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Department Chair: Stephan Schindler (skschind@artsci.wustl.edu)

Home Page: http://artsci.wustl.edu/~german/

Location: 319 S. Ridgley Hall

Email: german@artsci.wustl.edu

Telephone: (314) 935-5106

Germanic Languages and Literatures offers a diverse and challenging program of study in the language, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries. Undergraduate and graduate students study the German language intensively and explore German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present. In its presentation of literature, the department strives for a broad coverage and a variety of approaches aimed at a healthy balance of history and theory with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary, multicultural, and gender studies.


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Quincy Jones among recipients

Washington University to award six honorary degrees at 147th Commencement (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11664.html)

May 1, 2008 -- Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer of women in medicine and a multimedia entrepreneur, will receive honorary degrees May 16 during Washington University's 147th Commencement ceremony. The university also will bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students during the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.


Spend an "Afternoon with Calvin Trillin"

Musings from a writer: Calvin Trillin on life, work, politics, and food (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11332.html)

March 25, 2008 -- Calvin Trillin, the versatile veteran writer, journalist and humorist, will appear at Washington University at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Steinberg Auditorium as part of the Assembly Series. His talk is the keynote address for the upcoming symposium, "Consuming News: Newspapers & Print Culture in Early Modern Europe (1500 - 1800)" sponsored by the German department in Arts & Sciences.


German Film Festival

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum to present "A Festival of Contemporary German Film" April 11 to 15 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9110.html)

March 27, 2007 --
*Fremde Haut (Unveiled)*
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Fremde Haut (Unveiled)
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The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present "A Festival of Contemporary German Film" April 11 to 15. Screenings will include four recent critically acclaimed films: Vier Minuten (Four Minutes), Alles auf Zucker! (Go for Zucker!), Fremde Haut (Unveiled) and Sommer vorm Balkon (Summer in Berlin). In addition, the Kemper Art Museum will host a panel discussion exploring contemporary German film within the artistic and socio-political context of post-unification Germany.



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Faculty Experts:

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Paul Lützeler

Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/572.html)

Lützeler teaches in both the German Department and the Comparative Literature Program. His research and teaching interests include German and European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses (postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization), and cultural studies in general. ...


Expertise: German Romanticism, European Romanticism, German exile literature, contemporary scholarly discourses, postmodernism, postcolonialism, globalization, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4784 / jahrbuch@wustl.edu


Gerhild Williams

Barbara Schaps Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanties in Arts and Sciences (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/571.html)

Williams's research interests include the literature of early modern witchcraft and magic, the radical reforming movements, the 17th century polyhistor Johannes Praetorius and early modern science and literature. Her research has been supported by grants from the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, ...


Expertise: German Literature, witchcraft, magic, early modern science, early modern literature

Direct contact: (314) 935-5106 / gerhildwilliams@wustl.edu


Stephan Schindler

Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/48.html)

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Stephan K. Schindler, associate professor of German, Comparative Literature and Film Studies Schindler's interests include 18th and 20th Century German literature and culture, German intellectual history, film studies, Holocaust studies, gender studies and contemporary German political and social issues. ...


Expertise: 18th & 20th century german literature and culture, German intellectual history, film studies

Direct contact: (314) 935-5136 / skschind@artsci.wustl.edu


Lynne Tatlock

Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/47.html)

She has published widely on German literature and culture from 1650 to the 1990s with a concentration in the late seventeenth century and the nineteenth century. She has maintained an abiding interest in the novel and its origins, the construction and representation of gender, reading communities ...


Expertise: 17th & 19th century German literature and culture, literary translation

Direct contact: (314) 935-5160 / ltatlock@artsci.wustl.edu



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Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (http://artsci.wustl.edu/~german/)
Max Kade Center for Contemporary German Literature (http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~german/cgl.html)

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