Acknowledgements
There, in baroque formulations, thanks are no longer only given to the respective doctoral supervisor, the alma mater, the patrons, librarians and archivists, but of course also to parents, grandparents, great grandparents, spouses, children, cousins, lovers, roommates, landlords, neighbours, friends, maids, copy-shop employees, more-or-less fleeting holiday acquaintances, and in the meantime even to pets – indeed, by now, this too has been repeatedly substantiated and corroborated.
Gerhard Henschel, Danksagung
I would like to express my thanks to Dagmar Börner-Klein, Beate Hepprich, Ursula Marx, Stephen Roeper, Gudrun Schwarz, Michael Schwarz, Martina Schwörke, Rolf Voigt and Christoph Ziermann.
In particular, I owe a debt of gratitude to Viola Braunstein, Simon Duckheim and Christoph Hesse.
In accordance with time-honoured tradition and entirely deservingly, the first edition of this book was dedicated to my parents, Monika Braunstein and Willi Braunstein. The second edition was dedicated to Rolf Tiedemann in friendship.