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Richard Schade has published on the interplay of the graphic arts and literature during the period from 1500-1750, with special attention to the frontispieces of Grimmelshausen’s novels. He also has focused his research on the life and works of the Neo-Latin scholar and dramatist Nicodemus Frischlin, on the early modern traditions of comedy, on court festival conventions and on the Faust-tradition in literature, art and music, as well as aspects of German-American literary culture. As managing editor of the Lessing Yearbook for many years, he has an abiding interest in Gotthold E. Lessing and in issues of the German Enlightenment. His current project examines the relationship between literary and visual texts in the works of Günther Grass. An award-winning teacher at the university, he teaches in his areas of expertise and in the history of German culture from Medieval to the 20th century.

Professor Richard Schade served the Greater Cincinnati community as Honorary Consul (Honorarkonsul) of the Federal Republic of Germany for 16 years. There has been a representative of Germany in Cincinnati, Ohio, ever since 1847. Back then, the Consul served the needs of an emerging German-American community in the city. Over the years, there have been many changes and ups-and-downs affecting Germany’s foreign relations to the United States of America and Cincinnati, but diplomatic ties have continued. Since World War II, Honorary Consuls have served the interests of Germany in the Greater Cincinnati and Tristate area.