Vol. 12 • Fall 2004 Alumni Newsletter

Letter from the chair Surprises herald change, growth in department fter a pleasant and relaxing summer, and the DDR cybernetician Georg Klaus. were hired on his watch. He ran an impec- marked by serious research and even With Ben, Marc Weiner, and Claudia cably democratic department in which Amore serious leisure, the faculty and Breger, the department boasts a diverse, procedures were scrupulously followed, students of the Department of Germanic young, and powerful contingent of scholars and not only senior but newly hired junior Studies returned to campus in August ready and teachers who specialize in Germany’s members of the faculty were given major for more of the former while filled with vexed and fascinating “long” 20th century. responsibilities and otherwise asked to mere memories of the latter. There is much Ben lives with his wife, Jenny, and their contribute fully in the teaching and ad- new to report, including some surprises. new-born baby girl, Tilly. ministrative duties of the department. The First: we welcome two new colleagues We also welcome Julia Lawson, who undergraduate curriculum was refashioned to the department, Tracy Alan Hall and joins Nikole Langjahr as this year’s visiting to reflect the interests and needs of today’s Benjamin Robinson. lecturers. Julia received her PhD from this undergraduate German major, and the new Tracy is a theoretical linguist who spe- department (with Henry Remak serving faculty members were cordially invited to cializes primarily in Germanic phonology. as her Doktorvater) in the early 1980s. introduce new perspectives on the disci- He received his PhD from the University of Sara Goodwin is our new undergraduate pline to the graduate students. The depart- Washington in 1990 and has been affiliated secretary. Sara started in February, replac- ment flourished and still flourishes thanks with a variety of institutions in Germany, ing Randy Simmons, who was promoted to the practices and the example of Terence especially in Berlin and Leipzig. Among his to graduate secretary when Jill Giffin Thayer. We wish Terence and his wife, many publications is a highly regarded and was promoted to administrative assistant, Diane, the best of all possible retirements, much-used Phonologie: Eine Einführung. replacing the retiring Barbara Goetze. We wherever their many travels may take them. We consider ourselves amazingly fortunate congratulate the promoted and welcome We knew about Terence’s plans to retire, to have added him to our already quite Sara to the staff. but Katy Fraser’s decision to call it quits strong Germanic linguistics and philology As I mentioned in last year’s “Let- after the 2004–05 academic year took us program. We are, quite simply, the best in ter from the Chair,” the makeup of the all by surprise. Katy was hired as our first the country in those areas. If returning to department has changed radically over the true language coordinator; our first class- the United States and to the American aca- past 10 to 15 years. That change contin- room-based second-language acquisition demic scene after 14 years in Germany was ues, not only with our new arrivals, but researcher; and our first full-time teacher a culture shock for Tracy, imagine what it also with this year’s retirements. Terence and mentor of graduate students seeking must be like for his wife, Ilke Dietrich, and Thayer retired after the first eight-week entry into our profession. She has defined their son, Julian Dietrich! We cannot do session of this semester, namely, at the end the language coordinator position for us much about the humidity or the necessity of October. It is hard to put in just a few during what will be 11 full years at IU, and of air conditioning, but in other respects words what this department owes Terence, we are extremely grateful. We have placed we hope that Bloomington is putting its not to mention what I personally owe him. nearly 100 percent of our graduating PhDs best foot forward and making them feel Terence has been the “quiet man” of the in university and college teaching positions welcome. department. Yet it was his stille Größe, his and have found work in secondary educa- Ben comes to us from Northern Illinois integrity, his professional ethics, his sound tion for our MATs. We have been told by University, where he was assistant professor judgment, in short, his steady and unas- search committees at other institutions that for two years, Ohio State University, where suming leadership as chair of this depart- our students are the best trained and most he was visiting assistant professor, and ment during the crisis years of the 1990s professionalized students currently on the ultimately Stanford University, where he that allowed us not only to maintain and market, and no small measure of that train- received his PhD in modern thought. His even build on our strengths as educators ing and professionalization is due to Katy’s specialty is 20th-century German litera- of undergraduates, but also enabled us to work, starting — but not ending — with ture, law, and culture, especially during the reclaim our position as what has to be one the orientation of new AIs and the teach- Weimar era and in the GDR. His interests of the top three or four graduate programs ing of the two graduate pedagogy courses are many and varied; he has, for instance, in the country. Rex Sprouse, Katrin Sieg, she has created and taught over the years. written on Hans Fallada, Hannah Arendt, Fritz Breithaupt, Michel Chaouli, and I (continued on page 3) Letter from the editor: News of alumni, some with a Dutch connection Sincere thanks to all of you who have writ- It seems as if during the past year I have Ray Wakefield, MA’67, PhD’72; and Pat ten to me. I hope you’ll continue to do so, heard in one way or another from an un- Whitehurst, MA’76, MSEd’79 (Pat and especially if there are changes we would like usual number of people who once took the Werner are now living in Tempe, Ariz.). to know about. Some of the information Dutch language course from me — some Mark Hooker, MA’78, has published a about former students was passed on by even both years. One of my first classes book called The History of Holland and others, and a few items came from searches here in the ’60s included Linda Benabdi, translated another under the title The Politi- on the Internet. If facts about you are MA’69, PhD’80 (Near Eastern languages cally Correct Netherlands since the 1960s. Jim wrong or too incomplete, by all means get and cultures), now Linda Werner. Together Williams, BA’74, MBA’77, MAT’81, writes in touch with us and fill us in! If you write with her husband, she runs a small motel “I still occupy the Edna B. Lacy Endowed to some other members of the department in a remote area in central Idaho. But that Chair in Business and Entrepreneurship at with some news, I would urge you to re- remoteness may be a little deceptive: She Franklin College, where I have been since mind them to be sure and pass it on to me. has maintained an interest in the language 1983. I teach courses in statistics, finance, Leafing through newsletters this year, I through all those years and says, “Why insurance, investments, etc.” And Jim’s mu- see a number of familiar names. The MLA shouldn’t I be the ‘surprise’ American who sic? “For the last three years I have also been Newsletter shows that Jeannine Blackwell, can speak to them in their language?” She a featured performer at Oktoberfest Zinzin- PhD’82, is not only on the Publications