AHC interview with Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher

Abstract

June 11 & 15, 2012Prof. Ulrich Knoepflmacher was born on June 26, 1931 in Munich, Germany. Just five years after moving to Vienna (Margaretenstrasse in the 5th district), the Knoeplmacher family decided to leave the country, because of the social turmoil Jews were facing. They took the train to Belgium and Holland, from where they embarked to South America on the SS Aconcagua. They arrived in Bolivia in early May 1939. Knoepflmacher attended the Anglo-American High School in Oruro. After graduation, he moved to California to pursue studies of architecture at the University of California in Berkeley. He went on to do a Master's degree in English literature and later got his PhD in the same subject from Princeton University. Ulrich Knoepflmacher became Professor of English literature and taught at Berkeley and at Princeton University.Digital recordin