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www.lsa.umich.edu/german SUMMER 2005 g Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures dLetters from the Chair

Dear Friends, Welcome to the ﬁ rst issue of our newly designed Newslet- of Professors Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer from Columbia ter. I am delighted to share with you the news of our De- University, who together delivered our Annual Werner Grilk Lec- partment’s accomplishments at the end of my ﬁ rst year ture in German Studies on the topic of “What’s Wrong With as Chair, which has been both a pleasure and a challenge. This Picture? Documentary Photographs in Contemporary Narratives.”

The pleasure comes from experiencing fi rst hand our extraor- The academic year was dominated to a great extent by two ma- dinary strengths in teaching, scholarship, and general service jor administrative tasks, each of which had extremely important to the University; the intellectual and pedagogical content and implications. First, challenge concerns having successfully made the case to the College for a senior the protection and appointment in Aesthetics and Literary Theory, we ran a high furtherance of those profi le national search which resulted in our making an offer to strengths in a time Professor Lutz Koepnick of Washington University in St. Louis. of severe budgetary Professor Koepnick is currently weighing his decision, and we shortages and other remain optimistic that he will be joining us as our colleague in extraneous pres- 2006-07. Second, we have now completed our Long-Range Plan, sures. I am proud to which we expect the College Executive Committee to approve Geoff Eley speaking to our Graduates, report that every- when it reconvenes in the coming fall. The discussions involved their friends and families. one has risen splen- in producing the Plan gave us an excellent opportunity to take didly to the tasks concerned. The success of our undergradu- stock of everything we have managed to achieve during the past ate program continues to buck the national trend of declining decade, while laying the foundations for further advancement. modern language enrollments. Our national reputation as the Though both time-consuming and at times extremely exhausting, trailblazer for a new interdisciplinary model of German Studies this process brought us together wonderfully as a Department. goes from strength to strength. The foundations of our gradu- It could never have been accomplished without that sustained ate program are stronger than ever. The scholarly excellence collective effort on the part of the faculty and our splendid staff. of our faculty is as impressive as ever. The quality of collegial- ity and level of general intellectual engagement in the life of There were various administrative changes during the year, our Department remain the envy of colleagues elsewhere. the most important of which was the creation of the offi ce of Associate Chair. Professor Scott Spector has been perform- Among the many highlights of the year, the major conference on ing those duties in 2004-05, and he will now be succeeded by “The Ruins of Modernity” organized in March 2005 by Professor Professor Johannes von Moltke. I also appointed Professor Fred Julia Hell together with Professor Andreas Schönle of Slavic cer- Amrine as Department Development Offi cer, and he will be tainly stands out. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humani- succeeded for the coming year by Professor Andrei Markovits. ties, this event brought outstanding scholars from around the nation and a variety of academic disciplines to the University of So we are closing the year in a mood of confi dence and satisfac- Michigan for a weekend of intensive discussions and associated tion. We are proud of the excellence of the education we can events. Likewise, under the auspices of our weekly Colloquium, offer to our varied constituencies of undergraduates, and we are organized this past year by Professor Johannes von Moltke, we proud of the scholarly excellence of our faculty. Of course, the hosted a number of distinguished speakers including Professors two have always gone together. Andrew Hewitt of UCLA, Anson Rabinbach of Princeton Univer- sity, and Pascal Grosse of the Humboldt University of Berlin. The crowning event of the lecturing calender was the February visit Geoff Eley [email protected] 2 www.lsa.umich.edu/german Department of Germanic Languages & Literaturesg Community Connectionds

