In their new book, George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek make the case for melancholia as a vital form of social critique and political renewal.
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"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.
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The award honors the best essay on Goethe, his times, and/or contemporary figures, written by a North American scholar or GSNA member. "In her highly original, timely, and lucidly written essay," the jury wrote in its commendation, "Deniz explores Romantic conceptions of matter.
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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.
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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.
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