Carsten Gansel (born 21 November 1955) is a German literary scholar and university teacher. He is professor of modern German literature and German literature and media didactics at the University of Giessen.[1] In 2012, he discovered the original manuscript of Heinrich Gerlach's semi-autobiographical novel of the Battle of Stalingrad, The Forsaken Army, in the Russian State Military Archive.[2]
Carsten Gansel is a member of the PEN-Zentrum Deutschland, the Verband deutscher Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (VS) and chairman of the jury for the Uwe-Johnson-Prize as well as the Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis.[3] He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Arbeitsstelle für Lessing-Rezeption Kamenz and a founding member of the International Christa Wolf Center (research center for German and Polish contemporary literature and culture). In December 1989, Carsten Gansel was a co-founder of the Mecklenburg Literary Society, which is particularly committed to the work of Uwe Johnson. He has been its chairman since 1992.[4]