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Bach's "Coffee Cantata" was part of the 2014 homecoming celebration of the German Studies Department and the COH alumnus of the year, Eric Baker, who graduated from our department in 1984, went on to get his MA and JD and is now working in Manhattan…

Geschichten vom Fliehen und Ankommen | Stories of Escaping and Arriving: A Project of the Department of German Studies under the direction of Dr. Simone Seym, D.E.A., with the students of GER 416 (Spring 2017). Performed on April 20, 2017 in the…

"Freiheit mit Sporen" is the title of Christopher Kloeble's article in Die Zeit. Read it here. 

"...in der first street, im gelben haus, hausen germanisten..." Michael Speier, our Writer-in-Residence in 2016, wrote a poem about his time in Tucson that you can read here. 

A translation project by a group of undergraduates and our PhD student Patrick Ploschnitzki that was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Albrecht Classen two years ago has appeared in print this May. Congratulations to everyone involved!

An article by Dr. Warner and her co-author, Hsin-I Chen, recently appeared in the journal Language Learning and Technology. The article looks at multilingual users of Facebook and considers how online interactions can be used to help learners…

Dr. Gramling is featured together with five other academics in the Times Higher Education on the question "Do we need modern language graduates in a globalised world?"

Dear student of German, We extended the application deadline for the 2017 Summer Study in Leipzig - Germany Program until February 25 and would like to encourage you to apply. The program will take place June 2-July 1, 2017 and will earn …

On Dec. 7-8, nine graduate researchers in the MA and PhD programs of the Department of German Studies presented their original research to a full house of colleagues and peers. Topics ranged from military representations in Eastern German literature…

The thirteenth-century Middle High German poet Rudolf von Ems was very successful and created a number of intriguing romances and also a highly popular world chronicle. In his Der guote Gerhart (ca. 1220), he deals with material tinged in ancient…