News Archive

“Reading: Forms of Attention and Distraction”

The Department of German is excited to announce that the Princeton in Vienna courses for 2025 (GER

Sara S.

Program: Princeton in Berlin

Prof. Dr. Gertrud Koch.

Senior Thesis: Only the Gods Are Real, Mythology and Postmodern Philosophy in Neil Gaiman’s American Go

Senior Thesis: Neue Ansichten über Bachmanns Malina im Kontext des weiblichen Bildungsromans

Senior Thesis: “Die Bandenführer schreiten daher wie Staatsmänner”: Reading Theories of Bonapartism in Walter Be

Senior Thesis: Schreber, Remixed: Four Adaptations of Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken

Senior Thesis: Two Case Studies in the Cartographicity of Movement

The German Department is delighted to announce an historically large cohort of sophomores who have recently declared German

The German Department is collaborating with the Department of Music to create a new summer

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant excavates the early modern prehistory of our late

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Florian Fuchs to the German Department as a research scholar and lecturer. Dr.

Media Subjects: How Does Med

“Dissent and Discord: Practices, Politics, and Poetics.”

The production of literature has traditionally relied on collaboration of multiple agents, yet much of their activity often escapes notice in liter

We are pleased to announce the continuation of our reading group, the first phase in a three-part initiative to expand and diversify the community

Date: Mondays
Location: Rockefeller College
Time: 6:30 pm

The Department of German will offer a test of reading proficiency in German for Graduate Students on Wednesday, 8 November 2023 between noon and mi

Date: August 28, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

“On Enlightenment – mallet or tenderness”

Professor Viktoria Tkacyzk is a Whitney J.

This year, the Council awarded 27 new grants for innovation and collaboration, led by 41 faculty from across 25 academic departme

Senior Thesis: Reimagining the Revival: The Case for a Contemporary Staging of Haydn’s Opera Der Apothe

Senior Thesis: “Dies Buch ist ausschließlich für die Frau geschrieben”: Unmasking Gender Ideology in the Heal

Senior Thesis: Soccer in Germany: On the Power of a National Sport

Senior Thesis: The Shmatte Siddur: Tattered Order, Ordered Tatters, And Queering Yiddishkeit

Challenging authorship. Hidden networks of the creative process.

Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University

Michelle Kuo

We are pleased to announce the continuation of our new reading group, the first phase in a three-part initiative to expand and diversify the commun

Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Time: 6:00pm

The German department is pleased to have Professor Frauke Berndt of the

As part of a major new initiative in interdisciplinary data science, Princeton University is undertaking a search for faculty members at all academ

East Pyne 205 4:30-6:00pm

While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-America

The most recent edition of this well-known self-study reference continues to provide German learners with a strong foundation in grammatical termin

Date: Every Thursday
Location: Yeh College
Time: 6:30pm

The Special Collections at Princeton University Library house one of the finest portraits of Johann Wolfgang Goethe made during his lif

When: Friday, September 16th, 2022

Time: 12:30pm - 3:30pm

We are pleased to announce a new reading group, the first phase in a three-part initiative to expand and diversify the community of the Department

The German department is pleased to welcome

Mondays 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Forty-one University faculty, staff and students have been awarded grants for 24 projects designed to transform scholarship and&n

In recognition of undergraduate students outstanding achievements in the study of German, book prizes were awarded by Prof.

Senior Thesis: Surrealist Woman, Dismembered Doll, Horror Victim: Hans Bellmer’s Puppe Photographs

Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle:

Senior Thesis: Wissenschaftlichkeit in Freud: Scientific Reduction and the Ghost of the Entwurf

Senior Thesis: Ideology and Anxiety: Familiarity in Capitalism and the Strangeness Thereof

Date: Tuesdays
Location: Center for Jewish Life, 26 College Rd West

Juliane Rebentisch

“We’re all accustomed to recording and hearing our own voices. But in the 1930s, many people were doing it for the first time.

The Sachs Scholarship is intended to broaden the global experience of its recipients by providing them with the opportunity to study, work or trave

Whither critique?

Registration opens on November 1, 2021.

This graduate conference explored the relationship of idyll and utopia from philosophical, historical, and literary perspectives.

The Automated Condition.

