Veronika Fuechtner gathers an interdisciplinary group of readers to workshop Susan Bernofsky's new translation of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain.
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February 05, 2025
This Academy Award nominated film follows teacher Carla Nowak as she decides to get involved when one of her students is suspected of theft...
January 21, 2025
In their new book, George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek make the case for melancholia as a vital form of social critique and political renewal.
January 14, 2025
"Embracing independence and the unknown can lead to a great, unique experience," says Grace McGinley of having navigated Halle, in Germany's East, on her own.
December 19, 2024
The award honors the best essay on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures, written by a North American scholar or GSNA member. "In...
November 13, 2024
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.
November 13, 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.
October 30, 2024
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".
October 24, 2024
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".
October 17, 2024
Emerson Leite da Rocha, Simone Wuttke, and Lily Tuttle lose track of time scratching in scratch artist Line Hoven's Atelier Fritzen in Hamburg.