In 2008 a group of American university teachers was invited to visit Marbach and to examine the importance of its archive. In the end, the American Friends of Marbach (AFM) was founded. The following persons were involved in the foundation.
| Honorary Chairman: |
Fritz Stern |
President: |
Walter Hinderer (Princeton) |
Treasurer: |
Hal Rennert (Gainesville) |
Secretary: |
Frank Druffner (Marbach) |
Founding Members: |
Hans Adler (Madison)
Rüdiger Campe (Yale)
Peter Hohendahl (Cornell)
Tony Kaes (Berkeley)
Roland Kamzelak (Marbach)
Marcel Lepper (Marbach)
Harry Liebersohn (Urbana)
Paul Michael Lützeler (St. Louis)
Anson Rabinbach (Princeton)
Ulrich Raulff (Marbach)
Frank Trommler (Philadelphia)
Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton)
Liliane Weissberg (Philadelphia)
David E. Wellbery (Chicago)
Meike G. Werner (Nashville) |
In 2009 the first visit of the Marbach AFM members took place in Philadelphia. In the same year the AFM was present at the GSA conference in Washington DC.
Members 2009: 18.