Frank Trommler
teaches German literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. He did his graduate work at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Munich (Dr. Phil., 1965), and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Harvard and as a visiting professor at Princeton and Johns Hopkins. Since 1970 he has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. He has a particular interest in Modernism, theater, and the relationship of literature to history, society, and politics. He has authored and edited books on modern German literature as well as on issues of youth, socialism, Germanics, thematics, technology, and German-American cultural relations. In 2004, Professor Trommler was awarded the "Das Bundesverdienstkreuz" (Federal Medal of Honor), awarded for his outstanding contributions to bilateral transatlantic understanding.