adds “… do you know what state in the nati, where I am able to give my German a Committee, but that she is a candidate for United States has the greatest number of workout! I am also on the board of directors election to the Executive Council. The native speakers of Dutch? Utah!” There of the Harvey Phillips Foundation and the summer 2004 issue includes an extensive appear to be a lot of Mormons from the Indianapolis Brass Choir. … I would love list of her scholarly work. In the AATG old country. to hear from my former colleagues; I’m at Newsletter, I see: Rex Sprouse is testing Several of those mentioned elsewhere in [email protected].” chairperson on the Executive Committee; this issue (or last year) once sat in Dutch I attended a Dutch Studies conference Lynne Tatlock, BA’71, MA’75, PhD’81, classes: Jeannine Blackwell, PhD’82; this summer and heard papers given by has been named Outstanding German Hazel Blumberg, MA’76, MSEd’79, Joe Delap, MA’87, PhD’92; Andy Fix, Educator at the college-university level; and JD’84; Nancy Chadburn, MA’74, PhD’81; MA’82; Tom Shannon, MA’75, PhD’82, Paul Michael Lützeler, MA’70, PhD’72, Bill Christian; Werner Ehlenberger, and Ray Wakefield, MA’67, PhD’72; and has received the Goethe-Medaille. Both MA’80; Myra Scholz, MA’69, PhD’93; by our own Esther Ham. Paul and Dorrit Cohn have been named And I’ve also been in contact with some Honorary Members. who were assistants helping teach Dutch at one time or another: Nancy Chadburn, MA’74, PhD’81; Joe Delap, MA’87, Germanic Studies PhD’92; and Els Stronks — whose present activity, in addition to raising two children, This newsletter is published by the Indiana is digitalizing emblem books. University Alumni Association, in coop- So read on, there’s lots of news this year. eration with the Department of Germanic I hope I hear from even more people next Studies and the College of Arts and Sci- year — and I trust not too many of you will ences Alumni Association, to encourage be writing to correct mistakes I’ve inadver- alumni interest in and support for Indiana University. For activities and membership tently made. Just send me an e-mail at the information, call (800) 824-3044 or send usual [email protected]. e-mail to [email protected]. — William Z. 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2 ent, every tenured member of our depart- Corey Roberts is a tenure-track assistant From the chair ment has at least one major administrative professor at Northern Illinois University. (continued from page 1) post within or outside of the department, Despite the administrative demands placed She is an active member of the profession leaving much of the other departmental on the faculty and despite the financial on the national level and has established duties to our untenured members. As I said constraints placed on the department and important precedents and forged ties with above, the “serious leisure” of the summer the university as a whole, we are still able to institutions around the country. Our de- is definitely a thing of the past. offer a nice variety of courses at the gradu- partment is on the pedagogical map thanks This fall, we have had the pleasure of ate level. This semester alone, in addition to her. Katy plans on moving to a house welcoming Katharina Sykora, professor of to Professor Sykora’s course, our students she owns in Rhode Island, where she will art history at the Hochschule für Bildende have been able to choose among the fol- be closer to her husband, Dierk Hoffmann Künste Braunschweig, as Max Kade Distin- lowing: College German Teaching (Fraser); (professor of German, Colgate University). guished Visiting Professor for 2004. She Principles of German Morphology (Hall); We wish her all the best. adds a strikingly new and different dimen- Greek Antiquity, German Modernity Carl Ziegler retired this past academic sion to the department with her graduate (Rasch); Managing the Senses in the 18th year after years of dedicated and good-hu- course on Lebensreform movements of the Century (Chaouli); Alternate Modernities mored service to this institution. Carl came late 19th and early 20th centuries. Students in German Modernism (Robinson); and to IU in 1966, and as a professor of Ger- taking her class are impressed with her rigor Gothic (Gade). Next semester, professors man and comparative literature, he taught and her no-nonsense expectations. She Breger, Breithaupt, Rasch, Sprouse, and for many years in both departments. He delivered a well-attended lecture and slide Hall will add to the list. directed the Groups Program in the 1970s presentation titled “Metropolis, Femininity, We have not skimped on courses for and ’80s, the Overseas Studies programs Modernity: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Berlin undergraduates either, though the pres- in Graz and in the 1980s, and Street Scenes.” sures are the same. In addition to language in 1990 he became the director of Collins Professor Sykora’s is not the only public proficiency courses and the 300-level Living-Learning Center. With his dedication lecture or presentation that the department introductory courses, topics on the 400- to undergraduate education, his easy way has sponsored or will sponsor this academic level include medieval literature, morphol- with students, and his social commitments, year. Earlier this fall, well-known German ogy, and war. English language courses Carl was a perfect fit for Collins. I served on filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger showed her film, cover , German film, and a number of committees with Carl and have Exil Shanghai, documenting the Jewish Dutch culture. We currently list more than always been struck by the way he can apply community in Shanghai, China (from 1845 85 German majors and double majors! As his immense experience seriously, thought- to 1949), through interviews with those every year, a healthy number of those take fully, and intelligently to any problem — and who lived there in the 1930s and ’40s and advantage of our study abroad programs all this behind a casual and happy-go-lucky their descendents. She also held a work- in Graz, Austria, and Freiburg, Germany. exterior that never seems to get ruffled. As a shop called “Putting the Margins into the It should not, but it always does amaze parting gift, the university awarded him the Center.” Later this fall, the department will me what an impact study abroad has on well-deserved Distinguished Service Award. co-sponsor talks by Gottfried Wagner on our students. A young woman, a senior, We know Carl is enjoying his retirement by Richard Wagner, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt talked to me about continuing her educa- doing what he likes to do best — working Brecht, and a talk by the renowned political tion in Germany after graduation. She is a with people. theorist Ernesto Laclau. Next semester, we double major, German and chemistry, but Sadly, Charlotte Ghurye, who taught will welcome to campus Robert Edward while in Freiburg as a junior, she realized many years ago as an adjunct in our de- Norton of Notre Dame, author of Secret that despite the ease with which chemistry partment and as a professor of German at Germany: and His Circle. comes to her and the praise she receives Indiana State from 1968 to 1995, died in Also next semester, we will host Looking for her abilities, she really does not derive Bloomington this year. Our condolences go Forward, Looking Back: Image, Imagina- enjoyment from the work. She took some out to her friends and