February 1, 2007

Professor Karen Feldman (UC Berkeley) will lecture on "The Temporal Aside: On 'Transcendental Buffoonery' in Two Works of Novalis."

February 1, 2007

Christine Lehleiter (Indiana University) will present a lecture titled "Can a Woman Have a Self? Masquerade and Subjectivity in Sophie von La Roche’s ‘Lady Sternheim."

February 1, 2007

Professor Chenxi Tang (University of Chicago) will lecture on "The Tragedy of Popular Sovereignty: Hölderlin’s ‘The Death of Empedocles."

January 5, 2007

Professor Jan-Dirk Müller (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

December 1, 2006

Symposium on Friedrich Schiller’s, "On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters."

Featuring Helmut Müller-Sievers (Nothwestern): "Playing through Pain. Schiller’s Aesthetics and the Emergence of Masochism"; Karen Feldman (UC Berkeley): "Parables of Relevance: On Schiller, de Man and Aesthetic Ideology"; Gerhard Richter (UC Davis): "Translating Aesthetics: Heidegger’s 1936/37 Seminar on Schiller’s Aesthetic Letters."

Followed by a round table discussion with the presenters and Walter Sokel.

December 1, 2006

There will be a memorial service for Professor Emeritus Blake Lee Spahr on December 6, 2006, from 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the Tilden Room, Martin Luther King Building, 5th floor. The below text is an obituary published in the Daily Cal. Professor’s Love of Literature Stayed Strong Through Military Service Blake Lee Spahr, professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, died September 29. He was 82. Spahr joined the UC Berkeley German faculty in 1955 to teach 17th- century literature. His friends and family said he always had a love of German literature, even after serving in…

November 1, 2006

Jocelyn Holland and Jan Reimann will present a lecture titled "Denoting Chaos." Claimed by theology, aesthetics, science and – most recently – popular culture, chaos has undergone vast semantic shifts in the course of its history. From its early roles in narratives of creation, chaos has been championed alternately as the epitome of order and disorder, beauty and formlessness, and elaborated both discursively and in symbolic form. The Berkeley Department of German invites you to a conversation on chaos: on the basis of a small selection of excerpts drawn from literature and philosophy, ranging from the classical to the bizarre,…

November 1, 2006

Karl Heinz Bohrer (Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Bielefeld) will lecture on "Style as Provocation: Goethe, Nietzsche, Brentano, Heine."

November 1, 2006

German poetry party

October 1, 2006

Christoph Koenig (University of Osnabrueck) will give a lecture titled, "The Disgrace of Failed Memory: Günter Grass and the Hidden Past in German Studies."