Education
University Studies:
1966-1972: Romanistik and Germanistik at Mainz and Freiburg University and Freie Universität Berlin
1972 First State Exam for High School Teaching, FU Berlin
1972-74 Teacher Training (Referandarausbildung für das Höhere Lehramt) in Essen
1973 Second State Exam for High School Teaching
1982-83 Correspondence Course in Journalistic Writing
1988/1989 “Zusatzstudium” in Anglistik (two semesters) at Frankfurt/M University
1991 Ph. D. in New English Literatures at Frankfurt/M University with dissertation on “Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature) of Zimbabwean Literature (see Veit-Wild 1992). Supervisor: Prof. Dieter Riemenschneider