shirts, they are now available from Jeanette Clausen, Fort Wayne for $5.00.

Bibliography: Send titles of relevant publications to Sara Lennox, U. of Massa­chusetts, Amherst.

Political Action: Suggestion that we all make efforts to make students aware of procedures for sexual harassments (where they exist). Please send all info regarding tenure/promotion (good and bad) to Marianne Burkhard, U. of Illinois, Urbana.

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WIG CONFERENCE SITE

Joey Horsley has Informed us that she was able to reserve the retreat center at Thompson Island in Boston Harbor for the 1982 WIG Workshop (October 5-17). The Island has 157 acres with beaches, groves, saltmarshes, self-guiding trails, playing fields and a gym. It is one mile from Boston by boat. It sounds wonderful! Thank you, Joey. Remember that the 1981 WIG Workshop will be held again in Racine, Wisconsin (October 16-18).

ANNOUNCEMENT

AATG Annual Meeting, November 1980, Boston, MA WIG Session: Feminist Teaching in Practice

I. "Frauen" - A Model Curriculum Unit

Developed by Karen Weinschenker (Minneapolis Public Schools) as part of A World of Women, a larger curriculum project directed by Mary Jane Roe (Minneapolis Public Schools), and funded by the Minnesota Council on Quality Education. Presented by Suzanne P. Jebe (Minnesota State Dept. of Education).

The objectives of these non-graded secondary learning materials (suitable for grades 7-12) are to increase student and teacher awareness of the role of females in German speaking cultures and to increase teacher effectiveness in the teaching of non-sexist materials. The curriculum packet includes annotated lists of 50 women who have made significant contributions to the arts, sciences, letters, or political and social developments, presented in both English and German; a smaller number of women are discussed at some­what greater length, some in English and some in German. Related classroom activities and brief reading selections for various levels focus on occupa­tional, family, and social roles. Posters and a synchronized slide-cassette tape presentation provide additional historical and contemporary material for classroom use.

A limited number of the curriculum packets may be available; inquiries should be directed to Dr. Jermaine Arendt, Minneapolis Public Schools, Modern Language Department, 807 Northeast Broadway, Minneapolis, MN 55413.

II. The Invisible Woman: Woman in the GDR - Issues and Social Policy

Margaret E. Ward, Wellesley College

Too often in classrooms and instructional materials the women of the GDR have suffered a double invisibility, neglected both as part of a less familiar society and as women. An understanding of the situation of women in the GDR requires basic knowledge of official social policy in the GDR, which in its constitution, laws, and various institutions guarantees equal rights for women. This egalitarian social policy has provided important vehicles for significant progress in four areas:

1) The sphere of public and political activity: Increasing numbers of women are active as elected officials and work to promote women's issues, although a pyramid still exists in SED party structure.

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2) Employment: Laws and programs providing incentive and training to women have resulted in 87% of women being employed, and in female representation in all sectors of the economy. Women are still underrepresented in top-level positions, however.

3) Education: The gap between the sexes has been dramatically narrowed; all children receive the same 10-year polytechnical education and women now make up more than half of university-level students.

4) Family: Official policy (Family Law, 1966) maintains that women's right to work and self-development is not to be hindered by housework or childraising, which are to be joint responsibilities of men and women. This principle is reflected in the availability of sex education, the pill, abortion; extra financial support for children, 26 weeks paid maternity leave, and state-supported kindergarten and Krippen. But this "private sphere" has also been most resistant to change: in addition to their paid labor women still spend 37 hours per week on housework compared to men's six hours.

Despite the fact that attitudes and behaviors change more slowly than constitutional guarantees of equality might suggest, the GDR's progressive social policy in these areas has brought rapid changes in women's role and status. See attached list of selected resources.

III. Bettina Wegner: Liedermacherln of the GDR

Victoria Joanne Moessner

Born in Berlin in 1947, Bettina Wegner was briefly imprisoned, and expelled from the Berlin Schauspielschule in 1968 after distributing hand­bills in protest of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Despite this offense she was allowed to study at the Zentrales Studio für Unterhaltungs­Kunst from 1971-72, and thus had an entree into the officially sanctioned pop music scene of the GDR. Wegner quickly turned from such superficial popular music, however, to the production of songs of criticism and serious social comment in the tradition of Biermann and Brecht, working as a free­lance Liedermacherin in Berlin since 1973.

In June 1978 Wegner appeared at the Internationale Literatur-Tage in West Berlin; a recording of this performance is available ("Sind so Kleine Hände"). After Wegner joined other GDR intellectuals in protesting the government's action against Wolf Biermann her opportunities for performing in the GDR were restricted. In March 1980 she, her Husband Klaus Schlesinger, and their three children were granted visas to travel and live in West Berlin and the FRG for three years; Schlesinger is now working as a journalist in West Berlin.