Ruins of Modernity Conference Jonathon Bolton (left), Organized by Julia the genuine interdisciplinary composition of the with Architect and Hell (German Studies) conference produced a fascinating mixture of Urban Designer Rahul and Andreas Schönle texts and images around the suggestive spectacle Mehrotra, and (Slavic Department), of decay. The organizers will publish a collection Professor Scott Spector Ruins of Modernity of essays based on the conference (with Duke brought together University Press) and their challenge will be to scholars from a variety reproduce this dense visual text. of disciplines including architecture, cultural The conference was linked to several events studies, fi lm, history, during the academic year: the organizers taught history of art, literature, a Rackham Interdisciplinary Seminar on the same Keynote Speaker and music. They topic in the Fall of 2004 which resulted in a well- Anthony Vidler Poster from the Ruins of discussed the meaning attended graduate workshop that preceded the Modernity Conference and function of ruins in conference (for more information, see www.lsa. modern culture, from umich.edu/UofM/Content/german/document/ post-industrial urban landscapes in Europe and the RuinsofModernity.pdf); the Institute for the U.S. to Soviet architectural modernism, from urban Humanities, one of the main sponsors and chief design in India to the link between democracy and organizer of the conference, organized brown-bag destruction in Iraq. lunches on Piranesi and Detroit; the Institute also Panelists Kerstin Barndt invited the Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov and Kyong Park Following the organizers invitation, the speakers whose photographs depict the dehumanizing explored modernity’s philosophical, political and experience of urban decay in the former Soviet aesthetic discourses on ruins. From the creation Union (on the exhibit, see www.lsa.umich.edu/ of artifi cial ruins in eighteenth-century gardens to humin/events/art/archive/). At the conference itself, the ruin fantasies of Albert Speer, from the Soviet the premiere of a documentary fi lm on Detroit by practice of destroying buildings representing the Michael Chanan and George Steinmetz generated pre-revolutionary order to Andrei Tarkovsky’s a controversial debate in the Detroit area media. Ph.D. Candidate Philip Drucker haunting ruin movies, the history of modernity The directors of Detroit: Ruin of a City appeared and Music Professor is littered with aesthetic theories that glamorize live on several news shows on the day before the Kevin Korsyn ruins and, in the process, often appropriate conference and more than 1,000 people showed up them for political projects. At the same time, by for the conference forcing the organizers to quickly signifying a loss of meaning ruins provoke the arrange additional screenings on the following imagination opening up the possibility of other weekends. At the conference the audience included stories about both the past and the future. The both Michigan senators as well as the people presentations were followed by lively discussions interviewed in the fi lm. The fi lmmakers are still centering on issues like the link between ruins screening the fi lm in Detroit and overseas, including Prof. Olga Maiorova and “regime changes,” the supposed “eurocentric” a screening at the Institute for Contemporary Arts and Stanford Professor nature of the conference, and the impossibility in London. For more information on the fi lm and Russell Berman of “authentic ruins” under post-modern, post- screenings, see humanities.uwe.ac.uk/bristoldocs/ industrial conditions. Ruins are visual objects and Detroit.htm.

www.lsa.umich.edu/german 3 g Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures dAward-Winnings Faculty

GERMAN Department Chair

Vanessa Agnew: Frederick Amrine: Kerstin Barndt: Kathleen Canning: Geoff Eley: Music, Travel Writing, Goethe, Novalis, and Musealization of Industrial Modern German History, Modern German History; Historical Reenactment, German Idealism Ruins in East- and West- Transnational and Comparative Political Colonialism Germany Comparative Gender Development; Historiogra- History phy; Cultural Studies

Karl-Georg Federhofer: Julia Hell: Kader Konuk: Robert L. Kyes: Andrei S. Markovits: Undergraduate 19th- and 20th- Century Comparatist in German, Historical and German and European Concentration Advisor German Studies; Literature, Turkish, British and Comparative Germanic Politics; and Comparative Visual Arts, and Politics American studies Linguistics Sports Cultures

Helmut Puff: Robin Queen: Hartmut Rastalsky: Scott Spector: Modern George Steinmetz: Early Modern Literature, Turkish-German Language Program Cent. Euro. Cultural History, Social Theory, Analysis of Culture, and History Bilingualism Director German-Jewish Identity & State and Culture Culture, Modern Sexuality DUTCH SCANDINAVIAN

Janet VanValkenburg: Johannes von Moltke: Silke-Maria Weineck: Ton Broos: Johanna Eriksson: Business German and Film Studies, 20th Century 18th and 19th Century Director, Dutch & Flemish Director, Scandinavian German Day Coordinator Literature and Cultural Philosophy and Literature Studies Studies Studies 4 www.lsa.umich.edu/german Department of Germanic Languages & Literaturesg Faculty Focusds

