Brigitte Hamann, Dr. phil., was born in Essen and studied history and Germanistik in Münster and Vienna. She has been widely recognized for her numerous publications about Austrian history. Her main works, Elisabeth, Hitler’s Vienna, and Winifred Wagner, became bestsellers highly praised by experts and the press. Until her death on October 4, 2016, she lived in Vienna, Austria. Edith Borchardt, Professor of German Emerita (University of Minnesota, Morris), was born in Vienna, Austria. She received her A.B. from Vassar College and her M.A. and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Mythische Strukturen im Werk Heinrich von Kleists (1987) and Women in the Shadows (2008), a translation of Charles S. Chiu’s Frauen im Schatten.