Sylvia Asmus

Sylvia Asmus (born 1966) studied German literature, art history and art education in Frankfurt am Main, and library science in Berlin. She subsequently worked at the German National Library and in 2011 became head of its German Exile Archive 1933–1945 and exhibition department in Frankfurt am Main. Her publications include the exhibition catalogue … mehr vorwärts als rückwärts schauen … – Das deutschsprachige Exil in Brasilien 1933–1940 (2013, co-edited with Marlen Eckl), the co-edited volume So wurde ihnen die Flucht zur Heimat. Soma Morgenstern und Joseph Roth, eine Freundschaft (2012), and Rudolf Olden. Journalist gegen Hitler, Anwalt der Republik (2010).