Andrei Steven Markovits Born in October 1948 in the west Romanian town of Thereafter, he joined the faculty at Boston Univer- Timisoara. He was raised as the single child of a mid- sity where he was Associate Professor in the De- dle class Jewish family, speaking German and Hun- partment of Political Science from 1983 until 1992. garian at home. He attended a German elementary He then became Professor in and Chair of the De- school, and from his early childhood he was tutored partment of Politics at the Uni- in English—later in French as well. Thus, his multi- versity of California, Santa Cruz lingual identity dates back to his childhood as well where he remained until join- as the polyglot part of the world where he grew ing U-M in 1999. This year Mar- up. At the age of nine, he and his father emigrated kovits will assume the responsi- from Romania, fi rst to Vienna and then to New York, bilities of Development Offi cer the two cities that would play the most important for the Germanic Department. roles in his upbringing. Between 1959 and 1967, he spent the school year in Vienna and the sum- Markovits’s topics of interest mer months in New York. After graduating from and areas of publication in- Vienna’s prestigious Theresianische Akademie, he clude: German and European enrolled at Columbia University in New York where labor; German and European so- Andrei Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch he completed all of his post-secondary education, cial democracy, as well as social Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics acquiring fi ve degrees in the process. He studied movements; German-Jewish and German Studies. He holds faculty posi- political science, history, economics, sociology, and relations; Germany’s role in the tions in the Department of Political Science business administration. After receiving his doc- new Europe; Anti-Americanism and Germanic Languages and Literatures. torate in political science in 1976, he went to the in Europe; and the comparative Center for European Studies at Harvard University sociology of modern sports cultures. Markovits has of which he would remain an active member and a won a number of teaching awards. He has advised Research Associate until 1999. doctoral dissertations at many major American universities, as well as universities in Great Britain, At the Harvard Center, Markovits chaired for many France, Germany, Austria, Holland and Israel. years the study group on German Politics as well as one entitled “The Jews in Modern Europe”. He Markovits loves all sports with a clear preference founded the quarterly journal German Politics and for the team sports of basketball, baseball, football Society which has become the foremost scholarly as well as soccer. He also enjoys all kinds of music journal on modern German politics in the U.S. The with a preference for Mozart, Beethoven and the Center’s uniquely rich intellectual atmosphere and Grateful Dead whom—in his youth and on rare oc- immensely creative interdisciplinary have had a casions—he would follow on tour. In addition to major hand in forming Markovits’s scholarly life. being a DEADHEAD, Markovits greatly enjoys the company of golden retrievers who have been his Between 1977 and 1983, Markovits was an As- constant companions for three decades. He lives sistant Professor in the Department of Govern- with his wife Kiki and their golden retriever Stormy ment at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. in Ann Arbor.

Publications by Andrei S. Markovits • Amerika dich hasst sich’s besser. Antiamerikanismus und Antisemitismus in Europa • Offside • Die Fratze Der Eigenen Geschichte • • The Political Economy of West Germany • The Politics of West German Trade Unions • The Politics of Scandal • • Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism • The German Predicament Memory and Power in the New Europe • • The German Left Red, Green And Beyond • From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland • Advances in the Social Sciences, 1900–1980 • • Fear of Science-Trust in Science • Problems of World Modeling • www.lsa.umich.edu/german 5 g Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures dsIn the Classroom

News From the First and Second Year Language Program Roughly 400 students enroll in fi rst and second year heroine of the textbook Vorsprung, for which German language courses each Fall and Winter, students wrote and performed their own songs and the Language Program Director, Dr. Hartmut in German. The prize for the best student video Rastalsky, and the GSIs and faculty teaching fi rst in German 231 was won by Dude, wo ist mein and second year German work hard to keep these Trabbi? In this video, a young East German who has courses fresh and interesting. dreamed of a Trabbi all his life fi nally receives it just after the fall of the Wall, only to have it disappear The newest addition to our German 101 and 102 the fi rst time he parks it. For lack of an actual Trabbi, curriculum are a series of transparencies based on students used a cardboard box to represent the the off-the-wall cartoons at www.nichtlustig.de, car. The German 232 essay contest was won by the many of which include language that can be used fi ctional autobiography of mad scientist Eleonore even in the fi rst days of instruction, such as a police Metzgerstein, who has plans to fi t herself with a lineup in which one of the suspects has had his third eye capable of seeing infrared light to go with number stolen and yells “Meine Vier! Er hat meine her bionic arm, and to eventually colonize Alpha Vier! Haltet ihn!” Centauri.