family. tion, and Media, a conference organized by political theory courses in Freiburg and I should also report that Marc Weiner the graduate students. Geoffrey Winthrop- wishes to continue studying international was forced to take a medical leave of ab- Young of the University of British Colum- relations, especially as it relates to the sence fall semester 2004. As a result, Kari bia will be the keynote speaker; Sara Hall European Union. Much like two former Gade has taken over the directorship of the of the University of Illinois, Chicago, will students of ours who gave up plans to at- Institute for this academic be the plenary speaker. All other speakers tend medical school to become high school year. We fully expect Marc to return in the will be graduate students from around the German teachers, this particular student spring, ready to teach two exciting under- country and possibly Europe. We are quite chose to follow intellectual interest and graduate courses. fortunate to have all these stimulating op- emotional satisfaction over a sure bet at a Less dramatically, the changes and the portunities come our way this year. lucrative career. While I do not believe it to surprises continue. Fritz Breithaupt has We are equally fortunate to have another be our duty to impress upon our students been chosen by the dean to be acting incoming class of bright and enthusiastic the virtues of economic modesty, I still find director of West European studies for this graduate students: Megan Barrett (Seidlin it heartening to hear how a little bit of (ex- academic year, which, in addition to being Fellow), Todd Cesaratto (IGS), Elizabeth treme southwestern) Germany and a little great news for WEST, is good news for the Dickie (IGS), Lauren Goetting (IGS), bit of the “arts” side of the College of Arts department, since it gives us a “mole” in Andrea Meyertholen (AI), Christopher and Sciences can still have such pull in this the “company.” Rex Sprouse is the new di- Sponsler (IGS), and Martin Wolter (IGS, anxious and uncertain age. That, as they rector of undergraduate studies. He is aided School of Music). They can take heart in say, is why we are in the biz we are in! by our new, part-time professional adviser, the fact that two more of our students — William Rasch April Lane, who also works for the Depart- found employment in the profession this ment of Spanish and Portuguese and the past year: John Durbin is a visiting lecturer Visit us on the Web at Department of French and Italian. At pres- at the University of Memphis, and Frank www.indiana.edu/~germanic

3 Faculty Notes

ed Andersson: “I write from Berlin, delivery: When the seemingly stillborn but twice. Christine was spending a year where I am spending a quarter baby started to blink his eyes and breathe, at the Free University, working on her T(September to December), under she exclaimed excitedly, Er lebt! With these dissertation. We agreed that Berlin was a the auspices of the Stanford Overseas Study words, preserved by Bettina Brentano, who marvelous place, but that it could not beat Center in Berlin, teaching a course on gen- recorded the reminiscences of Goethe’s Bloomington when it came to getting work der relations in the first millennium — the mother, I submit my annual dues check.’” done. My time in Berlin also coincided with time frame is as inflated as the topic. Since I the publication of the German translation have not been in Berlin for exactly 50 years, of my book: Das Laboratorium der Poesie. the impressions are entirely new and quite Chemie und Poetik bei Friedrich Schlegel inexhaustible. In June, I ventured north (Schöningh). Excitement aplenty, but it’s to Norway for a delightful and far-flung nice to be back home.” conference on the evergreen topic of orality Katy Fraser tells us “After another year and literacy at the new Center for Medieval with more visits to doctors’ offices than I Studies at the University of Bergen. The wanted, I have decided to take early retire- sun shone. In early September, Nancy and I ment at the end of the 2004–05 academic tried the other hemisphere and vacationed year. This will mean that I will actually for two weeks in South Africa, viewing the see my husband more than just every two animals and much else. The sun shone even months and I’ll move back to the East more brightly and the sights were stun- Coast. However, that doesn’t mean I’ll be ning. Six lions parading across a riverbed sitting around doing nothing. There are are rather more imposing than the march various projects in the works and as our of a hexameter.” Claudia Breger: “I am a homeowner house in Rhode Island has a much larger Frank Banta modestly claims there is now (I think I complained about the buy- garden than I have in Bloomington, that, nothing of interest about himself, then ing process last year). It’s a lot of work, but too, will demand time. adds, “I continue to function under the I still love my deck. More academically: During the last year, I continued collab- dean of students as assistant director of My book on royals configurations of power orations with the Kelley School of Business. Student Advocates, a half-time position in modernity was published by Rombach We ran a most successful workshop on cul- that mostly keeps me out of trouble but (Freiburg/Br.) this spring. I spent most tural sensitivity in April and may repeat it sometimes gets me into it. We try to make of the summer in Berlin, researching for a this coming spring. Membership on various every case an educational experience for the (hopefully, eventually) new book focusing committees (promotion, second language student, so the work is a kind of teach- on contemporary culture (“Berlin Re- studies task force, the College policy com- ing. As in the classroom, each individual public”). It was bitterly cold in Berlin and mittee) has been time consuming but also is a unique individual, and a large part of rained every day, and I missed my deck, see very interesting, and I’ve enjoyed getting the challenge is establishing contact with above. Teaching: Right now, I am teaching to know the colleagues from other depart- him or her. When I leave home at noon, my first undergraduate course in English, ments. When I leave next summer, there I never know what problems I’m going on German film, and with many students will be many sad farewells.” to be facing, and when I return five or six from film studies, it’s fun (the broader Kari Gade writes, “I do not have much hours later, I often don’t know what I have context is that I became an adjunct in the exciting to report from the past year. I accomplished. Suggestions do not have to Department of Communication and Cul- presented two papers (Michigan and Co- be followed, and we frequently don’t know ture, integrating myself in the university). penhagen), attended an editorial meeting the result of our efforts. One does a great I also tremendously enjoyed my graduate (Newcastle), and published two articles. deal of listening, gathers the information, class on Colonialism/Postcolonialism/Glo- Most of my scholarly energy went into the discusses the possibilities, and tries to lead balization in the spring. Vanity item in this skaldic editing and our editorial agenda, the students to find their own solutions. context: I got the departmental teacher and and the skaldic project is moving along Isn’t that what we all must ultimately do?” mentor award.” according to schedule. Otherwise, my year Peter Boerner writes, “Instead of sub- Michel Chaouli: “I am back in the full can be summarized under the following mitting details about my activities, I quote swing of teaching after spending a good points: from the last issue of the News and Notes deal of the summer in Berlin as a guest 1. Most terrifying (unexpected) experi- of the Goethe Society of North America, of the Zentrum für Literaturforschung, a ence: The invasion of the cicadas, which which reports on the society’s meeting wonderful research center located in the kept me grounded for a month: I have a in December 2004: ‘Remembering: In middle of everything, a stone’s throw from phobia for insects and flying objects, so I memory of the members of the society Friedrichstrasse and Gendarmenmarkt. By only ventured out in the evening, hooded who passed away this year, including Peter now, the center has multiple connections with a baseball cap and armed with a bad- Boerner, Hugo Mueller, Peter Puetz, and to our department: Bill Rasch was a guest minton racket. The record was 23 casualties Jill Kowalik, the society observed a minute there in 2003, and our new colleague, in one evening. Did you know that with a of silence.’ As I could read this note myself, Tracy Hall, spent many years working at direct hit one can transport those suckers I sent a response to the GSA’s secretary: the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissen- more than 10 feet through the air? I felt ‘I learned to my surprise that I was kindly schaft, just a flight of stairs up from the ZfL. like Barry Bonds. remembered by the members of our soci- Berlin in general seemed to be crawling 2. Most daunting (unexpected) experi- ety. I would like to respond by citing our with IU people. I managed to bump into ence: Finding myself director of the Insti- patron’s grandmother, who witnessed his Christine Lehleiter by accident, not once tute of German Studies, in addition to my

4 duties as director of graduate studies. a new course on the Golden Age, which after 18 years in Alexandria, Va. Profession- 3. Most pleasurable (unexpected) experi- immediately filled up. The students here ally, I spent most of those 18 years as an ence: Teaching third-semester Norwegian. learned how much we can learn about the adjunct professor of German at Northern The students are wonderful, and their Netherlands and something like a ‘Dutch Virginia Community College. I also did proficiency and interest are amazing. mentality’ from paintings such as those of adjunct and contract teaching at a variety I’m also teaching Gothic this semester, Rembrandt and Vermeer. They also learned of other institutions in the area — sort of: and we have discovered that reading the about the relation between the Netherlands “Have PhD, will travel,” but not past the Bible need not be a tedious task. The Old and the United States. There was a lot of end stops of the DC Metro System. So Norse saga-reading group flourishes, and interest in the Anne Frank course again. two years ago, we moved back, bought a we recently welcomed back a member This last summer, she was invited to the house within walking distance of IU and (Dorothy Soudakoff, MA’66, PhD’87) University of Bloemfontein in South Africa, downtown, and started trying to figure out who had been absent for 15 years. In to teach students of Afrikaans and Dutch how we could possibly do all the things we November, we will host PIGSTII, and we from no fewer then 10 different South Af- had always talked about doing “when we expect an invasion of Illinoisans who will rican universities. As if that weren’t enough have time.” In the course of getting settled, attempt to best us with their presentations for a summer, she went on to give a series I stopped up on the sixth floor of Ballan- (not that we will let that happen, Marianne of lectures and some extra language lessons tine to say hello, but also to get my name and Claudia!).” at the University of Pretoria. on the tutor list and to drop off a copy of At the mo- my résumé (just in case, you know). I was ment, Esther and happy with all my new free time, but not some colleagues yet ready to quit teaching altogether. I are immersed in figured I could tutor, and maybe even do organizing the some substitute teaching now and then. Summer Dutch Then, a couple of months ago, what to my Institute, which wondering eyes should appear in my inbox will be held at IU but an offer to teach a couple of classes for next year in the the dear old department. first summer ses- So like the cicadas, I find myself sud- sion. Just recently, denly back. One looks around and sees that Esther was elected things haven’t really changed all that much, treasurer of the and that’s the good news. The bad news American Associa- is that against this familiar background the tion for Nether- changes in me show up a whole lot more. landic Studies. All in all, however, it’s a kick being back in Ingeborg the classroom and a pleasure acquainting Tracy Alan Hall is one of our two new Hoesterey is still enjoying retirement in — and reacquainting! — myself with the members this year. He says “Sometimes Cambridge, Mass. faculty.” people ask me what it’s like living in the Albrecht Holschuh tells us, “Time was, Breon Mitchell is director of the Lilly United States after having spent the past some 30 years ago, when the department Library and no longer with us, but we 15 years in Germany. This is an interesting held footraces, pitting graduate students must note that this year he was awarded question because it has several different against faculty, and the student team did the 2004 Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for answers depending on the topic. As far not always win. I was an also-ran then. At outstanding translation from German into as academia is concerned, there are many this fall’s Bloomington YMCA 10K run, English, his latest work being a translation positive things I can say. Most obviously, my second such event ever, I found myself of Uwe Timm’s Marenga. my classes here at IU seem to be running the oldest participant (and also the fast- Fred Piedmont reports, “I have found smoothly. Also on a positive note, the class est in my age group, which was no great great pleasure and satisfaction in a new size for both undergraduate and graduate feat). What happened to the years and the activity: translating from German into classes is microscopic in comparison with Germanists?” English and vice versa for an annual family Germany, where I regularly had over 100 Dov-Ber Kerler has been designated newsletter (usually about 50 pages) that students in my Vorlesungen and had to turn the winner of the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant has been in monolingual existence since the away students in an average Hauptseminar Memorial Prize by the MLA for his book 1970s. It will now appear in both German in an effort to avoid overcrowding. Also, The Origins of Modern Literary Yiddish. and English for the first time, which speaks the graduate students here at IU seem to The award and citation will be presented to the fact that numerous family members be well motivated, so I can say with sincer- on Dec. 28 at the 2004 MLA convention now live in English-speaking countries and ity that I am pleased to be here. in Philadelphia. do not know much or any German. It is On the other hand, I am still undergo- Nikole Langjahr assures us that she edited by a retired family member in Berlin ing a number of cultural adjustments too has nothing newsworthy about this year to whom I did not know until we started our numerous to list here. But I am looking report except that she is getting to be an successful and pleasant cooperation this forward to the years ahead at IU.” expert at “experimental baby-food cook- year. The contents of the letter are mostly Esther Ham tells us that the contract ing.” Be sure you don’t miss her report on family news but also historical and general for her position as senior lecturer has been the German House trip to Chicago this articles of interest to a broader public. To renewed, and that she intends to stay here past year (see article on page 6). promote this new activity, I traveled to at IU for a while longer since she and Peter Julia Lawson says “Hello out there. As Berlin this summer and worked with my like it in Bloomington so well. It’s been a my fellow alums may or may not already cousin on the manuscript. We also heard busy year, with a good number of students know, my husband, John, retired two years the Philharmonic under Simon Rattle in in both first and second year. She developed ago, and we moved back to Bloomington (continued on page 6)

