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 »
Author Archives: Helena Juenger
Guest lecture, Feb 28: Christian Liedtke: “Das Bier in Weimar ist wirklich gut.” Heinrich Heine und Goethe
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 »
ecoHub Freiburg/iPRAKTIKUM Intern Savannah Bein Receives School of Cities Fellowship
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 »
John Noyes publishes new book on Herder’s Essay on Being
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 »
Guest lecture, March 7: Nicole Perry: “German Indianthusiasm and Indigenous Remasterings”
NICOLE PERRY is a Senior Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland... Read More »
ecoHub Freiburg/iPRAKTIKUM Intern Savannah Bein Receives School of Cities Fellowship
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 »
Former German Department Chair Jim Retallack wins major prize for his book on Saxony
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 »
Willi Goetschel publishes new book on Heine and Critical Theory
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 »
Der Komet. A play by August Wilhelm Iffland. March 25/26/27
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 »
John Noyes publishes new book on Herder’s Essay on Being
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 »