Thinking about the many times with Diana Behler, my friend, fellow researcher and faculty member at the UW, makes me smile. Diana never hesitated to work for truth and the empowerment of all. She radiated charm and elegance wherever she appeared, was well spoken and often refreshed the confines of academic intellectual discourses by referring to the newest cultural news from her daily readings of the New York Times, the New Yorker, and other sources. She also modelled for me how to manage the work/life balance. She was the first colleague who visited me on the first day when my son was born at the hospital in Capitol Hill, and she took my daughter into town when I had a medical appointment. The Christmas ornament they bought--a white beautiful steamship—still graces our Christmas tree every year. Dear Diana, you lived professional success without a nitpicking mindset. I enjoyed our conversations about “Nietzsche and the Feminine,” your work on Gustav Carus, the Romantics, and the lecture you brought to the University of Oregon entitled "Sexual Fantasies: Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut" in 2002. The last sentence of its flier speaks about your resourceful and critical mind: “How do Albertine and Fridolin of 1926 translate to Alice and Bill of 1999? If not linked by time, place, and language, then what makes these couples and their experiences analogous? How do the stories differ, and does it matter?” Especially the last question reminds us of your astute awareness of us being entwined in constantly moving and unfinished configurations. You have been a model for many of your students and colleagues. I am deeply grateful that you have been and will always be a part of my life.
Dorothee Ostmeier
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In Memoriam: Tribute to Diana Behler by Joe Voyles
In Memoriam: Diana Behler Obituary
"With Diana and Charles this is the final passing of the generation that had already been in place for almost 20 years when I came to the department in 1989. This core group had been gathered, as best I can tell, with the legendary Willy Rey. Let me just register that the entire group were were at bottom all of them kind, civil, forgiving, and extremely decent colleagues. I felt, and still feel, extremely fortunate to have spent almost thirty years in a department in which everyone made a point of being part of a constructive community for so long, and I wish for all of you another several decades of the same." --Jane K. Brown