Undergraduate student Tobias-René Wilczek receives funding from Germany/Europe Fund

Tobias-René Wilczek is a third-year undergraduate student of German Studies and Philosophy. The Germany/Europe Fund from the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto will help him to conduct research on “Transnational” and “Exilliteratur” in Berlin and Bucharest, focusing predominantly on the works of German-Romanian Nobel Prize laureate Herta Müller and the works of Bertolt Brecht. A comparative component will also be part of this project.

This research activity seeks not only to explore the motivations and the conditions of the writing of transnational and exiled authors, but also how those motivations define the ontological character of literature as a whole.