In German 102, we have replaced some of the drier We continue to offer weekly German dinner tables passages from the end of our ﬁ rst year textbook in the South Quad and Bursley dining halls, where with the popular children’s book Oh, wie schön ist students can speak German informally while Hartmut Rastalsky, Panama by Janosch, which tells the story of “der eating all they can. Students interested in using Language Program kleine Bär” and “der kleine Tiger,” who live together their German outside the classroom can also come Director happily until one day they discover a delicious- to conversation hours and bi-weekly movie nights smelling box of bananas from Panama and decide at the Max Kade Residence, at which we now also that wherever that is, they want to go. occasionally screen popular movies such as The Matrix or Raiders of the Lost Ark that have been In addition to Lola rennt, Nach fünf im Urwald and dubbed in German. In addition, students can Europa, Europa!, the feature ﬁ lm component of come to the German Lab in the Fall and Winter for German 221 and 231 now includes the popular help with any kind of German question, or just to 2003 movie Good Bye Lenin! about a boy who tries practice speaking. to reconstruct the former East Germany in his mother’s room to protect her from shock when Finally, we continue to update and expand the she awakens from a long coma after the fall of the German 101-326 website with interesting and Berlin Wall. amusing links, examples and exercises, and if you are looking for some fun ways to keep up your This Winter’s Kothe-Hildner prize for the best role German, we invite you to browse the link list at play in German 102 and 103 went to a musical www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/links/ or the reenactment of the adventures of Anna Adler, grammar explanations and exercises accessible via www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Grammatik/ index.html.

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Congratulations Graduates! We are proud of our Graduates and wish them great success as they move into a new chapter of their lives. Thank you to families and friends for supporting our students during their studies at the University of Michigan. We enjoyed getting to know each student and look forward to hearing of your new discoveries and endeavors. Good luck!

Recognizing German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Majors and Minors were Department Chair Geoff Eley and Undergraduate Advisor Kalli Federhofer. Assistant Professor Kerstin Barndt recognized the Honors Students, and Language Program Director Hartmut Rastalsky presented the Braun Award to Helga Rom.

To view award recipients, please visit our website, www.lsa.umich.edu/german/german/ug/prizes The Spring 2005 Graduating Class — German, Dutch, and Scandinavian Majors and Minors

MAJORS: MINORS: Anaokar, Sandy Jacokes, Julie* Akersoy, Derin Merithew, Rose Bajrovic, Valida* Kammer, Anthony Angstrom, Julia Minnich, Daniel Baker, Jessica* Lapp, Marcial* Bachmann, Daniel Ostrowski, Michal Campion, Tom Lim, Jonathan* Berckmann, Tucker Panning, Matthew Chowdry, Rita Logsdon, Jay Berger, Amanda Patrick, Eric Cilenti, Stacey Messer, Justin Blanchard, Christine Puhl, Shauna Cox, Renee Mikolayczyk, Simon* Bonato, Scott Robertson, Jarrod Cunningham, Marie Mitchell, Lauren Florip, Tom Schmidt, Daniel Davies-Ludlow, Laura Morrow, Melissa Ford, Ryan Schmidt, Kristin Degnan-Rojeski, Mara* Patrick, Cory Heard, Ashley Schrauben, Joel Delano, Sara Porubsky, Jennifer Johnson, Nicole Shuchman, Megan Denardis, Kristin Potere, Martha Kleemann, Mike Stasik, Jared Dormer, Alison Rheingans, Carrie Long, Toby Wilson, Jason Dreisbach, Tristan Rodgers, Philip Ma, Shirley Won, Kyung Friedman, Erica Schiesser, Rita Matous, Katie Zielinski, Melissa Green, Jason Schleif, Michael McClory, Jon Gruber, Carmen* Strauss, Vanessa Hamid, Najat Tuck, Alison Heard, Amber Wang, Rony Holman, Joshua Wosko, Katrina * Honors Program Student www.lsa.umich.edu/german 7 g Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures dsDutch Studies

