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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Film Screening

Abschied von gestern / Yesterday Girl

November 5, 2026
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Symposium

Seismographies- Alexander Kluge’s Polymorphous 

Urgencies: A Workshop and 

Tribute Symposium

November 6, 2026
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Käthe Kollwitz, The Mothers, 1922-23
Fall 2026 Lecture Series

Käthe Kollwitz, Group Portraiture, and Social Intimacy

November 9, 2026