Professor Jan-Pieter Barbian is a historian and Director of Duisburg Municipal Library, Germany. He is a leading expert on Nazi literary politics and cultural policy. He is the author of Literaturpolitik im Dritten Reich (1993) and Die vollendete Ohnmacht (2008) and is a member of Historische Kommission des Börsenvereins für den deutschen Buchhandel.

Kate Sturge holds a Chartered Institute of Linguists' Diploma in Translation (German-English) and a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is co-editor of the Routledge journal Translation Studies. Her translations include Friedrich Nietzsche: Writings from the Late Notebooks (ed. Rüdiger Bittner, Cambridge University Press, 2002).