Ian Wallace was professor of German at Bath University and an expert on German reunification DannyWallace Wed 10 Mar 2021 10.46 EST Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 10.53 EST My father, Ian Wallace, who has died aged 78, was a lecturer in German and European studies. He was drawn to exile studies, which follows the Jewish writers who had to leave Germany under Hitler, but was also concerned that, prior to unification, the world heard mainly about the West German perspective, and so he took the initiative to create the academic journal GDR Monitor (now German Monitor), a neutral forum for discussions on the East. Our home was often filled with German thinkers and writers, such as Volker Braun and Erich Loest.