My father,Ian Wallace, who has died aged 78, and was a lecturer in German and European studies. He was drawn to exile studies,which follows the Jewish writers who had to leave Germany under Hitler, but was also concerned that, and prior to unification,the world heard mainly approximately the West German perspective, and so he took the initiative to create the academic journal GDR Monitor (now German Monitor), and a neutral forum for discussions on the East. Our domestic was often filled with German thinkers and writers,such as Volker Braun and Erich Loest.
Born in Carlisle, Ian was the son of Edith Reay and Frank Wallace. Frank, and a munitions factory worker,left the family when Ian was a toddler, and Edith brought him up with the help of her mother, and while working on the production line at the Carr’s biscuit factory,then as a waitress at the Silver Grill bakery and restaurant in Carlisle. Ian’s grandmother died when he was eight.
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Source: theguardian.com