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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ——~<~o»—___ Wolfgang Braungart received his PhD from Braunschweig University in 1986 (Die Kunst der Utopie: Vom Späthumanismus zur frühen Aufklärung, 1989). Currently, he is a professor of German Literature Studies and Literary Iheory at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. His research focuses on the relationship of literature, fine arts, religion, ritual, and aesthetics. His most important works are Literatur und Religion in der Moderne: Studien (2016), Ästhetischer Katholizismus: Stefan Georges Rituale der Literatur (1997) and Ritual und Literatur (1996). He was editor ofthe George-Jahrbuch from 1996-2019, and ofthe three volumes Stefan George und sein Kreis: Ein Handbuch (2015); recently, he edited Stefan George und die Jugendbewegung (2018), as well as Literatur / Religion: Bilanz und Perspektiven eines interdisziplinären Forschungsgebietes (2019). Homepage: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/braungart/ Johanna Domokos is a comparative literary scholar of indigenous cultures and minority literatures with expertise in Scandinavian and Central European areas (esp. Sämi, Finnish, German, and Hungarian). After her studies in Altaistics, Finno-Ugristics (University of Szeged), Hungarian and English Studies (University of Cluj), and Semiotics (TU Berlin), she wrote her PhD (1999, University of Szeged) and Venia Legendi (2011, Eötvös Loränd University, Budapest) on the translatability and multicultural dynamism of SAmi culture. She is the author of four monographs related to Sami literature and has edited more than twenty books. Her latest monography is entitled Endangered Literature, including essays on literary interculturalism, translingualism, and vulnerability. After teaching at various universities around the world (e.g., University of Berlin, UCLA, Bielefeld University), she is currently affiliated with the Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Budapest. She also coordinates Gruppe Bie Translation and Book Production Laboratory at Bielefeld University. Saskia Fischer, Academic Coordinator at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, wrote her PhD dissertation on ritual and rituality in German drama after 1945 (Saskia Fischer: Ritual und Ritualitat im Drama nach 1945 — Brecht, Frisch, Dürrenmatt, Sachs, Weiss, Hochhuth, Handke, + 279 +