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

Exercise: Forming Bodies, Selves, Disciplines

April 4, 2025
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Film Series

Spring 2025 German Experimental Film Series

April 8, 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
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East Pyne Hall arch
Graduate Student Workshop

Albrecht Koschorke, Universität Konstanz

April 15, 2025
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Film Screening

“Disrupting my Image”

A Senior Thesis Film Screening

April 18, 2025