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 »
Past Events
Middle High German Reading Group
Middle High German Reading Group - Odette Hall German Dept. Lounge on Mondays 10-11 Read More »
Guest lecture, March 28: Pia Selmayr: The Art of Trickery. Money and Economy in Strickers ‘Pfaffe Amis’.
PIA SELMAYR is an Assistant Professor of medieval and early modern German literature at the University of Zurich... Read More »
Guest lecture, April 25: Li Zhang: “Franz Kafka and Contemporary Chinese Literature”
LI ZHANG is an associate professor at Soochow University (Suzhou, China), specializing in Comparative and World Literature... Read More »
Guest lecture, Sept 12: Carlotta von Maltzan: “Literarische Reisen ins neue Südafrika”
CARLOTTA VON MALTZAN is Professor of German at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She is editor of the journal Acta Germanica... Read More »
Guest lecture, Oct 18: Stefanie Buchenau: “Menschenwürde: ein Begriff der Aufklärung”
STEFANIE BUCHENAU ist Maître de Conférences an der Université Paris 8 in Saint Denis. Ihr Vortrag behandelt die folgende Thematik... Read More »
Career Planning Mini Workshop 2016
Thursday, September 15, 2016: Learn how to translate the skills you are acquiring during your German studies into marketable job competencies. Read More »
Kaffeestunde: Thursday, April 7 at 1 p.m.
Please join us for our next Kaffeestunde on Thursday, April 7 at 1 p.m. Read More »
Guest lecture, Sept 28: Stefan Seeber: “Happiness is my right!“: Spaces of Love and Self in German Tristan-Adaptations around 1900
Dr. STEFAN SEEBER is a Lecturer at the University of Freiburg. His main research interests are medieval romance, its poetics, and its modern adaptations... Read More »
January 30th, Filming Family: An Evening with Su Friedrich
Monday, January 30th, Theatre opens @ 5:20 p.m. Read More »