5 German House trip to Chicago offers cornucopia of tasty treats Nine German Housers went up to see the weather in the Swiss Kneipe, I sipped on gluttonously filling our stomachs, it was Chicago Christmas Market on Dec. 6, a tasty German Bier courtesy of Stiegel. time to think of others, and so we began 2003, and I asked the participants to write Finally, to complete the food aspect of looking for Christmas presents, and we up some of their impressions. Here is John the trip, we were off to the candy store. found many options. Chocolate vendors, Roudebush’s report (insisting that I do not If any of you have ever seen “Willy Stollen, arts and crafts, a cornucopia of agree with his opinion on Glühwein, which Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” after nuts: All were available. Pretty much made me very hungry). — Nikole Langjahr entering this store I began to wonder everything you can think of and more why on earth that movie would take was there. As night fell the atmosphere verall, the trip was a great experi- place in England rather than in Germany, became quite inviting with a large crowd Oence. I was able to practice my where there is such a huge assortment of of joyous people and well-lit gimungous German with the various German ven- candies that we spent over an hour in the Christmas tree. At one point in time, dors. I purposely starved myself so that I store with our mouths watering. After there were people singing Christmas Car- would have room to try all the ols in German, but that was great German cuisine. First, taken over by some young I sampled the onion-filled kids trying to make money Pfannkuchen mit Apfel Sosse, a by banging on buckets and wonderful combination. Then, making really cool African- I tried a half-beef, half-veal style rhythms; it was a bit of Bratwurst on a Connella bun a nonsequitur, but no one (a Chicago bread company really minded. The market that makes great bread) with was in the middle of down- the best sauerkraut I have ever town, located near so many seen. Kelsie told me that no other shopping districts that Weihnachtsmarkt was complete we had no reason to get a without trying the Glühwein. taxi, but rather we simply My impression of Glühwein is walked down the street. … I not very high. It did not fare had a great time, and thank well with my stomach and I you, Nikole, for telling us found the taste to be wretch- about and organizing this ed. On the other hand, taking great trip. a break from the freezing cold — John Roudebush

MA’76, MSEd’79, and Werner Ehlen- robust with tackling difficult exercises in Faculty notes berger, MA’80 — staunch friends during translation and with foreign correspon- (continued from page 5) 28 years, now resident in Arizona when dence.” the famous Waldbühne, saw Brecht’s Three not globetrotting. Eva Langfeldt, also Bill Rasch: “The personal highlights of Penny Opera in a restaging of the 1928 one of that same group, has been editing the past year included two trips to Europe. production, explored a new area around ‘high-tech’ publications in Silicon Val- I was invited to participate in a confer- Görlitz in Germany’s southeast, and, finally, ley, where she has resided for many years. ence in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in attended a lively family reunion of about Lynne Tatlock, BA’71, MA’75, PhD’81, March. My wife (Christine Farris, professor 90 in Köln. After that, Beate and myself now Distinguished Professor in St. Louis, in the English department), two friends, were ready to return to the quiet of bucolic is still very productive in research and at and I decided to turn this professional oc- Bloomington.” present doing seminal work on a previously casion into a vacation opportunity — over Hugh Powell writes, “During the past underrated woman. A long, interesting Spring Break. We landed in Madrid the year, welcome letters arrived from for- letter came from Eva-Marie Janke Nagler, morning of the bombings of the train sta- mer graduate students. Marty Rohlfing, MA’82, a graduate student here in the early tions there, spent the weekend in Santiago, MA’68, PhD’76, who was in my first grad- ’80s and now a resident in Jena, where her I participated in the conference, and we uate class in 1969–70 and now lives in Oak husband, Jörg, is a professor of history. She all took part in the demonstration mourn- Park, Ill., says she would like to resume has been working on Landarbeiterleben ing the deaths. After the conference, we teaching. She has been working for a social and, incidentally, shares my own interest in traveled around northern Spain, spending service agency and is a much-traveled lady. rural conditions in 19th-century Germany, the nights in some breathtakingly beauti- Another member of that vivacious class, when waves of country folk came to this ful locations on the ocean and inland. We Julie Lawson, MA’68, PhD’80, is back in country. drank wonderful local white wine (Al- Bloomington with her husband, John, to Meanwhile, I have had echoes of the dis- bariño) and ate (or avoided eating) lots of enjoy their retirement here. We are delight- tant past in my career, in the form of letters seafood with eyes. In the summer, Chris ed to have them nearby again [actually here from my students in the United Kingdom and I spent five weeks in France, one week in the department: see above — ed.]. Word between 1957 and 1962. They are retired in the north and the month of July in the came from Cathy Olsen, MA’76, resident and, in some cases, grandparents. All very Provence. With former student Wilfried with her family in Massachusetts, who was a gratifying! As for my own activities, in the Wilms, MA’96, PhD’00, his wife, Edwige, very lively presence here 25 years ago. She spring and summer, there is plenty to do and their 1-year-old son, Tibault, we rented was a contemporary of Pat Whitehurst, in the garden; otherwise, I keep mentally a house in which I sat around; drank good,