In her songs Wegner often takes the part of the underdog and powerless, especially children, criticizing social and governmental pressures to con­form. She treats aspects of woman's existence in the "Männergesellschaft", as she termed GDR society in an interview in Die Zeit. With their accessible vocabulary and style and vivid message Wegner’s songs are useful for intro­ducing students to Liedermacher, and for beginning a discussion of such topics as the position of women in the GDR and the problems of dissident artists and intellectuals. See attached list of selected resources.

Summary by Joey Horsley, Session Chairperson

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Women in the German Democratic Republic: Issues and Social Policy — Margaret Ward, Women in German/Feminist Pedagogy Section, AATG Meeting November 23, 1980

Selected Sources

Books:

Allendorf, Marlis. Women in Socialist Society. New York: International Publishers, 1975.

"Die Frauen sind das Beste an der DDR." In Leben in der DDR. Ed. Eva WindmBller and Thomas Hüpker. Hamburg: Sterabuch.

Frauen in der DDR: Zwanzig Erzählungen. Ed. Lutz-W. Wolff. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch, 1978. (dtv 1174).

Kirsch, Sarah. Die Pantherfrau: Fünf Frauen in der DDR. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch, 1978. (rororo neue frau, 4216).

Menschik, Jutta, and Evelyn Leopold. Gretchens rote Schwestern: Frauen in der DDR. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1974. (Fischer 1394).

Wander, Maxie. Guten Morgen, du SchBne: Frauen in der DDR. Protokolle mit einem Vorwort von Christa Wolf. Darmstadt: Luchterhand, 1979. (sammlung luchterhand, 289).

Wie Emanzipiert sind die Frauen in der DDR? Beruf-Bildung-Familie. Ed. Herta Kuhrig, and Wulfram Speigner. Cologne: Pahl Rugenstein, 1979. (kleine bibliothek, 171).

Wiggershaus, Renate. Geschichte der Frauen und der Frauenbewegung in der BRD und in der DDR nach 1945. Wuppertal: Peter Hammer, 1979.

Women in the GDR: Facts and Figures. Dresden: Verlag Zeit im Bild, 1975.

Women Under Socialism. 2nd ed. Berlin (East): Panorama, 1976.

Films :

United States Committee for Friendship with the GDR 130 E. 16th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003 Telephone: [redacted]

The Happiness of Women—Traces lives of women in various occupations. 16 mm, $10, 30 min., English and German.

Women in the GDR, 16 mm, $5, 20 min., English.

Available from:
Audio Brandon Films
34 MacQuesten Parkway South, Mount Vernon, NY 10550
Telephone: [redacted] (outside NY) [redacted]          (inside NY)
Additional addresses and WATS lines in Illinois, Texas, California

The Seventh Year (1969), 35 mm, $75, 82 min., English subtitles. "Das Siebente Jahr", written and directed by Frank Vogel

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Bettina Wegner; Selected Sources

Selected Bibliography:

Record: Bettina Wegner, "Sind so kleine Hände." CBS 83507, 1979. CBS-Studio-Frankfurt am Main.

Book: Bettina Wegner: Wenn meine Lieder nicht mehr stimmen (mit einem Vorwort von Sarah Kirsch). Rowohlt Nr. 4399, 1979. Rowohlt Taschen­buch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg.

Article: "Troubadora mit Löwenherz. Ein Porträt der Liedermacherin Bettina Wegner aus der DDR." Die Zeit Nr. 5, 25 January 1980.

Selected Paperbacks:

1. Thomas Rothschild: Liedermacher: 23 Porträts. Fischer Nr. 2959, 1980. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main. (Has one comment about Wegner, but gives a good idea of Liedermacher in West Germany, Switzerland and Austria.)

2. Karl Riha: Moritat, Bänkelsong, Protestballade, Kabarett-Lyrik und engagiertes Lied in Deutschland. Athenäum Taschenbücher, 1979. Athenäum-Fischer Taschunbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.

3. Inge Latz (Hrsg.): Frauen-Lieder. Fischer Nr. 2957.

4. Peter Schleuning (Hrsg.): Kinderlieder selber machen. Rowohlt Sachbuch Nr. 7115.

Another Possibility:

Von Oma Punk zum Plättli Blues: Neue Frauenmusik. Feministische Buchverlag. 3501 Naumburg/Elberberg

Possible Source of Records:

Trouba Disc.
Frauen Musik Vertrieb Gmbh
Arcisstrasse
8000 Munich 40

CALL FOR PAPERS

WIG WORKSHOP 1981

There will be a session on German-Jewish Women Writers at the 6th annual Women in German conference, October 16-18, 1981, in Racine, Wisconsin. This session is intended to focus on writers who grapple in their work with the complex intersection of what it means/has meant to be German Jewish and a woman—an intersection of multiple identities and oppressions. We are not placing a limit on the time periods or genres to be included. Please send all inquiries, ideas, abstracts, or working drafts to both Evelyn T. Beck, 2319 Huidekoper Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007 and Lynne Ozer, [redacted] by April 15, 1981.

