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Faculty Publication

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

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Faculty Appointment

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

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Summer School

Media Subjects: How Does Med

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Summer Graduate Seminar

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

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Summer Graduate Seminar

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

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Reading Group
Reading Group

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

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German Language Tables
Mondays at 6:30, Rockefeller College

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

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Graduate Exam

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

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Undergraduate News

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

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Published Article

“On Enlightenment – mallet or tenderness”

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Visiting Faculty

Professor Viktoria Tkacyzk is a Whitney J.

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Faculty Award

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

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Seniors 2023

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

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Seniors 2023

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

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Seniors 2023

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

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Seniors 2023

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

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Summer Seminar

Challenging authorship. Hidden networks of the creative process.

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Lecture

Graduate Program in Media + Modernity | Princeton University

Michelle Kuo

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Reading Group

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

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Co-Sponsor News

Date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Time: 6:00pm

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Visiting Faculty

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

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Faculty Appointment

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

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Lecture

East Pyne 205 4:30-6:00pm

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Faculty Publication

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

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Faculty Publication

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

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German Language Tables

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

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Collections

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

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Study Abroad

When: Friday, September 16th, 2022

Time: 12:30pm - 3:30pm

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Reading Group

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

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New Faculty

The German department is pleased to welcome

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Lecture
Upcoming Lecture Series for Fall 2022

Mondays 4:30pm - 6:00pm

 

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Faculty Award

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

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Student Award

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

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Faculty Publication

Weimar in Princeton: Thomas Mann and the Kahler Circle:

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Seniors 2022
Congratulations Class of 2022

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

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Seniors 2022
Congratulations Class of 2022

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

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Seniors 2022
Congratulations Class of 2022

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

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German Language Tables
Brush up on your German with friends over dinner

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

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Radio Diaries

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

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Certificate Program
Certificate Student named Sachs Scholar

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

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Graduate Workshop
Graduate student Workshop Recap

Whither critique?

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Graduate Conference

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

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Graduate Conference

The Automated Condition.

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German Language Tables
Brush up on your German with friends over dinner

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

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Co-Sponsor News

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

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Visiting Faculty

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

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Visiting Faculty

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

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Student Award

Congratulations

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Faculty Publication

How Literatures Begin: A Global History

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Seniors 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021

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

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Seniors 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021

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

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Certificate Program

Jacob Christensen

Cassidy Crone

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Seniors 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021

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

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Seniors 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021

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

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Seniors 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021

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

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Seniors 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021

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

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Seniors 2021

What a year this has been!

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Department News

German Department Graduate Newsletter

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Fall Courses

Fall 2021 Course PDF flyers:

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Faculty Award

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

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Department News

German Department Graduate Newsletter

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Faculty Publication

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

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Department News

German Department Graduate Newsletter

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Alumni Award

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

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Summer Courses

For more information, visit Summer 2021 Online

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Professor Emeritus

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

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Spring Courses

German Department Princeton Spring 2021 Course Listings

(Download PDF for details)

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Graduate Publication
Published Anthology - Ultima Philosophia

Third year graduate student Kathrin Witter coedited

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New Graduate Students

Princeton German Department welcomes Erica Passoni and

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Published Article
Tess Solomon is a rising senior at Princeton University studying English and minoring in German.

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

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Reading Group

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

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Published Article

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

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Seniors 2020

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

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Seniors 2020
Congratulations Class of 2020

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

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Seniors 2020

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

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Seniors 2020

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

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Seniors 2020

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

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Seniors 2020

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

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Seniors 2020

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

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Seniors 2020

What is your favorite memory from a German class?

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German Language Tables
Brush up on your German with friends over dinner

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

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Princeton in Munich
Princeton in Munich

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

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German Senior Performance
Jaclyn Hovsmith in Lewis Center for the Arts Performance

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

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Faculty Award
Prof. Sally Poor wins Best Article prize...

Please congratulate Prof.

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Alumni

Princeton University Alumna Allison Fleming was fascinated with

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Faculty Publication

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

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Faculty Award

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

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Concert

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

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East Pyne 2019 Princeton Preview
Open House

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

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Faculty Appointment

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

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Certificate Program

Certificate in German Language and Culture

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Barbara Nagel
Faculty Award

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

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Visiting Faculty

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

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Concert

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

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Summer School

Topic Announced for the 2019 Summer School for Media Studies:

The Technologization of Cultural Techniques.