6 inexpensive red wine; lay out on the terrace in the sun; ate; read; watched the Tour de France on TV; and from which we took day Henry Remak receives new award and weekend trips to, among other places, In recognition of his long years of work and humane attitude you have always Monaco, where we imagined ourselves in in the field of , Henry exemplified, and we could not have found some James Bond plot. Remak was recently presented with the anyone who more completely represents Our daughter, Alison, started her first following: the type of person who should be the first year of college here at IU. She lives in a recipient of this award. dorm but visits me nearly every day in my I am very happy to tell you, on behalf of We hope you can accept our plaudits. office, so it’s like she’s never left. the officers and advisory board of the In- Professionally, my book, Sovereignty ternational Conference on Romanticism, And we all join in congratulating and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of that you have been selected as the first Henry, all the more in remembering Conflict and the Structure of the Political, recipient of the organization’s Lifetime that it was only last year that he received was published by Birkbeck Law Press in Achievement Award. a similar lifetime award for his work the United Kingdom, and an abbrevi- Your scholarship cuts across linguistic in comparative literature. With one of ated German translation has appeared as and national boundaries, has informed his characteristic touches of humor, he Konflikt als Beruf: Über die Grenzen des more than one generation of fellow adds a few words of his own to us: “My Politischen (Kadmos). I taught a seminar on scholars, and in many ways exemplifies the advice to faculty (including deans): Get Carl Schmitt in the spring and am currently view of Romanticism studies taken by our to be an octogenarian — when you are teaching an undergraduate course on the organization for some 14 years. Add to no longer in competition with other German experience of war and a graduate your academic stature the warm, friendly, scholars — and the world will be yours!” course called Greek Antiquity, German Mo- dernity, about the German love affair with an idealized view of ancient Greece. Benjamin Robinson is another new for coordinating collective experiences in Lest anyone think that I have been ne- member of the department this year. He modernity.” glecting my duties as chair, I wish to report says, “After receiving my PhD at Stanford William Z. Shetter writes, “This com- that I am dutifully stressed beyond belief. in 1997, I spent three additional years as a ing January, the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour Spain and France are memories veiled by postdoctoral fellow in Palo Alto teaching in on PBS will be airing a series called Do You a thick, thick fog. Clearly, I need another Stanford’s core curriculum program, where Speak American?. They are setting up a vacation.” I built up a repertoire teaching inside, special Web site for this series, which will Eberhard Reichmann reports, “I outside, and around the canon of ‘Great be linked to via the parent pbs.org. The site don’t believe it: I am in my 14th year of Works’ in the context of Stanford’s robust will include an essay I wrote not long ago retirement! By year’s end I should have culture wars. I have subsequently had visit- on an interesting social fact about American a fascinating book out (translation): A ing positions at Ohio State University and English. Lost American Dream. Civil War Letters Northern Illinois University. At NIU, I An interesting new activity I’ve picked of Immigrant Theodor Heinrich Brandes developed a business German course focus- up this year has been involvement in a (1862–63) in Historical Contexts. If all ing on issues in globalization, and it is a project slowly being turned into reality by goes well healthwise (which wasn’t the case course I’d like to develop further at IU. My some members of the Linguistic Society 2003–04), my 700-plus–page The Hoosier book manuscript, Other Systems: Alternate of America and related organizations. It is German Heritage: An Anthology should be Modernities in Another Germany, focuses called the Virtual Museum of Language and moving toward completion in 2005. We on the aesthetic and experiential apprehen- Linguistics. The idea is to create an online have started a fund drive for it. Es ist sehr sion of systemic difference in the 20th- museum that is accessible to everyone. teuer! Ruth and I keep very active with the century German literature of socialism. I It will use 3-D modeling, have animated Max Kade German-American Center in am currently working on two book-length museum guides, and allow instantaneous Indianapolis and the Indiana German Heri- projects, one called Political Junkies focus- exploration of the many interconnected tage Society. Two winter weeks in Oberbay- ing on a trio of heroin-addicted writers ‘rooms’ (=aspects of language/fields of ern conclude this year’s travel. who nonetheless spurned traditional bohe- linguistics). It will have a serious purpose Henry H.H. Remak is still fully active mian subcultures for politically and socially in the transmission of some of the most as always, still keeping regular office hours. engaged lives: Johannes R. Becher, Hans important and fundamental concepts about For more about him this year, see the Fallada, and . The other project language — which it will do by designing special box. develops some of the themes from Political all the ‘exhibits’ to be interactive, even for Naomi Ritter joined us for a year in the Junkies with respect to specifically juridical preschoolers. I hope to be able to draw on early ’70s, and after that she spent many languages and institutions. Considering five all those years of FL teaching.” years at the University of Missouri. She distinct German states in the 20th century, Rex Sprouse assures us that one of the retired a few years ago and is now working the book looks at situations in which legal main highlights of his year was his third in editing here in Bloomington. She says, concerns overflow formal constraints into time as resident director of the IU Over- “I’m basically a scholar/teacher of themes informal public realms and vice versa. Key seas Study Program in Graz, Austria. Part in literature — Thematologie. In 1971–72 events include literary treason trials in the of his commitment to overseas study is his I taught two seminars: The House-Theme Weimar era, Auschwitz trials in the Federal continuing service on the Overseas Study in Modern German Literature (Goethe to Republic, trials of GDR authors who pub- Committee for Programs in Germany. Kafka) and Four Novels of Adultery (Ma- lished in the FRG, and Stasi trials in unified Another activity that continues is the Task dame Bovary, Effi Briest, Anna Karenina, Germany. The irreconcilable mixture of Force on the Future of Second Language and Age of Innocence.) My book Art As codes marked by these trials casts light on Studies at IU, a committee that has pro- Spectacle was published in 1989 by the the aspirations and shortcomings of using posed the creation of a highly innovative University of Missouri Press.” justice, beauty, and recognition as terms (continued on page 9)

7 Alumni Notes

