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
Professor Klaus Mladek interprets the German elections results on WBUR's Cognoscenti.
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.
Claire Park and Annelise Sauter Ortiz, both of the Class of 2016, have won scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). For details, click on the headline above to access an article in Dartmouth News:
Our spring 2017 Max Kade Visiting Professor Line Hoven, graphic artist and author of celebrated graphic novels in Germany, offered an interactive scratch art workshop.
April 13-16, 2017. Interdisciplinary conference convenes scholars, archivists, curators, print and online journalists, bloggers, and other advocates of film criticism from Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The first meeting of the German Club takes place on Monday, January 9 @ 5:30 pm in Max Kade Center. New club officers are voted in and term events discussed.
On a Grimm Wednesday night, German Club students presented three folktales from the Brothers Grimm Collection to musical piano accompaniment.The show included three imaginatively performed tales in English and German: The Bremen Town Musicians, Cinderella, and Rumpelstiltskin.
Join us on Thursday, October 20 from 6-8pm in Max Kade Center @ Maxwell Hall for pretzels, brats, games and music.
Join us for a presentation on daily life in the shadow of the German-German border by Jürgen Ewert.