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KARL IVAN SOLIBAKKE is Research Professor in German Literature and Culture
at Syracuse University. He is the author of Geformte Zeit: Musik als
Diskurs und Struktur bei Bachmann und Bernhard (2005) and coeditor
of the Benjamin Blätter, a publication series sponsored by the Internationale
Walter Benjamin Gesellschaft. Solibakke has also published articles
on Thomas Bernhard, Elfriede Jelinek, Heinrich Heine, Franz Kafka, and
Uwe Johnson as well as on fundamentalism in America.
MARC DE WILDE is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the University
of Amsterdam. He has written a dissertation on political theology in the
work of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt (2008). He has also published
articles on legal theory, the concept of sovereignty, and political violence.
BERND WITTE is Professor of German Literature at the Heinrich-Heine-
University in Düsseldorf. From 2002 to 2006 he served as Dean of the
Division of Humanities. In 2000 he became President of the International
Walter Benjamin Society and was recently elected Chair of the Board of
the Freundeskreis des Goethe-Museums Düsseldorf. Professor Witte has published
extensively on a wide variety of literary and cultural topics, ranging
from Gellert and Goethe to Benjamin (Walter Benjamin: An Intellectual
Biography, 1991), Kafka, Celan, and Bachmann. His latest book publications
are Goethe: Das Individuum der Moderne schreiben und Jüdische
Tradition und literarische Moderne (both 2007).