Born Renate Winkler, 1938 in Berlin, Germany. Between 1943 and 1944 evacuated to West Prussia. Family fled invading Soviet troops, returning to Berlin in late 1944. Saw battle of Berlin and Soviet invasion in the spring of 1945 (spent much time in residential bunker). Post-war schooling in Berlin-Neukölln, graduating in 1957 from Johannes Kepler-Gymnasium (Abitur). Classmates: Ursula Ladebeck, Heidi Rente (Genée), Wilfried Wiegand. Au pair in England 1957-58. Study at Sorbonne, Paris, spring semester 1958. Worked in various clerical jobs 1958-59, for an airline 1959-61, for the US Government 1961-64. In 1964 emigrated to the U.S. In New York City 1964-66, working first for the National Lutheran Council, then for UNICEF, attending night school at Hunter College (free!). In September 1966 married Michael Fischetti, moved to Maryland, finished undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland. Graduate studies 1967-71 at UMCP. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation fellow. Dissertation topic: Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera. 1971 birth of first son, Peter N. ("Pete") Fischetti. Since 1972 on the faculty of the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at UMBC. Associate professor in 1977, full professor 1994. 1977 birth of second son, M. Florian ("Flori") Fischetti.
include an anthology of German Baroque literature, Die Deutsche Literatur: Text und Darstellung. Barock, and a book on German women film makers, Das neue Kino. Two shorts films, Tuesday Mornings (1981) and Assateague (1983). Currently working on a collection of essays on the topic of women and violence. Research interests include aesthetics and sociology of film, feminist theory, children of war.
Film Theory, West African Cinema, East European Cinema, Post War West European Cinema, Classics of German Cinema, The New German Cinema, Films by Women, Prussia in Literature and Film, Introduction to German Popular Film, German Women Film Makers, Introduction to German Literature and Culture, Bertolt Brecht, Nazi Film and Literature, Prussia in Literature and Film, Post War German Literature, West German Women of the Fifties, The Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm, History of German Film, The Films of Fritz Lang, The Films of Ingmar Bergman, The Films of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Films of Andrey Tarkovsky, The Films of Wim Wenders, The Films of Federico Fellini.
Post War West European Cinema (Mondays 4:30-7, LHIV), The Films of Federico Fellini (Wednesdays 4:30-7, LHIV), The Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm (Mondays and Wednesdays 2-3:15 AC219).
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:15-4:15 pm
the International Brecht Society, Women in German.
Dr. Renate Fischetti, Professor of German, MLL Department, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, Tel. 410-455-2003, email: fischett@umbc.edu