Martin Meyer

Über Martin Meyer

Dr. Martin Meyer (b. 1956) retired from teaching American Literature and Culture at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 2022. He studied in Münster, Heidelberg, and on a student Fulbright grant at UNM in Albuquerque, N.M. He took his Staatsexamen at Heidelberg University in 1985 majoring in English and Political Science. His doctoral dissertation (Universität Kassel, 1992) and other publications focus on the portrayal of post¬war Germany in fiction by Thomas Berger, Kay Boyle, Charles Haldeman, John Hawkes, William Gardner Smith, Leon Uris and other American authors. Some of his publications deal with the reception of American literature in Germany after 1945 and with the history of the Armed Services Editions. He is also interested in letters from the front (Feldpost), which he has edited and published, in the American short story, and in book history.