Two German Studies Events took place this week: the first winter German Club Meeting and the German Studies Reception brought people together.

Professor Petra McGillen was interviewed by the LangTech Podcast: "Speaking another language enables you to relate to the world anew, through a different version of yourself—and that can be a really exciting, transformative experience."...

Nick Ostrau presented German Chatterbox 1.0 to highschool and college educators at the ACTFL 2017 Convention & World Languages Expo in Nashville, TN. The program enables beginning language learners to practice syntax, vocabulary and cultural awareness....

What happens when an expert on the Weimar Republic—Germany’s brief experiment with democracy between two world wars—meets the cast of Cabaret? That’s what Associate Professor of German Studies Veronika Fuechtner wanted to know when she learned that the theater department was staging the musical, set in early 1930s Berlin, this term. Read more in the current issue of the Dartmouth: https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/11/cabaret-cast-gets-experts-view-1930s-berlin

German Studies called on all students to help to design a logo for our T-shirts, posters and other advertisement.

Professor Klaus Mladek interprets the German elections results on WBUR's Cognoscenti....

The 2017 Oktoberfest took place October 12 in Occom Commons, McLaughlin. There were brats, pretzels, music, games and crafts. All invited invited to come as you are or wear a dirndl or lederhosen!

Germans were about to cast their votes. Merkel or Schulz? Who wouldl win the race for the German chancellorship? On Saturday, September 23, Dennis Wegner met with the German Club in Max Kade Center to answer questions about the upcoming elections.

Happy Fall Term! Join us for our first German Club meeting on Wednesday, September 13 at 5 pm in the Max Kade Center at Maxwell Hall (near Thayer School of Engineering). We will talk about happenings in the fall term and elect new German Club officers (a president, a vice president, and a treasurer).

This course treats eight of the greatest plays ever written in German, pairing them to highlight historical links, thematic continuities, and formal innovations in their treatment of racial and religious intolerance, attitudes toward women, the causes of history, and the reasons for revolution.