"Sonja Fritzsche is Chair and Professor of German and Eastern European Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, USA. Prof.Fritzsche’s research focuses on (East) German literature and film, Heimat discourse, ecotopia, and science fiction."

She is interviewed by scifiportal.eu: "Why are you interested by science fiction and especially by a defunct form, the communist “Wissentschaftlich-fantastische Literatur” from the long time dead GDR (East Germany)? Read on