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Meryem Deniz wins the 2024 Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize

The award honors the best essay on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures, written by a North American scholar or GSNA member.
My Illegal Life: Film Screening and Discussion Tuesday, November 19, 5:00 pm in Filene Auditorium

In My Illegal Life (Germany, 2024), writer Esther Dischereit, Hella's second-born daughter, follows the traces of her mother's and half-sister's experiences hiding in the Berlin Underground in 1942.
Notes from the German LSA+/FSP Program Fall 2024

As part of the five-day stay in Vienna, the Dartmouth LSA+/FSP group went on a guided tour through "das Rote Wien" (the Red Vienna), a series of impressive government-funded communal housing projects that were built in the 1920s and 1930s under the government of the Social Democrats.
Resonance: A conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo

November 8, 2024 12:15-1:15 p.m. Haldeman 031. Lunch provided. Join us for a conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo about the Black German literary tradition, her experiences as a Black writer in Germany and the Black literature festival "Resonanzen".
Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, 2024 Dartmouth Hall 104

A workshop considering Hannah Arendt's reflections on historical memory from an interdisciplinary perspective that explores the contemporary relevance of Arendt's strategies for narrating history in "dark times".
Students on the Berlin LSA/LSA+ think through the experience of living in several languages at once

Emerson Leite da Rocha, Simone Wuttke, and Lily Tuttle lose track of time scratching in scratch artist Line Hoven's Atelier Fritzen in Hamburg.
The German Studies Department Presents Oktoberfest 2024!

Please join the Department of German Studies as they celebrate Oktoberfest 2024 - Thursday, October 10, 5-7 p.m. at Collis Common Ground. Food, cider, music, food, games and fun will be had by all. See you there!
Director and scriptwriter Henk Handloegten discusses international hit series Babylon Berlin

The Department of German Studies hosted director and scriptwriter Henk Handloegten, showrunner of the international hit series Babylon Berlin.
Film Screening: Die Arier. Monday September 23rd, 4:30 p.m. 001 Rockefeller

Documentary film The Aryans. Mo Asumang interviews various right-wing groups & the KKK. Discussion & dialogue exercises by Mo Asumang and Heidi Denzel of Mo:Lab Dialogue Principle. (This event is held in English and no knowledge of German required)
Film Screening: Babylon Berlin. Thursday September 19th, 4:30 p.m. Moore Hall B03

Internationally renowned film director Henk Handloegten will present two episodes of the successful TV series Babylon Berlin. Thursday, September 19th, 4:30 p.m., Moore Hall B03

Recent Publications

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The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.

Petra S. McGillen

New Directions in German Studies; 26. New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Irene Kacandes

De Gruyter Verlag, 2022
Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis

Klaus Mladek, George Edmondson (eds.)

Duke University Press, 2017.
Toni Erdmann

Gerd Gemünden

Camden House, 2021

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Top Stories

Meryem Deniz wins the 2024 Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize

My Illegal Life: Film Screening and Discussion Tuesday, November 19, 5:00 pm in Filene Auditorium

Notes from the German LSA+/FSP Program Fall 2024

Resonance: A conversation with Sharon Dodua Otoo

Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9, 2024 Dartmouth Hall 104

Students on the Berlin LSA/LSA+ think through the experience of living in several languages at once

The German Studies Department Presents Oktoberfest 2024!

Director and scriptwriter Henk Handloegten discusses international hit series Babylon Berlin

Film Screening: Die Arier. Monday September 23rd, 4:30 p.m. 001 Rockefeller

Film Screening: Babylon Berlin. Thursday September 19th, 4:30 p.m. Moore Hall B03

Recent Publications

The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print.

On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence

Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis

Toni Erdmann

Study Abroad

Our Courses

MAJOR AND MINOR DEGREES