Thomas Blubacher Author

Thomas Blubacher has written over thirty books and has worked as a theater director in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A specialist in theater and film of the 1930s, his books include biographies of the siblings Eleonora and Francesco von Mendelssohn, Gustaf Gründgens, Oscar Wälterlin, Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, and Ruth Hellberg. He has also written essays and travel features and has published a bestselling book on cruises and several historical crime novels. Elisabeth Lauffer is a German-English literary translator based in the United States. She has translated many books of fiction and nonfiction since then.