Anne Fuchs, FBA MRIA is an academic specialist on modern and post-war German literature and Culture.
Fuchs studied German and English Literature at the University of Konstanz, obtaining her M.A.
[1] Her doctoral dissertation on humour in the prose of the Swiss writer Robert Walser was published as Dramaturgie des Narrentums.
For a number of years she has been particularly concerned with "German memory contests", i.e. a series of intensely fought public debates about German cultural identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust, World War II and unification.
The growing distance to the Nazi past and unification have led to a new memory contest that concerns the legacy of the GDR and of the old Federal Republic in the context of globalisation.