in Oxon Hill, Md., and can be reached at ing Educator Award for colleges from the Graduate news [email protected]. Foreign Language Association of Virginia. Liga, MSEd’75, and Mara Abolins are at Sean Crumley, MA’86, MLS’91, is Two weeks later, I went to Philadelphia to Maryville College, where Liga is director employed in the Washington, D.C., public receive the AATG-Goethe Institute Certifi- of English as a second language and Mara library system, where he is head of the cate of Merit at the AATG annual meeting. director of study abroad. information technology department. This week, I then received word from the Hollie J. Anderson, BA’98, MA’01, Joe Delap, MA’87, PhD’92, is now as- president of Sweet Briar College that I have married Prayush Saroswat, MBA’99, in Oc- sociate vice president for academic affairs at been awarded a Cameron Fellowship. This tober 2001 and welcomed a son, Sameer, Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, is an award that has just been established in January 2004. Ala. He is also executive director of the through the generosity of one of our alums John Blair, MA’84, PhD’94, is at the Jacksonville Student Foundation. His wife, to award full professors who have been in State University of Western Georgia at Car- Melanie, at one time worked for the IU rank for at least seven years. There will be rolton, where, together with his wife, he is Foundation. one awarded every two years, and I am the running the German program. Waltraut Dube, MA’65, PhD’81, has first recipient. Hazel Blumberg-McKee, MA’76, retired from her career with Veterans Af- “Other recent activities include my office MSEd’79, JD’84, of Tallahassee, Fla., ran fairs, but is keeping busy with volunteer as vice president of Delta Phi Alpha Ger- an editorial services business for 17 years. work for her church and is serving on the man Honor Society and my recent election Recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia, board of the local branch of the Association to the office of chair of the Faculty Senate, she has since retired and makes jewelry of American University Women. a somewhat dubious honor. I continue to and hand-knitted objects and volunteers John Durbin, MA’97, tells us “My posi- run the Virginia chapter of AATG; take at the Gadsden Arts Center in nearby tion at [the University of] Memphis is go- students to Münster in the summer with Quincy, Fla. She writes, “If anyone out ing well; there is great communication and my colleagues from Vassar and William and there with fibromyalgia has run into a a good flow of ideas among the small but Mary; and, together with my colleagues treatment strategy that works, I’d love to active German section within the foreign from the Goethe Institute in Washington, hear about it! I’m hopeful that a cure can languages department. I am initiating two run an annual Immersion Weekend for and will be found.” She can be reached at pedagogy projects here to see if and how German Teachers in the fall and a Spring [email protected]. pronunciation and writing fluency can be Workshop for German Teachers at the Uni- Barbara Bopp, MA’73, PhD’78, lives in improved among undergraduate students. versity of Virginia in the spring. Las Vegas, where she is a reference librarian Next semester, I will also have the opportu- “Two years ago, my wife and I became in the city system. nity to teach business German, which looks grandparents, and we therefore spend some Nancy Chadburn, MA’74, PhD’81, to be quite an experience.” free weekends in Maryland spoiling our is still working in the Brookline Public Ervie Glick, MAT’71, PhD’74, is granddaughter and preparing for the arrival Library in the Boston area, and she says, professor of German at Eastern Mennonite of our second grandchild in November. I “The greater part of my time is spent find- University in Harrisonburg, Va. have many opportunities to work with Dirk ing books, etc., for people, devising and Gordon Hartig, BA’74, MA’77, Johnson, PhD’00, who teaches at Hamp- maintaining book displays — including me- operates the Gordon Hartig Translation den-Sydney, just a few miles from Sweet morial ones (currently for Czeslaw Milosz Services in Westford, Mass, and specializes Briar.” and Julia Child) — and dealing with dona- in the old German script. After 25 years, M. Lois Huffines, MA’69, PhD’71, is tions, which I am well nigh buried under at he recently turned over responsibility for associate vice president for academic affairs present. … I still do read both German and IU’s high school correspondence courses in at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. Dutch books, however sporadically.” German (Independent Study Program) to a She remains active in research on Pennsyl- David H. Chisholm, PhD’71, is profes- new German instructor. Hartig’s wife, Jane vania German. sor of Germanic studies at the University of Marcus, BS’80 (music), MA’83, MS’86 D. Brent McBride, MA’93, PhD’00, Arizona in Tucson. (computer science) continues to work for writes “After adjuncting for several years Jeanette Clausen, MA’66, PhD’75, is IBM and played a large part in the new in the Twin Cities area, I accepted a associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs at version of Lotus Notes. The couple reports tenure-track job at Hunter College of the Indiana University–Purdue University Fort that their 16-year-old daughter, Emily, City University of New York in fall 2004. Wayne. is carrying on the German tradition by CUNY has well over 200,000 students. Joan (Miller) Cotter, MA’65, PhD’75, completing seven years of German before Twenty-two thousand of these are reg- and Barry Cotter, MA’67, PhD’71, now graduating high school. Her sister, Caitlin, istered at Hunter, which is the primary live in Barnesville, Ohio. Barry works for 14, is enjoying her Spanish classes and liberal arts campus of CUNY. The most the Episcopalian church as a “seminary- looks forward to taking German in high interesting aspect about Hunter is its trained missioner,” and Joan does catalogu- school and Dutch in college. Hartig lives diversity: age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic ing and reference work in the library of with his wife and daughters in Westford, background. Many students in German the local community college, plus teach- Mass., and can be reached at hartig@erols. classes do not speak English as their first ing some German in its adult education com. language, which makes German their program. Ron Horwege, MA’68, PhD’71, says third, fourth, or fifth language. I am on O. Thomas Crane IV, MA’00, writes, “After leaving IU, I took a position at research leave in fall 2004, completing a “I am now employed as a human resources Sweet Briar College in Virginia and have book manuscript based on my dissertation specialist at the Washington Navy Yard, been here ever since. It seems that this project. It is tentatively titled Modernism working in labor-employee relations for the year has been the year of awards for me. and the Birth of Mass Society. Our union at Naval District of Washington.” He lives Last September, I received the Outstand- (continued on page 9) 8 years ago, and Bill and Janette Shetter. We have in various editions does not capture Graduate news then proceeded to New York for the wed- the documentation in the rather scanty, (continued from page 8) ding of our older son, Carl, and his bride, medieval scripta, and the discrepancies lead CUNY was generous enough to award me Karen — a joyous climax to an already one to conclude that current print texts a research grant of more than $4,000 to delightful trip. I’m now settling back into belong more to a genre of late-19th-cen- complete archival research at the Staatsbi- the routine of teaching English conver- tury poetry than to the manuscript culture bliothek in Berlin, the Beinecke manuscript sation to Japanese people. The English of the 13th century. I’m hoping to discuss collection at Yale, and the Art Museum at edition of the big series of books on Dutch all this in the context of manuscript culture Indiana University (!) to finish the book. cultural history — the first volume of which versus print culture and to argue that we I never thought getting a PhD would get I translated — will be presented in Brus- may need to get the medieval back into me a union card, but I now have cards for sels at the end of October. The govern- medieval studies. three different teachers’ unions.” ment here is evidently seizing its chance to “Margrit has been retired for seven years Patrizia McBride, PhD’98, says, “I got promote Dutch culture during the half-year now and has contracted a major case of tenured last year. My book, The Void of that it chairs the European Union. Finally, Reisefieber. This year, she’s organized trips Ethics: and the Experience of an opportunity to show the world more for us to China and Peru; she headed off Modernity, is coming out in spring/sum- of this country than windmills, tulips, and on her own to Germany in July and is back mer 2005 with Northwestern University marijuana!” there now visiting with friends and family. Press. I will spend the spring in New York Emma (Lewis) Thomas, MA’63, I should also mention our two children, City with Brent, my husband, who last year PhD’72, is a professor emerita at UCLA. since, as you may recall, both Andre and started a tenure-track job in the German After recuperating from hip surgery in the Jessica were born in Bloomington. Jessica department at Hunter College. I remember summer of 2003, she continued to teach completed her studies at Juilliard and the my years at IU fondly!” historical dance classes for actors and various Cleveland Conservatory and is a violinist Catherine A. Olsen, MA’76, is a staff dance groups in the area. She reports that with the Kansas City Symphony. Andre, lawyer in Massachusetts and has a daughter she is currently working to re-create another who completed his graduate work at the just starting college. Harold Kreutzberg suite of dances from Der University of Chicago, is now also doing David W. Rutledge, BA’74, MA’76, Ewige Kreis, and other dances of that period, German studies — as a historian of science writes, “I am doing what I swore I would 1926 to 1936. She can be reached in Santa and technology at Pitzer College in the never do in my life: teach in the high Monica at [email protected]. Claremont System. At conferences, it’s school. After 19 years, I’ve adjusted. I Ray M. Wakefield, MA’67, PhD’72, truly wonderful to be asked whether there’s also taught Spanish for 13 years, until my writes, “I’m currently serving as director of any connection between you and ‘that predecessor retired in 1998.” He also runs undergraduate studies in the Department young guy named Wakefield who just gave two exchange programs in Germany. He of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch and a great paper on Leibniz.’” lives in St. Paul, Minn., and can be reached as director of the European Studies Con- Paul A. White, MA’94, PhD’01, a at [email protected]. sortium (ESC, in the Institute for Global visiting lecturer in the IU Department of Myra Heerspink Scholz, MA’69, Studies). The ESC is a federally funded Germanic Studies, has been named one of PhD’93, writes “Our biggest news is the Title VI National Resource Center for the outstanding members of the IU faculty trip we took to the United States this sum- Western European Area Studies. With Klaas by the University Panhellenic Association on mer, first spending a week near my parents van der Sanden as the ESC coordinator, the occasion of Faculty Appreciation Week. in a cottage on beautiful Lake Michigan, it’s not surprising that Dutch initiatives get then going on a nostalgic pilgrimage to serious attention and consistent support. Undergraduate news Bloomington, where Bernhard and I met in “In spring 2005, I have a sabbatical to Timothy K. Babcock, BA’96, AC FiS’96, the GRC dining hall in 1967. It was good work on a Walther von der Vogelweide writes, “We’ve added on to our family with to see some old friends from the German monograph. My point of departure will be the birth of our son, Miles, in March 2003.” department there, among them Henry and the so-called Alterselegie and the multiple He lives in Bluffton, Ind., with his wife, Ingrid Remak, who generously offered reconstructions of this text over two cen- (continued on back page) their house for our wedding reception 35 turies of philological editing. What we now

literature — taught in the original — into Last March, I finished my book on Faculty notes the undergraduate curriculum. One of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (“Europe’s (continued from page 7) his newest projects is the development first female dramatist” being one of her second-language studies department at IU. of elementary skills in Hungarian, partly many titles), and it has been accepted for This year he has started serving as direc- through an interest in Austrian history and publication. The “in press” stage can last tor of undergraduate studies, which puts partly because the language is linguistically an eternity, or so it seems to authors, but him in enjoyable contact with majors and fascinating. perhaps this will reach the shelves of your minors. Stephen Wailes reports, “During the local bookstore in the coming year. Some In the scholarly area, earlier this year summer, we four moved from the old brick of my arguments will be controversial, at he helped organize the conference known farmhouse of a sometime dairy operation the very least. I contend, for example, that as GASLA-7, Generative Approaches to on the edge of Ellettsville, where we had her panegyric on Otto the Great, which Second-Language Acquisition, which was lived for 10 years. We were sorry to leave she wrote because her abbess asked (told) a great success. He continues his many but happy to buy the house in Blooming- her to, holds fundamental criticism of that publications and conference papers in the ton that had belonged to Carl Ziegler for king because of his highhanded treatment general area of second-language acquisi- many years, and when we finally get un- of the papacy. German historical scholarship tion. Noteworthy among the courses he packed and settled in (perhaps 2006) it will takes the position that the morally corrupt is teaching this year is Deutsche Literatur: feel like home, as well as being wonderfully papacy deserved no better, but I believe das Mittelalter, which (re)introduces MHG situated in a great neighborhood. that Hrotsvit thought differently.” 9 Undergraduate Nonprofit Org. Postage (continued from page 9) PAID Julia (Madden) Babcock, BA’96, and can be Indiana University reached at [email protected]. Alumni Association Elizabeth A. Brandes, BA’93, is as- sistant vice president of marketing services for Southwest Student Services. She writes, “I manage the national marketing efforts for the company out of our metro Phoenix office.” The Chandler, Ariz., resident can be reached at [email protected]. Kelley N. Coblentz Bautch, BA’91, finished her first year as assistant professor of religious studies at St. Edward’s Univer- sity in Austin, Texas. She and her husband, Richard, celebrated the birth of their first child, James Bernard, in November 2002 and can be reached at kcoblent@bach. helios.nd.edu. Printed on recycled paper in U.S.A. Scott D. Ham, BA’92, writes, “I have accepted the position of the director of col- lege counseling for College Coach. My of- fice is based in Highland Park, Ill.” He can Germanic Studies Alumni: What’s new with you? be reached at [email protected]. Teresa K. Hebron, BA’01, writes, “I am The IU Alumni Association is charged with maintaining records for all IU alumni. working at BP Products NA Inc., in their Please print as much of the following information as you wish. Its purpose, in addition to

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