The Martijn Zwart Endowment We are deeply saddened that Professor Zwart passed away in 2004. His lifelong contributions and support Dutch Poetry of the Dutch community live on through this very in Translation: special endowment. This scholarship provides funds Kaleidoscope provides for students who seek to work and/or study in The the original Dutch text Netherlands in any capacity, but with the clear goal to with English translation. immerse themselves in the language and the culture Available as audio CD of The Netherlands. and book. Edited by Martijn Zwart Martijn Zwart was born in Rotterdam in the and Ethel Grene. Netherlands, studied as an undergraduate at the Univ. of Leiden, then took a Doctorate in Law at the Univ. of Amsterdam. He worked initially for the Dutch government and then for a private company in international trade. During WWII he was sent on Pen and ink illustration of Martijn Zwart by John Daab assignment to the U.S. and stayed when Holland was invaded and occupied by Germany. During the war he worked for the Ofﬁ ce of War Information, In addition to ‘Kaleidoscope’, his publications broadcasting to Holland as the “Voice of America”, include a monograph Landbouwcrisiswet (The Law while pursuing language studies at the State Univ. of Agriculture in Crisis), contributions to two volumes of New York. When the war ended he worked for of English translations from The German Anthology a Dutch press agency, covering the U.N. Martijn of German Poetry and A Treasury of German Ballads, then began his career as Professor of Languages at and translations of Dutch and French poetry in North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. various periodicals.

Ton Broos—Director of Dutch and Flemish Studies Learning a language means of course familiarizing Students have a unique opportunity to learn more yourself with new words and structures, but also about an aspect of Dutch culture in historical getting to know the culture in its broadest sense. perspective as we look at colonialism and its For Dutch it means that we look at the beauty of aftermath. Reliving a darker side of the past is the Dutch visual arts, compare American with Dutch topic of our most profound Dutch class: Anne Frank society, discuss our differences and laugh at in Past and Present. The popularity of Anne’s diary our peculiarities. In spite of our Dutch American is discussed, as well as the function of remembrance friends in Holland Michigan, not many Dutch wear for future generations. wooden shoes, or sweep the streets with coarse To read more about brooms. Still, the Dutch do love their tulips, and Being in charge of ‘everything Dutch’ means that Dr. Antonius Broos and orange is still a favorite color for monarch watchers one has to answer many questions, respond to Dutch Studies, please and soccer fans. Because Dutch is also spoken in different requests and is regarded as an authority visit our website at Belgium, we include this country wholeheartedly on the strangest of subjects. Do I have all the www.lsa.umich.edu/ german/dutch and study Flemish culture in all its rich traditions answers? No. Do I like being asked? Yes! Dutch and as well. Flemish Studies at the University of Michigan is very much alive and kicking! 8 www.lsa.umich.edu/german Department of Germanic Languages & Literaturesg Scandinavian Studiesds

About Our Program For nearly 50 years the Scandinavian Studies Welcome back to Eric Moberg and Alissa Prater from program has been introducing and expanding their student exchange at Uppsala University. We students’ knowledge of the Nordic Countries; would also like to congratulate Shari Hannapel, 2005 Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. In recipient of the Scandinavian Studies Scholarship addition to the typical language courses we offer a funded by The Detroit Swedish Foundation. variety of cultural courses. The annual Signe Karlström Memorial Event, Maria Gull will continue to teach the language funded through an endowment established by and conversation courses while Johanna Eriksson, Olivia Maynard and Olof Karlström, provides an Director, is on leave this year. This fall, we welcome opportunity for the U-M community and general Lecturers Britt-Marie Martinsson-Ventura and Björn public to enhance their understanding and Anderson. They will teach Scandinavian Civilization appreciation of Scandinavian Culture. For more and Celtic and Nordic Mythology respectively. We bid information about the Event see our website at a fond farewell and thank you to Astrid Beck who www.lsa.umich.edu/german/scand/karlstrom/. retired from teaching in December, 2004. We will certainly miss her contributions to the program. The program would not be able to provide such opportunities and could not have achieved such Providing insight into one of the most creative and success without the support of our extremely globally competitive societies on the globe, it is no generous benefactors. In addition to those listed wonder enrollment in Scandinavian courses has above we would like to thank Consul General nearly doubled in the last 10 years. Opportunities Lennart Johansson, SWEA Michigan, The Jenny Lind to study abroad for a complete academic year Club of Michigan and the Highland Foundation for are made available to junior and senior level their recent gifts. students through the Michigan-Uppsala University Exchange Program. Students may also choose to We are pleased to provide our students with participate in 8-week internships as well. Students ﬁ rst-rate courses and opportunities that provide have the opportunity to increase their language meaningful insight into a unique region of the skills through coffee hours and social events. In world. past years fourth-term Swedish students have had the opportunity to travel as a group to Sweden.

