Carsten Gansel (born 21 November 1955) is a German literary scholar and university teacher. He is professor of modern German literature and German literature and media didactics at the University of Giessen.[1] In 2012, he discovered the original manuscript of Heinrich Gerlach's semi-autobiographical novel of the Battle of Stalingrad, The Forsaken Army, in the Russian State Military Archive.[2]

Carsten Gansel is a member of the PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, the Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (VS) and chairman of the jury for the Uwe-Johnson-Prize as well as the Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis.[3] He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Arbeitsstelle für Lessing-Rezeption Kamenz and a founding member of the International Christa Wolf Center (research center for German and Polish contemporary literature and culture). In December 1989, Carsten Gansel was a co-founder of the Mecklenburg Literary Society, which is particularly committed to the work of Uwe Johnson. He has been its chairman since 1992.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Dr. Carsten Gansel — Institut für Germanistik". www.uni-giessen.de.
  2. ↑ Beevor, Antony (10 January 2018). "Review: Breakout at Stalingrad by Heinrich Gerlach" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  3. ↑ "Uwe-Johnson-Preis" (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  4. ↑ "Willkommen bei der Mecklenburgischen Literaturgesellschaft e.V. - Mecklenburgische Literaturgesellschaft e.V." www.mlg.de. Retrieved 2023-01-05.


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