Dr Geoff Wilkes
German Major
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 53135
Researcher biography
Dr Geoff Wilkes' research interests originate in German literature since 1870. He is particularly intersted in the literature of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era (especially exile literature) and the immediate post-war years. He is also a practising literary translator, with an interest in Translation Studies.
Books
Wilkes, Geoff (2020). Ilse Aichinger: Kleist, Moss, Pheasants. Wuerzburg, Germany: Koenigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2019). Ilse Aichinger: Improbable journeys. Würzburg, Germany: Konigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2018). Ilse Aichinger. Film and Fate: Camera Flashes Illuminating A Life. Wurzburg, Germany: Konigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2016). Ilse Aichinger: The Greater Hope. Würzburg, Germany: Konigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2013). Irmgard Keun: Gilgi, one of us. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, G. T. (2002). Hans Fallada's Crisis Novels 1931-1947. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
Book Chapters
Wilkes, Geoff (2021). Einleitung. Zwischen Abschied und Ankunft/Between Arrival and Departure. Ilse Aichinger/Helga Michie. (pp. 19-22) edited by Geoff Wilkes. Wuerzburg, Germany: Koenigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2021). "'Alte, du bist unverschaemt!' misremembering in Ilse Aichinger's 'Der dritte Mann' and "Abschied von Weihnachten'". Zwischen Abschied und Ankunft/Between Departure and Arrival. Ilse Aichinger/Helga Michie. (pp. 157-164) edited by Geoff Wilkes. Wuerzburg, Germany: Koenigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2020). ‘The most intimate familiarity and the most extreme existential alienation’: Ilse Aichinger’s memories of Nazi-era Vienna. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 157-174) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan . doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_8
Wilkes, Geoff (2019). "Das Schlachtschiff aus Knoepfen": representations of antifascist exile in Irmgard Keun's Kind aller Laender. Kosmopolitische Gedankenwelten / Cosmopolitan imagings. (pp. 181-192) edited by Alison Lewis, Katie Sutton and Christiane Weller. Wurzburg, Germany: Konigshausen & Neumann.
Wilkes, Geoff (2019). Forschungsgeschichte. Hans-Fallada-Handbuch. (pp. 557-565) edited by Gustav Frank and Stefan Scherer. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.
Gallagher, Jessica and Wilkes, Geoff (2014). German encounters: intercultural relationships in contemporary Turkish-German cinema. Intercultural encounters in German studies. (pp. 217-231) edited by Alan Corkhill and Alison Lewis. St Ingbert, Germany: Roehrig Universitaetsverlag.
Wilkes, Geoffrey (2013). Afterword: a writer in the shadow of Nazism. Gilgi, One of Us. (pp. 211-229) edited by era-unavailable. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Melville House Publishing.
Grosch, Nils and Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Kurt Weill, Mahagonny and the commercialization of Berlin musical theatre in the Weimar Republic. Beyond glitter and doom: the contingency of the Weimar Republic. (pp. 192-208) edited by Jochen Hung, Godela Weiss-Sussex and Geoffrey Wilkes. Munchen, Germany: Iudicium.
Frank, Gustav and Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Beyond the republic? Post-expressionist complexity in the arts. Beyond glitter and doom: the contingency of the Weimar Republic. (pp. 45-66) edited by Jochen Hung, Godela Weiss-Sussex and Geoff Wilkes. Munchen, Germany: Iudicium.
Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Beneath the glitter. Berlin, the new woman and mass-market fiction in Vicki Baum's Menschen im hotel. Beyond glitter and doom: The contingency of the Weimar Republic. (pp. 148-161) edited by Jochen Hung, Godela Weiss-Sussex and Geoff Wilkes. Munchen, Germany: Iudicium.
Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Every Man Dies Alone: The deleted chapter, Translator’s introduction. Illuminations for Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. (pp. 112-113) Brooklyn, NY, United States: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Fallada on writing: translator’s introduction. Illuminations for Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. (pp. 5-7) Brooklyn, NY, United States: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Writing is the essence of my life: Selected letters of Hans Fallada. Illuminations for Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. (pp. 126-137) Brooklyn, NY, United States: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, Geoff (2012). Assistant Chief Detective Willy Püschel: The only man Otto Quangel converted. Illuminations for Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada. (pp. 103-111) Brooklyn, NY, United States: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, Geoff (2011). Afterword. After midnight. (pp. 151-169) edited by era-unavailable. Brooklyn, New York, United States: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, Geoff (2010). Postfazione = Afterword. Ognuno muore solo = Every man dies alone. (pp. 713-740) Palermo, Italy: Sellerio editore.