The Maynard-Karlstrom Challenge Grant Olivia Maynard and Olof Karlström have generously gram, as well as scholarships for student exchanges, challenged the Department and its Scandinavian internships and the spring study tour. Be a part of supporters to provide a gift of up to $50,000 to the the Scandinavian legacy and designate the Swedish Scandinavian Studies Endowment for each con- Language Fund on your donor envelope included tribution made to the Swedish Language Studies in this newsletter. Every dollar you donate will be Fund or Endowment. The matching gift challenge doubled through the challenge grant and if your is for gifts received between March 1, 2004 and employer provides matching donations it could December 31, 2008. The fund is used to support be tripled! If you would like additional information all aspects of the Scandinavian program including on donating to the program please contact Sheri public events, books and other material for the pro- Sytsema-Geiger at [email protected]. www.lsa.umich.edu/german 9 g Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures dsDevelopment

Dear Friends and Alums After having communicated with you all so your support will be even more crucial in the regularly for years, fi rst as Chair, and then since future. I sincerely believe that in the future the last July as the departmental Development Offi cer, excellence of all our programs will depend more the time has now come for me to hand on these on the support of alums and friends than any other important duties, and return to full-time teaching external factor. and scholarship. For one last time, I thank from the bottom of my It has been a deep pleasure to get to know so many heart all of you who have donated so generously of you, and very gratifying to have experienced to our work. your warm interest and generous support for all I am eager for you all to meet my delightful our initiatives. With your help, we have built one colleague Andy Markovits, who will be our next of the very fi nest German Studies programs in the Development Offi cer and is, among many other country—indeed, one that many feel has, to some things, a passionate sports fan, a Deadhead, a degree, redefi ned the fi eld. The range and quality dog-lover, and arguably the greatest authority on of our faculty is unparalleled. And we have also German politics in the world. You can read all about worked hard to provide a rich array of opportunities him on the Faculty page of our website, or on page to our students. But no need to repeat a story you 5 of this newsletter! all have heard now many times! Please do stay in touch with GLL—and with me. As a former Chair, I know intimately what a We are always eager to hear from you. difference your support has meant during this phase of remarkable transitions. I also can see With all the very best wishes, and cordial regards, clearly why, given the array of forces exerting as ever, themselves on the University and the Department, Frederick Amrine Associate Professor

Giving to the Department has increased ten-fold over the last ﬁ ve years, we are extremely grateful to our many supporters and benefactors for their trust and gifts of support. The quality and diversity of the programs and opportunities we provide for graduate and undergraduate students would not be possible without this support. Please join the Michigan Difference Campaign with your donation and designate one of the following funds on the envelope found in the center of this edition of the GDS newsletter. • Katharina and Kurt Bettsteller, Sr. • Werner and Elizabeth Hartmann • Sturm Family Endowment (German-American history) (department library) (study, work abroad) • Frank X. Braun (grad teaching prize) • V.C. Hubbs (study abroad in Freiburg) • Scandinavian Studies Fund • Bronson-Thomas (ugrad prizes) • Max Kade (German language residence) • George Valenta Endowment • Alan P. Cottrell (grad support) • Kothe-Hildner (ugrad prizes) (Kade program) • Dutch Studies Fund • Mechthild Medzihradsky (internships) • Hermann Weiss/Charles Parton • Anne Frank Fund (Dutch course support) • Mun-Kyes (Germanic linguistics) (internships) • Marilyn Sibley Fries (study in Berlin) • Mildred N. Nelson (grad support) • Martijn Zwart Endowment • Otto Graf Endowment (grad support) • Arati Sharangpani (junior year abroad) (Dutch study abroad) • Martin Haller (ugrad thesis prize) • Strategic Fund (unrestricted) 10 www.lsa.umich.edu/german Department of Germanic Languages & Literaturesg Donor Showcaseds

