Thomas Lackmann Author

Thomas Lackmann is the current director and exhibition curator of the Mendelssohn Remise in Berlin and has been a board member of the Mendelssohn Society since 2011. He is also a descendent of Moses Mendelssohn. Barbara Thiem is a performing cellist and college teacher. She has translated other works of Mendelssohn history, specifically From New York to San Francisco by Ernst Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. She is also a descendant of Moses Mendelssohn, in the branch of the banker Franz von Mendelssohn. Jane K. Brown, former president of the Goethe Society of North America, has written and edited numerous books on Goethe, European drama and other topics, as well as translations. Her translation of Harald Weinrich's Tempus was awarded the Sgalione Translation Prize from the Modern Language Association of America.