Rachel Palfreyman is Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is author of Edgar Reitz’s Heimat: Histories, Traditions, Fictions (2000), co-author (with Elizabeth Boa) of Heimat – A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990 (2000), and co-editor (with Gustav Frank and Stefan Scherer) of Modern times? German literature and arts beyond political chronologies / Kontinuitäten der Kultur, 1925-1955 (2005).