German Minor Savannah Bein has secured a fellowship from the School of Cities to lead an ‘Urban Sustainability Working Group’ within the newly formed School of Cities Student Academy... Read More »
CHRISTIAN LIEDTKE is the head archivist of the manuscript collection at the Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany, and current Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA)... Read More »
German Minor Savannah Bein has secured a fellowship from the School of Cities to lead an ‘Urban Sustainability Working Group’ within the newly formed School of Cities Student Academy... Read More »
This book presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars... Read More »
NICOLE PERRY is a Senior Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland... Read More »
German Minor Savannah Bein has secured a fellowship from the School of Cities to lead an ‘Urban Sustainability Working Group’ within the newly formed School of Cities Student Academy... Read More »
Congratulations to James Retallack who has been awarded the Central European History Society’s Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for his 2017 book, Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860-1918. Read More »
Heinrich Heine's role in the formation of Critical Theory has been systematically overlooked in the course of the successful appropriation of his thought by Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and the legacy they left, in particular for Adorno, Benjamin and the Frankfurt School. This book examines the critical connections that led Adorno to call for a “reappraisal” of Heine in a 1948 essay that, published posthumously, remains under-examined... Read More »
German theatre has a long tradition at the German Department. Some of you may still remember our last production of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck from two years ago. This time we present to you August Wilhelm Iffland’s Der Komet... Read More »
This book presents the first English translation of Herder's foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today's leading Herder scholars... Read More »
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