German Department Princeton

Unser schreibzeug arbeitet mit an unseren gedanken. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our writing tools are also at work on our thoughts. (Friedrich Nietzsche in a letter to his secretary Peter Gast. February 1882)
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The Princeton German Department explores the language, literatures, intellectual history, arts and media of Germany and German-speaking cultures from the Middle Ages to the present. Our highly diverse and distinguished faculty employ the critical tools of multiple disciplines to investigate and appreciate the wide range of German cultural production, its significance for–and reception of–other cultures, and its continued importance for our current historical moment.

Events

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Graduate Student Conference

Mysticism & Modernism: The World of Margarete Susman

February 21, 2025
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Film Series

Spring 2025 German Experimental Film Series

February 25, 2025
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Open House

Sophomore Open House - March 4, 2025

The concentration declaration period for Spring 2025 is March 27-April 14, 2025

March 4, 2025
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Reading Group

There is a crack in everything. Introduction to the Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics. 2nd Reading.

March 6, 2025
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Reading Group

There is a crack in everything. Introduction to the Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics. 3rd Reading.

March 27, 2025
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Spring 2025 Lecture Series

The German “Auto-“. Fiction, Theory, and the Essay in the First-Person Singular

March 31, 2025
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Reading Group

There is a crack in everything. Introduction to the Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics. Last Reading.

April 10, 2025
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Spring 2025 Lecture Series

From Empathy to Resentment: A Short History of Identification

April 14, 2025