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There will also be a session tentatively titled "New Ways of Reading: Critical Feminist Approaches to Specific Primary Texts." Our purpose is to contribute to analysis. There will be three separate workshops, each to focus on one preselected primary text from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a large plenary session for the presentation and discussion of theoretical perspectives. More specific information about texts will be printed in the next newsletter. In the meantime, if you have suggestions or inquiries, write to: Susan Cocalis (18th c.), Department of German, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Amherst, MA; Biddy Martin (late 19th c.), Department of German, Univer­sity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53703; Karen Jankowsky (20th c.), Depart­ment of German, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

AATG CONVENTION 1981

AATG Pre-Conference Workshop Proposal: Denver, November 1981

Forward to Basics: Non-Sexist German Instruction at the Beginning Level

This workshop will first sensitize participants to problems of overt and covert sexism in German language instruction. A variety of corrective strategies will then be presented: 1) for adapting existing textbooks to non-sexist use, 2) for enriching language programs with cultural materials that focus on women, and 3) for supplementing regular instruction with non-sexist exercises and games. Finally, participants will have an opportunity to analyze a sample lesson plan for sexual bias and modify it using the techniques which have been discussed. Bibliographies and resource information will also be distributed. If you would like to make a presentation within this general framework, please submit an abstract (2-3 pages) by April 15, 1981. Send your proposal to:

Gabriele Wickert
German Department
Manhattanville College 
Purchase, NY 10577               

and      

Barbara Wright
Germanic & Slavic Languages
Univ. of Conn., U-137
Storrs, CT 06268

CALLS FOR PAPERS, MLA CONVENTION, DECEMBER 1981

The Coalition of Women in German will sponsor two sessions on German Women Writers of the Romantic Period: New Perspectives at the MLA Convention in December 1981 in New York. Please submit abstracts for papers (2-3 pages) by March 15, 1981. Send proposals to:

Elke Frederiksen                
Dept. of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

and

Martha Wallach
Dept. of Foreign Languages
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Green Bay, WI 54302

MEETING

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF WOMEN WRITERS AND CRITICS "Breaking the Sequence: Women, Literature and the Future" will be held at Wllesley College April 30-May 2, 1981. Workshops on the BRD and GDR; Ingeborg drewitz will represent the BRD. For information and registration write to Margaret Lafferty, Coordinator of Special Events, Wellesely College, Wellesley, MA 02181, Telephone: [redacted].

BOOKS

THE LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER

Translated and annotated by J. Diane Radycki Introduction by Alessandra Comini
Epilogue by Adrienne Rich and Lilly Engler

370 pages 1980 illus. LC: 80-18993, ISBN 0-8108-1344-0, $17.50

The developing persona of a young woman painter at the turn of the century, living in vulnerable isolation, struggling to resolve the conflict between what she demanded of herself as an artist and what society expected of her as a married woman is chronicled in The Letters and Journals of Paula Modersohn- Becker. It is one of those rare documents that allows us to see someone become who she is. This major early Expressionist created deeply felt images, “monumental in their intimacy,” in her paintings and in her writings.

The reader is provided with an intriguing guide to the art capitals of Berlin, London, and Paris as seen through the eyes of a woman studying art, and we view through “a sometimes hyperborean light” the changing relationships between Becker and her friends, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Clara Westhoff (the sculptor who married Rilke), and her husband, the painter Otto Modersohn. The letters begin when Becker is in art school and end within a month of her tragic death in 1907 at age thirty-one.

This is the first presentation of Becker’s writings in English— an event long overdue. The extensively annotated translation uses contemporary sources to delineate the artistic milieu and the relevant historical-social-feminist situation in 1900. New light is shed on the art education of Becker, who, like Klthe Kollwitz, is one of the first woman artists to come from a non- artistic background. '

The volume is eloquently introduced by Alessandra Comini, author of The Fantastic Art of Vienna and Egon Schiele’s Portraits (nominated for the 1973 National Book Award). The epilogue includes Rilke’s intense “Requiem” of 1908 (trans­lated by Lilly Engler and Adrienne Rich, and never before published) and Rich’s own moving “Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff." Of special interest to artists, art historians, and feminists, this record of a short and fiercely lived life will draw all readers.

About the translator/annotator Diane Radycki is an art historian who began her study of tum-of-the century art and art education as a graduate student at Hunter College. She is included in the recently published Voices of Women, and is currently writing a biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Linguistische Berichte 69 special issue on Language, Sex and Power I edited by Luise Pusch and Senta Trömel-Plötz just appeared. It contains the first guidelines for non-sexist use for the German language.

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Language, Sex and Power II will appear as "Linguistische Berichte 71" in February 1981. Both can be ordered individually through any bookstores.

Publisher: Verlag Vieweg - Braunscfaweig/Wiesbaden - West Germany

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Das Bild der Witwe in der deutschen Literatur. Hessische Beiträge zur deutschen Literatur. Darm­stadt: Gesellschaft Hessischer Literaturfreunde (1980). 120 pp. $10.95.

The book is handled in the U.S. by Adler Foreign Books, New York, and advertised in their fall catalogue.

Irmgard C.Tayler is interested in having someone write a review of her book for the next WIG News­letter. If you are interested, please contact us in Madison.

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