Peter Jelavich is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Europe since the Enlightenment, with an emphasis on Germany. He is the author of Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914 (1985), Berlin Cabaret (1993), and Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture (2006).