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Faculty Publication

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

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Faculty Publication

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

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Faculty Publication

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

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Language Table

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


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Study Abroad

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

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Student Award

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

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On Air

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

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Performance

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

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Milestone

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

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Lecture

Date: Thursday May 10, 2018

Time: 10:30am - 5:00pm

Location: Frist Campus Center

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Summer School

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


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

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Sigrid Weigel

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

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Concert

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

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Inka Mülder-Bach
Special Course

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

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Student Award

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

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Summer School

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

Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies

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Spring 2018 Events

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

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Dan Martin
Student Award

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

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Michael Curschmann
In Memoriam

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

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Poster of “Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari”
Film Series

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

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Faculty Award

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

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Visiting Students

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

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Study Abroad

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

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Summer School

Challenges of Media Anthropology

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Study Abroad

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

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Marcel Lepper
Visiting Faculty

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

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Summer School

Start Making Sense?

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Andrew Nelson
Student Award

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

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Special Course

GER 321G – Summer 2016

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Conversation

Who: Hal Foster in Conversation with Devin Fore

What: Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency

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Student Award

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

Philip Daniel Mooney

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Walter Hinderer
Faculty Award

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

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Student Award

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

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Inka Mulder-Bach
Faculty Appointment

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

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Devin Fore
Faculty Award

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

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Faculty Publication
Newly updated editions of the Undergraduate and Graduate Handbooks as well as the Guide to Independent Work can now be downloaded from the departmental website.

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

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Alumni

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

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Faculty Appointment
Profs. Katja Guenther, Leora F. Batnitzky and Jan-Werner Müller join the ranks of the Department’s trans-disciplinary Associated Faculty

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

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Natalie Binczek
Visiting Scholar
Natalie Binczek (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) to spend four months working on the Gruppe 47 audio tapes

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

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Daniel Eschkötter
Visiting Scholar
German media theorist Daniel Eschkötter (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) will be a guest of the Department working in the Kluge Archive

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

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Joel B. Lande
Joel B. Lande (Univ. of Chicago) will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor in September 2014

The German Department is delighted to announce that Joel B.

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Barbara Natalie Nagel
Barbara Natalie Nagel (LMU München) will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor in September 2014

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

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Sigrid Weigel
Visiting Scholar
Sigrid Weigel, one of our three Permanent Visiting Professors, is back in Princeton for the “Spring” Term 2014.

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

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Gabriele Brandstetter
Visiting Faculty
Prof. Gabriele Brandstetter (FU-Berlin) will be teaching graduate and undergraduate seminars in the German Dept. in the upcoming Spring Semester

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

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Spring 2014 Events

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

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Alumni Publication
A sampling of recent books published by former PhD students in the German Department gives a sense of the range and quality of the work done in the doctoral program.

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

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Summer School
Applications now being accepted for the 2014 Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies which will take place in Princeton, NJ from June 15 – June 21, 2014

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

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Inka Mulder-Bach
Visiting Faculty
Professor Inka Mülder-Bach, one of three Permanent Visiting Professors on the German Department faculty, will be in Princeton for the Fall 2013 semester.

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

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

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

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Student Award
Alice R. Christensen, Jeffrey Kirkwood, Hannah Hunter-Parker have been awarded important grants.

Alice R.

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Visiting Students
The Department will host three Visiting Student Research Collaborators for the Fall 2013 semester.

Ms.

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

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

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Faculty Publication
“Träger der Forschung bleibt die Publikation” – Niklas Luhmann

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

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Harun Maye
Visiting Scholar
Harun Maye, Researcher and Lecturer in the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (IKKM) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has joined the Department of German as a Visiting Associate Professional Specialist for the spring of 2013.

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

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Summer School
Third Annual Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies
Weimar (Germany) June 15–22, 2013

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

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Inka Mulder-Bach
Faculty Appointment
Professor Inka Mülder-Bach of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, joins the Department as a Permanent Visiting Professor.

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

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Hent de Vries
Visiting Faculty
de Vries is here as a Visiting Professor in the Council of the Humanities and a Stewart Fellow in German this Fall

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

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Medieval Studies

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

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Anna Tuschling
Visiting Scholar
Mercator Junior Professor Anna Tuschling (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) is conducting research at Princeton University during Spring 2012.

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

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Summer School
The German Department at Princeton University announces the Second Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies. This event will take place in Princeton, NJ from June 17–23, 2012.

Spaces of Media: The Second Annual Princeton-Weimar

Summer School for Media Studies

Princeton University

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Conference
This conference examines the role played by religious discourse in German culture in the early twentieth century.

Rhetorics of Religion in Germany, 1900–1950

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

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

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Summer School
The first international Summer School for Media Studies, a co-operation between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar & Princeton University, will take place from June 6 - June 10, 2011 in Weimar, Germany.

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

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