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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Workshop

Socionarratology: Core Workshop

October 3, 2025
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Fall 2025 Lecture Series

Wickerwork: A Poetry-in-Translation Conversation

October 27, 2025
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Danube Hospital
Fall 2025 Lecture Series

Medicine and Megastructures: The Hospital as Collective Form in Films by Ulrich Seidl and Nikolaus Geyrhalter

November 10, 2025
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East Pyne Hall arch
Graduate Student Workshop

Fatima Naqvi, Yale University

November 11, 2025
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Graduate Student Workshop

Imaginations of the Womb – Uterine Imaginaries

November 20, 2025