Dominik Barta was born in Upper Austria and studied in Vienna, Bonn, and Florence. In addition to 
Tür an Tür, he published the award-winning 
Vom Land. 
 Gary Schmidt, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Wright State University, is the author of 
The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature, translator of 
The Summers, cotranslator of 
What Makes a Man: Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin, and coeditor of 
Quertext: An Anthology of Queer Voices from German-Speaking Europe.