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09/1994 - 09/2012 Professor for African Literature and Culture.
Flora Veit-Wild (born 11 May 1947) is a German literary academic, Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin.!
Flora Veit-Wild
Flora Veit-Wild (born 11 May 1947)[1] is a German literary academic, Professor of African Literatures and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin.
She has published on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, and on the body and madness in African literature.
Life
Flora Wild was born in West Germany in 1947,[2] and originally studied French and German languages and literature at university.[3]
She first met Dambudzo Marechera in Harare in 1983 in the office of writer and editor Charles Mungoshi.[4][5] Veit-Wild and Marachere had a relationship, and remained close friends until his death in 1987.[6] Veit-Wild lived in Zimbabwe from 1983 to 1993.[7] In 1986 she met Dieter Riemenschneider in Harare, who subsequently supervised a PhD dissertation by Veit-Wild on the social history of Zimbabwean literature, which she gained in Anglistik from Frankfurt University in 1991.[3] She w