Department Events/News

COLD WAR MEDIASCAPES:
Broadcasting Dissidence from East Berlin

Lecture by

Katie Trumpener
Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Yale University

 

This talk reads key East Berlin dissident poems and songs in relation to the media landscape of Cold War Germany.

Thursday, April 5, 2018
4:15 pm
College Hall 224

 

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German Department Spring 2018 Film Screenings

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• February 21, 2018
  7:00 PM
  College Hall 224
  
  Victoria (2015; directed by Sebastian Schipper)
  A film shot in one single take, tells the story of a young Spanish woman venturing in the midnight scene of cosmopolitan Berlin.
   

• March 21, 2018
  7:00 pm
  College Hall 224
  
  A Coffee in Berlin (2015; directed by Jan-Ole Gerster) i
  A black-and-white tragicomedy that walks us through a fateful day as college-dropout Niko attempts to find meaning in life.

Both films received the German Film Award (Lola) in six categories, including Best Feature Film

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Student Field Trip to Philadelphia December 2017

The German Department at Bryn Mawr College took 25 students on a field trip to Brauhaus Schmitz and the Christmas market on Saturday, Dec. 2. For lunch we had Schnitzel, Wurst, Käsespätzle, German potato salad, red cabbage and Apfelschorle. It was a great cultural and social gathering. In fact, we had so much fun that we want to do it again next year!

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"The Emperor of China, the Maid of Amsterdam:
Early Dutch Book Illustrations of East Asia"
lecture by
Daniel L. Purdy
Penn State University

Professor Purdy will discuss the visual strategies of the first European books depicting the travels of Europeans in China and Asia published in Amsterdam in the mid-17th century.

Thursday, September 28, 2017
4:15 pm
College Hall 224

 

 

 

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German Department Major Representatives

• Dionne Agawu
• Linghan Mei

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Department News

Congratulations to Linghan Mei who has received the Thomas Raeburn White Scholarship in Foreign Language Study to participate in the summer program offered at the Free University Berlin in August 2017. Besides taking an intensive language and culture course, she plans on visiting museums in Berlin and exploring nearby cities over the weekends.

For more information about the Internationale Sommerkurse 2017 des Sprachenzentrums der Freien Universität Berlin, visit:

http://www.sprachenzentrum.fu-berlin.de/sprachangebot/sprachen/deutsch/sommerkurse/index.html

For more information about the Thomas Raeburn White scholarship, visit:

https://www.brynmawr.edu/summerfunding/study-abroad-funding/thomas-raeburn-white-scholarships-foreign-language-study

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Congratulations to Isabell Gerbig (‘19) for receiving the Hanna Holborn Gray Undergraduate Research Fellowship. With this fellowship, she will be conducting a summer research project in Germany and Taiwan, comparing exile literature authored by émigré writers from German-speaking

 countries during Hitler’s regime andby those from Mainland China who fled to Taiwan under Mao. In this project, she will address the notion of Heimat (homeland or 鄉 [xiāng]), the émigrés’ conflicted identity and relationship to their new Heimat. The research aims to reveal similarities and differences in historical contingencies, human experiences, and cultural productions in the West and the East.

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Bi-Co Chamber Singers Tour Germany

Our very own German faculty member, Qinna Shen, has helped plan the Bi-Co Chamber Singers' concert tour in Berlin and Potsdam that took place from January 6 to 15, 2017. Under the direction of Thomas Lloyd, Professor of Music at Haverford College, Chamber Singers collaborated with three German choirs: Chor International in Potsdam, Kammerchor Collegium Musicum Berlin, and the Begegnungschor. The Begegnungschor consists of Germans and refugees primarily from Syria, Eritrea, and Afghanistan. The concert with the Begegnungschor took place at an emergency housing for refugees (Notunterkunft ehemaliges Rathaus Wilmersdorf) and the repertoire included German, English and Arabic folk songs, received enthusiastically by refugees and local audience members. Besides rehearsals and concerts, students also visited a number of cultural highlights in Berlin and Potsdam: the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, the Jewish Museum, DDR Museum, Wall Museum, the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße, Museum Island, Sanssouci, Glienicke Bridge, etc. For the majority of the students, it was their first trip to Berlin and it has been an eye-opening and very educational week. In turn, Chamber Singers have made a lasting positive impression on the Germans and refugees whom they interacted with. One can find more information about the trip at Professor Lloyd's website: 

https://www.thomaslloydmusic.com/chamber-singers-2017-berlin-tour-videos-a