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For Immediate Release
October 16, 2000

Treatment of Genocide in Post-War German Literature Focus of Lawrence
Lecture


     APPLETON, WIS. -- Ernestine Schlant, a well-known scholar of German
literature and wife of former U.S. Senator and 2000 Democratic
presidential candidate Bill Bradley, will discuss the treatment of
genocide by post-war German authors in a Lawrence University Main Hall
Forum.
     Based on her most recent book of the same name, Schlant presents
the address, "The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the
Holocaust," Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 4:15 p.m. in Science Hall, Room 102.
The event is free and open to the public.
     A member of the faculty at Montclair State University in New Jersey
since 1971, Schlant has taught German and comparative literature for
more than 35 years.  She also has held visiting professorships at Yale
and Columbia universities.   A widely published author of articles on
German and Austrian literature, Schlant also wrote two books prior to
"The Language of Silence" on Austrian novelist and philsopher Hermann
Broch.
     During her husband's three terms in the U.S. Senate, Schlant
developed the "The Unsung Heroines Award" to honor women whose
contributions to their community were uncommon yet unrecognized.
     A native of Passau, Germany, Schlant graduated Phi Beta Kappa from
Emory University, where she also earned her Ph.D. in comparative
literature.