Stuttgart University / King’s College London
Stolen Years – German-Jewish Women’s Life Writing in Exile
Anna Marion Weber is a PhD candidate in German literature at King’s College London and jointly at the University of Stuttgart. Her research focuses on German-Jewish women’s life writing in exile in the English-speaking world, with a special interest in the work of Salka Viertel, Vicki Baum, Gabriele Tergit and Gina Kaus. She has taught seminars on German-Jewish literature, exile literature, and women’s writing in the twentieth century. She has contributed articles on Gabriele Tergit to the volume Chronistin und Kritikerin der Moderne (Exil-Kulturen 8, J.B. Metzler, 2024) and to the Friends of Germanic Studies Newsletter (ICLS London, 2025); publications on Salka Viertel are forthcoming. In 2025, she gave the annual Sylvia Naish Lecture at the University of London. Anna is an alumna of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation’s Leo Baeck Fellowship programme.