Date: Tuesdays
Location: Zoom
Time: 6pm -7pm EDT

Germany at the end of the Merkel era, deep uncertainty and dissatisfaction, chaos in world politics, a ne

Congratulations

The German department is pleased to have Professor Anja Lemke, a Professor of German Litera

The German department is pleased to have Professor Carlos Spoehase, Class of 1932 Visiting Fe

How Literatures Begin: A Global History

Senior Thesis: “Human as Woman”: by Lou Andreas-Salomé: A Translation

Senior Thesis: Staatsferne, Nichtkommerzialität, and Aufklärung:  A Media-political C

Senior Thesis: Out of the Trenches and into the Factories:  Der Arbeiter and

Jacob Christensen

Cassidy Crone

Senior Thesis: A Taxonomy of Trumpism: On the Contemporary Application of ‘Fascism’

Senior Thesis: The Κᾰτέχων in Carl Schmitt’s Philosophy of World History: Nonconceptuality, Weaponisation,

What a year this has been!

Senior Thesis: Painting the New Woman: On the Late Weimar Paintings of Lotte Laserstein

German Department Graduate Newsletter

Fall 2021 Course PDF flyers:

The Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Councils proudly present Professor Barbara Nagel with an Excellence in Teaching Award for her spring 201

German Department Graduate Newsletter

Professor Joseph Vogl’s new book, Capitalism and Ressentiment: A Brief Theory of the Present, will be appearing on March 18,&nbsp

German Department Graduate Newsletter

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its fourteenth Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Stud

For more information, visit Summer 2021 Online

After receiving his PhD from Yale University in 1957 and several years teaching at Yale and Columbia University, Ziolkowski came to Pri

German Department Princeton Spring 2021 Course Listings

(Download PDF for details)

Third year graduate student Kathrin Witter coedited

Princeton German Department welcomes Erica Passoni and

Tess Solomon, Class of 2021, wrote an article that was published in the Tablet Mag titled,

Join the new reading group “Derrida and Post-Phenomenology”, funded by the Departments of German and Comparati

“Wer denkt abstrakt?” was published August 27, 2020 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, by graduate student Kathrin Witter.

Senior year is always extraordinary in many ways: the last two semesters of college (which itself was the telos of much of High School), the push t

What is your favorite memory from a German class?
One of my favorite memories is hiking the Swiss Alps.

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

What is your favorite memory from a German class?
I love Professor Nagel’s commentary. She tells the best stories

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

Date: Mondays
Location: Butler College Dining Hall
Time: 6pm -7pm
Dennis Schäfer

This summer’s program will take place from June 1st – June 26, 2020.

Mother Courage and Her Children, Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece of epic theater in an adaptation by Tony Kushner, about a family, trapped by socio-po

Please congratulate Prof.

Princeton University Alumna Allison Fleming was fascinated with

Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like “love,” “hatred,” “anxiety,” or “sorrow” seem cl

Congratulations to Brigid Doherty, Associate Professor of German and Art and Archaeology

On Saturday April 13, The Princeton Chamber Music Society and Department of German presented an evening of Beethoven’s chamber music.

The East Pyne Languages Open House was held during Princeton Preview on Tuesday April 9th and Monday April 15th.

The German Department is delighted to announce that the philosopher Juliane Rebentisch joined our faculty as a Regular Visiting Professor in the fa

Certificate in German Language and Culture

Ambiguous Aggressions in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, and Domestic Violence

The German Department is pleased to announce that Ann Marie Rasmussen, the Right Honourable John G.

On December 1, the German Department joined the Princeton Chamber Music Society and PhD candidate Rachel Bergmann in the Chancellor Green Rotunda f

Topic Announced for the 2019 Summer School for Media Studies:

The Technologization of Cultural Techniques.

Walter Kaufmann was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who taught with great success at Princeton from 1947 until his untimely

Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool,

Because of Romanticism’s vast scope, most treatments have restricted themselves to single countries or to specific forms, notably literature, art,

Forbes College hosted by Allison Murawski on Tuesdays, 6:30pm – 7:30pm


Princeton in Munich, the German Department’s study abroad program, concludes another exciting summer session in Munich, Germany.

Congratulations to Ron Sadan and William Stewart as 2018 DAAD Graduate Scholarship Award recipients.

The CBS program “60 Minutes” featured Princeton President Christopher L.

Session was on Wednesday May 9th 7–10pm in East Pyne 205

This summer, the German Summer Work Program (SWP) celebrates its 60th year connecting Princeton undergraduates with inter

Date: Thursday May 10, 2018



Time: 10:30am - 5:00pm



Location: Frist Campus Center



Scaling. What happens when we scale things up or down?


Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies
June 16–22, 2018

Following her retirement as the Director of the Zentrum for Literatur- und Kulturforschung [Research Center of Literature and Culture (ZfL)] in Ber

Students, faculty and friends of the German Department in collaboration with the Princeton Chamber Music Society presented an evening of chamber mu

Professor Inka Mülder-Bach, one of the popular Permanent Visiting Professors on the German Department faculty, will be in residence in Princeton fo

At the annual German Department Holiday Party on December 6th, the Departmental Representative Prof. Thomas Y.