Wilkes, Geoff (2009). Afterword. Every man dies alone. (pp. 511-527) edited by Michael Hofmann (Trans.). Brooklyn, NY, United States: Melville House Publishing.
Wilkes, Geoffrey T. (2009). The representation of Berlin in Hans Fallada's Ein Mann will nach oben. Topography and Literature. Berlin and Modernism. (pp. 167-174) edited by Zachau, Reinhard. Gottingen, Germany: V&R unipress.
Wilkes, G. T. (2008). "Kunstseidenes Mädchen-was nun?" Literary responses to Berlin in the Great Depression. Berlin's Culturescape in the Twentieth Century. (pp. 93-111) edited by Bredohl, T. and Zimmermann, M.. Regina Canada: Canadian Plains Research Centre, University of Regina.
Journal Articles
Williams, Jenny and Wilkes, Geoffrey (2012). A reading in moral literacy or love story in the shadow of the Holocaust: Difference in translation. Journal of Language and Politics, 11 (1), 77-92. doi: 10.1075/jlp.11.1.04wil
Wilkes, Geoff (2010). "Es ist nicht meine Schuld, ich habe alles getan, alles…Oh, ich Schwein, ich Schwein": Writers' responses to Nazism in Irmgard Keun's Nach Mitternacht. AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language & Literature Association, 113 (113), 107-123. doi: 10.1179/000127910804775603
Wilkes, Geoff (2010). In meinem fremden Land. Gefängnistagebuch 1944. AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association (114), 133-136.
Wilkes, G. T. (2008). "Der widerwärtigste Beruf": Literature and Autobiography in Irmgard Keun's Ferdinand, der Mann mit dem freundlichen Herzen. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 44 (3), 351-365. doi: 10.3138/seminar.44.3.351
Wilkes, Geoff (2007). Review of Pol O'Dochartaigh and Alexander Stephan (Eds.), Refuge and Reality: Feuchtwanger and the European Emigres in California. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 43 (1), 90-91. doi: 10.1353/smr.2007.0024
Wilkes, G. (2005). On a railroad to nowhere: Irmgard Keun's 'D-Zug Dritter Klasse'. German Studies Review, 28 (3), 563-578.
Wilkes, Geoff (2004). Mehr Leben als eins. Hans Fallada. Biographie. AUMLA: Journal of The Australasian Universities Language And Literature Association (101), 129-132.
Wilkes, G. T. (2003). Innere Emigration und innere Grenzen in "Altes Herz geht auf die Reise". Hans Fallada Jahrbuch, 4, 193-201.
Wilkes, Geoff (2001). A textual problem in 'Macbeth', I.ii. Notes And Queries, 48 (3), 293-295. doi: 10.1093/nq/48.3.293
Wilkes, G. T. (2000). Die beschatteten Bruder des kleinen Mannes Pinneberg: Einige unbeachtete Aspekte von Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst. Hans Fallada Jahrbuch (3), 181-190.
Wilkes, Geoff (1997). Review of 'Cockpit of ideologies: The Literature and Political History of the Weimar-Republic', by Anthony Grenville.. AUMLA- A Journal of Literary Criticism and Linguistics, 87 (87), 111-112.
Wilkes, G. (1997). (Review) Die bereinigte Moderne. Heinrich Manns 'Untertan' und politische Publizistik in der Kontnuität der deutschen Geschichte zwischen Kaiserreich und Drittem Reich, by Reihard Alter. AUMLA: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Linguistics, 87 (87), 112-113.
Wilkes, G. (1997). The title of Hans Fallada's 'Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben'. Aumla-journal of The Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 88 (88), 97-99. doi: 10.1179/aulla.1997.88.1.008
Conference Papers
Wilkes, Geoffrey (2011). "So kann doch kein mensch arbeiten!" Jana Hensel's Achtung Zone. St Lucia, Qld., Australia: Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association. doi: 10.1179/000127911804775396
Wilkes, G. T. (2005). "Wir kehren alle wieder heim zu uns": Die Provinz in Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst. Kolloquium des Fallada-Forums, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin, 4 December, 2004. Berlin, Germany: Individuell.
Wilkes, G.T. (2003). Die englische Ubersetzung von Bernhard Schlinks "Der Vorleser". Zeitenwende - Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert, Vienna, Austria/University of Vienna, 10-16 September, 2000. Bern: Lang.