Albert-Reiner Glaap
Albert Reiner Glaap studied
English Language and Literature, Latin and Philosophy at the Universities
of Cologne and London (King’s College), graduated from Cologne University
and received a PhD from this university in 1955. He began his career
as a teacher of English and Latin at Secondary schools in Düsseldorf
and Philadelphia. Since 1973, he has been Professor of English at Neuss
and at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. His main fields of research
have been English and Canadian literature, with special emphasis on
theatre and drama; the methodology of teaching English literature at
secondary school and university level; theory and practice of literary
translation. Albert-Reiner Glaap has published numerous books and articles
in all these fields. He is also editor of some 20 annotated editions
of English-language plays.
In 1991 he was made an Honorary
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and has been an Honorary
Member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada since 2006.
Albert-Reiner Glaap’s curiosity
about Jewish culture was inspired by an incident in his childhood:
It was November 9th,
1938. Early in the morning my mother sent me to the neighbouring grocery
shop to buy a pound of butter and a few other things. When in the shop,
In heard the sound of windows being smashed, which made me dodge behind
the counter. I was shocked. It was the
“Night of Broken Glass.” This moment instilled into me the urge
to learn what Jewish culture is all about.
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