Scaling. What happens when we scale things up or down?



Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies



Please mark your calendars: the German Department program of lectures, workshops and symposia for the Spring semester 2018, organized by Profs.

Sixth-year graduate student Jonathan Martin’s scholarship has been recognized with the AATG German Quarterly Graduate Stu

Michael Curschmann joined the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures as an Assistant Professor in 1963 – soon after the department had be

The German Department Film Series for the Fall semester 2017 will be devoted to a program of striking new copies of both classic and lesser-known f

The Department of Germanic Languages at Princeton University would like to congratulate Sara Poor as a fellow of the National Humanities Center Fel

Prof.

Ana Gabriela Dickstein Roiffe from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and Rafael Dernbach f

Prof. Joel Lande’s seminar Berlin: A Media Metropolis travels to the German capital over Fall Break

Challenges of Media Anthropology

Princeton-in-Munich, the Department’s summer program in Munich, Germany will take place from May 30-June 29, 2017.

PD Dr. Marcel Lepper visits Princeton’s German Department as Short Term Academic Guest during the fall semester.

Start Making Sense?

The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength of character an

GER 321G – Summer 2016

Who: Hal Foster in Conversation with Devin Fore

What: Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency

Congratulations to the following for being elected to Phi Beta Kappa:

Philip Daniel Mooney

Walter Hinderer will receive the Golden Goethe Medal, which has been given since 1910 as the highest honor of the Goethe-Gesellschaft, at a public

Cody O’Neil, along with Princeton University senior Bina Peltz, have been awarded 2015 fellowships from ReachOut 56–81–06, an alumni-funded effort

Professor Inka Mülder-Bach, one of three Permanent Visiting Professors on the German Department faculty, will be in residence in Princeton for the

Professor Fore received the prize, which is awarded biennially for outstanding scholarly work in the field of Germanic Studies, for his book Realis

The updated versions of three key departmental publications – the Undergraduate Handbook, the Graduate Handbook, and the Guide to Independent Work

In 2013–14, three recent German Department PhDs attained academic positions in an extremely competitive job market, continuing the tradition that h

Alongside its already highly interdisciplinary full-time faculty, the German Department also has a very active and highly distinguished group of As

Natalie Binczek, Professor of Neugermanistik, insbesondere Theorie und Geschichte literarischer Kommunikation und ihrer Medien at the Ruhr-Universi

Daniel Eschkötter, Researcher and Lecturer in Media Studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, will spend the months of May and June in Princeton a

The German Department is delighted to announce that Barbara Natalie Nagel, a wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in the German Department at Ludwig Max

The German Department is delighted to announce that Joel B.

Sigrid Weigel in Berlin and Permanent Visiting Professor in the German Department at Princeton, is once again spending a semester at Princeton.

Prof. Gabriele Brandstetter is one of the leading figures in the fields of Kulturwissenschaften and Performance Studies.

The Spring 2014 Departmental Lecture Series begins on February 20th with a lecture by Visiting Professor Gabriele Brandstetter (

One metric of the range and quality of the doctoral work done by the graduate students in the German Department’s PhD Program is the following list

Fourth Annual Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies to take place in Princeton, NJ from June 15 – June 21,&nbs

Professor Inka Mülder-Bach, one of three Permanent Visiting Professors on the German Department faculty, will be in Princeton for the Fall semester

With the start of the new academic year, there have been some staffing changes in the department. Thomas Y.

Prof. Michael Saman will join the Princeton German Department as a Lecturer this Fall.

Alice R.

Ms.

“Erst in der Form von Publikationen erreicht die moderne Wissenschaft autopoietische Anschluβfähigkeit.

Harun Maye, Researcher and Lecturer in the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM)

Call for Applications: “Reveals: Seams, Scars, Thresholds, and Frames”

Professor Mülder-Bach received her PhD from the University of Tübingen after academic training at Tübingen, Oslo, and Berkeley.

The Medieval Studies Program at Princeton University has announced its 2012–2013 lecture series, “Religion and War”. Speakers include: John F.

Professor Hent de Vries, Russ Family Chair in the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, is a Visiting Profe

In June 2012, Tuschling will be part of the faculty of the Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies.

Spaces of Media: The Second Annual Princeton-Weimar

Summer School for Media Studies

Princeton University

Rhetorics of Religion in Germany, 1900–1950

In July 2010, the Princeton Alumni Association of Germany received an award by the initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas”, sponsored by the German go

The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturte