DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

NEWSLETTER WINTER 2018

lsa.umich.edu/german TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Chair 3 Highlights 4 Faculty Focus 5 Undergraduate Student Focus 6 - 7 Graduate Student Focus 8 Staying Connected 9 Dutch Studies 10 Scandinavian Studies 11

2 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

colleague Kerstin Barndt in artists, from Katrin Sieg months, and you get a sense Freiburg, where she serves (Georgetown University) and of the vitality of our program. as the 2018-19 Academic Claudia Breger (Columbia And there is much more Director of our year-long University) to prize- happening in our department. study-abroad program (p. winning Austrian author Have a look at the following 4). In fact, ever the hosts, and playwright Ferdinand pages for updates about Kerstin and Johannes just Schmalz, who, in conjunction our flourishing Dutch and organized a Thanksgiving with students from the U-M Scandinavian programs dinner for all 30 students in School of Theatre, Music and (pp. 10-11) and get to know the program! Our Freiburg Dance, offered a bilingual our new graduate students program received another reading of his recent play p.8). And please follow our big boost this summer: dosenfleisch (canned meat). department website (lsa. thanks to a large gift from umich.edu/german) to read our most generous donors, Research continues to be about upcoming events. Dear friends of the Mr. and Mrs. Sturm, we will central to our activities. There is much to look forward department, now be able to offer a full Within the last six months, to in the coming year, and scholarship to at least one Kerstin Barndt co-edited I invite you to stop by and Winter arrived early in of our students each year. a fascinating volume of see us. In the meantime, I Michigan this year, surprising essays, Object Lessons and wish you peaceful holidays even the heating system Meanwhile, we continue to the Formation of Knowledge and a guten Rutsch (“a good of the Modern Languages add new events and projects (p. 5); Elizabeth McNeill, a slide”) into the new year. Building, which took a few to our curriculum here in Ph.D. student in her third days to assume its duties Ann Arbor. In September, year, was awarded the Best and envelop us in warm air we piloted a film series Student Essay Award from — not that the idiosyncrasies that showed rarely seen The German Quarterly (p. 8); of our building have slowed German movies selected and and the Leuphana University Sincerely, us down. As the fall term introduced by a graduate in Lüneburg, , draws to a close, I invite you student or faculty member hosted a day-long symposium to peruse our newsletter (p. 7); and in October, we in honor of Andy Markovits’ for a look back at a busy organized a panel featuring 70th birthday (p. 5). Add to start to the academic year. five recent undergraduate this recent talks given by alumni of our department members of our department Andreas Gailus [email protected] This is my first newsletter to who have used their degrees in France, Spain, Germany, you as the new chair of the in German Studies to Austria and the U.S., as well department. After four years launch professional careers as forthcoming books by of outstanding leadership, in a variety of industries Tyler Whitney (p. 5), Julia Hell our previous chair, Johannes (p. 6). On the graduate and myself, all of which are von Moltke, is on a well- level, we continue to host scheduled for publication deserved sabbatical. nationally and internationally within the next twelve Johannes joins my dear recognized scholars and

lsa.umich.edu/german 3 HIGHLIGHTS

Letter from Freiburg by Kerstin Barndt, AYF Resident Director

Step out of the ordinary! their paperwork, advising As I write this, we’re already America remains present in Immerse yourself in the and registering students looking back at our first three different ways — whether in culture and language of for classes, keeping the months together. Like many terms of people pressuring a country that’s not your door to the AYF office open of the students, I suspect, I us about politics, or own. This year, twelve of our for a cup of coffee or the am surprised by how much simply at our sumptuous students — sophomores, occasional last minute I have come to feel at home Thanksgiving feast this juniors, and seniors — took homework session, and in the city, the university, past week, where everyone the leap and joined 18 more answering any question and the AYF office. Students brought fabulous side students from Michigan State regarding living and studying are busy with their course dishes to complement the University, the University of in Freiburg you can think of. work, volunteering for the turkey prepared (surprisingly Wisconsin, and the University “Inside America” program in well!) by a local caterer. of Iowa, to live and study Students arrived in local high schools, playing for one year in Freiburg, a September, a full month cello and double bass in Former AYF students who beautiful university town before the start of the university orchestras or rugby live in the area joined the in southwestern Germany. German academic year. We for a local woman’s team, feast with their spouses They are now participating made use of this lead time and making music together and children and we felt in the “Academic Year in with a program jam-packed in our very own AYF combo, the warmth of yet another Freiburg” (AYF), one of with orientations, intensive the now legendary “Black AYF support network: its the longest-running study language lessons, and day Forrest Badgers.” Riding the ever-growing alumni base in abroad programs for U.S. trips to neighboring France, streetcars from the student Germany and the U.S.! Now students in Germany. Switzerland, and the Black dorms to the university and we’re looking forward to the Forest to get a sense of the city center feels like second holiday break and the New As this year’s academic amazing landscape and nature already, and we have Year, which brings a much- director, I have the honor and cultural riches that surround even warmed up to the fact anticipated class trip to the pleasure of accompanying us. Thanks to the support that all stores are closed Berlin, a semester break with the group as their teacher, of the Freiburg-Madison on Sundays. Students have plenty of opportunity to travel, mentor, and advisor. Together, society, we also got to sail on formed deep friendships and internship opportunities Ulrich (Ulli) Struve, the the crystal clear Schluchsee within the group, bonded in Freiburg next spring term. program’s administrative (a lake nestled in the with their individual language director with 16 years of Schwarzwald), and dine at tandem partners, and experience here in Freiburg, the historical Schönberghof hung out with fellow “WG” Left image: Cohort 2018-19 and I have been leading field after a leisurely hike through roommates. As they have trips supported by AYF alums woods and wineries just integrated and immersed Right Image: Thirteen German though the Hans Fabian outside Freiburg’s gates. themselves into their new majors from the University are studying in Freiburd pictured with Fund, helping students with German surroundings, Kerstin Barndt and Ulli Struve

4 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures FACULTY FOCUS

Eardrums: Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare by Tyler Whitney, Assistant Professor of German This spring will see the streetcars, and urban "Andyfest" 2018 release of Assistant construction sites was Andrei S. Markovits, Arthur included a full day of lectures Professor Tyler Whitney’s increasingly experienced as F. Thurnau Professor and by eminent German scholars. first book, Eardrums: Literary a sonic assault on the body, Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Recognizing Professor Modernism as Sonic Warfare, one with real physical and Professor of Comparative Markovits’ upcoming 70th with Northwestern University psychological consequences, Politics and German Studies, birthday, the event featured Press. The book explores engendering many of the was honored by Leuphana speakers on five of his the various ways in which same symptoms of hearing University of Lüneburg, major research areas: labor the sonic dimension of the loss, ruptured eardrums, and Germany on October 20, and trade unions, new German-speaking world auditory hallucinations which 2018. “Andyfest” was social movements and the changed from unification had been well documented sponsored by Leuphana Greens, European anti- in 1870 to the rise of among soldiers during the University, which awarded Semitism, European anti- National Socialism in the war. Modern life became Markovits an honorary Americanism, and sports. late 1920s. This period of a war of sound, both on doctorate in 2007, and rapid modernization was and off the battlefield. characterized by the audible convergence of military Eadrums is the first book- and civilian soundscapes. length study to explore Object Lessons and the this complex interaction of Formation of Knowledge As the din of the Franco- acoustical modernity and Congratulations to Kerstin “I hope people reading our Prussian War subsided German modernism, charting Barndt on her book Object book get a sense of how in 1871, the physical a literary and cultural history Lessons and the Formation remarkable the histories of effects and affective states written in and around the ear. of Knowledge: The University these collections are,” said engendered by that war’s The result is not only a new of Michigan Museums, Barndt to LSA Magazine’s unprecedented sonic intensity way of understanding the Libraries, and Collections Brian Short. “They are tied to migrated to the urban underlying sonic impulses 1817–2017, co-edited the history of the state and spaces of Prague, Berlin, behind key literary texts from with Carla M. Sinopoli. of the University, of course, and . Infantry calls the period; it also outlines Kerstin Barndt is associate but they are also a window and marching drums echoed an entirely new approach professor of German and that invites the public in, in the military parades and to the study of literature as museum studies. She connecting them to faculty, war commemorations, which both text and sonic practice, teaches European and U.S. students, and the global pervaded contemporary visual inscription and museum history and theory research community. Each civilian life. The noise actualized sonority, sound as well as twentieth and collection is a remarkable of industrial machinery, archive and sonic weapon. twenty-first century German achievement on its own, literature and culture. but taken together, it’s astounding what has EARDRUMS been accomplished.” Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare TYLER WHITNEY Congratulations to Hartmut Rastalsky! Congratulations to Language Program Director Hartmut Rastalsky who was selected as one of only three Collegiate Lecturers for the entire University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. This is a huge distinction, and one that is truly deserved!

lsa.umich.edu/german 5 UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT FOCUS

Careers for Students of German by Mary Rodena-Krasan, Undergraduate Student Advisor

This October, the German helped them succeed in Felten, who works for a global necessity for success in their department held its inaugural their respective careers. relocation company in Troy, jobs, the stories told gave Careers for Students Michigan, noted that speaking concrete examples of how the of German event. Four Kim, who works in the airline and understanding German benefited department alumni — Brianna industry, shared how she is a necessity for a company their careers, helped to give Felten, Joel Stark, Erich noticed her job interviewer located in a region populated them a competitive edge, Bergmann, and Jennifer Kim was German during her by companies with German and enriched their lives. ­— spoke to current students interview. She is convinced ties, which often relocate Current students can take about how having a German that once she started to employees to the area. these stories to heart in the major played a role in their speak German to him, the knowledge that German as a lives and current careers. connection formed via that For all panelists, there was course of study can be useful Representing a span of exchange was what gave her resounding consensus about professionally in diverse graduation dates from 2009 the advantage over other the rewarding experience and interdisciplinary fields. to 2017, our panelists also candidates and landed her they had in the department. represented diverse areas the job. She also spoke of In particular, studying Interested in viewing the of employment. Ranging how German comes into play abroad left a favorable and panel event to learn more from the airline industry during customer interactions indelible mark on their ideas, about career options? to investment firms like in her daily tasks — a fact that attitudes, and overall See myumi.ch/aMwqN GE Capital, presenters has distinguished her from evolution as young adults. discussed how German her colleagues professionally. Whether as a serendipitous occurrence or as a daily

Student Photo Contest

The University of Michigan The winners are: Department of Germanic First Place ($100) Second Place ($75) Third Place ($50) Languages and Literatures held a photo contest for Above the Elbe (Saxon Reflections of Old and New Munich Olympic Park all students affiliated with Switzerland National (Dresden, Germany) by (München, Bayern, Germany) the Germanic department Park, Germany) by Miranda Campe, Russian, by Amanda Hardy, BA German through research, study, or an Miranda Campe, Russian, German, and International Studies, BA International internship abroad completed German, and International Studies, BA, expected 2021, Studies, expected 2019. between May 1 – August 31, Studies, BA, expected 2021, Summer 2018 recipient “Olympic parks are my 2018. Forty submissions Summer 2018 recipient of Sturm Scholarship for favorite attractions, but were received, which were of Sturm Scholarship for Goethe-Institut Study. Munich's was very special. judged on subject matter, Goethe-Institut Study. “A new glass parking Memorials to the Israeli composition, technical quality, structure in Old Town, athletes and the police creativity, and originality. See this photo on the cover. Dresden reflects the officer killed in a horrific buildings surrounding it.” attack at these games combined with an overwhelming triumphant atmosphere of international unity and strength gave the park a special feeling.”

See this photo on the cover. 6 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures German Film Series by Mary Hennessy, Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow, Institute for the Humanities

The department's very a film that has redefined the first German Film series, landscape of contemporary organized by Faculty Director German cinema. Professor of the Max Kade House Tyler Whitney’s introduction Vicki Dischler and graduate to the film emphasized student Mary Hennessy, has its depiction of a “global proved a roaring success! Germany” and its take One Wednesday evening on workplace humor. per month during the fall term, around 30 members A follow-up to his silent thriller of the Department of Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler Germanic Languages and (1922), Fritz Lang’s The Literatures, Max Kade Testament of Dr. Mabuse German Residence, Ann follows criminal mastermind- Arbor and U-M communities turned-madman Dr. Mabuse gathered together to enjoy a (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) as meal, catch up, and watch a he seeks to establish a German film in North Quad, criminal empire from an home for Max Kade students. insane asylum. Banned by the Nazis soon after its The fall program ran the release, Mabuse is a police German cinema gamut. We procedural about madness, kicked off the series with violence, and power. ’s Lecturer Ramona Uritescu- New German Cinema gem Lombard’s introduction Martha (1974), then jumped to the film focused on to the present day with Maren the film’s depiction of the Ade’s festival favorite Toni relationship between power, Erdmann (2016), before in/visibility, and media. traveling back in time once more with Fritz Lang’s classic Although each film thriller The Testament of Dr. represents a particular Mabuse (1933). Each film genre (melodrama, comedy, was chosen and introduced and crime film) and hails by a department graduate from a different historical in Rome. Once married, In Ade’s bittersweet dramedy, student, faculty member, moment, all three films Helmut’s domineering and a retired music teacher or lecturer, and showcased explored themes of power in sadistic behavior leads (Peter Simonischek) with a our department’s diverse myriad forms—in society, law, Martha to believe that her penchant for playing practical interests in German cinema. marriage, and family. Stay new husband is trying to jokes tries to reconnect with tuned for more information kill her. Graduate student his hardworking daughter Fassbinder’s melodrama about next term's line- Mary Hennessy introduced (Sandra Hüller). Featuring stars Margit Carstensen up, which will include a Martha by situating the film no end of awkward father- as the eponymous Martha, detective comedy from 1913, against women’s films from daughter encounters and a librarian who meets her experimental films by Friedl the 1940s and Douglas a memorable rendition of future husband Helmut and Peter Kubelka, and a Sirk’s 1950s melodramas. Whitney Houston’s “Greatest (Karlheinz Böhm) on vacation 2011 documentary about Love of All,” Toni Erdmann is the Austrian rapper Nazar. lsa.umich.edu/german 7 GRADUATE STUDENT FOCUS

Best Graduate German Ph.D. candidate Congratulations! Elizabeth McNeill was Student Essay awarded The German Quarterly's Best Graduate Student Essay Award for her essay “Writing with 'Pfotenhänden': Reading (with) Polar Bears in Yoko Tawada's Etüden im Schnee.” Each year, the journal's editorial board, in cooperation with the journal's editor, Nic Heckner successfully selects an article among defended his dissertation on the submissions received Embodied Historiographies: from graduate students. Affect and Realism in the McNeill's essay was selected "Medal of Honor" and "Call for its original and thorough of Duty" Franchises after reading of Tawada's text "Saving Private Ryan". Heckner and will be published in accepted a position as an upcoming issue of adjunct lecturer at Aquinas The German Quarterly. College in September 2018.

Welcome New Students!

Kristina Bruening Pavel Brunssen Veronica Williamson

Before coming to Michigan, Before starting at U-M, Veronica is broadly interested Kristina received her B.A. Pavel earned his M.A. from in migrant and minority in North American Studies the Center for Research discourses, particularly in with a focus on culture and on Antisemitism at the how digital media and film sociology from FU Berlin’s Technische Universität Berlin are utilized to curate and John F. Kennedy Institute and his B.A. in social work exhibit refugee experiences in 2017. Broadly speaking, and social pedagogy from in contemporary German Kristina’s work explores the Hochschule Düsseldorf. culture. Veronica received her the intersectionality of Among the main areas B.A. from Dartmouth College race, gender, class and of his research interests in 2017 with High Honors in sexuality in contemporary are antisemitism and German Cultural Studies. American media culture. antigypsyism in European soccer fan cultures.

8 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures STAYING CONNECTED

A Semester Abroad by Bailey Compton

two months in Schwäbisch college town and there is an circumstances that surround Hall, I had the opportunity obvious emphasis on natural me. This perspective will to make friends from all outdoor leisure spaces, be invaluable to me as over the world while at first which are well enjoyed by its I continue my scholarly living with a host family and citizens. There were regular work as a member of the then in student dorms. community events such as first cohort of students in the Stocherkahnrennen, the Transcultural Studies I could also tell them a punting boat race, and Masters program here at about how easy it was to clubhouse parties hosted the University of Michigan. travel in Europe. Study by the university which In time, I hope that this abroad was an amazing allowed me to get to know my experience will prove useful opportunity to experience classmates and the locals. to me as I continue in my not only the culture of Baden As a student, the classes I pursuit of higher education. Württemberg, Germany, but took were engaging and there Since returning home from also the cultures in the areas were plenty of international Spending a term abroad a semester in Tübingen, surrounding me. Taking the students in each class, which was the perfect capstone Germany, many of my train was a unique, liberating made me feel right at home. for my degree and it taught friends and family have been experience that taught me me lifelong lessons in inquiring about my favorite how to fend for myself in All of these experiences independence, spontaneity, aspect of study abroad. difficult situations that were taught me valuable lessons and self-confidence. I am Every time I am asked, I even further complicated and led to my favorite part grateful to my advisors at the get the chance to reflect by a language barrier. of studying abroad: the new University of Michigan for and choose the moments perspective it gave me when recommending this program and experiences that were Furthermore, I could tell them I returned home. Seeing to me and for helping me the most special to me. about my personal experience how other cultures live and every step of the way. I am as an international student look at the world around especially thankful for the I could tell them about my at the Universität Tübingen, them reshaped the way that Sturm Family Scholarship experience at the Goethe- a German university. The I see my world and made I received to make this Institut, for example. During city itself is a beautiful me more sensitive to the experience possible.

Congratulations Kathryn Sederberg! Congratulations Ela Gezen!

Congratulations to alumna Kathryn Ela Gezen, Ph.D. ’12, received Sederberg, Ph.D., who was awarded tenure at the University of the prize for best article in the journal Massachusetts Amherst. She Unterrichtspraxis for “The First is now Associate Professor World War in the Literacy-Focused and Undergraduate Program Classroom: Teaching German through Director in the German Cultural Themes.” She was honored & Scandinavian Studies at this year’s American Council on Department. Congratulations the Teaching of Foreign Languages on this fine accomplishment! conference in New Orleans.

lsa.umich.edu/german 9 DUTCH STUDIES

Space Travel by Hannah Boettcher

For four weeks last summer, driving over the Afsluitdijk, I was given the opportunity, visiting the port of Rotterdam, in part by the Martijn Zwart and taking a trip to Scholarship, to study in Blauwestad, a “floating city” the northern Dutch city of in the province of Groningen. Groningen. While at the Because I was already Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, familiar with Dutch culture I participated in a program through the Dutch program, called “Society, Environment, my travels could best be Transportation, and Space: described as a search The Dutch Experience.” The for “authentic Dutch program largely concerned culture.” A few weeks in, I itself with how Dutch had a realization that the cities manage their space overlooked and mundane through urban development, aspects of society were about how Dutch culture it. This is not so unrealistic infrastructure, and water exactly what I was searching treats the concept of space. a goal for American society management systems. A large for. It wasn’t the landmarks Consciousness of closely to aspire to. If we took a cue emphasis was placed on the and landscapes but the shared spaces seemed to from the Dutch on these compact city policy which modesty that I encountered influence people to behave matters, we could begin to aims to limit urban sprawl every day that allowed me in a more modest, but solve some of our societal and promote dense cities to analyze the more intricate less apologetic fashion. problems stemming from as a way to contribute to the meanings of culture. I tuned My experience in Groningen greed and our fixation on sustainability of the city and into the terse way individuals and elsewhere in the private property. Space promote community building. interacted at the supermarket Netherlands left me with exists all around us; how we As part of the program, we and the way bikers or a new perspective and a choose exist within it is of took many guided excursions pedestrians would brush by way to contemplate the huge importance. For me, in and around Groningen others without apologies. concept of space and how it took leaving my space to and through the rest of the These small overlooked people collectively take begin to tackle these issues. country. Some highlights were behaviors revealed a lot responsibility to exist within Dutch Memorial Day: Erasing People After Death by Annemarie Toebosch, Director of Dutch Studies Indonesia declared its legally recognized Indonesian independence in 1945 after Independence Day. Indonesia 350 years of Dutch East paid the Netherlands India Company control, Dutch large sums of money state rule, and Japanese after independence. The occupation during WWII. What Netherlands, in kind, has not followed was an attempted paid restitution for its colonial recolonization war. 70 years exploitation of slave labor and later, Indonesian victims of goods. Read the full article war are not commemorated here: theconversation.com/ on Dutch Memorial Day, dutch-memorial-day-erasing- and the Dutch state has not people-after-death-97236

Top Image: Hannah Boettcher in Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands Bottom Image: Indonesian independence war, relief sculpture photo courtesy of AP Photo/Masyudi S. Firmansyah 10 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES

Scandinavian Program 2018 by Johanna Eriksson, Director of Scandinavian Studies

In southeast Michigan, the the University of Michigan "Tucked back in the beautiful I was able to walk amongst Scandinavian Christmas has benefitted greatly from Gotlandic countryside, our the burials and settlements season starts in November SWEA's loyal and generous site was the remains of an that I have read so much with two popular Christmas support, including a early Iron Age hillfort that about and since returning I bazaars arranged by our scholarship for an internship was later used for many have been able to understand local Scandinavian clubs. or study abroad experience in Viking Age burials. One of academic articles and books Both were held at the Sweden, as well as support the greatest feelings in my with much more clarity.” Finnish Center’s clubhouse of our public events. In the life was pulling up my first in Farmington Hills this year. beginning of December, artifacts: a bright blue glass The annual Raoul Wallenberg The Michigan members the Jenny Lind Club held bead, rugged horseshoe Event on November 14, of the Swedish Women’s their annual Lucia dinner, nails ­— things that you only 2018 honored two different Educational Association where three of our second see behind glass I was able youth advocacy groups (SWEA) worked hard making year students performed to hold in my hands.” working to stop gun violence. wonderful homemade songs of the season. Parkland Florida's March decorations and baking Sean was able to gather for Our Lives started a large bread, pastries, and cookies Congratulations to Sean information for his global movement after to be sold at the bazaar. Cantrell, class of 2019, honor thesis, traveling the massacre at their high Swedish gravlax and meatball who received the SWEA through Sweden: school, and BRAVE from the sandwiches, waffles, cookies, MAME stipend to study at an south side of Chicago has and glögg were served. archaeological field school “My research took me all engaged youth for more than Children from the Swedish on Gotland. In September, he over Southern and Central ten years to stop gun violence school performed a Lucia presented about his time in Sweden, spending most of in its community and beyond. pageant and many University Sweden to a group of SWEA my time at Uppåkra (Lund), In addition to delivering the of Michigan students joined members on campus and Sigtuna, and Uppsala. My Wallenberg Lecture, students in (see cover photo). This also broadcast live on SWEA thesis, which explores the of both groups met with local is SWEA's most important Världen's Facebook page. development of elite ideology youth advocacy groups in the fundraising event, with more Sean learned a great deal, in the early medieval period, area while visiting Ann Arbor. than 600 paying guests. The getting his first hands-on has grown immensely as a Scandinavian Program at experience at an excavation. result of this experience.

Right Image: Sofia Lopiano, Emily Wogaman, Daniel Frechette, Daniel Hult, and Cameron Dziama play role games in Swedish Left Image: Proud Swedish teachers Johanna Eriksson and Maria Gull with Sean Cantrell lsa.umich.edu/german 11 Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 812 East Washington Street 3110 Modern Languages Building Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 -1275 (734) 764-8018 • www.lsa.umich.edu/german

Cover Photos

Top image: Above the Elbe. Photo by Miranda Campe. Bottom Right image: Munich Olympic Park. Photo by Amanda Hardy Bottom Left image: Swedish students helping with the 2018 Christmas Bazaar Table of Contents Image Detail from Rackham Graduate School. Photo by Sarah Nesbitt.

Chair: Andreas Gailus Asst. Editor: Jennifer White Layout: Michele Dimond

The Regents of The University of Michigan Michael J. Behm Mark J. Bernstein Mary Crichton, Professor Emeritus Shauna Ryder Diggs Denise Ilitch With sadness, we note that Her research interests Andrea Fischer Newman Professor Emeritus Mary included German lyric Andrew C. Richner Crichton passed away August poetry of the late 18th Ron Weiser 11, 2018. Crichton joined to early 20th century, Katherine E. White the department in 1955 Goethe, Annette von Mark S. Schlissel (ex officio) and served as an associate Droste-Hülshoff, and professor from 1965-1995. women’s love poetry.

German Day March 15, 2019

We look forward to welcoming hundreds of high school teachers and students to campus for German Day 2019! This year’s theme is Wanderlust. Like many German words such as Doppelgänger and Zeitgeist, Angst or Schadenfreude, the term Wanderlust has also found its place in the English language. Wanderlust is much more than just a desire to travel or explore. It is a way of life, a way of looking at the world — with curiosity, an openness to new experiences, and a desire to discover and learn.