Edward Timms is Research Professor in History at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is best known for his book Karl Kraus - Apocalyptic Satirist, published in two volumes as Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna (1986) and The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika (2005).

Deborah Schultz is Research Fellow in the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. She is the author of Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue (2007) and co-editor with Edward Timms of Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor (2009).