The Joy Is In The Giving Speaking with Lynn Gendleman — U-M Class of ment exam and suggested she consider concen- 1967 — I was uplifted by her generosity, charity, trating in German. Eight back-to-back semesters and energy. As Head of her employer, the Chicago later, Lynn graduated with a double concentration Tribune’s volunteer organization, ‘TribUnity,’ Lynn in German and English. coordinates volunteers to select, lead, and imple- ment charitable projects. Projects are varied and After continuing her education with a Master’s in range from serving meals to tutoring fi rst-grad- German and a teaching certifi cate, Lynn taught ers online. We are fortunate to have such an out- at the college level, as standing friend and alumna. Managing TribUnity, well as high school Ger- her profession, and her family, Lynn truly fi nds joy man and English. As in the giving. Her enthusiasm was encouraged at her family and person- an early age by an opportunity that opened her to al interests grew, Lynn language and cultural study, and by the dedication fearlessly explored her and support of a University professor and commu- other talents and inter- nity who applauded her inquisitiveness and chan- ests. She has worked neled her zest for knowledge. in the fashion design industry, been a sub- For residents of Gary, Indiana, in the 1960s, stitute teacher, and as international foreign travel was uncommon. a CPA for 25 years. Through a foreign-exchange initiative, Lynn Lynn and Mark Gendleman (BA ‘67 and BS ‘66 respectively) with their granddaughter Maggie was awarded the chance to spend the summer Lynn’s years in Ann Ar- between her high school sophomore and junior bor were good ones. years with a German family in Trier. Arriving at her She met her husband while attending the Univer- ‘new’ home, she found herself with a family that sity of Michigan, their daughter Amy Gendleman spoke no English. Characteristically, Lynn rose to Jones (BA ‘93) is a U-M alumna, and they attend as the challenge, immersing herself in the language, many football games as possible. Lynn is particular- culture, and history. ly excited to see how the German Department has grown—developing a more comprehensive ap- Interested In addition to learning about and living in a culture proach by integrating other subject areas such as in giving? different than her own, Lynn recalls the wonder of fi lm, business, and history. And most importantly, Please visit our her summer spent in Germany’s oldest city—walk- maintaining the feel of a small, connected depart- website at ing through ancient Roman ruins on the way to ment where students are welcome, encouraged, class, the beauty of the Rhineland Province and the and supported. www.lsa.umich. nearby Mosel River. Moreover, she acquired a skill edu/german/ that wouldn’t be realized until her placement ex- We are proud to have known Lynn for so long and alumns/donate/ ams at the University of Michigan. to have been such an integral part of her develop- to learn more. ment. Through her generous spirit and commit- Upon entering the University of Michigan in the fall ment to her community, she has now become an of 1964, Lynn received a call from the German De- integral part of our development. We thank her partment Chair, Professor Potts. He informed her and her family for their generous gift of support. that she had done very well on her German place- The joy is indeed in the giving.

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German Day 2005 Sister Cities Celebrate 40 Years

Our 21st Annual German Day was a splendid success. More than 1,000 high school students and their teachers at- Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje tended and participated in activities ranging from poetry and Tübingen Lord Mayor reading to musical performance. This year’s theme was Brigitte Russ-Scherer ‘Der Ton macht die Musik!’. To see this year’s winners and to learn more, please visit www.lsa.umich.edu/german/ 2005 marks the 40th anniversary of the sister city part- resources/germanday nership and educational exchange program between Ann Arbor and Tübingen, Germany. Since 1965 the cities have enjoyed the exchange of citizens and students alike. Photos courtesy of Nancy Hanson and her German students, Rochester High School. The anniversary was commemorated with a gala recep- tion and exhibit at the downtown branch of the public library, highlighting three of Tübingen’s regional photogra- phers—Yvonne Berardi, Alexander Gonschior, and Ulrich Metz.

In June a delegation from Ann Arbor traveled to Tübingen Join us March 17th for German Day 2006! to participate in a week of celebration of this partnership.